Age, experience and wisdom has helped to increase my ability to practise forgiveness. Forgiveness towards myself and others. I've come to realize and understand how negative energy and emotion gets tangled up into an ugly knot when we withhold forgiveness. The act of forgiveness can be quite simple if we let go of negativity and replace those emotions with gratitude and love.
Letting go can be one of the most difficult tasks to undertake in our lives. And often even when we think we have been successful it lies beneath the surface creating discord or havoc when least expected. This is because we haven't replaced the negative emotions with positive ones. If I were to take a glass and fill it up with love, light and gratitude, there would be no space for anything negative or less than. Just like the glass our bodies and spirits can also be filled with love, light and gratitude. Practising forgiveness helps to fill us up with positive energy, manifesting all that we need, which then spills out into our relationships and the universe.
The Hawaiian Ho'oponopono Prayer is a beautiful, and simple tool to cleanse, purify and release negative energies while filling up your spirit and the vessel of your body with love, light and gratitude. It is that love, light and gratitude that strengthens our connections and unites us all.
I first came across the Ho'oponopono Prayer about 8 years ago and dabbled with it a bit here and there. I didn't fully understand the power of the prayer until I used it as a tool to help me with a very difficult employee. The employee and I had started our working relationship on a friendly note and ended the relationship on a very negative note.
Instead of focusing on the negative and hostile behavior, the healing prayer helped me to turn the focus inward, asking for her forgiveness. I used intention, applying the prayer/mantra to our relationship. I owned my negative energy around the situation, saying I was sorry, asking for forgiveness and being thankful for the lesson/opportunity. Finishing with love. Love towards myself and towards her. Forgiving myself helped me to also forgive her and replaced the negative energy with positive energy. I was able to let go and move forward.
I was somewhat apprehensive when I came across her in a store months later. We both could have avoided each other and yet we approach and interacted like old friends. She seemed happy to see me and we had a very pleasant conversation which ended with her hugging me. The negative energy and feelings had disappeared. I was blown away by the change. The weight lifted was amazing! I am forever a believer in the power of forgiveness!
The original Ho’oponopono prayer is this:
Divine Creator, Father, Mother, Child as one…
If I, my family, relatives, and ancestors have offended you, your family, relatives, and ancestors in thoughts, words, deeds, and actions from the beginning of our creation to the present, we ask your forgiveness.
Let this cleanse, purify, release, cut all the negative memories, blocks, energies, and vibrations and transmute these unwanted energies into pure light ……….
As it is said, it is done, and so it is.
Please forgive me - (ask forgiveness for yourself, others and the universe, replacing negative emotions with positive) Note: poor behavior is not excused, it is recognized and the burden of blame is released
Thank you - (expresses gratitude and appreciation for the abundance in life and lessons learned)
I love you - (loving and accepting yourself, loving others and the universe)
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