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Introduction
The ancient Kahunas (healer-priests) of Hawai'i discovered that guilt is the number one cause of illness in the mental, emotional bodies and physical bodies. They performed a ritual of healing to make things right: Ho'oponopono. But who really does the healing? Your own Higher Self! There was virtually no mental or physical illness in Hawai'i until the Western influx into the islands. Today the powerful techniques such as Ho'oponopono, and the knowledge behind them, are just coming to light and being taught as Huna, or the Secrets. Ho'oponopono is about moving forward with relationships. It is particularly useful for getting over heartbreak, and for letting go of guilt. Do you still pine for someone, even after years? Is it being hard to get over a loved one who broke your heart, or even an ancestor or someone who has passed on? Doing Ho'oponopono brings closure and lets you move on after the grieving period. Grief is natural and some say necessary. Self-recrimination or vengeance or depression isn't! And certainly anger and guilt only harms you and those around you. (I learned Huna from Tad James, who lived and studied in Hawai'i with Kahuna David Bray and other kahunas for 20 years before he was iniki'd - graduated and allowed to teach it. I have also read extensively and have incorporated my learnings into my teachings and, of course, my life. I ask forgiveness if any of my thoughts or words do not reflect the true teachings and practice of the kahunas.)
What is Huna?
Huna is the body of knowledge encompassing the ancient Hawai'ian healing arts, tenets of spirituality, and code of right living. Huna is equivalent to the ancient teachings of many other indigenous peoples. Huna used to be called Ho'omana, or to make energy, to use the Life Force to heal and grow. It has been called a psycho-spiritual body of knowledge actively applied for healing mind, body, and heart, and making connection with your spirit. A kahuna is One Who Has Mastered the Secrets - of anything (like our PhDs.) We commonly think of the kahuna as a kind of priest or spiritual healer. She/he knew the mysteries of the three minds of a human being - the Unconscious Mind, the Conscious mind, and the Higher Conscious or Higher Self; knew how to utilize their different kinds of energy properly to be balanced, and healthy. And the kahunas knew it thousands of years before Freud! In fact, Maxwell Freedom Long's most noted book about Huna is called, The Secret Science Behind Miracles.
Ho'oponopono
Understanding how the three minds worked probably initiated the ritual of ho'oponopono, the key to all healing. It was among their most powerful methods of healing. Ho'oponopono actually means to make things really right - meaning with your relationships. It involves forgiveness, atonement, well-wishing, and letting go of anger and guilt, and of the past. Guilt, according to the kahunas, causes most illnesses, and could even cause things going awry in your life. The good news is that most of our guilt is unwarranted. In Hawai'i, there are three kinds of errors and not all of them are sin, though we tend to think of them as such!
First is Hala: to go off the path, to err, make a mistake, or to avoid the truth. Doing this may inadvertently harm someone, but it is not a sin. Boy, if we thought all our errors were sinful, we'd be in hell, right? But who likes to admit to their errors? So they get pushed down deep inside and/or denied, and can make us feel unaccountably guilty. The second type of error is Hewa: excess and greed. Hewa is really not sinning either, though it is considered worse than hala, and almost always harms both you and others somewhat. This includes things like being needy and taking more of a person's energy than s/he is willing to give. The third is the only real sin: Ino, intentionally hurting another, and acting out hate. (Note that sex is not considered any sort of sin! That right there is an eye-opener for us up-tight Americans.)
There is another kind of unwarranted guilt; of leaving a relationship, of not acting out of love, or of not being perfect. We judge ourselves harshly and this sends a message to our Unconscious that we are not worthy and are undeserving. We
don't fully love ourselves then; and "a loss of love is frequently associated with health problems, illness and a decline in the quality of life."
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Fixed ideas become complexes, and guilt creates some very insidious complexes because the low self has no reasoning abilities. If the Conscious Mind gets the idea that the person is sinning and plants it in the Unconscious and later changes his Conscious mind, the Unconscious may still believe it was sin. This creates a house divided against itself, and can result in illness. Examine your beliefs and see if you can't stop guilt-tripping yourself. Use your conscience as a guide, not a jailer! If your conscience is pricked, it is a message from your Higher Self that you still have a ways to grow. Notice that you were acting in the best way you knew how, for a good reason, and just couldn't see the way for both to win. In the long run your action, if your intention was not to hurt someone, was probably the best for all involved. However, since changing deepseated beliefs is not like snapping your fingers, there is hope: the forgiveness ritual.
setting of tasks for reparation. It not only pays back the victim; it is healing for the wrongdoer. If you can't convince the Unconscious that you did not sin, you must and can appease it with atonement: asking forgiveness and giving a sacrifice. (Perhaps the misconception of human sacrifice in Hawai'i came from this practice.) When I say sacrifice I mean giving up something, or some time and energy, to make things right with someone you hurt. By the way, the Hawaiians are also taught from childhood to unconditionally forgive anyone who apologizes to them. Repressed emotions such as guilt and anger create toxins in your body. The kahunas said that you don't deal with them, you put old negative emotions in little black bags and stuff them down into your (metaphysical or etheric) body. They block the neural and energy pathways so the body cannot heal itself, and illness and depression can result. Forgiving yourself can heal you. Forgiving someone else does not condone their actions or lessen your power; it frees you. Why? Because you are forgiving yourself: you are the other. On a spiritual level, we are all One. Here's the good news. Spiritually speaking, the Unconscious Mind is that which communes with your Higher Self and the Creator and the Universe. Your Unconscious Mind (Lower Self, as Long calls it) cannot harm Spirit. Therefore you cannot sin against God. Your Unconscious mind is too small to be able to do that. "Nothing is a sin if it does not hurt someone."
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3. The patient must also ask for forgiveness, in person if possible and appropriate. 4. When that was done, the patient would return to the kahuna and the ritual healing of the Unconscious Mind would take place. Steps 2) through 4) might be performed with both or all parties as an intervention, like a family therapy session of today. 5. Finally, Noho, the reconnection to one's spirit or Higher Self could occur. Throughout the work, love (aloha) would be invited to spring forth; it is the force that both drives and completes the healing. Try Love When all three of your Selves are working properly you are a balanced, integrated person. When that happens, provided you are paying attention to your body's needs, since health is the natural state, your health can be re-established.
Ho'oponopono Meditation
(You can tape this for yourself. Give yourself a few minutes between each direction.) Get ready to transform your relationships - heal them - with all those on your lists. 1. Get comfortable and relaxed. Take 5 minutes or more to get deeply relaxed 2. Know that there is an infinite source of love and healing energy in the universe, and it can be channeled down into you through the top of your head crown chakra. When you do this it reminds you of that state of complete love as you feel your heart open and accept it. Love is always there for us, if we let ourselves accept and feel it. Do this. Fill your head, your body, your heart with the pink or peachy-gold energy of love and feel it heal you. (If you can't feel it, perhaps you need to do something about your black bags that are clogging the works!) Sense the energy filling and overflowing out from your heart into your entire body. Let yourself drift and revel in it . . . 3. Now imagine a place in front of and below you that you will bring the persons to. (You may feel it, hear it, see it, know it, or sense it in another way - I will be asking you to see something; you just translate that into whatever sense works for you.) 4. Bring in the person or people you want to make things right with. 5. As the person if they will accept healing and forgiveness from you. (If they do not want healing, just skip the next part where you fill them up with healing.) 6. Fill your head with the healing pink or peachy-gold energy of love from the Universe and let it flow into your heart and overflow radiating out from your heart and into the person in front of you. Fill them up until they are overflowing with healing love energy. 7. When the person is filled with the healing energy, have a discussion with them, forgiving them for anything they've done intentionally or unintentionally that hurt you. Tell them you recognize that they are a magnificent being, and you support them connecting to their Higher Self. 8. Ask them if they'll forgive you for anything you've done intentionally or unintentionally that hurt them. Ask them if they recognize that your are a magnificent being, and if they support your connection to your Higher Self. 9. Cut the cord or cords that bound you so you can let go. See your energy returning to you. See their energy returning to them. 10. See them float away to return, whole and healthy, to their lives. Make sure the people disappear. 11. Repeat numbers 3 - 9 with every person on your lists. 12. When done, check to make sure you have no negative feelings left when you think about any of these people. 13. If you still have negative feelings about someone, do ho'oponopono again after making reparations, or see a Kahuna or Huna Practitioner.
Purity of Thought What can you do to stay clear after this? Do Ho'oponopono every night with people you came into contact with that day. Practice Self-Love. Maintain Pure Thoughts. My definition of this is simple. Purity in thought and deed is to mean no harm, and to create positive and life-giving thought-forms by your self-talk and visualizations. Now is the time to stop indulging ourselves in negative thinking. Since energy follows thought, what do YOU want to create?