“By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.”
- Caroline Myss
Dear Wise Women,
Let us pause, once again, and remember the work we are doing together. We are gathering as women to heal and to grow. We are willfully choosing to awaken and attune to the frequency of Love.
We have learned that the “new earth” that we desire is not a place or a transformation that occurs “out there” but is a transformation, a vibrational shift that occurs right HERE on earth and IN our bodies. This is why we can feel it in our bones and in our hearts.
When we allow ourselves to fully open up to the power of wonder and presence we feel the magic that is activated. The inner energy body comes alive and merges with the energy of the universe! This is our purpose and our path as human beings. We are here to remember our oneness and to merge our bodies with the energy of the universe - and to embody this energy to create on earth, in the physical realm!
With an emphasis on the importance of embodiment, we are now ready to expand our understanding of HOW to access and stay in the higher dimensional vibration.
Remember the invitation to view yourself as a midwife to the birthing of the new earth? Recall that as we move towards the new vibration, we will see an increase in the flare-up of polarities, both in the outer world and within our inner experiences. The challenge and the opportunity is to greet each painful contraction with fierce love and openness and assist others in doing the same.
With the energy of midwives, let us now meet and understand all that that holds us back, drops us down to lower vibrations, and pulls us into fear. With wonder and presence as our constant companions, let us courageously embody the tools of forgiveness, compassion, gratitude, integrity and acceptance.
We begin with forgiveness.
Before you enter the body, forgive
“In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on the surface of your Being. When you are not in your body, however, an emotion can survive inside you for days or weeks, or join with other emotions of a similar frequency that have merged and become the pain-body, which can live inside you for years.
So place your attention on feeling the emotion, and check whether your mind is holding on to a greivance pattern such as blame, self-pity, or resentment that is feeding the emotion. If that is the case it means you haven’t forgiven.
Nonforgiveness is often toward another person or yourself, but it may just as well be toward any situation or condition - past, present or future - that your mind refuses to accept. Yes, there can be nonforgiveness even with regard to the future. This is the mind’s refusal to accept uncertainty, to accept that the future is ultimately beyond its control. Forgiveness is to relinquish your grievance and so let go of grief. It happens naturally once you realize that your grievance serves no purpose except to strengthen a false sense of self.
Forgiveness is to offer no resistance to life - to allow life to live through you.
The alternatives are pain and suffering and a greatly restricted flow of life energy. The moment you truly forgive, you have reclaimed your power from the mind. Nonforgiveness is the very nature of the mind.
The mind cannot forgive only you can.
You become present, you enter your body, you feel the vibrant peace and stillness that emanate from Being.
That is why Jesus said: “Before you enter the temple, forgive.”
- Eckhart Tolle
HO’OPONOPONO: THE HAWAIIAN FORGIVENSS RITUAL
Ho’oponopono means a return to the Divine Plan…
Ho'oponopono is a simple way of arriving at unity, inner peace and returning to harmony. It expresses the deep need to live once again in harmony with oneself and with humanity, nature and God. Ho'o means 'to make' and pono is translated 'right' or 'correct'. And so ho'oponopono quite simply represents to 'make rightly right'. To 'make anything rightly right' means to join oneself again with one's Higher Self and the Source of All Being - to be in one's own centre, returned to harmony, and balanced once again so that one is able to realign the environment and reshape reality.
The forgiveness ritual of Ho'oponopono is love in action. 'Making things rightly right' is a simple four-step procedure that helps you learn to forgive yourself unconditionally, to love, and, additionally to make things better.
I love you
I am sorry
Please forgive me
Thank you
These four sentences seem like a mantra or a magical formula, but they are rather a mediation and a prayer. They operate through time and space, beyond cause and effect, and transmit themselves directly to your Inner Family, the Higher Self, the Inner Child and your waking consciousness. After a short while you achieve inner peace and change from disharmony to harmony.
You move yourself from separation to union while you say:
love you. I am sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you.
- Ho'oponopono: The Hawaiian forgiveness ritual as the key to your life's fulfillment, by Ulrich E. Dupree
The Ho’oponopono ritual can be applied to any relationship or situation in which you feel disconnected or troubled. More often than not, you may find yourself saying these four sentences silently… they need not ever be spoken out loud. Please note that when saying sorry you are not blaming yourself rather you are expressing a heart-felt apology for being part of a situation or relationship in which there is disharmony. This is why we say “please forgive me”, rather than “I forgive you”. Ho’oponopono is about opening the heart and liberating guilt, blame and shame - it is a method of accessing the universal energy of unconditional love.
What I most want to emphasize is the power of these four simple sentences when applied to oneself…anytime you feel regret, self judgement, doubt, self-criticism or are otherwise separated from Oneness (aka: Source, God, the Universe, Divinity, Energy, Qi, Presence)…simply pause and say to these four sentences.
Invocation:
“I Love You. I am sorry. Please Forgive Me. Thank-You.”
The Story of Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len
“Ho’oponopono may be the most effective method of solving problems and conflicts ever devised by a culture. It became known mainly through Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len and the record of his work in healing some psychologically ill prisoners. This achievement is considered a therapeutic miracle, and demonstrates the effectiveness of Ho’oponopono. Moreover, it is an acknowledged therapy in the USA.
In 1983 a trusted friend asked Dr. Hew Len to work in the psychiatric department of the state prison of Kaneohe of Hawaii. Thirty prisoners, all psychologically ill, were confined there, with a chronic shortage of staff. There was good reason for this shortage because both the institution and the work were commonly described as ‘the hell’. Most of the employees were either ill, unsuited for the work or gave in their notice as soon as possible after beginning employment. However, Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len agreed to work there - on condition that he was allowed to use a method that he had just learnt. It was arranged that he would only read the prisoners’ reports and would not talk with them.
What did Dr. Hew Len do? In the following four years he read the prisoners’ reports several times daily and asked himself, ‘What is there in me of darkness and negativity, of power and hatefulness, that something similar should exist in my world? What is my part in it that my brother has done such a thing? When he found something of that in himself and in his heart (power, aggression, hatred, vengefulness, envy, jealousy - the whole palette of the depths of humanity), he would say:
I am sorry. Please forgive me. I love you. Thank you.
Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len worked exclusively on the cleansing of his heart and consciousness and after one and a half years he had made a Ho’oponopono and changed the mold, atmosphere and climate in the prison hospital. After 18 months, none of the prisoners wore handcuffs anymore. The staff, warden and therapists now came happily to work and the illness figures declined. It became possible to hold therapeutic conversations with the prisoners, and after four years all the inmates, except for two, were cured. The institution was finally closed.
Did Dr. Ihaleakalal Hew Len really cure anyone? Those impacted, say ‘Yes’. However, in an interview Dr. Ihaleakalal Hew Len has explained that he only worked on his own purification and the deleting of information in his own subconscious. He did not speak of cures, but emphasized that the solution to respective conflicts succeeded because he had taken 100% responsibility for the existence of prisoners in his life. ”
— Ho'oponopono The Hawaiian forgiveness ritual as the key to your life's fulfillment, by Ulrich E. Dupr
Angels are wonderful but they are so, well, aloof.
It’s what I sense in the mud and the roots of the
trees, or the well, or the barn, or the rock with
its citron map of lichen that halts my feet and
makes my eyes flare, feeling the presence of some
spirit, some small god, who abides there.
If I were a perfect person, I would be bowing
continuously.
I’m not, though I pause wherever I feel this
holiness, which is why I’m so often late coming
back from wherever I went.
Forgive me.
- Mary Oliver