The Ho ’oponopono
THE HO ‘OPONOPONO
A prayer originating in the communities of ancient Polynesia and adapted and taught by Ihaleakala Hew Len PhD. as part of his native Hawaiian healing modality.
Here is my interpretation, which I hope you find helpful in understanding and applying this healing modality to shift intransigent problems or challenges in your life – which in my experience it does – in sometimes truly miraculous ways!
Interpreted by John Homewood
VERSION A
STEP 1
SHIFT YOUR PERCEPTIONS ABOUT WHAT IS POSSIBLE
It’s to realise what quantum physics has revealed to us that there is no ‘you’ separate from the world ‘out there’. We are all made up of a Field of Mind-Energy. There is no ‘you’ separate from the problem or situation.
The ‘you’ that is worried, is in fact, at the energetic level, participating in the field of mind energy that is creating the problem or situation!
Our ‘work’ here is to change our mind. This ‘work’ is to clear our mind of the problem that we are holding onto in our perception.
As the Course In Miracles states: “Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world” (T-21.In.1:7)
The sacred Ho óponopono prayer is a powerful and effective way of shifting the ‘problem’, and opening the door for miracles to flow.
NB: If there is a problem or concern that is currently occupying your thoughts and emotions, then you and your mind are an integral part of that problem!
While this might initially be difficult for you to accept, truth can no longer be ignored or avoided if real transformation is what we want.
STEP 2
REPEAT THESE SIMPLE BUT PROFOUND 4 SENTENCES
Whenever the problem or situation that bothers you appears in your mind as a thought or emotion, repeat the following 4 sentences to clear the mind immediately in that moment.
• I Love You
• I am Sorry
• Please forgive me
• Thank You
EXPLANATION:
I Love You
I always start with this sentence, although I am aware that other teachers use a different order. The reason I prefer to start with I Love You is to set the final destination/intention for the prayer right up front.
This is how I use it: I love and honor the light at the core of my Being, which is connected to and is part of the Divine Source. I recognize that all my problems and concerns are self created and misperceptions, blocking Divine Love. I join my awareness, with the ‘situation’ and with the Divine, in one complete prayer triangle now.
I am sorry
I am sorry for the clouds of ignorance and misperception with which I have blocked the true Light, and created this situation in my limited world of awareness. I am sorry for investing my consciousness in the mind/time-matrix and the wheel of Karma.
Please forgive me
I ask for my misperception to be absolved. I ask for all that is not real to be cleansed from my perception. I recognize and accept in this moment that this cannot be accomplished from the level of my limited egoic self, and call on a power mightier than self to help me with this. Please forgive my mind-made Karma. Please cleanse my awareness through Your Power of Presence and Forgiveness. Please forgive me.
Thank You! (It is done)
I give thanks for the healing of this situation, which I know and feel, has now already taken place, and for the Light which now shines and dispels the darkness of my misperception. I recognize that Gratitude in my heart is true acceptance and surrender, and that this is true forgiveness.
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!
VERSION B
Here is a second and deeper variation. This may bring further clarity to this healing prayer.
Ho ‘oponopono
I Love You
I love and honor the light at the core of my Being, which is connected to and is part of the Divine Source we call God. I recognize that all my problems and concerns are misperceptions I have created within my mind, blocking Divine Love. I join my awareness, with the ‘situation’ and with the Divine, in one complete prayer triangle.
I am sorry
I am sorry for making my thoughts, my ‘story’, my preferences, judgements, desires, hopes and regrets, more important to me than you o’ Divine Presence – GOD
Please forgive me
Please forgive me – forgive me of my mind, with its thoughts, preferences, judgements, desires, hopes, dreams and regrets
Thank You (It is done)
Thank you for this forgiveness, thank you for lifting me out of my mind and for helping me release my ‘story’, and for dissolving my past and future attachments and projections. I am once again one with the peace and love of presence.
I AM FREE.
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!
The primary purpose of your life is to become conscious.
All else is secondary.
‘My state of consciousness in this moment is the most important energy in creating my life’s experience.’
Take a listen to John Homewood’s
Radio 2000 Talk
The Meaning, Power and Freedom of
Forgiveness
©John Homewood – excerpt taken from The AWAKENING SHIFT EXPERIENCE workshop
www.johnhomewood.net