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Constance ZHoku=Pana Webber

Dear Ones,

I have had the great privilege of working with Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona beginning in 1980.

In my years of working with Morrnah I would often hear her make these points:

” Ho’oponopono is A WAY OF LIFE.”

” It helps in our expansion of our own awareness.”

” Peace cannot be brought into the World until Man himself can bring it into his own Life (Peace of Mind within Self, my Family and those around me).”

I am so grateful for the Self I-Dentity through Ho’oponopono® process in my life.

It is simple yet profound and so practical. 

As the years go by , I value it more and more and realize it has become my Way of Life.

Thank you to each and every one of you for YOUR CLEANING.

I love you.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR

Wishing you  Love, Joy, Blessings 
and the Peace beyond all understanding – the Peace of “I”,

Constance ZHoku=Pana Webber

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Mary Koehler

To everyone practicing Ho’oponopono,

I offer my heartfelt gratitude for all the cleaning taking place throughout Asia. Each time any one of us cleans, memories are released not only from ourselves, but also from your family, my family, our relatives, and our ancestors. We are receiving these blessings, and I am deeply grateful for that.

I am also grateful for the opportunity to practice Ho’oponopono in this lifetime. I remember Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len once saying:

“No one knows whether we will encounter this information in our next lifetime. That is why we clean with it now, in this life.”

May each of you welcome a wonderful New Year.

As we approach the New Year, I would like to share a few thoughts about something we all face every year: how we spend this end-of-year season.

When we look back on the past year, we often find ourselves visited by regret.
“Did I miss something?” “Could I have cleaned more?” “I wish I hadn’t said that to my family.”

If you find yourself in regret right now, please ask yourself:

“Do I want to stay in this mode of regret and miss all the inspiration that might come to me today? Or will I begin cleaning with it?”

We are always either on our path or off of it.
When we are in regret, we are off the path. There is no need to stay there long.
With just one tool, with a single moment of cleaning, we can return to our path.

This year, an inspiration came to me, and in September I bought my calendar for the coming year.
For 3 months, I cleaned with that “empty calendar.”

“I don’t know what I should begin next year, what is right for me to do, or what is truly mine to do.”

Before filling it with plans, I cleaned with the calendar itself.
We tend to assume that we “know,” and then fill our schedules and move from a sense of obligation—memory.
But what we truly seek is not obligation born from memory, but inspiration.
Cleaning from the state of “I don’t know,” from Zero, allows inspiration to appear and align everything in perfect timing.

The end-of-year season often amplifies financial concerns, family issues, or feelings of loneliness.
When memories of obligation surface—“I must buy gifts,” “I must spend time with family”—those moments are opportunities for cleaning.

When we act from inspiration instead of obligation, things unfold with surprising ease.

For example, this summer, as I was cleaning with the time I spend with my grandchildren, a very wild idea came:
to take all 17 of them, separately, on train trips.
Over 6 weekends, we traveled from Portland to our tree farm.
Train travel is not common where we live in Oregon, so none of the children had ridden a train before.
It became a special experience for them.

If someone had asked me months earlier, “What will you do for summer vacation?”
my intellect would never have thought of this plan.

I began by cleaning with what the first step should be, because when the first step is right, everything that follows works out.
The inspiration was to start with the family that has the 3 oldest children.
That allowed us to test the route and everything else.

When that went well, I asked my other daughter, “May I take your children for the weekend?”
Of course, the answer was yes.
And so we continued through 4 families, 12 children, and then the little ones.
For the youngest grandchild, instead of a train ride, we gave pajamas with little trains on them.

When we start from “I don’t know” and continue cleaning, we can feel when an idea is right—because the whole family naturally aligns with it.
If my husband had said, “I’m not sure,” that would have been a sign that more cleaning was needed.

It was not about thinking, “As a grandmother, I should do something.”
Instead, I stayed with cleaning from the place of “I don’t know.”
By cleaning with whatever came up—obligations, roles, worries—the result that appeared was what was right and perfect for the situation.

For this year’s end-of-year season, we do not know what is right for you or for me.
Not giving a gift may be the right thing.
Spending time alone in silence may be the right thing.
Because we do not know, we simply begin cleaning.

May you welcome a peaceful and inspiration-filled New Year.

Peace,
Mary Koehler

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Kamaile Rafaelovich

Aloha!

It is the end of the year. What are you experiencing right now?

In the United States, many events come one after another—Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s Eve, and the New Year. It is a time when everyone seems to be running around, very busy.

During this holiday season and at the turning point of the year, cleaning what we are experiencing right now is extremely important for regaining our freedom and our original energy.

Within the events that society and culture have cultivated over a long history, we unknowingly have opportunities to clean the memories that cause us to lock on to many “expectations” and “responsibilities,” in other words, thoughts of “I should” or “it must be this way.”

Of course, it is wonderful to value family and local culture and to enjoy them.

However, if there is social pressure or fixed ideas such as “Christmas should be like this,” “the whole family must gather and be happy,” or “this is how the New Year should be spent,” those beliefs can burn us out.

As for me, I do not accept all of these social customs unquestioningly. Of course, I enjoy preparing presents for my grandchildren and great-grandchildren. But when I notice that I have expectations of “it must be this way,” I do cleaning.

Within the customs we have taken on without realizing it, we cannot imagine what kinds of memories are being replayed. But if even slightly, thoughts like “this is a hassle,” “this is actually painful,” “I’m tired,” or “other people are probably spending it like this” show up inside you, that can be cleaned.

Karma (memories) do not need to be newly created beyond what is already being replayed. By doing so, through the practice of Ho‘oponopono, we can relate more consciously to the expectations that naturally arise.

For example, when you come to Hawaiʻi, you may want to go to a beautiful beach. But if you go while locked on to the idea of “I absolutely must go to that beach!”, you may be going against the weather, your physical condition, or an even greater flow. Aren’t year-end events and thoughts the same?

As a result of cleaning the thoughts you are holding right now, we do not know what will appear. But that is the perfect path for you at this moment.

It truly reflects how life is moving.

When we predict what we are going to do, make plans, expect outcomes, and become attached to them, we can no longer stay in the flow.

How wonderful it would be to receive inspiration like, “Wow, today is such a great day—let’s go to the beach.” It is not that you should never make plans, but holding expectations such as “I have to keep going like this,” “I must not change,” “it should be this way,” or “everyone must be happy” is already an addiction to memories.

That is why being able to notice this at the end of the year is such a wonderful thing.

By turning your awareness inward, paying attention to how your inner child is right now, and doing cleaning, if you can once again feel the connection with your inner family, there is nothing more beautiful.

When we ourselves are in that state, we can find our original, perfect inspiration in the choices we make, the words we speak, and in what we see and hear.

Whether you spend a special day with someone or spend it completely alone, just doing cleaning and being present changes the experience entirely.

We do cleaning because solutions beyond anything our intellect could imagine are brought to us.

People talk about New Year’s resolutions, but nothing is more precious than returning to your true self in each moment.

If you have the inspiration to make a New Year’s resolution, that is wonderful. As an opportunity to look at yourself, it is wonderful.

However, turning it into a burden is a burden not only for you, but also for the flow of the universe.

Your freedom and your peace are the key.

“As a New Year’s gift, let’s do cleaning, cleaning, cleaning.” It would be lovely to enjoy it that way.

Without placing expectations on it, within the small window of that single day, I simply want to focus on what is being experienced inside and do cleaning.

That said, during a busy year-end season, it may be difficult to always remember to do cleaning. So I have a small piece of advice for you.

It is a method called “cheating.”

I write my cleaning tools on notes and place them where I can easily see them—in my pocket, on my computer, or on the window of my car—so that I remember them in unexpected moments.

Because we are addicted to memories, if we leave things as they are, we forget to do cleaning. That is why it is okay to set up reminders and “cheat.”

Finally, to all of you.

Thank you for being who you are.
Thank you for taking time to care for yourself.
You are the magic itself.
Every time you do cleaning, I, and the entire world, receive the benefits.
Thank you for being you and for being here.

Each of us has a unique set of memories to be cleaned.
My memories and your memories are each different.

However, as each of us lets go of those unique memories, just by you arriving at cleaning, the impact spreads outward.

Thank you.

Everyone, I wish you a wonderful New Year.

Peace
KR