Joe Vitale’s book, Zerolimits, is about an Hawaiian system called Ho’oponopono whose basic tenant is that you have 100% responsibility for everything In your world. If you want to change anything external you need to clean your thoughts. This is done with a conversation with God in five steps:
1. Say to yourself: I love you
2. Say to God: I’m Sorry
3. Say to God: Please forgive me.
4. Say to God: Thank you
5. Say to yourself and to God: I love you
Those are the responses, since you have 100% responsibility for everything in your life these responses will change any situation, even with other people. Always use the cleaning process and keep using it until the change comes.
Here is a prayer, quoted from Joe’s book, used by Morrnah Simeona one of the great teachers of Ho’oponopono (mental cleansing) which is the name of the techniques:
Divine creator, father, mother, son as one… If I, my family, relatives, and ancestors have offended you, your family, relatives, and ancestors in thoughts, words, deeds, and actions from the beginning of our creation to the present, we ask your forgiveness… Let this cleanse, purify, release, cut all the negative memories, blocks, energies, and vibrations and transmute these unwanted energies to pure light… And it is done.
With such prayers and feeling the shared experiences while reviewing patient records Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len is said to have cured all patients in the criminally mentally ill wing of a psychiatric hospital in Hawaii.
Ho’oponopono teaches that our thoughts, based on old memories, which we are clearing with the process are blocking inspiration which holds all the answers. When we clear then inspiration can come through. Do you want to live your life on memories or by inspiration?
Our memories bubble up in mind and cause all sorts of problems – real and imagined: clearing old thoughts opens us to inspiration. Forgiveness, thank you, and love are possibly the only ways to get past those thoughts.
Ho’oponopono is an amazing process which I had a hard time accepting until reading Wallace Wattles book The Science of Getting Rich (free audio book is available in the resources sidebar). The Science of Getting Rich can be looked at as a treatise on mastering the law of attraction and perhaps the best teaching out there on the subject. I now see Ho’oponopono as another facet of the beautiful gem that we call the law of attraction.
Put the ideas to work in your life. Accept complete responsibility for your circumstances – sure there are always reasons that things exist but if you believe the law of attraction then accept that your thoughts can affect those things and your awareness gives you responsibility and power.
To “clean” the situation ask forgiveness for it and say “I’m sorry.”
Express gratitude that you are forgiven and for resolution, say thank you.
Say “I love you.” There is not a better expression of gratitude than love. Gratitude is an essential part to using the law of attraction.
Spend some time meditating on the prayer listed above by Morrnah Simeona. There is a great peace to be had in that prayer.
Here is a great Hooponopon Cleansing Meditation.
You can check out Joe Vitale’s book here: Zero Limits: The Secret Hawaiian System for Wealth, Health, Peace, and More
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