I love you,
Please forgive me,
I'm sorry,
Thank you.
Last year in September I wrote about this new method of healing that I was studying called Ho'oponopono. It seems to be something that isn't going to go away so I want to share a few more observations that I have been having on the subject recently.
I love you,
Please forgive me,
I'm sorry,
Thank you.
These are the phrases that are becoming more and more a part of my mental chatter. When I first read Joe Vitale's book Zero Limits, it felt like coming home. I immediately started repeating "I love you" over and over again in my head.
Over the past 10 years or so, many methods, mental techniques and spiritual philosophies have come and gone in my life. This one feels as if it is here to stay. For most if not all of them, I find myself jumping on the bandwagon with lots of gusto and then, just as quickly, jumping off. Part of the reason for this is the resistance that comes with the disciplined action that is required to make a concept become a habitual way of thinking and acting. Resistance and the worry of it becoming just another fad that fades, make it harder and harder to practice on a daily basis.
With Ho'oponopono, I find that this resistance is non-existent. And the worry is even less pervasive. It is natural to have ebbs and flows while making a habitual way of thinking become concreted into your psyche. Instead of fighting this ebb and flow and beating myself up over it, as I have with all the others, I have accepted and loved it with Ho'oponopono, which is precisely why it keeps coming back. The time that my mind takes a break from doing it is becoming shorter and shorter now to the point where it is no longer a "day on" and "day off" kind of thing but an hour or two on and an hour or two off. I am excited to watch as my awareness of "I love you" continues to grow.
Another reason why I think that it has been so easy to accept is that it is so easy. It is such a short cut to peace and release.
Two years ago, and to this date, the other most influential method in my life has been Hale Dwoskin's Sedona Method. With the Sedona Method, you go through a step by step process:
1.) recognize a problem or negative emotion
2.) welcome and accept it.
3.) ask yourself 3 questions:
could I let it go?
would I?
when?
4.) reapeat this until you are able to let it go.
Those questions take a lot of practice and somtimes you just can't let go of some things, but you get good at accepting yourself where you are.
You can see that these steps can quickly turn into an almost neverending cycle or at the very least be long and drawn out.
Self Identity through Ho'oponopono, is two steps:
1.) Recognize a problem or emmotion
2.) Say, "I love you." (and when necessary the other 3: I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you.
"I love you" is pleasant all by itself so it takes no conscious effort as the aforementioned Sedona Method. To repeat, "I love you," is enjoyable. To repeat the Sedona Method steps is, though effective, sometimes tedious and drawn out by comparison. "I love you" is usually enough to acheive what took me months to do with the Sedona Method, and the Sedona Method is AMAZING in itself.
It is a short cut to release, a short cut to to relaxation, and a short cut to inner peace. Its simplicity makes it easy to learn, easy to remember, and easy to habituate.
I'm going to sound like I am selling something now, but it is having such a profound effect on my inner life right now that I just want everyone to learn about it.
Check out:
www.hooponopono.org
and Joe Vitale's book "Zero Limits"
These will get you started on what is slowly changing my life and way of looking at the world.
Until next time. . .
I love you.
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