100% Responsibility;
The Ho’oponopono technique is very easy to learn. What is not so easy is that in order to practice effectively, you first have to accept that you are 100% responsible for the world and everything you see and experience in it.
I mean everything!
Everybody, every act or reaction, whether good or bad. All the wars, all the hate and injustice in the world, all the suffering was created by you and you alone.The world around you in all its majesty and misery, all of it, is a direct result of your thoughts.
Your thoughts shape your reality.
The circumstances of your life are a mirror of the inner you.
Like attracts like, and you attract the people and circumstances that reflect what you are, and where you are in your spiritual journey.
Co-creation
This concept is not new. It is a long held belief in many metaphysical circles that we are here on earth with free will, and the power to co-create.
The popularity of “The Law of Attraction” and success of books such as “The Secret” has proven how widespread these ideas have become.
The core of these beliefs is that your thoughts create your reality, and by controlling and focusing what you think, you can shape circumstances and events in your life.
You are what you think!
Now like me you’re probably asking yourself why, if I have free will and the power to create anything, would I create a world around me full of hate, violence, and fear?
Why would I put myself in hardship, in poverty, in ill health?
The simple answer to that is because you didn’t do it deliberately. In the absence of a captain your ship has been sailing itself.
You have been running on auto pilot, relying on your ego, intellect, and subconscious to formulate your reality.
The majority of our decisions and actions in our daily lives are based on past experiences and old memories replaying.
What happened the last time I did this? What was the result?
It is widely accepted that past traumatic events in a person’s life can cause significant reactions and major personality changes for many years after the event.
Memories that we have repressed play an even bigger role in shaping our lives. Mainstream therapy is focused on recalling these memories and facing up to them as a form of resolution.
It is not difficult to see how these past experiences help shape and form our lives and attitudes today. How you remember the past can dictate your present day view of the world.
That is undeniable...
But can these memories shape our very reality?
Reincarnation
Ho’oponopono takes this idea one giant leap further. Suggesting that we not only carry with us all the memories and experiences of this life, but also those from all our past lives as well!
Ho’oponopono practitioners believe, as I do, that we are all eternal, spiritual beings, incarnating here on earth in physical form, in order to learn and progress spiritually.
This can take many lifetimes to achieve, and we do it by learning to overcome obstacles in this life, in a loving compassionate manner.
Each incarnation is presented to us as an opportunity to evolve spiritually. The latest in a long line of lives stretching back many eons.
Karma
We don’t start over with a clean slate every time we begin a new life. That would lead no-where. Our lives here are governed by certain immutable Universal Laws.
One these is The Law of Correspondence, sometimes referred to as The Great Law, more commonly known as Karma. (More on these Laws in Chapter 8)
We arrive here with all the knowledge, wisdom, and love we have struggled for, and worked so hard to earn.
Unfortunately, as well as all the good we have done, the lessons we have learned, and the progress we have made, we also bring with us all the garbage...
The karmic debt, the hate, the fear, the guilt, and the prejudices we have accumulated over many difficult and challenging lifetimes.
Our entire lives’ experiences, past and present, are stored forever in our subconscious minds, running endlessly on a loop...
Every deed, thought, and act we have ever carried out, either in this life, or any of our past lives has been recorded for all time. This information is recorded and stored in our subconscious mind in the form of memories.
The subconscious mind then uses that information to dictate our thoughts, feelings and actions. It is these memories that are being used to create our own individual realities.
In order for us to move on we are continually presented with opportunities to clear karmic debt. Unfortunately instead of resolving the problem we frequently get stuck in a loop.
Many of us find ourselves repeating the same mistakes over and over again. Finding ourselves in the same situations repeatedly as if we were deliberately punishing ourselves for some forgotten guilty act.
Well perhaps we are...
Earth school, Spiritual Evolution, Duality;
As we discussed earlier, our goal here on Earth in this life is to evolve spiritually. And we do this by learning to overcome obstacles presented to us in a loving manner.
Earth is the perfect place for us to learn, to grow, to evolve. We bravely choose to enter this world of duality and separation, virtually blind, with our perspectives narrowed considerably.
Why? Because these are the perfect conditions for the task at hand.
How could we take life seriously if we knew our real magnificence, our true selves? The knowledge that we are eternal beings, alone, would make a mockery of much of the drama and pain in the world.
This is a world of duality, of Ying and Yang. Light and Dark. Love and Hate. We chose to live this life of opposites. How else could we appreciate the beauty and wonder surrounding us if we knew no want?
How could we experience love without hate, health without illness?
How would joy feel if we’d never known sadness?
In normal times these issues would eventually work themselves out over many lifetimes of karmic debt.
But as many of us believe these are not normal times...
There is a lot of evidence suggesting that we are in a period of accelerated transition in our own and earth’s spiritual advancement. It is my belief that the Ho’oponopono process has been gifted to us at this time to assist us in ours and the planet’s ascension. And the fact that you’re reading this book and others like it shows that you know something is happening too.
Ho’oponopono doesn’t change any of this. We’re still here to learn lessons, and some of them are difficult. It does though provide us with the tools we need to free ourselves from the mistakes we made in the past. Mistakes that we made in ignorance and fear.
Allowing us to face our future challenges clean and clear, and once again in control of our own destinies...