Sep 11
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My Ho Oponopono Experience – The Beginning
I first heard of Ho Oponopono when I my wife picked up the book :The Key” by Joe Vitale. In the book he goes through a number of clearing methods to get your life clear of blocks and one of them is the Ho Oponopono method presented by Dr. Ihaleakela Hew Len.
The main reason I chose to try it was its simplicity. How could I go wrong with a method that consisted of saying 4 “magic ” phrases over and over. It seemed very unlikely to me but I thought I would give it a try.
At first it was very basic I tried reciting “I love you, I’m sorry, please forgive me, thank you.” At first I didn’t get it. I thought that it would magically remove whatever was bothering me an make me feel better. For example , my grand children at the time were 1 and 3 and I was unable to deal with their fiery personalities. They didn’t listen well or obey my rules. I kind of gave up on Ho Oponopono for a while.
Later that year I went to a personal development workshop by way of a cosmic “accident”. A company had posted an ad on Craig’s List looking for a basic video editor to put some visuals to podcasts that they had created. I was invited to attend the 2 day event to get an idea of what it was the they did. I reluctantly went, thinking that if things got too weird I could always leave. I spent the weekend being gently directed back to my life path of authenticity that I had abandoned 10 years before.
After that weekend I knew I could not return to where I had been. I began to search for tools that would make things right within me. I bought a copy of Zero Limits, also by Joe Vitale. My wife and I fought over reading it. By the time I was done I had a new perspective of what Ho Oponopono was.
Shortly after that I grabbed an audio version of the book so I could listen to it in the car. A week or two later my wife and I had to make a trip to our hometown 1100 kilometers away. I always disliked going to that town mostly because of the memories that it held for me.
I was tormented by memories of that small town, its small town thinking and painful school memories. I am gifted with intuition and because I clearly saw things they didn’t and asked questions that they were unable to answer, I didn’t fit in the social circles that I was part of. My circle of influence (friends, family and mentors) kept telling me to shut my mouth and stop being such an idiot and a trouble maker. That haunted me for nearly 30 years.
At first the cleaning was just from my head, reciting the I love you mantra over and over like a parrot. Eventually with help from my lovely bride I grasped the idea that Ho Oponopono cleaning had to come from the heart and not the head and I began to clean on everything. Literally.
On the trip that we made from our home and the town that I despised I realized that I needed to clean on every memory of that town that came to mind. I did just that. For every insult that played back to me I reached into my heart and with all sincerity looked the memory square in the face, re-living the feelings it brought up and then telling the Divine, I am so sorry for creating the situation that I keep reliving, please forgive me for creating the situation, Thank you for setting me free from the memories that have haunted me and I love you as you turn those memories from darkness to pure light.
As I cleaned on every thing that came to mind on that road trip I knew that my life had changed forever. It was easy for the most part and over the next few months I cleaned and cleaned and cleaned. Over the next few years the things I needed to clean on were more subtle and the result seemed less dramatic.
What I know is that I will always be cleaning and I am very grateful that “cosmic accidents” happen. I am back on my path and know why I have been put on this earth. The desire of my heart is that you would also be able to find freedom from the memories that haunt you. freeing you to find your path and live the live you were meant to.
