“Forgiving now means freedom now.” – Astara
by Astara
I cannot emphasize enough just how powerful forgiveness is, it is your key to freedom.
The Forgiveness Paradox
Paradoxically, forgiveness isn’t needed inside the Upper Room — the place inside you where you rise and see the divinity inside of everything. When we orient ourselves vertically, in the eternal now, the horizontal time line of past flowing to future dissolves. We’re offered a new worldview where everything is happening all at once, all is love, and forgiveness is not necessary. All is perfect since we reveal that we’re simply here as souls to learn, time travel is possible, magic is real, and there is only one of us here anyway.
Yet, in our typical third dimension world view with our minds at the helm, time is linear, and we’re weighted down by limitation. The past and the future are far far away. We cannot see, let alone embrace, the perfection of the process. We hold onto our wounds until we are addicted to them. We hold ourselves separate from each other and nature, generating a pervasive existential loneliness. At a personal scale, if blame, guilt, shame, and hate is held too long in our field and body, then the illusion of separation can create mental and physical dis-ease. This expresses as self-rejection and self-punishment. In the extreme, such energy can express itself out in the world violently. In society, these distortions of separation and self-hate can scale up to the culture, and lead to bias, prejudice, and ultimately hate crimes and war. This is why our accepted reality is quite dense. So, I will offer up Clarissa Pinkola Estes’ wise words, “Do not lose heart. We were made for these times.”
Forgiveness is the way to free ourselves from the ego judgements and distortions that limit us, bind us, and hold us hostage to our choices and our narrow perceptions.
Ho’oponopono
Ho’oponopono is an ancient Hawaiian healing tool that is based on the power of healing through forgiveness, through loving oneself. Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len has a wonderful success story of forgiveness, that stemmed from his knowledge of the Ho’oponopono teachings of Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona. Dr. Len set up an office within the criminally insane ward of a Hawaii`i State Hospital. Sitting in his office, as he reviewed his patients’ files, and without ever seeing a single patient, he worked on himself using Ho’oponopono. Dr. Len repeated the words “I love you” and “I am sorry” over and over again while reviewing each file individually. After a few months, the patients who were isolated and contained were allowed to freely move about, some patients were taken off medications, and even the most intense patients were eventually released back into society. The staff that avoided work through sick leave and resignation, came back. Over four years, it is reported the patients all healed.
“When you do Ho’oponopono, what happens is that the Divinity takes the painful thought and neutralizes or purifies it. You don’t purify the person, place, or thing. You neutralize the energy you associate with that person, place, or thing. So the first stage is the purification of that energy. Not only does that energy get neutralized; it also gets released, so there’s a brand-new slate (Zero). Buddhists call it the Void. The final step is that you allow the Divinity or Infinite to fill the void with light. To do Ho’oponopono, you don’t have to know what the problem or error is. All you have to do is notice any problem you are experiencing physically, mentally, or emotionally. Once you notice, your responsibility is to immediately to begin to clean, to say, ‘I’m sorry, Please forgive me, or Thank You, I Love you.'” – Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len
When you forgive yourself and anyone you hold grievance against, no matter what, you set you free. It is a crucial ingredient in opening your consciousness to our wild new world(view) and in being able to capacitate higher-frequency energy.
The ho’oponopono steps are simple, just state out loud: “I’m sorry. Please Forgive Me. Thank you. I Love you.”
According to Dr. Len, because forgiveness is not really needed in divine truth, you can eventually just say “Thank you. I Love You.” In the wise words of Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona, “The process is essentially about freedom, complete freedom from the past.”
What are you waiting for? Freedom is available to you today. The key is to forgive yourself, anyone, no matter what harm you believe they have done. Start with you first, since there is only one of us here anyway. You can go through a list of all the grievances you hold in your life with Ho’oponopono. Take all the time you need. And be sure to remember the ones in outer society you also need to forgive including: a president, the perpetrator of a crime, anyone. Forgiving now means freedom now.
