^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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