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What I Always Should Do Before Watching Online News

By Kamaile Rafaelovich

I usually do not read newspapers, nor do I watch TV or the Internet for daily news.
A few years ago, I visited Japan for a lecture.
I stayed at the same hotel for about a week, and although I had not asked for it, an English newspaper was kindly inserted under my door every morning.
During my stay I did not even open it, I just pulled it out and left it right there on my desk.
One morning, however, as I sat down at my desk for a cup of coffee, I casually glanced at the front page of the newspaper in my hand.
At that moment, I felt as if a completely different mindset had overtaken me than the one I had had from the moment I woke up that morning until that moment. “Odd” would be the best word to describe this state of mind.
I don’t know what caused it.
The words on the front page were not about a major catastrophe or war, but about stock prices, as I recall. I don’t think it had any direct impact on me at the time.
However, the moment I saw it, I felt a depression-like sensation, as if my consciousness and body were falling toward the bottom.
That’s when the cleaning process began.
“I don’t know anything about what is really going on.”

We reason, choose, and act on a variety of things every day, but beneath the surface of cause and effect are layers and layers of memories.
Our senses can only comprehend 15 bits of information per second through a mere letter, a single word, or an event. In the subconscious mind, however, there are 11 million bits of information. At the very moment when we are aware that we are accepting something as knowledge through a word in the news that we happen to see, our subconscious mind may be reliving countless tragedies, anxieties, and losses. What if, in the meantime, you are exposing your defenseless inner child to more horror stories than you can tolerate, no matter how much enrichment you are striving for?

So I shouldn’t watch the news?
Does that mean I should not read newspapers from now on?

It is your own decision. What you decide on is also cleaned.
And most importantly, we clean and then watch the news.
After cleaning, we meet people.
After cleaning, we go to the gym.
After cleaning, we look at our smartphone.
By doing something after cleaning, our subconscious is ready to incorporate whatever we see or hear into the cleaning process.

Being prepared is very important.
Whether I am climbing a mountain, surfing, or traveling, I have to be prepared with the minimum amount of equipment necessary for me to do something. That is “Ho’oponopono” for me.

Life should have been going somewhat well, but for some reason it hasn’t been going well lately.
I thought I had a very good relationship with my family, but a minor misunderstanding has caused the relationship to deteriorate.
I thought my future was secure, but the price of land has plummeted.

The trigger for the event, from the trivial to the major, may not be the economy, the family, or the times, but perhaps the words on the front page of a newspaper that you happen to see.
We don’t know what triggered it, what memories are being replayed.

When there are things before us that are beyond our control, from disasters to politics in other countries, from celebrity gossip to life changes caused by viral outbreaks, we seem to just let it happen, but in reality, our thoughts cling deeply to the solutions, along with a broken magnet. It begins to wander.
But at every moment, when we look within ourselves for the cause, when we begin to take action to take responsibility for the experience through cleaning, freedom and purpose will return to our own walk.

Peace.
KR

An interview with …

Morrnah Simeona and Dr. Stan Hew Len*

by Deborah King — frequent contributor to the New Times

“We can appeal to Divinity who knows our personal blueprint, for healing of all thoughts and memories that are holding us back at this time,” softly shares Morrnah Simeona. “It is a matter of going beyond traditional means of accessing knowledge about ourselves.”

The process that Morrnah refers to is based on the ancient Hawaiian method of stress reduction (release) and problem solving called Ho’oponopono. The word Ho’oponopono means to make right, to rectify an error. Morrnah is a native Hawaiian Kahuna Lapa’au. Kahuna means “keeper of the secret” and Lapa’au means “a specialist in healing.” She was chosen to be a kahuna while still a small child and received her gift of healing at the age of three. She is the daughter of a member of the court of Queen Liliuokalani, the last sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands. The process that is now brought forth is a modernization of an ancient spiritual cleansing ritual. It has proven so effective that she has been invited to teach this method at the United Nations, the World Health Organization and at institutions of healing throughout the world.

How does Ho’oponopono work? Morrnah explains, “We are the sum total of our experiences, which is to say that we are burdened by our pasts. When we experience stress or fear in our lives, if we would look carefully, we would find that the cause is actually a memory. It is the emotions which are tied to these memories which affect us now. The subconscious associates an action or person in the present with something that happened in the past. When this occurs, emotions are activated and stress is produced.”

She continues, “The main purpose of this process is to discover the Divinity within oneself. The Ho’oponopono is a profound gift which allows one to develop a working relationship with the Divinity within and learn to ask that in each moment, our errors in thought, word, deed or action be cleansed. The process is essentially about freedom, complete freedom from the past.”

Every memory of every experience, since the first moment of our creation, eons ago, is recorded as a thought form which is stored in the etheric realm. This incredible recorder/computer is also known as the subconscious, unihipili or child aspect within us. The inner child is very real and comprises one part of the Self. The other aspects are the mother, also known as the uhane or rational mind and the father, the superconscious or Spiritual aspect. The three comprise the inner family, which, in partnership with The Divine Creator, makes up one’s Self I-Dentity. Every human being in creation, every plant, atom and molecule has these three selves and yet each blueprint is completely different.

The most important task for people is to find his or her true identity and place in the Universe. This process allows that understanding to become available.

The purpose of Ho’oponopono is to: 1) Connect with the Divinity within on a moment-to-moment basis; 2) To ask that movement and all it contains, be cleansed. Only the Divinity can do that. Only the Divinity can erase or correct memories and thought forms. Since the Divinity created us, only the Divinity knows what is going on with a person.

In this system, there is no need to analyze, solve, manage or cope with problems. Since the Divinity created everything, you can just go directly to Him and ask that it be corrected and cleansed.

In the area of problem solving: the world is a reflection of what is happening inside us. If you are experiencing upset or imbalance, the place to look is inside yourself, not outside at the object you perceive as causing your problem. Every stress, imbalance or illness can be corrected just by working on yourself. It is important to mention that this system is fundamentally different from other forms of Ho’oponopono. In traditional methods, everyone who is involved in a problem needs to be physically present and work it out together. In Morrnah’s system everything can be handled by you and the Divinity. You don’t need to go one inch outside yourself for answers or help. There is no one who can give you any more relevant information than you can get by going within yourself.

Morrnah especially recommends Ho’oponopono for those in the healing profession: “It is important to clear Karmic patterns with your clients before you start working with them, so that you don’t activate old stuff between you. Perhaps you shouldn’t be working with that person at all. Only the Divinity knows. If you work with a person and it isn’t your business, you can take on the person’s entire problem and everything associated with it. This can cause burnout. The Ho’oponopono gives the tools to prevent that from happening.”

Morrnah wished for our Western society that everyone would do things to reduce the stress. “Western people have great difficulty in putting the intellect behind. It is difficult for the Western mind to get a grasp of a Higher Being because in traditional Western churches, the Higher Beings are not made evident.” She continues, “Western man has gone to the extremes with his intellectualism it divides and keeps people separate. Man then becomes a destroyer because he manages and copes rather than letting the perpetuating force of the Divinity flow through him for right action.”

Morrnah works with her associate, Dr. Stanley Hew Len, who spent several years as a consulting clinical psychologist at the Hawaii State Hospital. He has had profound results by using this process with the most dangerous, violently “mentally ill” criminals in Hawaii. Yet he never talks to them, in fact, he never even sees them. He writes down their name and then just works on himself. He cleanses his judgments, beliefs, attitudes and asks the Divinity what he can do for the person. As those attachments and memories are cleansed, the patient improves. “The Divinity,” comments Stan, “says it is time to bring all the children home.”

[* also known as Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len]

By Darrell Sifford — Tuesday, 2 December 1980 Philadelphia Inquirer

I’m not even sure why I agreed to the interview — except that I was curious. After all, how many times in your life do you have a chance to meet an honest-to-goodness kahuna?

No, it’s not a typographical error. I really talked to a kahuna. That’s a Hawaiian word that literally means “keeper of the secrets,” but that among Hawaiians commonly refers to a spiritual teacher and healer of what ails us — either physically or psychologically.

So there I was, with my notebook and pen, and there she was, Morrnah Simeona, a grandmotherly looking woman in a white cable-knit sweater and gray flannel skirt, the daughter of a member of the court of Queen Liliuokalani, who was the last sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands.

Morrnah, who has lectured at the University of Hawaii, was in the Philadelphia area for a weekend workshop in what was described as “Hawaiian metaphysics,” and was then due in Baltimore for a lecture at Johns Hopkins University.

What exactly does she do — not as a lecturer, but as a kahuna? Well, although her English is as flawless as a radio announcer’s, I had trouble grasping what she was saying. Essentially, it seemed to come down to this.

We tend to be haunted by our old fears, emotions, ideas and reactions, which contribute not only to present-day psychological distresses but also to physical illnesses — since many illnesses can be “attributed purely to the pressures we create.” A kahuna’s role is to help us dredge up and erase the garbage that is polluting our existence — in much the same way that we would retrieve and kill useless information stored in a computer.

Now that doesn’t sound too unreasonable, does it? Obviously what must happen, if anything really does happen, is that we feel better after a session with our kahuna because we expect to feel better- It’s the old placebo effect, about which Dr. Herbert Benson, the Harvard cardiologist, has written extensively and for which modern medicine finally is beginning to show some respect.

Well, Morrnah hadn’t heard about the placebo effect but, after it was explained, she said that it wasn’t a factor, since some of those with whom she dealt really had no grand expectations. For some, it was just another pause in their endless search for happiness and fulfillment.

But the strange thing, Morrnah said, was that the search inevitably was abandoned after they met with her — because their problems went away, Besides, she said, she could help people she never even met — by working through those who came to her.

All that was required, she said, was an appeal to the divine creator of our choice “through the divinity that is within each person … who is really an extension of the divine creator.”

The liturgy she said, goes like this:

“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.”

This appeal is called ho’oponopono, and can be identified with just about every religion, Morrnah said, because “in every faith there always is a portion (of the liturgy) in which we ask forgiveness of those we offend … But we go beyond that … to family, relatives, and ancestors … because possibly some of the problem stems from a grandfather who chopped off somebody’s head in another century.” That which we expel is transmuted into “pure light,” she said, because otherwise, “we would pollute the atmosphere” with our discarded garbage. “But as pure light, it does not contaminate.”

At the instant that she utters “and it is done” the transmutation takes place, she said, and “the computer automatically erases” the garbage that has been stored for … who knows for how long?

The great thing about the system, she said, is that it is “simple, workable and infallible … and anybody can do it, from the very young to the very old.” It is, she said, “difficult for a lot of intellectuals to comprehend” because it’s so simple, but it really is infallible- Didn’t I have some problem that I’d like for her to work on?

Well, how in heaven’s name was I going to write anything from this interview? People would think I was crazy — and I wouldn’t blame them. But, OK, Morrnah, anything to go along with the program. Things have not been too good with my older son, Jay, since my divorce — and things certainly have been sour with my former wife. How about it, Morrnah?

“Divine Creator, father, mother, son, as one … If I, my family, relatives and ancestors have offended.”

Not long after that the interview ended, and I forgot about it. After all, I had a plane to catch to North Carolina, where the lawyers were tying up a final piece of business left over from the divorce.

Jay is 22, and last winter, when I had seen him for the first time in three years, he kept at arm’s length, told me that he never could regard me as his father, that we perhaps could be friends — but not very close friends, because we didn’t have much in common.

The other night we’d finished dinner in a restaurant — he and I and my younger son, Grant. After Grant had driven off to go back to his college campus apartment, Jay and I climbed into my rental car and started to leave the parking lot. That’s when Jay turned down the volume on the radio and told me that he now felt differently toward me.

“I know you love me,” he said. “And I really need that. I want you to know how much I respect you, how much I admire the person you have become.”

The next day, I met with my former wife and, after the lawyers had departed, she told me that she wasn’t bitter any more, that what happened probably had been for the best and that both of us probably had grown as a result of it.

Each of the conversations immediately struck me as drastic reversals from previously staked-out positions. lt was strange, I thought, that they should take place within 24 hours.

lt wasn’t until I had returned to Philadelphia and was shuffling through my backlog of work that I ran across the notes from my interview with Morrnah Simeona, the kahuna.

Morrnah, you didn’t … did you?

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Ihaleakala Hew Len, PH.D.

John views the text of his work on the computer monitor as he types. A message box pops up telling him there is a spelling error. He deletes the error and makes the correction. No one expects him to yell at or to blame the computer monitor for the error.

Peter has been reluctant to go to school for several days. This is unlike him. He is always up and dressed for school on his own. “The bus will be here in a few minutes, his mother reminds him. “You need to get ready.” She has talked to him but still does not know what is going on. She will speak with his teacher. Her reactions are typical of parents in her situation. No one would expect her to look inside of herself for the source of the problem and its solution.

Bill, who is forty, has a severe chronic lower back pain. He is a volunteer client in a training program for therapists. “How long have you had the back pain?” a therapist asks. “How did it begin?” another one inquires. “Have you been experiencing stress lately?” another question follows. Then out of the blue springs an unexpected question. “What is going on inside of me that shows as Bills back problem?” “Whos the wise guy?” the instructor asks suspiciously.

Total responsibility, like money growing on trees, never happens. It occurs nowhere on the face of the earth, not in relationships, not in family units, not in work places, not in business enterprises, not in local, state and national governments, not in religious communities and certainly not in therapeutic settings. It just does not exist. Unfortunately, problems, disease and even death are the result.

There is a way, though, out of problems and disease for any individual willing to be 100 % responsible for creating his life the way it is moment to moment. In the ancient Hawaiian healing process of Ho’oponopono, the individual petitions Love to rectify errors within him. “I am sorry. Please forgive me for whatever is going on inside of me that manifests as the problem.” Loves responsibility then is to transmute the errors within him that manifest as the problem. Love does this by erasing and correcting, as in Johns example errors in the computer bank of the mind.

If Petes mother petitions, Love will erase the errors in her mind that manifest as problems of her son. In their work, therapists can ask Love to cancel errors in their mind that show as problems in their clients. In the marriage of total responsibility and Love, problems are resolved, health restored, and life renewed. This is lyrically evoked in Shakespeares Sonnet CXLVI.

“Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross:

Within be fed, without be rich no more:

So shall thou feed on Death,

that feed on men, and Death once dead, theres no more dying then.”

Learn true love and forgiveness through the ancient Hawaiian training of Hooponopono

By Ihaleakala Hew Len, Ph.D.

A house divided against itself cannot stand. This is true for nations, communities, organizations and families, as well as for individuals. In the House of Humanity, the individual is the common denominator. When the individual is divided, the house is divided.

In the game of tennis, the scoring system is Love, 15, 30, 40, game. The game begins with Love. In the etymology of the word, Love is no score, no stakes, nothing, to take the individual back to Love to nothing, to wholeness.

The process achieves this by voiding anger, fear, blame, resentment and thinking from poisonous thoughts, toxic energies that divide the mind, the house of the individual, causing it to fall to dis-Harmony and dis-ease.

The purpose of life is to be restored back to Love , moment to moment. To fulfill this purpose, the individual must acknowledge that he is 100% responsible for creating his life the way it is. He must come to see that it is his thoughts of that create his life the way it is moment to moment. The problems are not people, places and situations but rather the thoughts of them. He must come to appreciate that there is no such thing as “out there”. People, places and situations exist only as his thoughts of.

A problem is a replayed toxic memory, what Shakespeare writes as a “fore-moaned moan”. A replayed toxic memory again divides the mind against its self, against Love. The Updated Hooponopono, a process of repentance, forgiveness and transmutations, is a petition to Love to void and replace toxic energies with its self. Love accomplishes this by flowing through the Mind, beginning with the Spiritual Mind, the Super Conscious. It then continues its flow through the intellectual Mind, the Conscious Mind, freeing it of thinking energies. Finally, it moves into the Emotional Mind, the Subconscious, voiding thoughts of toxic emotions and filling them with its self.

Here is a thought cleansing tool that anyone can apply to void toxic energies from his or her thoughts.

Mentally think: “I turn the Light Switch on my thoughts of me and my family, relatives and ancestors.” There is no limit to the number of times that this tool can be used. The tool is a petition to Love to clear toxic thoughts of yourself and of your family, relatives and ancestors that divide your Mind, your house.

The purpose of life does not change with the coming of a new millennium! It will always remain the same: to be restored back to Love moment to moment. The fulfilling of this purpose requires absolute individual responsibility. It requires an appreciation of the real problems that divide the individual first, then everything else second. A house divided against itself cannot stand.

“We’re either killing ourselves or nurturing. There is no in-between.”

Haleakala Hew Len, Ph.D.

Cat Saunders gets the scoop on Haleakala Hew Len

How do you thank someone who has helped to set you free? How do you thank a man whose gentle spirit and zinger statements have forever altered the course of your life? Haleakala Hew Len is such a man for me. Like a soul brother who shows up unexpectedly in an hour of need. Haleakala came into my life in March of 1985, during a time of massive change for me. I met him during a training called “Self I-Dentity Through Ho’oponopono,” which he facilitated along with the late Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona, a native Hawaiian kahuna (“keeper of the secret”).

For me, Haleakala and Morrnah are part of the rhythm of life. Though I love them both dearly, I don’t really dwell on thoughts of them as people, yet their influence is always there for me, beating a steady pulse like African drums in the night. Recently, I had the honor of being asked to interview Haleakala. It was an even greater honor to learn that he would be coming from his home in Hawaii to meet with me personally.

Dr. Haleakala S. Hew Len is the president and administrator. Together with Morrnah, Haleakala has worked with thousands of people over the years, including groups at the United Nations, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), International Human Unity Conference on World Peace, World Peace Conference, Traditional Indian Medicine Conference, Healers for Peace in Europe, an the Hawaii State Teachers Association. He also has extensive experience working with developmentally disabled people and with the criminally mentally ill and their families. In all his work as an educator, the Ho’oponopono process supports and permeates every breath of his efforts.

Simply put, Ho’oponopono means, “to make right,” or “to rectify an error.” According to the ancient Hawaiians, error arises from thoughts that are tainted by painful memories from the past. Ho’oponopono offers a way to release the energy of these painful thoughts, or errors, which cause imbalance and disease.

Along with the updated Ho’oponopono process, Morrnah was guided to include the three parts of the self, which are the key to Self I-Dentity. These three parts — which exist in every molecule of reality — are called the Unihipili (child/subconscious), the Uhane (mother/conscious), and the Aumakua (father/superconscious). When this “inner family” is in alignment, a person is in rhythm with the Divinity. With this balance, life begins to flow. Thus, Ho’oponopono helps restore balance in the individual first, and then in all of creation.

By introducing me to this three-part system, along with the most powerful forgiveness process I know (Ho’oponopono), Haleakala and Morrnah taught me this: the best way to bring healing to every part of my life — and to the entire universe — is to take 100% responsibility and work on myself. In addition, they taught the simple wisdom of total self-care. As Haleakala said in a thank-you note after our interview: “You take good care of yourself. If you do, all will be beneficiaries.”

Once, Haleakala left for an entire afternoon in the middle of a training I was taking, because his Unihipili (child/subconscious) told him to go to his hotel and take a long nap. Of course, he was responsible about leaving, and Morrnah was there to teach. Even still, his exit made a lasting impression on me. For someone like me, raised in a family and culture that admonished me to put others first, Haleakala’s actions astounded and delighted me. He got his nap, and I got an unforgettable lesson in self-care.

Cat: Haleakala, when I met you in 1985, I’d just started private practice after working as a counselor in agencies for four years. I remember you said, “All therapy is a form of manipulation.” I thought, “Jeez! What am I supposed to do now?” I knew you were right, so I almost quit! Obviously, I didn’t, but that statement completely changed the way I work with people.

Haleakala: Manipulation happens when I (as a therapist) come from the idea that you are ill and I am going to work on you. On the other hand, it’s not manipulation if I realize that you are coming to me to give me a chance to look at what’s going on in me. There’s a big difference.

If therapy is about your belief that you’re there to save the other person, heal the other person, or direct the other person, then the information you bring will come out of the intellect, the conscious mind. But the intellect has no real understanding of problems and how to approach them. The intellect is so picayunish is its way of solving problems! It doesn’t realize that when a problem is solved by transmutation — by using Ho’oponopono or related processes — then the problem and everything related to it is solved, even at microscopic levels and back to the beginning of time.

So first of all, I think the most important question to ask is, “What is a problem?” If you ask people this, there’s no clarity, they make up some way of solving the problem…

Cat: …as if the problem is “out there.”

Haleakala: Yes. For example, the other day I got a call from the daughter of a woman who is 92. She said, “My mother’s had these severe hip pains for several weeks.” While she’s talking to me, I’m asking this question of the Divinity, “What is going on in me that I have caused that woman’s pain?” And then I ask, “How is it that I can rectify that problem with in me?” The answers to these questions come, and I do whatever I’m told.

Maybe a week later the woman calls me and says, “My mother’s feeling better now!” This doesn’t mean the problem won’t recur, because there are often multiple causes for what appears to be the same problem.

Cat: I have a lot of recurring illness and chronic pain. I work with it all the time, using Ho’oponopono and other clearing processes to make amends for all the pain I’ve caused since the beginning of time.

Haleakala: Yes. The idea being that people like us are in the healing professions because we have caused a lot of pain.

Cat: Big time!

Haleakala: How wonderful to know that, and to have people pay us for having caused them their problems!

I said this to a woman in New York, and she said, “God, if only they knew!” But you see, nobody knows. Psychologists, psychiatrists, they keep thinking that they’re there to help heal the other person.

So if someone like you comes to me, I say to the Divinity, “Please, whatever is going on in me that I have caused this pain in Cat, tell me how I can rectify it.” And I will apply whatever information I’m given indefinitely, until your pain is gone or until you ask me to stop. It’s not so much the effect that is important as the getting to the problem. That’s the key.

Cat: You don’t focus on the outcome, because we’re not in charge of that.

Haleakala: Right. We can only petition.

Cat: We also don’t know when a particular pain or illness will shift.

Haleakala: Yes. Say a woman has been taking an herb that was suggested for her, and it’s not working. Again, the question is “What’s going on in me that this woman is experiencing this herb not working for her?” I would work on that. I would keep cleaning, keep my mouth closed, and allow the process of transmutation to take place. As soon as you engage the intellect, the process stops. The thing to remember when some kind of healing doesn’t seem to be working is this: there may be multiple errors — multiple problems or painful memories that are causing the pain. We know nothing! Only the Divinity knows what’s really going on.

I gave a presentation out in Dallas last month, and I spoke with this woman, a Reiki master. I said, “Let me ask you a question. When somebody comes to you with a problem, where is that problem?” She looked puzzled when I said, “You’re the one who caused the problem, so your client is going to pay you to heal your problem!” Nobody gets that.

Cat: 100% responsibility.

Haleakala: 100% knowing that you’re the cause of the problem. 100% knowing that you have the responsibility, then, to rectify the error. Can you imagine if we all knew we are 100% responsible?

I made a deal with myself ten years ago that I would treat myself to a hot fudge sundae — so huge it would make me sick — if I could get through the day without having some judgment of someone. I’ve never been able to do it! I notice I catch myself more often, but I never get through a day.

So how do I get that across to people — that we are each 100% responsible for problems? If you want to solve a problem, work on yourself. If the problem is with another person, for example, just ask yourself, “What’s going on in me that’s causing this person to bug me?” People only show up in your life to bug you! If you know that, you can elevate any situation, and you can release there. It’s simple: “I’m sorry for whatever’s going on. Please forgive me.”

Cat: You don’t have to actually say that out loud to them, and you don’t even have to understand the problem.

Haleakala: That’s the beauty of this. You don’t have to understand. It’s like the Internet. You don’t understand all this! You just go to the Divinity and you say, “Can we download?” and the Divinity downloads, and then you get the necessary information. But because we don’t know who we are, we never download direct from the Light. We go outside.

I remember Morrnah used to say “It’s an inside job.” If you want to be successful, it’s an inside job. Work on yourself!

Cat: I know that 100% responsibility is the only thing that works, but I used to struggle with this stuff, because I’m an overly responsible caretaker type.

When I heard you talking about 100% responsibility not just for myself, but for every situation and problem, I thought, “Whoa! This is crazy! I don’t need anybody telling me to be even more responsible!” Yet the more I thought about it, the more I realized that there’s a big difference between overly responsible caretaking , versus totally responsible self-care. One is about being a good little girl, and the other is about getting free.

I remember you talking about the years when you were a staff psychologist at Hawaii State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. You said that when you started working there, the ward for criminals was full of violence, and when you left four years later, there was none.

Haleakala: Right. I would only go into the building to check the results. If they still looked depressed, then I’d work on myself some more.

Cat: Would you tell a story about using Ho’oponopono for so-called inanimate objects?

Haleakala: I was in an auditorium once getting ready to do a lecture, and I was talking to the chairs. I asked, “Is there anybody I’ve missed? Does anyone have a problem that I need to take care of?” One of the chairs said, “You know, there was a guy sitting on me today during a previous seminar who had financial problems, and now I just feel dead!” So I cleaned with that problem, and I could just see the chair straightening up. Then I heard, “Okay! I’m ready to handle the next guy!”

What I actually try to do is teach the room. I say to the room and everything in it, “Do you want to learn how to do Ho’oponopono? After all, I’m going to leave soon. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could do this work for yourselves? Some say yes, some say no, and some say, “I’m too tired!”

Then I ask the Divinity, “If they say they would like to learn, how can I help them learn?” Most of the time, I get this: “Leave the blue book (Self I-Dentity Through Ho’oponopono) with them.” So I just take the blue book out and leave it on one of the chairs or on a table while I’m talking. We don’t give tables enough credit for being quiet and aware of what is going on!”

Ho’oponopono is really very simple. For the ancient Hawaiians, all problems begin as thought. But having a thought is not the problem. So what’s the problem? The problem is that all our thoughts are imbued with painful memories, memories of persons, places, or things.

The intellect working alone can’t solve these problems, because the intellect only manages. Managing things is no way to solve problems. You want to let them go! When you do Ho’oponopono, what happens is that the Divinity takes the painful thought and neutralizes or purifies it. You don’t purify the person, place, or thing. You neutralize the energy you associate with that person, place or thing. So the first stage of Ho’oponopono is the purification of that energy.

Now something wonderful happens. Not only does that energy get neutralized; it also gets released, so there’s a brand new slate. Buddhists call it the Void. The final step is that you allow the Divinity to come in and fill the void with light.

To do Ho’oponopono, you don’t have to know what the problem or error is. All you have to do is notice any problem you are experiencing physically, mentally, emotionally, whatever. Once you notice, your responsibility is to immediately begin to clean, to say, “I’m sorry. Please forgive me.”

Cat: So the true job of the intellect is not to solve problems, but to ask for forgiveness.

Haleakala: Yes. My job here on earth is twofold. My job is first of all to make amends. My second job is to awaken people who might be asleep. Almost everyone is asleep! The only way I can awaken them is to work on myself. Our interview is an example. For weeks before our appointment today, I’ve been doing the clearing work, so when you and I meet, it’s like two pools of water coming together. They move through and let go. That’s all.

Cat: In ten years of doing interviews, this is the only one I didn’t prepare for. Every time I checked in, my Unihipili said that I should just come and be with you. My intellect went nuts trying to convince me that I should prepare, but I didn’t.

Haleakala: Good for you! The Unihipili can be really fun. One day I was coming down the highway in Hawaii. When I started to head toward the usual off-ramp, I heard my Unihipili say in a singing voice, “I wouldn’t go down there if I were you.” I thought, ” But I always go there.” Then when we got closer about fifty yards away, I heard, “Hello! I wouldn’t go down there if I were you!” Second chance. “But we always go down there!”

Now I’m talking out loud and people in cars around me are looking at me like I’m crazy. About 25 yards away, I hear a loud, “I wouldn’t go down there if I were you!” I went down there, and I sat for two and a half hours. There was a huge accident. Couldn’t move back, couldn’t move forward. Finally I heard my Unihipili say, “Told you!” Then it wouldn’t talk to me for weeks! I mean, why talk to me if I wasn’t going to listen?

I remember one time when I was going to be on television to talk about Ho’oponopono. My children heard about it and they said, “Dad, we heard you are going to be on TV. Make sure your socks match!” They didn’t care what I said. They just cared that my socks matched. See how children know the important things in life?

If you’re wondering about the baseball cap, Haleakala wears it so he remembers not to be so intellectual. The background blue represents the Void, or Emptiness, and the red “P” represents Mother Earth, or the creative force, Pele.

Cat Saunders, Ph.D. is the author of Dr. Cat’s Helping Handbook.

For more information about Cat or her book, please visit: http://www.drcat.org

THE NEW TIMES

SEATTLE, WA

SEPTEMBER 1997

[Reprinted with permission of The New Times]

By Ihaleakala Hew Len, Ph.D. and Charles Brown, LMT

In traditional approaches to problem solving and healing, the therapist begins with the belief that the source of the problem is with the client, not within him. He believes that his responsibility is to assist the client in working through his problem. Could these beliefs have resulted in systemic burnout throughout the healing profession?

To be an effective problem solver, the therapist must be willing to be 100% responsible for having created the problem situation; that is, he must be willing to see that the source of the problem are erroneous thoughts within him, not within the client. Therapists never seem to notice that every time there is a problem, they are always present!

Being 100% responsible for actualizing the problem allows the therapist to be 100% responsible for resolving it. Using the updated Ho’oponopono approach, a process of repentance, forgiveness and transmutation developed by Kahuna Lapa’au Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona, a therapist is able to have erroneous thoughts within himself and within the client transmuted into perfect thoughts of LOVE.

Her eyes brimmed with tears. Deep trenches enclosed the corners of her mouth. “I am worried about my son,” Cynthia sighs softly. “He’s back on drugs again.” As she tells her painful story, I begin the cleaning of the erroneous thoughts within me that have actualized as her problem.

As erroneous thoughts are replaced by loving thoughts in the therapist and in his family, relatives and ancestors, they are replaced too in the client and in her family, relatives and ancestors. The updated Ho’oponopono process allows the therapist to work directly with the Original Source who can transmute erroneous thoughts into LOVE.

Her eyes dry up. The trenches around her mouth soften. She smiles, relief dawning across her face “I don’t know why but I’m feeling better.” I do not know why too. Really. Life is a mystery except to LOVE who knows all. I just let it go at that, and just thank LOVE from whom all blessings flow.

In problem solving using the updated Ho’oponopono process, the therapist first takes his []-Dentity, his Mind and connects it up with the Original Source, what others call LOVE or GOD. With the connection in place, the therapist then appeals to LOVE to correct the erroneous thoughts within him that are actualizing as the problem for himself first and for the client second. The appeal is a process of repentance and forgiveness on the part of the therapist—“I am sorry for the erroneous thoughts within me that have caused the problem for me and for the client; please forgive me.”

In response to the repentance and forgiveness appeal of the therapist, LOVE begins the mystical process of transmuting the erroneous thoughts. In this spiritual correction process, LOVE first neutralizes the erroneous emotions that have caused the problem, be they resentment, fear, anger, blame or confusion. In the next step, LOVE then releases the neutralized energies from the thoughts leaving them in a state of void, of emptiness of true freedom.

With the thoughts empty, free, LOVE then fills them with Itself. The result? The therapist is renewed, restored in LOVE. As the therapist is renewed so is the client and all involved in the problem. Where there was despair in the client, there is LOVE. Where there was darkness in her soul, there is now the healing Light of LOVE.

The Self []- Dentity Through Ho’oponopono training teaches people who they are and how they can solve problems moment to moment, and in the process be renewed and restored in LOVE. The training begins with a two-hour free lecture. Attendees are given an overview of how thoughts within them actualize as spiritual, mental, emotional, physical, relational and financial problems in their lives and in the lives of their families, relatives, ancestors, friends, neighbors and associates. In the weekend training, students are taught what a problem is, where the problems are located, how to solve different kinds of problems using over twenty-five problem solving processes and how to really take good care of themselves. The underlying emphasis in the training is on being 100% responsible for themselves and for what happens in their lives and for solving problems effortlessly.

The wonder of the updated Ho’oponopono process is that you get to meet yourself anew each moment, and you get to appreciate more and more with each application of the process the renewing miracle of LOVE.

I operate my life and my relationships according to the following insights:

1. The physical universe is an actualization of my thoughts.

2. If my thoughts are cancerous, they create a cancerous physical reality.

3. If my thoughts are perfect, they create a physical reality brimming with LOVE.

4. I am 100% responsible for creating my physical universe the way it is.

5. I am 100% responsible for correcting the cancerous thoughts that create a diseased reality.

6. There is no such thing as out there. Everything exists as thoughts in my mind.

Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len has been practicing the updated Ho’oponopono since November of 1982. He was taught the process by Kahuna Lapa’au Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona, who was designated a Living Treasure of Hawaii in 1983. He was staff psychologist in the forensic unit for the criminally mentally ill at Hawaii State Hospital for several years. He has taught the updated Ho’oponopono around the world and at the United Nations several times. Dr. Hew Len has a doctorate from the University of Iowa.

Charles Brown is a practicing massage therapist in Albuquerque. He has been practicing the updated Ho’oponopono since 1984. He coordinated and taught the Self Identity through Ho`oponopono classes for  many years in Albuquerque. For information on upcoming lectures and classes in Albuquerque, contact Risa Wai hau Simon  RSimonl@aol.com.

Article republished with permission from:

Living Natural Magazine

October 1999

(505) 821-0787

By Mary Koehler

I recently received a wonderful note from a friend congratulating me on my 24th wedding anniversary and speaking about her own experience with the Self Identity through Hooponopono process, the ancient art of Hawaiian problem solving. She wrote, what has been coming up for me recently is how we CHANGE over the years from the day we take our vows – physically, mentally, emotionally & spiritually. Do newlyweds have a clue? I know I didn’t. She then wrote about how practical the process was for her and how grateful she was for it.

I was struck by her description of the Hooponopono process as a practical process. The Hawaiians believe that our purpose here is to let go and allow LOVE to solve our problems. We have the opportunity with each situation to take responsibility for the problem and get out of the way. Imagine going through the day with a readiness to see each problem as an opportunity, to let go, to allow the change to happen and to see where inspiration leads us.

I chuckled remembering her words, looking at my husband and where my life has led me. I had no idea. And it seems true we have no idea the change that will happen for us in ourselves, our relationships, our families, our work, and in the world. The Hawaiians believe it is not our job to know how things should unfold it is LOVEs job, Gods job, Divinity’s job, the Creators job, the Goddesses job or whatever word you use for that. As they like to say we are only here to mend ourselves.

Self Identity through Hooponopono sees each problem not as an ordeal, but as an opportunity. Problems are just replayed memories of the past showing up to give us one more chance to see with the eyes of LOVE and to act from inspiration. Through a variety of cleaning tools the Hooponopono process allows each person to take 100% responsibility for the problem, to let go, and act from inspiration. One of the wonderful parts of this process is that it takes only one person to do it.

My husband and I come from a large family and we gather frequently with extended family. It has been interesting to me over the years how those gatherings have changed, since I’ve been using this process. Five years ago, there often seemed to be someone upset or mad about something whether it was spoken or not. I often found myself at these events wishing that others would just get along or get over it. With this process, I started taking responsibility for my thoughts, for the things that would come up at these events, and for things that I imagined might come up. And for the Hawaiians taking responsibility, meant, cleaning on each of these things.

The cleaning is all done inside. Taking responsibility is not taking the blame, or assuming I am wrong. It is a willingness to respond, to be answerable to the current memory that is running. Imbedded in each of the 60 plus cleaning tools is taking responsibility for the problem and saying, I’m sorry, please forgive me. We are saying, I’m sorry, please forgive me to the problem. Often these problems have been around for many generations. They show up to give us one more chance to release them. When we say, I’m sorry please forgive me, LOVE erases the memory, so that what is right and perfect can come in. We cannot erase problems: only LOVE can do that. Have you ever noticed how often you can ignore, hope, chastise, and get angry and irritated at a problem, but no amount of shouting, ignoring or blaming gets rid of it? Its not our job to release it: only God can do that. And if one person is willing to take responsibility for a problem, inspiration can come for all of us.

I’ve noticed our family gatherings have changed over the years. People have more fun, small irritations seem to come and go more easily and best of all for me, I’m less irritated and feel less like I wish everyone would just get along. I notice my siblings and extended family laughing more, people seem less stressed or worried about the details and we all seem to come to an agreement more easily. Did others change? Did I change? Who knows? And with the Hooponopono process, I don’t need to figure it out. I notice that I more often see my family with the eyes of LOVE. There is nothing wrong with any of my family members…I just couldn’t see them. With the Hooponopono process I have the chance to see others and myself with the eyes of God and let go of how things should be.

Unfortunately when a problem comes up, we often start thinking. We react, we think, we react, we cope, we react and think some more. Then pretty soon this small problem has built up and there is chaos. The Hawaiians see thinking as a replayed memory of the past. We cant help it. We are only where we are. The memories show up to give us one more chance to be ourselves. So with each problem we have the chance to take responsibility, let go of the thinking and begin the cleaning. We can ask the question, What is going on in me that this has shown up right now? We don’t need to figure it out. In taking responsibility we have the chance to set things right for ourselves, our children, our families and those we work with.

When a problem comes up and a memory is replaying we often don’t realize it. And the memory playing is not who we are. For the Hawaiians, who we are, is a very important question. We are perfect, made in the image and likeness of God, whole, complete, timeless. And the memories are not who we are. Have you ever had that experience of having someone remind you who you really are, and realize you are not how you are acting?

I have twins who are 15, and they are wonderful at reminding me of who I am. I was responding irritably to one of them not long ago and he looked up at me and said in a very kind way, Mom I don’t know who is talking to me right now because it doesn’t sound like you. I realized a memory was running and apologized, and thanked him. He could see that the grouchy person was not really his mom and was inspired to take responsibility and speak up.

My husband Kurt is also great at reminding me who I am. Sometimes when we are trying to make a decision on something and seem to be at cross-purposes, hell whisper in my ear very softly, Did you forget we are on the same side? All I can do is chuckle and let it go.

He reminds me that the arguing part of me is not really me. The Hawaiian process of Self Identity through Hooponopono reminds me who I am whole, complete, perfect, made in the image and likeness of love.

One of my favorite cleaning tools is the I love you. As with all the cleaning tools given in the Hooponopono process, embedded in each of the tools is taking responsibility for the problem, saying I’m sorry, please forgive me and allowing LOVE to transmute the problem. All we need to do is to have the thought I love you. I can use this tool when any problem comes up. I don’t even have to have the feeling of I love you. In fact, I find it most helpful to use when someone is really bugging me. All I need to do is have the thought I love you, and Love will erase the memory, so that what is right and perfect will flow.

Sometimes, it is necessary to use the tool several times, or for several days, or even for an unlimited time, as there may be many memories piled up to be erased. We are filled with memories of hatred, death, dying and disease, and the memories may be in our family, our ancestors or us. We have the opportunity to be set free. Can you imagine how good our children could look when the memories are not passed down and they are free to live from inspiration? What if we could let go of each problem that comes up and be in the flow? What if we didn’t have to think about what next, where the people we were hoping to see or meet just phoned us, and problems resolved themselves without our needing to do anything? Self Identity through Hooponopono is a simple, practical problem solving process that gives us that opportunity. We have the chance to be our Divine selves moment to moment and at Peace. to experience the Peace beyond all understanding.

Reprinted by permission from NETWORK IRELAND Apr-Jul 2004

After years of practicing and teaching the Self I-Dentity through Ho`oponopono® process, this phrase made me go back to the very beginning of my learning and choosing to use this process.

I am a simple person and needed to keep it simple.

All I needed to hear was “Peace begins with me” and this is how to do it.

The meaning of the word ‘conflict’ is a ‘mental struggle resulting from incompatible or opposing needs, drives, wishes or external or internal demands. Simply speaking, conflict is a fight, battle or war, a competition or opposing action.

The word Ho`oponopono means to correct, to make right, to rectify an error.

The word ‘mental’ means, ‘of and relating to the mind…thoughts, memories’.

Simple

Self I-Dentity through Ho`oponopono® is an updated Hawaiian problem solving process to release memories that are experienced as problems/stress /fear/conflict.

‘If we can accept that we are the sum total of our past thoughts, emotions, words, deeds and actions and that our present lives and choices are colored or shaded by this memory bank of the past, then we begin to see how a process of correcting or setting aright can change our lives, our families and our society.’—Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona

When we experience problem/stress/fear/conflict in our lives, if we are willing to look closely, we find that the cause of the problem/stress/fear/conflict is a memory. The emotions attached to the memory affect us in our daily lives. Our subconscious associates what is happening in our present life with a memory from the past.

Every thought/memory from when we were first created is stored within our subconscious or what the Hawaiians call the Unihipili or the Child within us. This computer bank is an integral part of the Self.

The Self is made up of the Child/subconscious/Unihipili, the Mother/conscious or Uhane and the Father/superconscious/Aumakua.

In connection with Divinity/Creator/Love, this makes up our Self I-Dentity, our Inner family. Every atom, cell and molecule has an inner family.

The Self I-Dentity through Ho`oponopono® process is a simple way to find Divinity within, develop a working relationship with that Divine part of oneself and learn to ask that errors in our thoughts, words, actions and deeds be cleaned.

Do we need to know what the memory is? No. Our only job is to ask that the memory within us be cleansed. The Self I-Dentity through Ho`oponopono® process provides simple ways in which to do this on a moment by moment basis.

There is no need to analyze, figure out, solve, manage, cope or control problems. All that is needed is to go directly to the Creator and ask that the error/thought/memory be corrected and cleaned. Only Divinity can do this. Divinity/Creator/Love knows us and what memory is replaying.

What is going on in the world is only a reflection of our thoughts/memories replaying. With the Self I-Dentity through Ho`oponopono® , one only has to ask that the memory being reflected as a problem/fear/conflict be cleansed. Divinity/Creator/Love will do the cleansing and restores Balance, Peace and Love.

Written by: Donna Ka`imana Clingaman

By Mary Cook, Advertiser Food Editor

And high time.

In this age of sudden product recall and who knows what other kitchen stresses seen or unseen, welcome Kahuna Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona. A kahuna lapa’au healer, herbalist,

minister and teacher, Simeona believes the time has come to share ho’oponopono, a once-flourishing Hawaiian technique of problem-solving with the world. Definitely, she believes it has a place in the kitchen.

Simeona is addressing man-made vibes like fear, anger, violence, guilt and resentment, negatives “that go right into the food” or they may cause kitchen errors and accidents.

She presents a form of ho’oponopono adapted for practical use in today’s world and her credentials include lecturing at the University of Hawaii School of Medicine and its College of Continuing Education, Kuakini Medical Center, independent corporations here and on the mainland, Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, Harlem Hospital, Hunter College of

Nursing and Bellevue School of Nursing in New York, Southeastern Medical Center in Miami and the Albuquerque University and School of Nursing in New Mexico. For those starting at square one, with no Hawaiian background, Simeona has updated and modified her course on ho’oponopono “to meet the understanding and acceptance of multi-cultural and international concepts.”

For the Advertiser Food Report, she agreed to discuss it as it relates to meal preparation and service. In an interview at her Pacifica Seminars office in Piikoi Street, she began at the beginning.

“In any processing of food we might say the beginning in the Hawaiian way, would the preparation of thought in clearing the land, farming and putting the product in the ground, she said.

“First, a cleansing of the land because who knows, a thousand or a million years ago, that land might have been used as a sacrificial area or battle ground. “So we do ho’oponopono or cleansing, and once we do, we release the spirits to the path of light and the land is usable, highly positive, and the farmer puts his product in and raises it.”

She spoke of the growth period, the Hawaiian methods of composting, their practice of recycling the earth three or four times a year with different crops and planting according to lunar periods. “In harvesting today we have these vans that take the crops to market, the person who markets it and then it gets to the households,” she said. “The householder

does not know how many hands that one product has passed through.

“So when the food is cooked, when everything is ready to serve, we look into each container and do the cleansing of the thought forms that were imbued by the people who handled that food until it got to the table.”

“Thought forms,” she explained, that might have grown out of fights, arguments, theft, or any kind of excessive, hurtful behavior.

Simeona said the process, a prayer to the Divine Creator, would be like “having a little clearing.”

It would go like this, “I, Morrnah Simeona, wish to do a cleansing, a ho’oponopono, on all the foods that have been prepared, beginning with the growth of the foods, wherever they came from, the farmer, the dispenser, the people who transported them on the certain line of trucks to the airport, the airline, the ocean over which they crossed and when they got

here, the people that dispensed them, till they got to the super market and were brought home – the many paths that have been touched in order for this food to reach this household.”

She also would include the householder’s cooking containers, and utensils, dishes, glass, silverware and table décor, especially if it includes ”earth entities” (soil, rocks, or stones). Also, antiques that may have been purchased, loaned, inherited or stolen, not necessarily by the person using them.

The longer their history, known or unknown to the present owners, the more chance these objects might be in need of a good ho’oponopono cleansing, she said. As Hawaiian food gatherer’s way of expressing thanks is to give back one live fish to the sea, or one of anything that is taken ot harvested from the land, Simeona said that the idea is manifested today by offering a blessing before eating the food. “A blessing of all those who prepared the food, who took part in the cultivation and production of the food and made it possible to reach our table.

“Putting out your thought form is like letting one fish go back to the Creator.” she said.

Having cleansed the food of all possible bad vibes, and readied it to meet the needs of family and guests, what about the next dining hazard: Over-eating? That, said Simeona, is also a fit subject for ho’oponopono.

Parenthetically, she said, the ancient Hawaiians were big people but not what she would consider obese “because their diet then was very simple.”

“Now many people eat out of frustration, fear, feelings of inadequacy, lack of love or rejection,” she said.

“Or they are goaded into eating a lot of food in early life. Or they have been denied enough of food and later become gluttons. Whatever the cause, it becomes a habit.

“So, in the cleansing prayer, the overweight individual would include “all my fears, frustrations, lack of confidence, self abuse,” or whatever other things contribute to the person’s overweight and would ask forgiveness for any offenses. When the unwanted experiences and conditions have been named, ho’oponopono would ask that they be “cleansed, purified, cut and released and transmuted to pure light.” Totally erased. And along with them, the need to overeat.

Simeona explained: “It’s pulling these things out of your personal computer. They may be so far down that it may take a little while for them to sift up to the top. “Actually, it’s sending down a request to your subconscious and, one by one, they will come up. And as they sift to the top, forgiveness skims them off and the word “transmute” changes them to pure light. “That way, you’re not polluting the atmosphere with old negative thoughts and vibrations.”

A tidy method to be sure, Simeona commented on its cultural background. “In early Hawaii.” She said. “Mental, physical and spiritual aspects of the individual were fully communicated, and all the unpleasantness was transmuted. “The people expressed their mental discipline outwardly and, because it was their way of life, they were at peace with

themselves and they imbued peace and balance in daily living. And today?

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