(1)Ho’oponopono : The Unihipili or subconscious mind, key to everything.
During the training courses Dr Ihaleakala Hew Len was giving, following on from the methodology established by Morrnah Simeona, the key to everything was considered to be that member of our ‘inner family’ that the Hawaiian tradition calls the Unihipili. This is where most of our efforts should be focused.
To make this part of the mind easier to apprehend, Morrnah chose to establish a correspondence with the word ‘subconscious’, a notion familiar to most non-Hawaiians.
That which escapes our consciousness.
There’s no need to burden our minds with a subtle distinction between the subconscious and the unconscious that only interests specialists. As far as we’re concerned, we just need to consider that the “subconscious” refers to a territory and functions that lie outside our consciousness.
It covers everything that is beyond the control of the voluntary nervous system (breathing, organ function, cell division, vision, hearing, etc.). Another skill of the subconscious that can generate “malfunctions” is its observation and storage function.
Working 24 hours a day, this part of us is always alert, even when we are asleep. It also has unlimited powers of perception. Whereas our conscious mind is only capable of managing a tiny fraction of what is around us, the subconscious mind operates at 360°, even in the 4th dimension.
The subconscious: a “surveillance camera”
What does the subconscious mind do with these continuous observations? Exactly the same thing as an ultra-sophisticated surveillance camera. You need to be aware that this invisible witness is connected not only to the landscape around you but also to the entire universe, in other words, to life itself.
Empaths and other hyper sensitives or mediums are more directly aware of this “infra perception”. True clairvoyants see through the eyes of their unihipili. The majority of humans are practically cut off from it.
While the conscious mind has a very limited capacity for long-term memory storage (known as “immediate memory”), the subconscious remembers everything. It is a multi sensory video recoder starting at birth (maybe before and after also) and recording everything to the end.
The difference between the subconscious and the unihipili version of the Hawaiian concept is that the latter considers that the unihipili survives and is reincarnated after death, which implies that the recorder has been in operation since the dawn of time.
Since this hypothesis, which cannot be verified by ordinary mortals, is of no real practical interest as a starting point for communication with the subconscious, Morrnah did not make it a priority at first. It’s better not to put the cart before the horse.
The disadvantages of the advantages.
While this exceptional memory capacity has many advantages, it also has disadvantages that reflect the flip side of its positive function. While it is capable of functioning like a ‘black box’ in an aeroplane, this database from the past is irreversible. In other words, what is recorded in this memory will contribute to structuring our personality, like applying several layers of paint to a wall. The picture of the paint stops there, because at the subconscious level, the data stored interact and influence the all our lives in the same way as a software does.
How do problems, accidents, depression, sudden allergies and illnesses arise? Through the interaction of this “database” with our operating system. The subconscious always reorganises itself according to what we add to it.
A simple contradiction in the imported data, a conflicting relationship between two pieces of information stored at very different times and you get a ‘bug’ and a system error that will manifest itself in the conscious mind as what we call ‘problems’.
The good news is that for Morrnah’s version of Ho’oponopono, problem solving doesn’t involve analysing or looking for causes. The only way to return to harmony is to establish fluid and respectful communication between the different members of our inner family : conscious mind, subconscious and superconscious corresponding roughly to uhane, unihipili and aumakua in Hawaiian tradition.
