Your Personal Clairvoyant

THE ANCIENT HAWAIIAN TEACHINGS   OF  HOOPONOPONO                                                           

THE MARRIAGE

Ihaleakala Hew Len, PH.D.

John views the text of his work on the computer monitor as he types. A message box pops up telling him there is a spelling error. He deletes the error and makes the correction. No one expects him to yell at or to blame the computer monitor for the error.

Peter has been reluctant to go to school for several days. This is unlike him. He is always up and dressed for school on his own. "The bus will be here in a few minutes, his mother reminds him. "You need to get ready." She has talked to him but still does not know what is going on. She will speak with his teacher. Her reactions are typical of parents in her situation. No one would expect her to look inside of herself for the source of the problem and its solution.

Bill, who is forty, has a severe chronic lower back pain. He is a volunteer client in a training program for therapists. "How long have you had the back pain?" a therapist asks. "How did it begin?" another one inquires. "Have you been experiencing stress lately?" another question follows. Then out of the blue springs an unexpected question. "What is going on inside of me that shows as Bills back problem?" "Whos the wise guy?" the instructor asks suspiciously.

Total responsibility, like money growing on trees, never happens. It occurs nowhere on the face of the earth, not in relationships, not in family units, not in work places, not in business enterprises, not in local, state and national governments, not in religious communities and certainly not in therapeutic settings. It just does not exist. Unfortunately, problems, disease and even death are the result.

There is a way, though, out of problems and disease for any individual willing to be 100 % responsible for creating his life the way it is moment to moment. In the ancient Hawaiian healing process of Ho'oponopono, the individual petitions Love to rectify errors within him. "I am sorry. Please forgive me for whatever is going on inside of me that manifests as the problem." Loves responsibility then is to transmute the errors within him that manifest as the problem. Love does this by erasing and correcting, as in Johns example errors in the computer bank of the mind.

If Petes mother petitions, Love will erase the errors in her mind that manifest as problems of her son. In their work, therapists can ask Love to cancel errors in their mind that show as problems in their clients. In the marriage of total responsibility and Love, problems are resolved, health restored, and life renewed. This is lyrically evoked in Shakespeares Sonnet CXLVI.

An interview with ...
Morrnah Simeona and Dr. Stan Hew Len*
by Deborah King -- frequent contributor to the New Times

"We can appeal to Divinity who knows our personal blueprint, for healing of all thoughts and memories that are holding us back at this time," softly shares Morrnah Simeona. "It is a matter of going beyond traditional means of accessing knowledge about ourselves."

The process that Morrnah refers to is based on the ancient Hawaiian method of stress reduction (release) and problem solving called Ho'oponopono. The word Ho'oponopono means to make right, to rectify an error. Morrnah is a native Hawaiian Kahuna Lapa'au. Kahuna means "keeper of the secret" and Lapa'au means "a specialist in healing." She was chosen to be a kahuna while still a small child and received her gift of healing at the age of three. She is the daughter of a member of the court of Queen Liliuokalani, the last sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands. The process that is now brought forth is a modernization of an ancient spiritual cleansing ritual. It has proven so effective that she has been invited to teach this method at the United Nations, the World Health Organization and at institutions of healing throughout the world.

How does Ho'oponopono work? Morrnah explains, "We are the sum total of our experiences, which is to say that we are burdened by our pasts. When we experience stress or fear in our lives, if we would look carefully, we would find that the cause is actually a memory. It is the emotions which are tied to these memories which affect us now. The subconscious associates an action or person in the present with something that happened in the past. When this occurs, emotions are activated and stress is produced."

She continues, "The main purpose of this process is to discover the Divinity within oneself. The Ho'oponopono is a profound gift which allows one to develop a working relationship with the Divinity within and learn to ask that in each moment, our errors in thought, word, deed or action be cleansed. The process is essentially about freedom, complete freedom from the past."

Every memory of every experience, since the first moment of our creation, eons ago, is recorded as a thought form which is stored in the etheric realm. This incredible recorder/computer is also known as the subconscious, unihipili or child aspect within us. The inner child is very real and comprises one part of the Self. The other aspects are the mother, also known as the uhane or rational mind and the father, the superconscious or Spiritual aspect. The three comprise the inner family, which, in partnership with The Divine Creator, makes up one's Self I-Dentity. Every human being in creation, every plant, atom and molecule has these three selves and yet each blueprint is completely different.

The most important task for people is to find his or her true identity and place in the Universe. This process allows that understanding to become available.

The purpose of Ho'oponopono is to: 1) Connect with the Divinity within on a moment-to-moment basis; 2) To ask that movement and all it contains, be cleansed. Only the Divinity can do that. Only the Divinity can erase or correct memories and thought forms. Since the Divinity created us, only the Divinity knows what is going on with a person.

In this system, there is no need to analyze, solve, manage or cope with problems. Since the Divinity created everything, you can just go directly to Him and ask that it be corrected and cleansed.

In the area of problem solving: the world is a reflection of what is happening inside us. If you are experiencing upset or imbalance, the place to look is inside yourself, not outside at the object you perceive as causing your problem. Every stress, imbalance or illness can be corrected just by working on yourself. It is important to mention that this system is fundamentally different from other forms of Ho'oponopono. In traditional methods, everyone who is involved in a problem needs to be physically present and work it out together. In Morrnah's system everything can be handled by you and the Divinity. You don't need to go one inch outside yourself for answers or help. There is no one who can give you any more relevant information than you can get by going within yourself.

Morrnah especially recommends Ho'oponopono for those in the healing profession: "It is important to clear Karmic patterns with your clients before you start working with them, so that you don't activate old stuff between you. Perhaps you shouldn't be working with that person at all. Only the Divinity knows. If you work with a person and it isn't your business, you can take on the person's entire problem and everything associated with it. This can cause burnout. The Ho'oponopono gives the tools to prevent that from happening."

Morrnah wished for our Western society that everyone would do things to reduce the stress. "Western people have great difficulty in putting the intellect behind. It is difficult for the Western mind to get a grasp of a Higher Being because in traditional Western churches, the Higher Beings are not made evident." She continues, "Western man has gone to the extremes with his intellectualism it divides and keeps people separate. Man then becomes a destroyer because he manages and copes rather than letting the perpetuating force of the Divinity flow through him for right action."

Morrnah works with her associate, Dr. Stanley Hew Len, who spent several years as a consulting clinical psychologist at the Hawaii State Hospital. He has had profound results by using this process with the most dangerous, violently "mentally ill" criminals in Hawaii. Yet he never talks to them, in fact, he never even sees them. He writes down their name and then just works on himself. He cleanses his judgments, beliefs, attitudes and asks the Divinity what he can do for the person. As those attachments and memories are cleansed, the patient improves. "The Divinity," comments Stan, "says it is time to bring all the children home."

[* also known as Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len

I'm not even sure why I agreed to the interview -- except that I was curious. After all, how many times in your life do you have a chance to meet an honest-to-goodness kahuna?

No, it's not a typographical error. I really talked to a kahuna. That's a Hawaiian word that literally means "keeper of the secrets," but that among Hawaiians commonly refers to a spiritual teacher and healer of what ails us --- either physically or psychologically.

So there I was, with my notebook and pen, and there she was, Morrnah Simeona, a grandmotherly looking woman in a white cable-knit sweater and gray flannel skirt, the daughter of a member of the court of Queen Liliuokalani, who was the last sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands.

Morrnah, who has lectured at the University of Hawaii, was in the Philadelphia area for a weekend workshop in what was described as "Hawaiian metaphysics," and was then due in Baltimore for a lecture at Johns Hopkins University.

What exactly does she do -- not as a lecturer, but as a kahuna? Well, although her English is as flawless as a radio announcer's, I had trouble grasping what she was saying. Essentially, it seemed to come down to this.

We tend to be haunted by our old fears, emotions, ideas and reactions, which contribute not only to present-day psychological distresses but also to physical illnesses -- since many illnesses can be "attributed purely to the pressures we create." A kahuna's role is to help us dredge up and erase the garbage that is polluting our existence -- in much the same way that we would retrieve and kill useless information stored in a computer.

Now that doesn't sound too unreasonable, does it? Obviously what must happen, if anything really does happen, is that we feel better after a session with our kahuna because we expect to feel better- It's the old placebo effect, about which Dr. Herbert Benson, the Harvard cardiologist, has written extensively and for which modern medicine finally is beginning to show some respect.

Well, Morrnah hadn't heard about the placebo effect but, after it was explained, she said that it wasn't a factor, since some of those with whom she dealt really had no grand expectations. For some, it was just another pause in their endless search for happiness and fulfillment.

But the strange thing, Morrnah said, was that the search inevitably was abandoned after they met with her --- because their problems went away, Besides, she said, she could help people she never even met --- by working through those who came to her.

All that was required, she said, was an appeal to the divine creator of our choice "through the divinity that is within each person ... who is really an extension of the divine creator."

The liturgy she said, goes like this:
"Divine creator, father, mother, son as one ... If I, my family, relatives and ancestors have offended you, your family, relatives and ancestors in thoughts, words, deeds and actions from the beginning of our creation to the present, we ask your forgiveness ... Let this cleanse, purify, release, cut all the negative memories, blocks, energies and vibrations and transmute these unwanted energies to pure light ... And it is done."

This appeal is called ho'oponopono, and can be identified with just about every religion, Morrnah said, because "in every faith there always is a portion (of the liturgy) in which we ask forgiveness of those we offend ... But we go beyond that ... to family, relatives, and ancestors ... because possibly some of the problem stems from a grandfather who chopped off somebody's head in another century." That which we expel is transmuted into "pure light," she said, because otherwise, "we would pollute the atmosphere" with our discarded garbage. "But as pure light, it does not contaminate."

At the instant that she utters "and it is done" the transmutation takes place, she said, and "the computer automatically erases" the garbage that has been stored for ... who knows for how long?

The great thing about the system, she said, is that it is "simple, workable and infallible ... and anybody can do it, from the very young to the very old." It is, she said, "difficult for a lot of intellectuals to comprehend" because it's so simple, but it really is infallible- Didn't I have some problem that I'd like for her to work on?

Well, how in heaven's name was I going to write anything from this interview? People would think I was crazy -- and I wouldn't blame them. But, OK, Morrnah, anything to go along with the program. Things have not been too good with my older son, Jay, since my divorce -- and things certainly have been sour with my former wife. How about it, Morrnah?

"Divine Creator, father, mother, son, as one ... If I, my family, relatives and ancestors have offended."

Not long after that the interview ended, and I forgot about it. After all, I had a plane to catch to North Carolina, where the lawyers were tying up a final piece of business left over from the divorce.

Jay is 22, and last winter, when I had seen him for the first time in three years, he kept at arm's length, told me that he never could regard me as his father, that we perhaps could be friends -- but not very close friends, because we didn't have much in common.

The other night we'd finished dinner in a restaurant -- he and I and my younger son, Grant. After Grant had driven off to go back to his college campus apartment, Jay and I climbed into my rental car and started to leave the parking lot. That's when Jay turned down the volume on the radio and told me that he now felt differently toward me.

"I know you love me," he said. "And I really need that. I want you to know how much I respect you, how much I admire the person you have become."

The next day, I met with my former wife and, after the lawyers had departed, she told me that she wasn't bitter any more, that what happened probably had been for the best and that both of us probably had grown as a result of it.

Each of the conversations immediately struck me as drastic reversals from previously staked-out positions. lt was strange, I thought, that they should take place within 24 hours.

lt wasn't until I had returned to Philadelphia and was shuffling through my backlog of work that I ran across the notes from my interview with Morrnah Simeona, the kahuna.

Morrnah, you didn't ... did you? By Ihaleakala Hew Len, Ph.D.

A house divided against itself cannot stand. This is true for nations, communities, organizations and families, as well as for individuals. In the House of Humanity, the individual is the common denominator. When the individual is divided, the house is divided.

In the game of tennis, the scoring system is Love, 15, 30, 40, game. The game begins with Love. In the etymology of the word, Love is no score, no stakes, nothing, to take the individual back to Love to nothing, to wholeness.

The process achieves this by voiding anger, fear, blame, resentment and thinking from poisonous thoughts, toxic energies that divide the mind, the house of the individual, causing it to fall to dis-Harmony and dis-ease.

The purpose of life is to be restored back to Love , moment to moment. To fulfill this purpose, the individual must acknowledge that he is 100% responsible for creating his life the way it is. He must come to see that it is his thoughts of that create his life the way it is moment to moment. The problems are not people, places and situations but rather the thoughts of them. He must come to appreciate that there is no such thing as "out there". People, places and situations exist only as his thoughts of.

A problem is a replayed toxic memory, what Shakespeare writes as a "fore-moaned moan". A replayed toxic memory again divides the mind against its self, against Love. The Updated Hooponopono, a process of repentance, forgiveness and transmutations, is a petition to Love to void and replace toxic energies with its self. Love accomplishes this by flowing through the Mind, beginning with the Spiritual Mind, the Super Conscious. It then continues its flow through the intellectual Mind, the Conscious Mind, freeing it of thinking energies. Finally, it moves into the Emotional Mind, the Subconscious, voiding thoughts of toxic emotions and filling them with its self.

Here is a thought cleansing tool that anyone can apply to void toxic energies from his or her thoughts.

Mentally think: "I turn the Light Switch on my thoughts of me and my family, relatives and ancestors." There is no limit to the number of times that this tool can be used. The tool is a petition to Love to clear toxic thoughts of yourself and of your family, relatives and ancestors that divide your Mind, your house.

The purpose of life does not change with the coming of a new millennium! It will always remain the same: to be restored back to Love moment to moment. The fulfilling of this purpose requires absolute individual responsibility. It requires an appreciation of the real problems that divide the individual first, then everything else second. A house divided against itself cannot stand.

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