Musings on Ho’oponopono

Recently, I’ve been re-watching lots of Dr. Hew Len’s recordings. He is very clear about the modern form of ho’oponopono known as Self Identity Through Ho’oponopono (SITH). Also, it’s useful to follow some of the more traditional proponents of ho’oponopono and compare how their models vary from today’s popular version.

It’s clear that Dr. Hew Len’s last thirty years of practice were concerned solely with cleaning his own data in order to get himself back to Zero. This is a key component of the SITH model.

In ho’oponopono we are not healers but committed solely to getting ourselves clean, clear and inspired by Divinity.

Divinity is simply a name we give to that force both within and beyond of us that has its own intelligence. Today we like to think this intelligence is self-organising and goes beyond any personal programming that we might like it to have.

Dr. Hew Len was very clear that everything from the tiniest cell, to the largest mammal is composed with the very same components as the rest of us. A car, a chair, and your cousin Jasper all have a Divine nature (that’s pure and wonderful); a superconscious (which contains the conversations of your ancestors, the combined workings of each society, other-worlds of fairies and non-physical beings and much more); a subconscious inner-child (who is as pure and innocent as you yet records the karmic-data that describes your progress through life in the face of many challenges); and of course, your personal conscious mind (or mother, who when interfacing with the subconscious can have conversations, and which many folk regard as the Soul).

When you think of the tiniest cell you may agree that your own body is comprised of such tiny beings, yet that’s not how we perceive it to be. Imagine if you were its equivalent in forming part of the body of an even larger being. Well that’s exactly who you are. That larger being is none other than Divinity itself. It’s Divinity which gives you life, not whatever you may be doing, or even the earth that your body is made from.

The problem is that the Data recorded in your subconscious mind makes it seem that it’s you that is the doer. If something succeeds you say ‘I did that’ and when a project fails you bemoan your bad fortune claiming that ‘it’s not my fault’.

Ho’oponopono takes a vastly different approach. When you practice it, you take 100% responsibility for whatever enters your life, just as if it were an honoured guest, or a baby. You do your best to keep both well nourished, and your baby (in particular) clean.

When you travel by car, boat, or aircraft, you clean on them, as well as the route of your journey. When you stay in a house, or guest room, you paint it with mental rainbows and speak gently with it. If immersed in a rough industrial landscape you talk to its various components and attempt to clean whatever karmic data has brought you together. In particular, you clean any disincarnate earth-bound souls and send them on its way. Many constructions of the 19th and early 20th centuries hold such beings because many died in the process of building cities, canals, bridges, and other industrial constructions.

If you sense any of them, through ho’oponopono many may be sent home (especially using Morrnah Simeona’s long version).

When practicing ho’oponopono, care must be taken to respect the indigenous culture. Just as ho’oponopono was until recently closely guarded (possibly because of fear of reprisals from Catholic and other missionaries), so other cultures have their own wisdom-keepers and ways of doing things.

Our Western culture, however, is particularly alienated. The spiritual side of being is lost for many and a new discipline called science has replaced it. This is all well and good, however, any competent scientist will tell you that science doesn’t know everything. A change in the political landscape causing a need to be filled and science can be distorted in a particular direction. A breakthrough technology can result in new industries being developed. The case of genetically modified seeds is an example of the former, and the invention of the transistor eventually led to the construction of digital devices on a grand scale.

Yet these ‘solutions’ always have ‘down-sides’. Many genetically modified seeds are infertile, and so must be repeatedly bought from their manufacturers year upon year. As a result, farmers in parts of the Indian sub-continent have committed suicide because having converted to such seeds, they are unable to make any profits. Similarly, you only have to try having a family meal today to know that your younger off-spring will be glued to their phones and other mobile devices between courses.

It takes great discipline to practice ho’oponopono from dawn until dusk, and then in your sleep but then it’s equally hard to survive in today’s contemporary society.

If you wish, you may take 100% responsibility for the ills of the world that seems to surround you and clean upon it. You would do better, however, rather than seeking out things to clean (which is a way that may attach you to becoming ‘worthy’ and then becoming prideful as a result of it) to simply clean of the daily problems which naturally occur in your life.

This is the easiest way, and the one to be preferred.