Q1: I’m afraid of being laid off and worried I won’t find work. How can I face this?

Interviewer: I’m so glad to have another opportunity to interview Christine. All of the questions we’ve gathered this time come from fellow practitioners of Ho’oponopono, and they are deeply connected to everyday life. Thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us. Here is the first question. Several students have asked: this is a turbulent time of layoffs, and they feel worried and afraid — afraid of what they would do if they were let go, living constantly in that fear. They also worry that, when looking for their next job, they may face challenges simply because they are women. How should they hold themselves, and how should they face this?

Instructor Christine Leimakamae Chu: Thank you. The fear of being laid off is spreading across many countries, and it is a replay of memory. The reason we are here is to let go of such memories — not to rack our brains over how to solve the problem of possibly being laid off. If, through practicing Ho’oponopono, we can let go of those fears and those intense emotions around layoffs and losing our jobs, our consciousness can grow calm. It is from precisely that calm state of consciousness that we begin to receive possible solutions and new opportunities for work, and we become able to move toward the place that is right for us. But as long as we are stuck in fearful thoughts, all we can do is keep acting out of fear.

Acting out of fear leads nowhere. What’s more, when a person is full of fear, or their emotions are very intense, others don’t feel drawn to come near. People always want to draw close to those who are in the flow, who know who they are, and who are using their own gifts and talents. And such a person can always find work that suits them. Thank you, thank you.

Q2: After having a child, I feel unworthy when looking for work. How can this be cleaned?

Interviewer: One practitioner, after having a child and being out of work for two years, wanted to start working again. But when she looked at job listings, a feeling of unworthiness would arise. I sense that women may carry very deep memories of unworthiness. I would like to ask you: how should this kind of memory be cleaned?

Christine: I’m very grateful to this practitioner for her question. Our willingness to look at these fears and worries is a wonderful thing, because those fears and worries are exactly what we wish to let go of. As women, we did not come into this lifetime to replay a life called “I am not worthy, I have no value.” Such memories do indeed surface, but we have a choice — to let the memory replay, or to let it go and say to it: “Thank you, memory. I now let you go. I love you. Thank you.” I understand that when worry and insecurity surface, they don’t look like a gift. But when they bubble up like bubbles, the way we can truly release them is to use a cleaning tool and start cleaning. What we truly want is to begin Ho’oponopono as quickly as possible. In this way, we no longer have to be trapped by those memories.

Key Points

① Those feelings are not real

If our life is built upon fear, we cannot see new possibilities. We come to believe that all those thoughts are real, that those memories are real, that the insecurity I feel is real. No! They are not real! It is because we hold so tightly to these memories that they feel so real to us.

When we choose to clean, willing to let go of these fears, this is a new path. When we are willing to let go of these fears within the subconscious, the same memories also disappear from our children, our grandchildren, and from Mother Earth.

② Simply see the fear

Ho’oponopono is such a simple way — we are willing to let go, and we ask Divinity to release these memories. We are not trying to figure out how to get out of the fear as quickly as possible. Rather, we start cleaning as early as we can. We see the fear, but not in order to make it vanish at once.

Rather, it is so that, in the moment we see it, we can say: thank you, I love you.

Interviewer: So you mean that, when the feeling of unworthiness appears, we say “thank you, I love you” to our own Unihipili. Is it enough to say “thank you, I love you” every time? Or do we need to say anything else?

Christine: We can simply say “thank you, I love you,” and we can also use other cleaning tools. This is a process of coming to love ourselves. People often ask this question: “When we say ‘I love you,’ who are we saying it to?” We are saying it to ourselves: “I love you. Thank you for letting me see these memories that I can let go of.” We don’t have to slump down into fear, believing that life can only go on in suffering. When we don’t like a feeling that surfaces, we can see this, and then tell ourselves: “Okay, I have seen this. I am willing to let go. I love you. Thank you for letting me see.” Rather than clinging to those worries and fears, each time a memory surfaces, we use a cleaning tool and start cleaning.

Key Points

① If you feel more afraid after cleaning, see that too

Sometimes we feel as though, after cleaning, the same memory has come back. We may even feel worse after cleaning — for example, after cleaning on fear we feel even more afraid, or we feel uneasy because we have discovered just how much fear was inside us. At such times, what we do is to “see”: Okay, I see that there is even more fear within me, that there is so much self-doubt.

But we are here in this lifetime so that we can let go of these fears and become free of them. When we are entangled with our memories, we feel our shoulders grow heavy. These memories press upon our shoulders like an enormous burden.

② Cleaning always brings a result

But when we truly become willing to let go of these memories, we may feel a lightness directly on the physical level.

Or perhaps we feel more at ease emotionally, or we sense the help that cleaning brings in some other way. Everyone’s experience of cleaning is different. But in any case, the result that cleaning brings is always positive.

Thank you.

Q3: I don’t like the work that pays, and the work I love doesn’t pay. What should I do?

Interviewer: The result of cleaning is always positive — and that gives us more confidence in our practice. The questions raised by these next two practitioners are exactly opposite to each other. One has a job with a satisfying income now, but she doesn’t like it; it isn’t her gift or her calling. The other is doing something she loves, but it doesn’t make money — she sustains herself purely on passion. May I ask, how can each of these two situations be cleaned?

Christine: We notice a certain phenomenon: we easily feel that other people’s work is wonderful, while we ourselves don’t have that “right” work and aren’t fully living ourselves out. But once we’ve gone all the way around, we discover that many people have these very thoughts — everyone has them. For instance, we may feel that we love our work and are doing so well, yet at times that same work makes us feel very stressed. We might even think, forget it, I don’t want to do this anymore, and come to dislike the work. These thoughts and emotions appear in our consciousness back and forth, like a ping-pong ball.

The essence of Ho’oponopono is that we see these thoughts and emotions, and we recognize that this is an opportunity for me to let go. We are not judging whether a thought or emotion is positive or negative, or whether I like it or dislike it. Rather, whatever thought or emotion appears, we simply see it and keep cleaning. We allow these memories to be released. In this way, with every step, we are allowing ourselves to become a little better, and a little better.

Interviewer: I see, thank you. Is there a more concrete cleaning method you could share? We understand the principle, but in moments of great confusion, we don’t know which cleaning tool we should use.

Christine: This feeling is a bit like opening your wardrobe in the morning, seeing a closet full of clothes, and not knowing which one you should wear.

Interviewer: Yes, exactly, it is very much like that.

Christine: Any of them will do — even putting on a simple T-shirt is perfectly fine. That is, you can use whichever cleaning tool you like. I myself very often use Blue Solar Water. When I’m thinking, when I’m working, or when I feel irritated about something that has happened, I will often drink Blue Solar Water, as a way to keep the cleaning going.

Interviewer: Thank you. That’s all for the questions about work for now.