Ho’oponopono; the Subconscious, our guardian angel.
One of the most important things I’ve discovered through Ho’oponopono Self-Identity is this idea of being “100% responsibility.” What has this shift in perspective changed in my life? Everything!
Concretely, this means that until then I believed that most of the problems appearing in my daily life had to be managed in relation to the outside, to people, to circumstances, to my past mistakes, etc.
In fact, problems are not “reality” but our thoughts about reality. What Morrnah Simeona calls “the memories”. These are our beliefs, our ideas about the world, and the experiences they have generated. It is this “filter” inherited from the past that creates the problems. What we think of as the “outside” is just a screen on which “memories” matter. Every time we open our mouths to express an idea, memories express themselves. Only silence can be free from memories when our thoughts are not chattering.
100% responsibility and inner freedom
During a conflict, whatever it may be, we are almost always convinced that it is provoked by the attitude of the other “on the other side”… Accepting that you are 100% in charge allows you to change your point of view and say to yourself: “It’s only the memories in me that produce this situation.”
It is enough to observe reality lucidly to confirm that we only access it through our senses and our nervous system. There is no other way to get there. The external world is not as it is, but as we see it. As a result, we only project what we imagine and experience to become aware of it. It’s an information loop. It is when we realize this through external suffering that we can understand this question of true responsibility. We can only materialize what we believe ourselves to be. You can’t lie to the subconscious.
Problems are memories acting out.
From there, instead of getting angry, engaging in a drama, we must consider that every time an obstacle presents itself to us, a red light starts flashing in our head like a warning signal on a dashboard. In general, what concretely draws our attention to the presence of memories and to this vicious circle of perception is a feeling of un-ease or dis-ease.
If, thanks to the experience gained, it is possible to act preventively by cleaning up before problems manifest themselves, the first steps on this path are almost always provoked by one or more “crisis”. This is where we need to be able to recognize that life is beckoning us and that a stage of growth is available …
In Hawaii, this state of natural fluidity, which consists of living spontaneously in the present, is referred to as “PONO”, as the word aptly expresses it, the “HO’OPONOPONO” is a way to regain this state of perfect alignment. This is “self-identity.” This “zero past” or “zero memories” state tallows us to fully open to inspiration at every moment.
How can this be achieved? The way is what Morrnah Simeona calls “cleaning”. Thanks to this process, conflicts become increasingly rare and brief. In addition, they no longer leave a trace. The same is true for all situations in everyday life involving “others” or the “outside”. A car breakdown, a leaky faucet, computer problems, … Whatever happens, we have understood that this so-called “reality” is only made up of memories that project themselves. The faucets may not stop leaking but solutions will emerge naturally and quickly, … And wonderfully, we didn’t even have to ask ourselves: “But why?”, “But how?”, “But what?…
Let go and let God!
Indeed, it is useless to understand the workings of the heart for it to continue beating. He does it on his own and perfectly well, I just must trust him. It’s the same with “cleaning”. I don’t need to know what I’m cleaning. No intention. No expectation. I let go, that’s all, and I let life do the job. All I have to do is to switch to “cleaning” mode using the cleaning tools suggested by my intuition… It’s like a washing machine… I choose my program. I press the button and let it happen.
However, “automating” cleaning requires preparation. This is what is taught in the Self-Identity trainings. For two days, we learn to build a trustful relationship with the unconscious called “unihipili” or “inner child”. This part of our “inner family” is responsible for managing all the mechanisms of the body that are not subject to our control. Cell division, reaction against microbial or viral aggressions, functioning of the heart, work of organs, etc. all of this his managed perfectly without any input from our part, even during our sleep.
A good collaboration with the subconscious
For lack of a better word, we call that part of our being always watching over us “the unconscious”. Since all these operations occur below the threshold of our consciousness, we use this word. In fact, it is a part of our being that escapes very much our limited understanding. That’s why we usually don’t know how keep in touch with it. During a training, a participant who challenged the approach told me: “The unconscious is a mule”, meaning that it is a stubborn part of our mind that only understands tricks and blows…
It is this vision of our unconscious that cut us off from its contributions. We most often think of this part of us in terms of resistance. It is even compared to a kind of watchdog whose attention must be deceived. We talk about “suggestions”, “instructions”. This reflects the attitude of suspicion that surrounds this “gifted”part within us… The word “gifted” is not an exaggeration. The proof of this is that our conscious mind would be unable to make an inventory of all that is accomplished by our “inner child”. At all times, it acts in multi-tasking and multidimensional mode. Without it, we wouldn’t be able to live for a single second. In fact, it frees us from more than 99,9% of the management of our daily lives.
In the Ho’oponopono of Morrnah, the emphasis is on setting up a real communication based on a deep respect and gratefulness with this kind of Guardian Angel. It watches over our days as well as our nights and in addition takes care of storing the waste we produce. It passively accumulates the memories of all the experiences that we have wanted to forget to the point of being overwhelmed by their accumulation…
Cleaning our way back to the Pono state
But “Cleaning tools” can only be truly effective if the communication between us is perfect. Without this step, no tool has an effect. The transmission of power can only be done through the establishment of a real complicity between all parts of our being. It is this only this process that will allow the realignment of the “inner family”.
It is this inner harmony that brings the return to the PONO state from which the Ho’oponopono takes its name. It is not the “conscious” (uhane) that will improve by repeating “I’m sorry, forgive me, thank you, I love you”. The real goal is for the conscious mind to understand that the subconscious mind must be recognized and that its skills must be used. Only then can a real interface be established between two languages whose logic is totally different.
When this perfect communication is established, using a “cleaning tool” is simply like pressing the “Erase” key on a computer. When a problem appears on the screen of my consciousness. Gee-up! I press a key and the Universal mind does the job on its own. No need to worry or wonder if it works. The advantage of the “Ho’opononopono Computer” is that all the keys on the keyboard are used to erase.
Self-Identity; the peace of I
Attempting to “make a DIY ho’oponopono from informations collected in the public domain offers a high chance of ending up on a siding. It is suggested to perform a “clean installation”, as one done on a new computer. This requires a general reset. A simple observation of common sense makes it clear that installing applications gleaned here and there on a oudated computer exposes you to problems.
To conclude, I would like to come back to this notion of “100% responsibility”. In fact, it doesn’t mean “100% guilt”. It also doesn’t mean that I have to get nervous about doing my “cleaning”. Practicing “ho’oponopono” as an Art of Life is as simple as breathing. When we breathe, we don’t need to be aware of it. Assimilation, physico-chemical exchanges, everything happens on its own, no need to worry or “understand” how it happens. Life takes care of it.
Morrnah’s Ho’oponopono offers us a way to let go of all our attachments to our memories. It’s a way to live so much in a state of inner freedom. the Tao that cannot be named, the “Emptiness” of which Buddha spoke about, the “Childhood” often evoked in the teachings of Jesus Christ… It is “The Peace of ‘I”” ending all the H’oponopono trainings…
