A Midwest Journal

Of course, we are talking about Ho’oponopono here.

Dr. Hew Len’s version, to be precise.

And the underlying theory to his practice found at http://www.hooponopono.org/, as well as various seminars they hold globally. His work is based on Morrnah Simeona, a recognized “living treasure” in her time.

The grist of this:

Essentially, some (such as Joe Vitale with his “Zero Limits”) have described the four phrases as a mantra. Unfortunately, this can be deceptive as to its true power and application. A mantra to some is like taking a pill to change something (for weight loss, depression, etc.) And of course, the “Big H” (typing this out over and over gives me pause) will do that easily.

But it will do it much more effectively when you know the actual basis below it.

What follows doesn’t replace attending one of their seminars, studying their site, or getting any of the books, CD’s, and DVD’s concerning this subject. And that is all recommended. What I write here is my understanding of the basics, looking from New Thought, Silva Method, and Lester Levenson studies.

The 4 phrases

1. “I’m  sorry.”
This is taking responsibility. Levenson covers this as essential, as does Haanel, Hill, Nightingale, and others. Until you accept full responsibility for your own thought-created world, you won’t be able to change it. Like Archimedes, you have to have a stable spot (and a very long lever) to move the world. Responsibility is your spot, and that long lever is the Big H, or similar techniques appropriately applied.

In Hale Dwoskin’s version of Sedona Method, he has developed a method of “triple welcoming”, which is essentially this point – accepting what is, or welcoming whatever you are experiencing fully.

2. “Please forgive me.”
While we could talk about correcting erroneous thinking here, the biggest part of this is simply covered in the above. Welcome, accept, and take full responsibility for whatever you are observing or experiencing. And then see if you can let it go. That goes back to the basics of Levenson’s releasing technique. Once you can release something, it will cease to affect or bother you.

3. “I love you.”
Haanel held that Love is a primal creative force. To restore the love to something was to create it newly, without errors. Levenson also found his own personal success in healing himself was to recognize the importance of loving without reservation, in out-flowing love instead of expecting to be loved. This would also then explain the workability of Napoleon Hill’s “develop a Burning Desire”, as you are simply creating (loving) a core value or outer experience for yourself. You start within, which is the basic of Christian Larson’s “Ideal Made Real”. Thomas Troward covers this a great deal in his books.

A little study would show that this is also the base below the “Law of Attraction”. You have to Love things into existence around you. The more you are critical and combative, the less of what you think you want will show up. Tolerance, Unconditional Love – all these points.

4. “Thank you.”
Here we see gratitude again. Also, acknowledgment of yourself and what you’ve created. While Wattle’s covers this in his “Science of Getting Rich” (with it’s own chapter) this is key through “The Secret” (which is based primarily on New Thought authors and current teachers). Jack Canfield said it as:

“…focus on what you’re grateful for already. And really be, enjoy it.

Then go into your day and release it to the universe, and trust that the universe will figure out how to manifest.”

In the Silva Method, practitioners are taught to affirm at the end of their meditations, “And it is so.” or some similar phrasing. This is also the word “Amen” at the end of most Christian prayers – which means that exact concept in it’s roots. The point is to acknowledge what you have created and to release it to manifest and grow. Much as planting a seed in your garden. Prepare the soil, plant the seed, water and feed it, then let it do it’s job.

You see in those four steps the same as above:

a. Take complete responsibility for whatever you are witnessing.

b. Be willing to release it.

c. Re-create it with Love.

d. Give gratitude and acknowledgment that it is.

- – - -

Hope this helps you find peace beyond all understanding.

Thanks for visiting my blog and reading this entry.
If you’ve found it valuable, please consider donating via PayPal to enable my continuing research.

Our latest upcoming release, “Freedom Is — (period.)”

Some thoughts on spiritual training.

First, the world around you reflects the world “within” you. Now, purists would argue that there is no within, since there is only Being. But we have to start with the concepts we currently have and share in order to remove these or change them or dissolve them into whatever.

The world around you reflects your own thoughts. Anything you object to in this world is really your thought manifest, demonstrated, attracted. No one else put it there. Just you.

And this is how Ho’oponopono is a great introduction to this idea of being responsible for your own world.

Second, you can’t get there from here. Of course, there is no “there” as you are already here. But you are going to have to prove this to yourself. So this is no self help or personal development guide. If you are reading this (or hearing some audio-video version of  it) you have exhausted all the books and guru’s and are ready for your next step. Because this wasn’t promoted in the usual fashion that marketers use. You found this because you considered it to be.

Three types of people in your world

Self-help only gets you into action and out of having to have things. The scale is Have – Do – Be. The bulk of humankind you have in your world is at have. They just receive things. They want things. This stuff is what makes them up. And you are here to help them with that.

Of these, there are a small handful who are into changing things, into listening to their intuition and finding the action they need to take in order to improve things around them. And a very tiny set of people here are practically insane, having realized that action controls havingness – but are still just working to control, or get approval, or build security, and are very, very afraid of death. They are insane. This isn’t you. You are here to help all these people through positive action.

There is a very small subset of these Do-ers – very tiny – who are simply at Be. And they only Be. No thoughts (or very, very few), they just exist. And life for these few is endless joy, happiness, and peace. They are almost ready to graduate our humankind class. But they are still here, for now, in order to help. These people are very serene, almost aloof. When you find them, they are very nice people to meet. And you feel peace within you just being near them. Your life changes from just meeting them. Practically, your life changes from thinking about them. They “Do” very little – but things change, whatever they touch.

And once you start this particular road of travel, there is no return. You never become the person you were before. (Well, you can theoretically put it all back like before, but it would take a lot of work – probably as much as it took originally — got a few spare lifetimes to burn?!?)

As well, people who are existing on our plane as distinct entities have a wide range of talents and abilities. Some are at a state where they have figured out how to stay calm all the time and they think this is the top level. But if there is anything “wrong” in the world around you, there is more work to do. Technically, if you had everything sorted out completely, the world around you is perfect and nothing needs changing. Until you get to that point, you fuel off this “need of change” to make the adjustments to your own thoughts, your own spiritual makeup, in order to improve the “you” which created that world around you.

Of course, I reserve all right to change what I said here and modify it. What I write now is from this level of operation, this level of understanding. I can see around me a bit further and have the urge to write this up for all of you.

The 7 pragmatic spiritual steps.

Our basic technique is where Lester Levenson and Dr. Hew Len’s version of Ho’oponopono merge. That is today’s subject.

1. Basic is the first principle of Huna, that your thoughts create your world. Actually, they are your world. These concepts are the building blocks. And your perception around you is build from these.  Only by taking responsibility for these will you actually be able to change them, modify them, or adjust them in any way.

Levenson did this by releasing. Dr. Len did this by praying to a higher source for forgiveness. These are the same concept, just different words. And you are going to have to find your own words for this. Mine are just mine. Until you make them your own, they won’t be effective for you.

You take responsibility for what you’ve been thinking and doing and having. Realize that all this is your creation. And you have to take this right back to basic. When you do take them back, they cease to be. Because you put them there – and when you look at them again, they vanish. Of course you can put them back. Your choice.

2. The highest levels I have seen at this point is Being. These lectures, these books, they just say “Being”. Not One Being, or a being or All-is-One. Just “Be”. Am. Is. Are. Or whatever language you use all the time – or no language. The concept is straight Existence.

And once you dissolve that basic one, you leave this Universe as we know it. There are some stories about this, and numerous movies, tons of legends. Where people left this temporarily and came back to tell about it. Most of them say similar things. But they only tell about a different type of “place” you move to. From what I’ve studied at this time, it’s still a universe of thought – but just much less solid than this one. What we call magic or miraculous is common place there. No real downside to it. “What Dreams May Come” is one Hollywood version of it. “Star Wars” series alluded to it.

3. Of course, this is written for “Do-ers”. So let’s get to it. Study Zero Limits to get what you can from it. Visit the hooponopono.org site. Practice this.

Now take out your Sedona Method, Release Technique, Levenson tapes, etc. and dust these off. Get really good at releasing Look for the cross-overs between them.

Take out your Silva Ultramind stuff as well. Get versant with this. Become able to “Go to Level” almost instantaneously. Work with this remote viewing and remote influencing stuff.

Next, brush off your old New Thought authors – Napoleon Hill, Charles Haanel, Wallace Wattles, etc. trace these back to their oldest teachings – which mostly all go to either Thomas Troward or Phineas P. Quimby. Of course, you’ll also go to Emerson and perhaps even earlier to philosophic treatises (like Plato) which were included under the New Thought umbrella.

Out of these four studies, take the commonalities and cross-overs. You’ll see that Quimby/New Thought held that healing was the province of the Divine through the Mind – much as Dr. Hew Len. And they all really hold that Thought creates Reality.  Of course, they all point to the spiritual nature of humankind.  Each author has their own take on these things.

And include any other authors you’ve covered which have helped you in the past and you still find valuable.

4. Now the basic technique:

a. Get into a high meditative state (Silva Method or Silva Ultramind).

b. Concentrate on whatever it is that has your attention.

c. Forgive Self for the error of this thought, and chase this back to the earliest point, it’s various emotions and feelings, all the cross-connected or pure desires which prompted it. Welcome it, and simply let it all go – the whole chain, everything.

d. Send out some unconditional Love – and give Self some approval.

e. Give Thanks – be grateful.

f. End off simply, or with any prayer or formulation you use. “Amen.” “And it is so.” “So Be It.” “Blessed Be.”

g. Get this into a normal, constant action in your life. As you practice, this will become quicker. Save the big things for when you can sit down and just concentrate on them, not when you are driving. And of course, don’t take on government and “powers-that-be” all at once. Use doctors and professionals as you are required. But many situations around you will simply pass as you apply these, so be prepared for those as well. As you get lighter, more peaceful, this is all working.

- – - -

You’ll find this applies to all the various techniques you’ve used to get your goals achieved, and to improve the quality of life around you. This doesn’t replace anything you’ve already found workable and useful. But these simple 7 steps will assist and “soup up” or accelerate those successes.  Because they are based on the most effective and simple keystones which have been holding up everything all along.

When you study these basic points – Meditation, Concentration, responsibility/forgiveness/releasing, Love, Gratitude, Affirmation, Practice – these all individually have created or allowed miracles in the long written history and longer verbal history of this planet we live on. Just as long as the Golden Rule, Law of Attraction, or Principle of Correspondence.

The key point is to work toward greater peace in all things. As you build greater peace in  yourself, the world around you will become more peaceful, more perfect. As you are becoming more perfect.  And you’ll have the choice at some point of simply stepping over the line into a pure bliss state. But that’s your choice when you come to it. Many don’t, as this world is a fascinating playground for all sorts of reasons.

My own purpose here is just to give people that option.

Thanks for visiting my blog and reading this entry.
If you’ve found it valuable, please consider donating via PayPal to enable my continuing research.

Our latest upcoming release, “Freedom Is — (period.)”

Well, I’m more than half-way convinced that what happens in this world is due to your own thoughts. And this includes seemingly disrelated thinking, such as posting critical blog posts and so on.

I’ve covered this earlier with Joe Vitale’s coverage of Dr. Hew Len and Ho’oponopono. Dr. Len was able to get some remarkable changes simply by applying this Hawaiian healing technique to inmates of a ward for the criminally ill. In fact, that particular ward had to close down because they released all the occupants (to where, I’m not sure). (And that urban legend isn’t particularly proved by any investigative reporter.)

I just know that when I tried it for myself, it worked. No major miracles, but it certainly gave me peace of mind.

And I’ve covered how you really need to use this with both Lester Levenson’s releasing technique and Silva Method in order to get the best and most long-lasting results.

In many, many books, personal illness is traced to your own stress levels. These are based on – guess what – the thoughts you hold in your mind. And from Plato through William James and right up to Earl Nightingale, you are able to control your thoughts by either discipline (as in meditation) or through simple Levenson releasing, where you just let the emotions and desires below them go.

I’m considering now that anything around you in your environment is the result of your internal strife. Consider the classic bestseller by Christian Larson, “The Ideal Made Real”. This is entirely working on the premise (much like Hermetic principles such as Correspondence) that “as within, so without”. Any lack of peace in your environment is directly related to the lack of peace you hold within.

So when I (and others) criticize the President for being way too slow on handling the BP Gulf Oil Spill, we are really still holding onto internal criticisms of our own. And critical thoughts then create effects on the world around us.

Back to these illnesses which are set off by our own mental concerns. If this works on our own body, could it not also work on other living entities and physical events around us?

That is the general theory that Dr. Hew Len operates on. As our thoughts create the world around us (in the  first Huna principle), then we must seek to correct any erroneous thinking that we’ve been involved in. So, Dr. Len’s short version of Hooponopono.

In spiritual training, a person rises to a completeness within. And this completeness, per Zen and many different belief-systems (Huna being another), results in being part and parcel of everything around you. As within, so without.

For every critical thought you possess and hold onto, this then shows up in the world around you. With that Huna healing technique, you are apologizing and asking forgiveness for your own errors in thought. This anyone can be responsible for.

And as Larson points out – this then creates the world around you.

If you see something non-optimal, change your thoughts about it. Continue along this line and the world is then to change to that degree.

Of course, this is all very spiritual and metaphysical. So it won’t work for everyone the same way. And this (per the FDA) isn’t to say that anything can be cured in yourself or another. (But check out Claude Bristol’s “Magic of Believing” or Max Freedom Long’s “The Science Behind Miracles” and you might consider differently.) And, as we all know, the government is another fiction we all believe in.

So why not believe in miracles around you?

Thanks for visiting my blog and reading this entry.
If you’ve found it valuable, please consider donating via PayPal to enable my continuing research.

Our latest upcoming release, “Freedom Is — (period.)”