Footnotes:
1. 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.
2.
Zero Limits: The Secret Hawaiian System for Wealth, Health, Peace, and
More by Joe Vitale and Ihaleakala Hew Len Ph.D (Paperback - Dec 31,
2008)
3. Dr Hew Len - Interview
Hooponopono: If everyone took 100%
responsibility for everything they experienced in their life and did not
get caught up in blame, then what kind of profound shift would the whole
world experience?
Peace begins with me. Dr Hew Len points out that that we always need to
remember the very old saying: “Peace begins with me.” He says that of
there is to be peace on earth; it needs to begin individually with each
one of us. Dr Hew Len says that Ho’oponopono is about looking within
ourselves for debts, errors or blocks in our subconscious minds that
replay as problems, judgments, putdowns and all kinds of other problems.
The blocks are within. Dr Hew Len makes the pint that Ho’oponopono is
about saying to The Divine within us (The Self): “I am sorry, please
forgive me for whatever is going on in me, that I experience the world
in me this way. Taking 100% responsibility.
Dr Hew Len says that when we take 100% responsibility for whatever we
experience in our lives, we can then go onto the next step where we say:
“I am sorry, and not only am I sorry, but please forgive me for what
ever is going on in me. By saying sorry and taking 100% responsibility
for whatever is going on in our lives, we are in essence saying to The
Divine: “I am 100% responsible, the problem is within me, and I would
like You to convert whatever that memory, debt, block, error or problem
is to nothing.” And when The Divinity converts the block or memory to
nothing, we return to back to our original state which is Zero or
clarity. Dr Hew Len says that only when we have clarity, can The
Divinity provide us with insight, inspiration and whatever is perfect
for us.
Dr Len watches
himself. Dr Hew Len says that as he experiences whatever comes in his
life, he gets back to his cleaning, because he knows that: “Peace begins
with me”. Dr Hew Len says that he is willing to be 100% responsible for
whatever he experiences in his life, and he makes the point that as he
experiences woes and problems in his life, he constantly reminds himself
that the source that caused it is within him. Dr Len is working moment
to moment with Divinity.
Dr Hew Len points out that therapists that take 100% responsibility for
what they see in their clients and include: “I am sorry” and “I love You
as part of their work with patients feel less burned out, and are much
more effective because: “Peace begins with me” The problem going is
within us. Dr Hew Len says that as we are willing to be 100% responsible
for what ever we experience in our lives, we shift our perception of the
world, and that causes the world to change. We have to take 100%
responsibility for the problem within us. Dr Hew Len says that we all
keep looking outside of ourselves for how we can solve the world’s
problems, but that doesn’t work. Working on others is not our job. Dr
Hew Len points out that he was trained as an educator from 1964 to 1982
to help handicapped and developmentally disabled children, but then over
twenty years later, he learned that that is not his job.
Change the way we
perceive other people. Dr Hew Len then learned that his job is to help
himself by letting go of how he perceived handicapped children. Dr Hew
Len learned that as he changed the way that he perceived handicapped
children (quite like how he changed the way he perceived the mentally
criminally insane at the Hawaii State Hospital in the late 80’s) they
change. Dr Hew Len points out that is most important to look at our own
world first, and if we are willing to do that, our impact on the whole
Cosmos will be enormous.
Dr Hew Len went on to stress that most people think they are here to
help other people and bring peace to the world, but we are only here to
bring peace to ourselves, because by bringing peace to ourselves, we
bring peace to the world (and not the other way round). Dr Hew Len says
that the only thing that works is if we look within ourselves and clear
up the “stuff” in us. He points out that as he does this, he notices
that people get well and are able to start taking responsibility for
themselves. Shakespeare’s profound insight. According to Dr Hew Len, the
person who had the most profound insight into the human condition was
Shakespeare. Shakespeare points out over and over in all of his Sonnets
that the woes that we experience now are the woes that we have
experienced before. The change first has to happen in us.
Dr Hew Len says that when we see the woe in a judgmental way, it means
that it is already in us, but if we let go of if and do our Ho’oponopono
cleaning by saying “I’m sorry for whatever is going on in me that I
perceive the woe a certain way”, only then does it change. But the
change has to take place in us first. Incessant Ho’oponopono cleaning.
Dr Hew Len says that cleaning memories from our subconscious mind takes
incessant moment by moment Ho’oponopono cleaning. Experience people the
way The Divine created them. Dr Hew Len points out that we never
experience things correctly, but we always experience our reaction of
them. Dr Hew Len knows that when he meets people, he does not experience
them the way The Divine created them, so he continuously cleans by
saying to The Divine “I am sorry for what ever is going on in me that I
do not experience people the way you created them. By doing this, Dr Hew
Len is asking The Divinity to cancel what is in him, that causes him to
react to people, and not see them as they truly are – Divine beings. Dr
Hew Len says that once we let go of the dictate of memories by doing the
Ho’oponopono cleaning, the memories stop playing, and not only the
memory we heard playing, but many other memories simultaneously playing
that we are unaware of.
Dr Hew Len says that when we do Ho’oponopono, we are asking The Divine
to remove the faults from our Soul and subconscious mind o that we can
see people being perfect, the way The Divine created them, and when we
respond to the, they will respond as being perfect. Dr Hew Len went on
to says that if we want to see people without problems, then we need to
get rid of our problems first. Dr Hew Len says that Ho’oponopono is only
about working on yourself and looking at the data and info in our
personal subconscious minds that cause burdens and should be removed.
Anger is a memory
replaying. Dr Hew Len says that when people are angry, it is not the
person who is angry, but it is a memory replaying anger. Dr Hew Len said
that if we know this and keep it mind, we can change the data. The
Ho’oponopono we do is not changing the other person, because that person
is perfect, but what is imperfect is the data, and we have to ask The
Divinity to convert that data to zero. 100% Responsibility for what we
are experiencing. Dr Hew Len says that when we are doing Ho’oponopono,
we are clearly stating to The Divine “I am 100% responsible for what I
am experiencing, and I am experiencing suffering in the form of judgment
or whatever. Something is going on in me (some data or memory) and it is
dictating this experience, and I would like to be 100% responsible for
it. I am sorry for that.” Dr Hew Len went on to say that the conscious
mind does not take responsibly, and resorts to blame. Erasing memories
replaying in the subconscious mind.
Dr Hew Len says that as humans, we have “stuff” going on that we can’t
help because of the memories replaying in our subconscious mind, and
these blocks prevent us from experiencing The Divine. Ho’opnopono is
about erasing those memories that keep us from absolutely truly living
and not being constrained by fear an how we feel. Ho’oponopono is about
working on whatever is going on in us that we are not able (generation
after generation) to move through to a point where we can experience The
Divine. Avoid trying to figure out what is going on. Dr Hew Len say that
Ho’oponopono is about giving up those things in us that keep us stuck
and constrained, and that we have no idea of what those things even are.
Dr Hew Len says that we don’t know what we don’t know, so he tries not
to figure out what is going on in his life, or with the people that he
consults with, but that al all times, he only does his Ho’oponopono
cleaning on himself. Dr Hew Len points out that as he does his personal
Ho’oponopono cleaning, he notices that people are able to work through
their problems, often they say to him that they would also learn how to
do Ho’oponopono themselves.
Who are we? Dr Hew Len says that we can be our own
therapist/guru/healer, and that all we have to do is answer a couple of
questions; - The most important being “Who am I?” According to Dr Hew
Len, that is the most important question of creation, but unfortunately,
most people don’t know who they are. Dr Hew Len said that if we know who
we are, we would realize that we need to take 100% responsibility for
everything we experience in our life, but that we cannot blame people
for not knowing.
What is a problem? The
other thing we need to know, according to Dr Hew Len is “What is a
problem, and where is the problem?” Dr Hew Len says that all problems
are a result of memories replaying in our subconscious minds, but that
he does not deal with problems.
Dr Hew Len says that we are all children of The Divine, and are an exact
replica of the Divinity, which us at its natural state void (clear) and
infinite, and that our job is to return to that original state of being
clear, empty and infinite. So Ho’oponopono is about erasing and cleaning
the clock in our subconscious mind so that we can come back to
zero/clarity, and that only out of that clarity can Divinity come in as
inspiration. Being clear and infinite. Dr Hew Len says that every day he
works on letting go of the blocks in his life, that keep him from being
one with The Divine; - Which is to be clear and infinite. Dr Hew Len
says that he does his Ho’oponopono cleaning so that he is clear and able
to move through his life without experiencing hardships, anger,
resentment, blame or problems. Blame doesn’t work. Dr Hew Len says that
blame and saying “How Come?” doesn’t work in therapy, family or
governments, but when we get back to zero, then The Divinity can infuse
our minds with whatever is perfect for us. Dr Hew Len says that he takes
100% responsibility for whatever he experiences as problem in the word,
because he knows that the world is within him, and that as he changes by
being 100% responsible and saying “I’m sorry”, the world changes too.
Moment by moment Ho’oponopono cleaning.
Dr Hew Len says that he drinks blue solar water moment by moment because
it is another cleaning tool. From the moment that Dr Hew Len gets up in
the morning, until he goes to bed at night, he is staying with the
Ho’oponopono cleaning, because he knows that erasing memories requires
incessant Ho’oponopono cleaning. Dr Hew Len says that as we stop
cleaning, we go ‘bonkers’ with the rest of the world.
Cleaning on people’s
names. Dr Hew Len says that as people sign up for his weekend
Ho’oponopono seminars, he works on their names before he enters the
room. Dr Hew Len does this because he is attempting to reduce “piles of
stuff” (memories and data in his subconscious mind). He says that if he
doesn’t do this, he will show up at the class, and the class will go
crazy and be stuck in thinking because he didn’t get ready for them. Dr
Hew Len is always doing his Ho’oponopono cleaning – before, during and
after he does anything. Dr Hew Len says that Divinity knows his
connection with people he has not yet met, and whatever memories he has
in common with them, and which are important form him to let go of.
Talking to The Divinity, Who knows everything. Dr Hew Len says that
Ho’oponopono is about taking to The Divinity, Who knows everything, and
that he (Dr Hew Len) is just making amends with The Divinity, because he
doesn’t have any idea of what is on him that is going to bug other
people. So Dr Hew Len looks at The Divinity within himself which is The
Source that knows everything, because he (Dr Hew Len) knows nothing. Dr
Hew Len went on to say that there is a part of us called The Divine
Creator”, and that Source knows what is going on. That is why we make an
appeal, and that Source in us can cancel the information and data in our
subconscious minds. The intellect cannot cancel error memories. Dr Hew
Len makes that point our intellect does not have the ability to cancel
error memories in our subconscious mind because that is not its
function. The function of the intellect, according to Dr Hew Len, is to
make a choice whether we are going to take 100% responsibility for
everything we experience in our life (or not), and that he would like to
be 100% responsible for whatever is in him that would bug other people.
Memories make decisions for us. Dr Hew Len made the point that there is
enough research that proves that at any second, there are 11 million
pieces of data going on, but that our conscious mind is only aware of 15
of them. (Tor Norretranders - The User Illusion) Dr Hew Len went on to
say that it is scientifically proven that our conscious mind does not
make our decisions, but that it is memories that that define our
decisions for us. Dr Hew Len said that it is memories that tell us to
judge and have anger and resentment, and the conscious mind does not
make decisions. Allowing Divinity to make our decisions. But Dr Hew Len
wants Divinity to make his decisions. Dr Hew Len says that we can’t
serve two masters; memories making decisions and Divinity. We need to
choose, and in order to have Divinity make the decisions for us, we need
to have the memories in our subconscious mind cancelled. Everyone is
perfect. Dr Hew Len stressed that everyone is perfect, but what is
imperfect is the data in their subconscious minds, and that is what we
have got to work on.
Dr Hew Len said that the world is within us, and by changing the world
in us, we change everything.
Concert master at the
symphony orchestra. Dr Hew Len used the analogy of the concert master at
the symphony orchestra to explain the Ho’oponopono cleaning. “The
orchestra always tunes up before beginning, and this is what the
Ho’oponopono cleaning is, because as we get tuned up, so does everyone
else. But if we come in un-tuned, it is hell to pay, and we will feel
pain. Dr Hew Len says that as we change the date data in us that we have
in common with other people, we erase it from us, and them too. Dr Hew
Len concluded by asking: “If everyone took 100% responsibility for
everything they experienced in their life and did not get caught up in
blame, then what kind of profound shift would the whole world
experience?”
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