We each walk our own journey in life. There are days we feel content with our path, and days we envy the paths of others.
When dissatisfaction or anxiety about the road we’ve traveled makes taking the next step difficult, what do you do?
When what you’ve believed is shattered by significant changes, where do you go?
Even when faced with apparent dead-ends, by starting to clean the moment we become aware of our current experiences, we can always find and start on our path.
What is awareness?
It’s recognizing everything happening around us and within us at this very moment—economic fluctuations, future uncertainties, comparisons with others, regrets about the past, family and national history, physical pain, fatigue, climate changes, irritation, sleepiness, and more.
We often seek answers in our awareness, but all we can do is notice experiences stemming from memories shown to us by our Unihipili, clean with them, and continue on our path.
Consider my experience with the house I now live in on Oahu Island. Buying this land was a source of great anxiety for me. As a single mother with three young children, I felt a strong need to purchase land. It was vital for our family’s survival. In case I lost my job, we needed a home where we wouldn’t be forced out. I took concrete steps towards this goal. Ho’oponopono isn’t about doing nothing. It’s about realizing what you need—being a single mother, financial instability, raising children, needing a house—and cleaning with all related fears, anxieties, and expectations while taking action step by step. I got my real estate license and bought the land, all while cleaning along the way.
Ho’oponopono is a tool for walking your path. Once you decide to go a certain way, there’s much to do. Clearing land, building, saving money, or getting loans for a house. Clean with your actual sufferings and anxieties hidden in the word ‘anxiety.’ Then you’ll see that in life, there are no dead ends. There’s always a way out if you keep cleaning.
You are in your life. It’s your life. You’re the only one who can and must take responsibility for every aspect of it. If your life isn’t as you hoped, instead of blaming past actions of your mother or the current state of society, realize there’s something you can do right now.
That’s Ho’oponopono.
When you feel stuck at a dead end, that’s your chance to clean. Beware of expectations. Focusing only on earning a certain income to buy a house, you might miss how to open the door.
No matter your job, even if it’s domestic and child-rearing, you must drive your own path. On long drives, breaks are essential, as is refueling. But if you only look at the destination, you forget the most important part.
Clean with this journey.
It’s a journey to freedom.
By reclaiming your freedom, you help your family, neighbors, land, country, even the economy regain freedom.
Now, use Ho’oponopono to let go of the feeling of being stuck and unable to move forward.
A wonderful path awaits you!
Peace,
KR
