TO BE AND SIMPLY ALLOW

This post, first published in October somehow disappeared from my site so I am republishing it today, as I feel the insights experienced are valid and useful reading. If it's your first time reading this particular post it may be worth your while reading the posts preceding and following on from it, as I am writing and posting sequentially according to the evolution of my spiritual development.

TO BE AND SIMPLY ALLOW

When I wrote my last blog post, I had been through a disconcerting week of feeling stressed and angry to an extent which was quite out of character, and couldn’t really pinpoint the source of either condition. This state dissipated literally overnight – or, almost as soon as I’d finished writing the blog. As there really were no external factors warranting such anger and discomfort I realised I was in a state of ‘anger arising’, and experience has taught me that, at such times, I am to pay attention, as I am to receive a teaching. Pay attention I did, the result of this has been a deepened understanding of spiritual teaching and the integration into my daily life, of the guidance I have been receiving and which I hitherto hadn’t understood.

When it was communicated to me, that I am to be and not to do, to allow rather than achieve, and that I am here (in body, on Earth) to experience and enjoy rather than struggle and attempt, it didn’t really click deeply with me, until now. Since last weekend, I’ve made a shift in consciousness and understanding which affords me the opportunity to live a new paradigm. I posted the ‘stressed out’ post anyway, as I realise a lot of people live in this state of ‘overwhelm’ and it provides an interesting platform from which to proceed to this post.

One of the things I realised recently is that as spiritual beings living a human experience, the emotions we experience as humans, all of them, are not ours, they are humanitys, and we have elected to experience them. Each one of us, experiences the full range of human emotions which we mistake as our own, selecting and holding on to the most intense, thereby creating our life stories from a very limited palette. We are not our emotions and can let them go, by tuning into and electing to release each emotion in the moment. (See Hale Dwoskins Sedona Method for an effective releasing technique). The story of our life, is not our Life either, but an illusion we have created and continue to create as we filter experiences based on our incomplete palette of distorted memories, causing us thereby, to misrepresent ourselves to ourselves over and over. This of course, also causes us to regard others through our fantasies of them, rather than through perceiving a true impression of the other person, who in turn, is acting out a fantasy of themselves through their own misrepresentations ….As Deepak Chopra has said “We sacrifice Self to Self Image.”

As we are energy and light, and vibrate within the energy spectrum of the human race, in which web of tensile vibrations separation is but an illusion, we tune into others emotions as well as our ‘own’.* Now, I’ve realised all of the above at various levels over the years – that our external reality is a projection of our internal world I learned through photography and psychotherapy and through studying to be a coach. Through studying energy healing and shamanism I learned of multidimensional existence and the fact that WE ARE ONE in Reality. For years I’ve been trying to understand the spiritual teaching that the whole universe is inside me, and this understanding is also deepening with me. I’m fortunate to have wonderful experiences of being in the present, ranging across a wide spectrum - from the deeply profound experience of the bliss of total Divine Love, to appreciating the beauty of a tree shaking off a shower of golden leaves instantly bringing me fully into the present moment. Being present to ones Presence is full of grace and deeply powerful.

Learning recently of, and beginning to practice Ho’oponopono has taken my understanding to a new state of peaceful empowerment and letting go.

The following brief explanation of Ho’oponopono is from an article by Joe Vitale:

“Two years ago, I heard about a therapist in Hawaii who cured a complete ward of criminally insane patients – without ever seeing any of them. The psychologist would study an inmate’s chart and then look within himself to see how he created that person’s illness. As he improved himself, the patient improved.” The author Joe Vitale, then met with the therapist Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len to ask how he had achieved such results (all of the violent, criminally insane patients were cured, released, and the ward closed!). “This is where I had to ask the million dollar question: What were you doing within yourself that caused these people to change?”

“I was simply healing the part of me that created them,” he said. I didn’t understand. Dr. Len explained that total responsibility for your life means that everything in your life – simply because it is in your life – is your responsibility. In a literal sense the entire world is your creation.”

“Whew. This is tough to swallow. Being responsible for what I say or do is one thing. Being responsible for what everyone in my life says or does is quite another. Yet, the truth is this: if you take complete responsibility for your life, then everything you see, hear, taste, touch, or in any way experience is your responsibility because it is in your life. This means that terrorist activity, the president, the economy or anything you experience and don’t like – is up for you to heal. They don’t exist, in a manner of speaking, except as projections from inside you. The problem isn’t with them, it’s with you, and to change them, you have to change you.

“I know this is tough to grasp, let alone accept or actually live. Blame is far easier than total responsibility, but as I spoke with Dr. Len, I began to realise that healing for him and in Ho’oponopono means loving yourself.

“If you want to improve your life, you have to heal your life. If you want to cure anyone, even a mentally ill criminal you do it by healing you.

“I asked Dr. Len how he went about healing himself. What was he doing, exactly, when he looked at those patients’ files?

“I just kept saying, ‘I’m sorry’ and ‘I love you’ over and over again’ he explained.

“That’s it?

“That’s it.

“Turns out that loving yourself is the greatest way to improve yourself, and as you improve yourself, you improve your world.” […] “Suffice it to say that whenever you want to improve anything in your life, there’s only one place to look: inside you. When you look, do it with love.”*

Regarding oneself with love and compassion, and forgiving ourselves for all the attacks we have made on ourselves and our inner child will heal not only us but the people in our lives in whom we see our pain reflected. This leads to a heightened sense of compassion not only for ourselves, but for everyone we encounter, as we understand that we share their pain, their hopes their joy and their fears.

This teaching, which I don’t fully understand logically, but intuitively understand completely, has allowed me to relax and trust and become softer in my approach to myself and others.

I also realise that all I want to achieve will come to me. I don’t need to strive ‘out there.’ All I need to do is treat myself with self love and compassion through Ho’oponopono, practice Chi Kung, Tai Chi, and meditate, gently creating my intentions and allowing opportunities to manifest. As everything already resides inside me, it’s that simple.

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* (Turns out someone I work closely with had been having panic attacks for the duration of the time I was stressed out, so I did some work for him using the Hawaiian technique of Ho’oponopono which seems to have worked. I didn’t mention anything to him but the day after I started work for him he came in free of an attack and yesterday reported they seem to have completely left him. Great!)

* For a fuller version of this article see http://hooponopono.org