"The Law of Your Mind is the Law of Belief Itself"
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DR. JOSEPH MURPHY wrote, taught, counseled, and lectured to thousands all over the world for nearly fifty years. Born in 1898, he was educated in Ireland and England. Years of research studying the world’s major religions convinced him that some great Power lay behind them all: The Power is within you!
Dr. Murphy was Minister-Director of the Church of Divine Science in Los Angeles for 28 years, where his lectures were attended by 1300 to 1500 people every Sunday. His daily radio program during all that time was immensely popular. He moved to Laguna Hills, California in 1976, where he continued to speak every Sunday until he made his transition in 1981.
Murphy refused requests for profiles and biographies, saying that his life was to be found in his books. He wrote over 30, including The Amazing Laws of Cosmic Mind, Secrets of the I-Ching, The Miracle of Mind Dynamics, Your Infinite Power to Be Rich and The Cosmic Power Within You. There is a new edition of The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, revised and expanded by Ian McMahan.
Murphy was influenced by Ernest Holmes and Emmet Fox, both well known writers on New Thought principles, but his academic background was in Eastern religion. He spent many years in India, and was an Andhra Research Fellow at the University of India.
Dr Murphy spent a good part of his life studying Eastern religions, and was a scholar of the I-Ching, the Chinese book of divination whose origins are lost in history. Joseph Murphy, Ph.D., D.D., was a world-renowned authority on mysticism and mind dynamics. He remains a beacon of enlightenment and inspiration for legions of loyal followers.
“You were born to be rich. You grow rich by the use of your God-given faculties, by tuning in with the Infinite, and as your mind becomes productive and full of good ideas, your labor will become more productive and will bring you all kinds of material riches."
“There is no virtue whatsoever in poverty, which in actual fact is a mental disease, and it should be abolished from the face of the earth. You are here to find your true place in life, and to give of your talents to the world. You are here to expand and unfold in a wonderful way, according to a God-given potential, and to bring forth spiritual, mental, and material riches, which will bless humanity in countless ways. Learn how to surround yourself always with beauty, and luxury, and realize your inalienable right to live, liberty, freedom and peace of mind.
“It is your Divine right to dramatize, reveal, portray and express the power, elegance, and riches of the Infinite One.”
"I have seen miracles happen to men and women in all walks of life all over the world." -- Dr. Joseph Murphy.
Dr. Murphy teaches the simple, scientifically proven techniques and the astonishing facts about how your subconscious powers can perform miracles of healing. How lung cancer has been cured and optic nerves made whole again. How you can use the newly discovered Law of Attraction to increase your money-getting powers. How your subconscious mind can win you friends, peace of mind, and even help you to attract the ideal mate. How your dreams can help you solve problems and make difficult decisions -- or warn you of potential disaster. Prosperity, happiness and perfect health are yours when you use The Power Of Your Subconscious Mind.
Murphy saw the subconscious mind as a darkroom within which we develop the images that are to be lived out in real life. While the conscious mind sees an event, takes a picture of it and remembers it, the subconscious mind works backwards, ‘seeing’ something before it happens (why intuition is infallible).
The subconscious responds to habit and habitual thinking. Being totally neutral in a moral sense, it is happy to adopt any habit as ‘normal’ - good or bad. We blithely let negative thoughts drop into the subconscious every minute of our lives, then are surprised when they find expression in day to day experiences and relationships. While there are some things that will happen to us that we had no role in creating, these are in fact rare. Mostly, the bad that happens is in us already, waiting for the light of day.
Understanding your subconscious mind as a photographic mechanism removes the emotion and struggle from changing your life, because if it is simply a matter of replacing existing mental images with new ones, you begin to see the ease with which you may change.
‘The law of your mind is the law of belief itself,’ Murphy says. What we believe makes us who we are. William James observed that whatever people expect to be true, will be so, irrespective of whether the object of their belief exists in fact. In the West we have made ‘the truth’ our highest value; this motivation, while important, is weak next to the actual power of belief in shaping our lives. Whatever you give your subconscious – false or true, good or evil – it will register as fact. Be careful not to joke about misfortune, as the subconscious has no sense of humour.
‘If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth’ (Mark 9:23). In all the old rituals of ancient times, with their weird mixtures and incantations, it was the power of suggestion and acceptance in the subconscious mind that healed. Even today, doctors report the power of placebos to produce miraculous recoveries if accompanied by doubt-free instructions that ‘this will do the trick’. Miracles of healing, Murphy says, are simply the body’s obeying of the subconscious mind’s knowledge of ‘perfect health’ when the questioning nature of the normal conscious mind is silenced.
The Wisdom and Innocency of a Child" to Narita With ♥
El Ego / The Ego
EL EGO
La prioridad de lo grande siempre es del ego; en cambio, para el amor no hay grande ni pequeño; el amor abraza a quien quiera que se le acerque.
El amor siempre está feliz cuando puede dar o compartir, el ego sólo está contento cuando puede obtener.
Uno se vuelve como un rey donde quiera que haya flores de amor; y uno se vuelve pobre y lleno de sufrimiento siempre que las espinas del ego estén presentes.
El amor espera día y noche. Se siente agradecido cuando puede compartir. El ego es incapaz de esperar.
El ego siempre vela por sus intereses. Acude sólo si con ello cumple algún propósito.
El amor, en cambio, es inmotivado: amar es su propia recompensa. Aún recibiendo heridas es feliz el amor.
En cambio, el ego, recibiendo "algo" no está contento: siempre desea más.
El ego es un eterno mendigo, siempre demandando más.
El amor, en cambio, es un rey, un emperador. ¿Existe acaso un rey más grande que el amor?
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THE EGO
The priority is always big ego, but instead, for love is no big or small, love embraces whoever comes close.
Love is always happy when I can give or share, the ego is only happy when you can get.
You become like a king wherever there are flowers of love, and one becomes poor and full of suffering where ego spines are present.
Love waiting day and night. You feel grateful when you can share. The ego is unable to wait.
The ego always looks out for your interests. Attend only if it complies with some purpose.
Love, however, is unmotivated: love is its own reward. Wounds is still happy to receive love.
Instead, the ego, getting "something" is not happy: always wants more.
The ego is an eternal beggar, always demanding more.
Love, however, is a king, an emperor. Is there a king greater than love?
Baha'i Prayer for Peace
Be generous in prosperity,
and thankful in adversity.
Be fair in judgement,
and guarded in thy speech,
Be a lamp unto those who walk
in darkness, and a home
to the stranger.
Be eyes to the blind, and a guiding light
unto the feet of the erring
Be a breath of life to the body of
humankind, a dew to the soil of
the human heart,
and a fruit upon the tree of humility.
Life
Ho'oponopono
Nombrada Tesoro Viviente en 1983, Morrnah dio talleres de auto-identidad medianteHo'oponopono durante la década del ´80. En 1982 nombró como sucesor al Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len, quien trabajó durante diez años con Morrnah hasta su muerte, el 11 de febrero de 1992. "El propósito fundamental de este proceso es descubrir la Divinidad que somos. El Ho'oponopono es un regalo maravilloso que nos permite desarrollar una relación efectiva con la Divinidad y aprender a pedirle que limpie, en cada momento, nuestros errores en pensamiento, palabra y acción”, explicaba Morrnah.
Cuando nos damos cuenta de que sólo son nuestros “programas” los que nos impiden ver con claridad, dejamos de culpar a factores externos. En este sentido, Ho'oponopono más que una técnica de curación es una oportunidad divina de trasformación y autodescubrimiento.
En palabras de Morrnah: "Somos la suma total de todas nuestras experiencias, lo que significa que estamos sobrecargados con nuestras experiencias del pasado. Cuando sentimos estrés o miedo en nuestras vidas, si miramos con cuidado nos daríamos cuenta que la causa está localizada en nuestra memoria”.
Son las emociones ligadas a estas memorias las que nos afectan en el presente. El subconsciente asocia una acción o una persona actual con algo que sucedió en el pasado. Cuando esto ocurre, las emociones son activadas y se produce el sufrimiento. El asumir el 100% de la responsabilidad es el camino más corto. En cambio, cuando estamos enojados con alguien o por algo, perdemos nuestra libertad. Nuestros propios sentimientos de odio nos condenan y atan. “Jesús dijo ‘ama a tus enemigos’, y tu único enemigo es tu memoria reproduciendo lo que experimentas como ira, resentimiento, juicio”, explica el Dr. Hew Len.
l Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len trabajó en el área de psiquiatría del Hospital Estatal de Hawai durante cuatro años. El pabellón donde encerraban a los pacientes criminales era peligroso. Por regla general, los psiquiatras renunciaban al mes de trabajar allí. La mayor parte del personal caminaba con sus espaldas contra la pared, temerosos de ser atacados por los pacientes. No era un lugar placentero para trabajar ni para visitar.
El Dr. Hew Len encaró el tratamiento de un modo novedoso. Para empezar, nunca se encontró cara a cara con los pacientes, ni siquiera los vio de lejos. Simplemente firmó un acuerdo para tener una oficina y revisar sus legajos. Estudiaba la ficha del recluso y luego miraba dentro de sí. En la medida en que él mejoraba, los pacientes mejoraban.
“Luego de unos meses, a los pacientes que debían estar encadenados se les permitía caminar libremente”, relata el Dr. Hew Len. “Otros que tenían que estar fuertemente medicados, comenzaban a disminuir su dosificación. Y aquellos que no tenían ninguna posibilidad de ser liberados, fueron dados de alta”.
También hubo cambios significativos en el personal, que comenzó a querer ir a trabajar. El ausentismo y los permanentes recambios desaparecieron. “Terminamos con más personal del que necesitábamos, porque los pacientes eran liberados y todos los empleados venían a trabajar”, cuenta el Dr. Len. “Hoy ese pabellón está cerrado”.
El Dr. Joe Vitale, discípulo de Len y coautor de “Cero límites”, describe el momento en que el Dr. Len le contestó “la pregunta delmillón de dólares”:
“¿Qué estuvo haciendo usted con usted mismo, que ocasionó que esas personas cambiaran?”
“Simplemente estaba sanando la parte de mí que los había creado a ellos”.
Yo no entendí. El Dr. Len explicó que la total responsabilidad de tu vida abarca todo lo que está en ella. En un sentido literal, todo el mundo es tu creación. Tal como lo formula el propio Hew Len: “¿no te diste cuenta que cada vez que experimentas un problema, tú estás ahí?”
Vitale le preguntó cómo se curaba a sí mismo; qué era lo que hacía exactamente cuando miraba los legajos de los pacientes.
“Yo simplemente leía sus legajos y decía: ’lo siento’ ‘te amo’ una y otra vez”.
“¿Sólo eso?”
“Sólo eso”.
“PERDÓN”, “TE AMO”, “GRACIAS”
Nuestra reacción a los problemas es una repetición de recuerdos. Las dificultades suelen ser obstáculos que hemos encontrado antes pero nunca resolvimos. Por esta razón, la situación retorna para darnos la oportunidad de reaccionar de forma diferente.
Sólo tenemos dos caminos para elegir: vivir según nuestro verdadero ser o según nuestros recuerdos; dejarnos llevar por la inspiración divina o por nuestros viejos programas que han sido repetidos una y otra vez, y no funcionan.
La técnica es simple. Son básicamente dos o tres procesos, tal como indica el Dr. Hew Len:
• “Te amo”: Cuando experimentes problemas (repetición de recuerdos), diles mentalmente: “Los amo queridos recuerdos. Agradezco la oportunidad de liberarlos a ustedes y a mí”. El “te amo” puede repetirse en voz baja una y otra vez. Los recuerdos jamás se van de vacaciones ni se jubilan a menos que uno los jubile.
• “Gracias”: Este proceso puede utilizarse con o en lugar del “Te amo”. Tal como con el “Te amo”, puede repetirse mentalmente una y otra vez.
• “Lo siento”: el individuo mediante su mente consciente le pide al Amor que rectifique los errores en su interior. "Lo siento: por favor perdona lo que está ocurriendo en mi interior que se manifiesta en este problema".
“Si lo hago más difícil ustedes estarían mucho más interesados”, advierte el Dr. Hew Len. Según él, lo difícil no es el método en sí – que es asombrosamente simple- sino acordarse de utilizarlo cada vez que podamos.
“Permítanme dar un rápido ejemplo de cómo funciona”, explica el Dr. Joe Vitale: “Un día, recibí un e-mail que me desequilibró. En el pasado lo hubiera manejado trabajando sobre mis aspectos emocionales tórridos o tratando de razonar con la persona que envió ese mensaje detestable. Esta vez decidí probar el método el Dr. Len. Me puse a pronunciar silenciosamente “lo siento” y “te amo”. No lo decía a nadie en particular. Simplemente estaba invocando al amor para sanar, dentro de mí, lo que estaba creando la circunstancia externa. En el término de una hora recibí un email de la misma persona disculpándose por su mensaje previo.
Tengan en cuenta que yo no realicé ninguna acción externa para lograr esa disculpa. Ni siquiera contesté su mensaje. embargo, sólo diciendo “te amo”, de algún modo sané dentro de mí lo que estaba creando en él”.
Esto no significa que el Ho’oponopono proponga abstenerse de actuar, sino que busca que la acción provenga de la inspiración, y no de la reacción causada por nuestras programaciones. “Todas las experiencias de la vida son expresiones de los recuerdos que se reactivan o de las inspiraciones. La depresión, los pensamientos, la culpa, la pobreza, el odio, el resentimiento y la pena son ‘…gemidos que se lamentan de antemano’, como indicó Shakespeare en uno de sus sonetos”, explica el Dr. Len.
La mente consciente tiene una opción: iniciar el proceso de limpieza o permitir que los recuerdos nos repitan los problemas incesantemente. El Ho’oponopono nos recuerda que podemos elegir entre reaccionar o soltar, entre sufrir o ser felices.
¿QUIÉN SUFRE?
“El alivio supremo viene sólo con la pérdida del ego, la neutralización de aquello que reacciona a algo como dolor y a otra cosa como placer; cuya memoria y condicionamiento lo hace reconocer la dualidad de la alegría y el dolor”, afirmaa Sai Baba (ver “Conversaciones con Sathya Sai Baba”, número actual).
El propósito de la existencia humana es descubrir quiénes somos. En sus seminarios, el Dr. Hew Len ofrece una simple pero profunda demostración de nuestra identidad como individuos: "Esto es cero. Nada. Esto es lo que somos", dice mientras sostiene un vidrio. Luego prende una linterna desde atrás para demostrar cómo la divinidad pasa a través nuestro. “Esto es inspiración", dice de la luz. "Esto es (la otra parte de) lo que somos. Ya somos Eso".
Entonces, sosteniendo su mano enfrente de la luz, el Dr. Hew Len muestra cómo nuestras memorias (o “programaciones” o “información”) impiden que la Divinidad pase a través nuestro y que nos volvamos uno con ella.
“Su trabajo es muy simple: dejar ir y dejar a Dios”, indica Len (juego de palabras en inglés: let go and let God). “Ya tienen todo lo que necesitan dentro de sí. Sólo dejen de bloquear la luz"..
Como practicar el Ho'oponopono
Aquí comprenderás por qué el intelecto no dispone de recursos para resolver problemas, él sólo puede manejarlos. Y manejar no resuelve problemas.
Al hacer el Ho’oponopono tú pides a Dios, a la Divinidad, que limpie y purifique el origen de estos problemas, que son los recuerdos, las memorias. Así neutralizas la energía que asocias a determinada persona, lugar o cosa. Durante el proceso esta energía es liberada y transmutada en pura luz por la Divinidad. Y dentro de ti el espacio que ha quedado vacante se rellena con la luz de la Divinidad. Entonces, en el Ho’oponopono no existe culpa, no es necesario revivir sufrimientos, no importa saber el por qué del problema, de quién es la culpa, o su origen.
En el momento en que notas dentro de ti algún malestar en relación a una persona o lugar, algún acontecimiento o cosa, empieza el proceso de limpieza, pide a Dios:
Divinidad, limpia en mí lo que está contribuyendo para este problema.
Entonces, usa las frases de esta secuencia: Lo siento mucho. Perdóname. Te amo. Estoy agradecido, varias veces; podrás destacar una de ellas que te conmueve más en aquel momento y repetirla. Deja que te guíe la intuición.
Cuando dices Lo siento mucho reconoces que algo (no importa saber el qué) ha penetrado en tu sistema cuerpo/mente. Quieres el perdón interior por lo que pueda haber traído aquello a ti.
Al decir Perdóname no estás pidiendo a Dios que te perdone, sino que estás pidiendo a Dios que te ayude a perdonarte.
Te amo transmuta la energía bloqueada (que es el problema) en energía fluente, te reconecta a lo Divino.
Estoy agradecido es tu expresión de gratitud, tu fe de que todo será resuelto para el bien mayor de todos los implicados.
A partir de este momento, lo que ocurra a continuación viene determinado por la Divinidad; puede que te sientas inspirado para actuar de alguna manera, cualquiera que fuese, o no. Si persistiese alguna duda, continúa con el proceso de limpieza y pronto tendrás la respuesta, al quedar completamente limpio.
Recuerda siempre: lo que tú ves de equivocado en el prójimo también existe en ti, somos todos Uno, por tanto, toda cura es auto-cura. En la medida en que mejoras tú, el mundo también mejora. Asume esta responsabilidad. Nadie más necesita hacer este proceso, sólo tú.
Ho'oponopono
Ho'oponopono es un método antiguo Hawaiano de sanación puesto al día para el mundo de hoy, que nos enseña a dejar partir los bloqueos y problemas que causan desequilibrio en nosotros mismos.
Su objetivo es traer paz y equilibrio de una manera simple y efectiva, mediante la limpieza mental y física y a través de un proceso de arrepentimiento, perdón y transmutación.
Ho'oponopono puede ser usado por todas las personas independientemente de su edad y cultura.
HO'O significa CAUSA en hawaiano y PONOPONO significa PERFECCIÓN.
HO'OPONOPONO significa , "corregir un error" o "rectificar un error."
El Hoo-Ponopono es un proceso de tomar la responsabilidad de tu vida, de contrición, arrepentimiento, de pedir perdón y transmutación y consiste en realizar una petición a la energía del Amor Universal e Incondicional para cancelar y reemplazar las energías tóxicas que puedan hallarse en uno mismo.
El Amor efectúa dicho proceso fluyendo a través de la Mente Espiritual o Supra-consciencia y continúa su flujo a través de la Mente Consciente, liberándola de la excesiva racionalización para finalizar en la Mente Emocional o Subconsciente, donde anula todos los pensamientos que tengan emociones tóxicas, reemplazándolos con Amor incondicional.
A través de esta técnica, tenemos la capacidad de hacer lo correcto a nuestro propio Ser, de volver al estado de perfección original, donde no existía división o dualidad en nosotros, de colocar nuevamente nuestra página vivencial en blanco..., donde no existen ideas preconcebidas y reina un perfecto estado de paz, con sólo pedirle a la Divinidad que aquello que yace dentro de nosotros, aquello que ha ocasionado una división en nuestros pensamientos, venga a la superficie para ser liberado.
Al pedir perdón a la Divinidad por haber hospedado pensamientos que nos han separado de nuestra Unidad con el Espíritu... el pensamiento pernicioso y recurrente desaparece. Y cuando es liberada, el espacio se llena inmediatamente con un amoroso sentido de Unidad con todo.
No hay límites en el número de veces que esta herramienta puede ser usada, especialmente en lo referente a transmutar en pura luz tus pensamientos, los de tu familia, ancestros y descendientes, puesto que esta herramienta es una petición a purificar los pensamientos tóxicos que causan reales divisiones en tu percepción.
Ho'oponopono
Ho’oponopono is a little known but extremely powerful self-transformation technique.
Originally from Hawaii, it is a simple teaching consisting of just four phrases, which encourage forgiveness of ourselves and others until zero point is reached. Zero Point is the state where there is no addition or accumulation by us of anything. Ho’oponopono means to make right. Essentially, it means to make it right with the ancestors, or to make right with the people with whom you have relationships. The key point is that it involves taking 100% responsibility for every experience of our lives. This practice was originally used as a Hawaiin problem solving method for families: during a family meeting problems would be brought up and discussed and then everyone would be forgiven and the problem would be solved. Now, it is used as a personal tool for transformation.
How To Use The Technique:
The four phrases are:
I love you
I’m sorry
Please forgive me
Thank you
You just repeat these phrases like a mantra, without undue concern about the whys and wherefores. It doesn’t matter in what order you say each phrase. You can apply it to life situations, places, relationships, financial situations or anything you can think of. When something comes to your awareness, just accept 100% responsibility for it and repeat the mantra.
When we use these words each time we entertain a negative thought or make a judgment, we forgive our ego to the point of its annihilation, or zero point.
Note that when you say these phrases, you are not saying it to the other person, but to the Divine.
By using this technique you are cleaning up your unconscious garbage which is the unconscious memories that determine your thoughts, words and actions without your being aware of it.
Ho’oponopono – ‘Test’ Case
Dr. Hew Len was the first person who documented and confirmed proof of the healing miracles initiated by the Ho’oponopono process, and this ‘test case’ is pretty amazing in its results to say the least.
From 1984 till 1987 he worked as a staff psychologist for Hawaii State Hospital overseeing high security ‘criminally insane’ patients – murderers, rapists and those convicted of assault. After 3 years of practicing Ho’oponopono, wrist and ankle restraints were no longer used in this facility, violence almost ceased to exist, and eventually there was no need for this high security unit which was closed. This was documented, described my multiple witnesses and personnel. Sounds pretty miraculous, doesn’t it?
According to Dr. Hew Len:
• He did not do any therapy or counselling with patients
• He did not attend any staff conferences on patients
• He practiced the Ho’oponopono process on a daily basis – ie he accepted 100% responsibility he experienced
- (‘Zero Limits’, page 142 – Dr Hew Len’s book)
Dr. Hew Len, when asked how exactly he managed to heal the violent patients without actually seeing them one-to-one, his answer was:
“I didn’t heal them. I healed part of myself that created them.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti said the very same thing:
“Is that which is happening in the world outside different from that which is happening inside? In the world there is violence, extraordinary turmoil, crisis after crisis. There are wars, division of nationalities, religious differences, racial and communal differences, one set of systematized concepts against another. Is that different from what is going on inside us? We are also violent, we are also full of vanity, terribly dishonest, putting on different masks for different occasions.
So it is one movement like the tide going out and the tide coming in. We human beings have created what is going on outside and that cannot possibly be changed unless we human beings change. That is the root of it. We want to do something in the world, have better institutions, better governments etc, but we never say we have created that. Unless we change that cannot change. After the millions of years we have lived, we are just the same. We have not changed fundamentally and we continue to create havoc in the world.
The fact is, one is the world; not as an idea but actually. Do you see the difference between the idea and the actuality? One has heard the statement that one is the world and one makes an idea, an abstraction of it. And then one discusses the idea, whether it is true, or false and one has lost it. But the fact is, one is the world; it is so.
So one is responsible for changing it. That means, one is responsible, completely, for the way one lives one’s daily life. Not try to modify the chaos that is going on, decorate it or join this group or that group or institution, but as a human being, who is the world, go through a radical transformation oneself; otherwise there can be no good society.”
This is what is most remarkable about the Ho’oponopono teaching: that we are 100% responsible for everything. This means everything, everyone and everywhere, not just your personal problems, mistakes, errors, and so on, but for all that comes into your awareness! It is about being 100% responsible for everything that comes into your sphere in any way shape or form.
Now, responsibility may need to be distinguished here from blame. We are not saying you are to blame for everything. Neither is Ho’oponopono a ticket to a good ol guilt trip. It doesn’t mean beating yourself up. Guilt is a waste of time, it only lets you off the hook, whilst you convince yourself you’re really a ‘good person’ because you feel bad (which your guilt has a good thing). Feeling bad is just a con trick of the ego. Being 100% responsible and guilt are two diametrically opposed states of being. Responsibility means, “Yes, we are One, and I am willing to see that which is in me, just as I am seeking to accuse you of that very same thing.”
Ultimately, we know that we are connected, and someone else’s problem, somewhere along the line, is also to do with us. If it wasn’t so, we would not feel pain when someone else feels pain, or feel the suffering of others. The fingers may appear different, but the wrist is one. That’s why those who live in a gilded cage of luxury cannot be truly content when around them are people everywhere with so little. Innately we have a natural conscience, a ‘responsibility guiding post’ that is awakened to a greater or lesser extent depending upon how conscious we are willing to be. Ho’oponopono provides a tool to activate our conscience and become more conscious.
Let me just say that some people do not feel conscience, and can take actions without concern for others, and this goes on not just with those that commit terrible crimes, but also in other smaller ways, and to those people I say, practice Ho’oponopono. In the end talk is cheap, and we must take action. Ho’oponopono is a most transformative practice.
You Are Cause, Not Effect
Choosing the energy of blame, guilt or judgment is to convince yourself why it is someone else’s problem, someone else’s fault. Isn’t it always someone else’s fault?!
But we could say that there are actually just two camps in life:
Either: The world is being done TO you, and it is coming AT you;
Or: The world is being done BY you and it is coming FROM you.
When we take a position in the second camp, of being at cause, rather than being at effect, we are no longer the victim, but instead the one who is empowered. When we believe the world is being done to us we leave the betterment of the world to others and say, ‘It’s not my problem.’ But the world IS our problem, because what you see around you, you will notice is the same as within you, as Jiddu Krishnamurti said. If we take the stance of being at cause, we heal, we empower ourselves (and others) and our experience becomes pure and alive. We find peace.
Let’s look at worry. Ok, we may not go around blaming or feeling guilt (but I think you’ll probably find some of that there too if you are honest), but rather we may be a worrier. When we do this however, it is like putting up a wall, and saying to the Divine, “I’ll work it out myself, thanks.” But worrying never sorts it out, does it? Grace will not penetrate the opaque block of worry, not that It cannot, but rather worry is a use of our free will, and with this, the Divine will not readily interfere. Why? Because our very free will IS our Divinity. So the question is how do you want to use your free will? In worry? Or in empowerment? If the latter, then there really is no other option than being at cause.
Ho’oponopono allows us to be at peace. Anything that is not peace is a memory that prevents us from experiencing anything as it truly is, ie new. What if we saw everything anew and fresh in each moment? What if all our pain was gone, and emotional memory was no more? We would be clear, and in the here and Now. We would have a clear, empty mind. By practicing Ho’oponopono we invite Grace into the moments of our lives to release for us the unconscious emotions associated with people, situations, information, news. Every single issue we are faced with is an opportunity to wipe the slate clean even further. Even if we feel the problem is not ours, because it has arisen in our conscious mind, it is ours to heal. If you are not happy in your job, it is yours to clean. If you are not happy with your relationship it is yours to clean. If you are not happy in any other aspect of life, it is yours to clean. When you do this, there is space for inspiration to come, and when this occurs, you must act on it. So, stop seeking other people’s advice and clean up – make a habit of this, and it will become natural. The energy of blame and guilt will not then sit well with you. You will transform in the truest sense of the word – permanently. Ramana Maharshi said, ‘Your own self-realization is the greatest service you can render this world.’ This means the same – clean up on yourself.
Stop the ‘Why’ Question
All too often, we would rather put forward reasons ‘why’ we cannot do the cleaning. This is just the ego’s cheap trick. Don’t be fooled. There is absolutely no way that you can know the ‘why’ of everything. It is impossible. Since we have shared lifetime after lifetime with people, even those we don’t know well, we simply do not know what experiences we have shared with others, and what may need balancing in the energy dynamic of the relationship. Many people want to find out past life connections with people in their lives, or work out why something is happening. Or take this lifetime itself, how much of the past do you actually remember? To keep asking why is to keep going round and round in one of those revolving doors – you’ll never find the answer, so you just have to exit the revolving door. Our brain is full of promise and potential, but our conscious mind knows and remembers very little. So to try to understand everything all the time is crazy. (Why me? …Why did this happen?….Why am I ill?… Why now….Why here? Why Can’t I….Why am I…. Why Do I….etc) is just a waste of time and energy. Only to some extent, can such questioning be helpful, but only initially in order to draw one into self-questioning with the intention of letting the ‘why’ question go. However in truth, we never know everything (anything) definitively, and knowing knowledge, information and memories, which is the ego-based mind habit, does not further us spiritually. The “why?” really doesn’t matter, let it go.
Stopping asking “why?” is therefore a most important spiritual practice. This allows for the free-flow of energy. It changes us from being energy-leaches, desperately pulling towards us answers, knowledge, remedies, solutions, practices and information, and always being in a state of needing or wanting something, towards a clearing. A clearing is a humble statement to the Universe that says, ‘Assist me’ and ‘I am open to your inspiration and guidance.’ Such humility allows for a reverse energy dynamic, from pulling energy towards you, to simply receiving that which flows towards you. It is surrender. Stopping the ‘why’ question, stops our thoughts for a moment, and through such emptiness, we may become the empty vessels for Divine inspiration.
Ho’oponopono is a simple but most profound practice that shows us that the only vital thing to do is to clean our slate of all our accumulations. When we do this, and enough people do this, the world will naturally change. How could it not? Once we are the empty vessel for Divine energy to have its way with us, the creative ideas flow, wisdom comes from within, natural self-governance (conscience and wisdom combined) takes the helm, and solutions are obvious. Jiddu Krishnamurti said,
“Relationship is a mirror in which to see ourselves as we actually are. But most of us are incapable of looking at ourselves as we are in relationship, because we immediately begin to condemn or justify what we see. We judge, we evaluate, we compare, we deny or accept, but we never observe actually what is, and for most people this seems to be the most difficult thing to do; yet this alone is the beginning of self-knowledge.”
Those we are in relationship with, as well as those that we meet in the course of daily life – shopkeepers, strangers, bankers, the homeless, neighbours we don’t know – are simply showing us a mirror of something within us already. Ho’oponopono is the tool that helps us see that what is within us already, rather than seeing others as the perpetrators. With the cleaning up of our ‘inside’ we come to know peace in the here and now. Human beings who experience peace within, will lead – automatically – to a peaceful world. It could not be any other way, just as the lack inner peace and joy is reflected in the insane world that we see at present.
"I Am the I"
"I" AM THE "I"
"I" come to light vacuum.
"I" am the breath that nurtures life.
"I" am that emptiness, that silence beyond consciousness.
The "I", perfect, absolute,
"I" design my rainbow across the water, transforming mind into matter.
"I" am the inhalation and exhalation
the breeze transparent and invisible,
undefinable atom of creation.
"I" am the "I".
“YO” SOY EL “YO”
“YO” vengo del vacío a la luz.
“YO” soy el aliento que nutre la vida.
“YO” soy ese vacío, ese silencio más allá de la conciencia.
El “YO”, lo PERFECTO, lo ABSOLUTO,
“YO” dibujo mi arco iris a través de las aguas, la transformación de mente en materia.
“YO” soy la inhalación y exhalación,
la brisa transparente e invisible,
el átomo indefinible de la creación.
“YO” soy el “YO”.
Ihaleakala Hew Len
Do not be confused with your fears, stand firm and not retreat stay strong
Fear not the narrow roads they will take you to your resting place, the ultimate happiness, where peace and love will be your reward after so much suffering.
Love yourself, Respect yourself, get rid of so much oppression
Do the right thing! Gpimentel