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\u2500\u2500 Christine, I\u2019m so happy to meet you today. As I was preparing for this interview, I realized that you began Ho\u2019oponopono in 1998. What was it that first brought you to Ho\u2019oponopono at that time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It really felt like a coincidence. A friend invited me, saying, \u201cDo you want to go to a class?\u201d I didn\u2019t even know what kind of event it was, but I decided to go anyway.
I received a flyer, and rather than the meaning of the words written on it, I was drawn to their rhythm and sound. Intuitively, I felt, \u201cThis is something special.\u201d
I then drove 2 hours to attend Dr. Hew Len\u2019s class, drove another 2 hours back the next day, and immediately signed up for the weekend Ho\u2019oponopono class.
From that point until today, I have continued practicing Ho\u2019oponopono.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2500\u2500 When we encounter something new, there is always some kind of doorway or turning point.
For me, my encounter with Ho\u2019oponopono came through a book.
At that time, I was struggling financially and couldn\u2019t see a future for my career. When I saw the book, I picked it up thinking, \u201cMaybe this explains an easy way to become rich.\u201d
But through the practice, the greatest gift I received was not a \u201csecret\u201d about money.
It was the transformation from someone who believed they were a victim into someone who takes responsibility for their life and reclaims their inner power.
I learned that even if we cannot change the outer world, we can take 100% responsibility for our own experience.
So I\u2019d like to ask you, Christine: after taking your first Ho\u2019oponopono class, what was the greatest gift for you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What impacted me most deeply was the constant awareness that everything happening in my life is about me.
For example, when I feel pressure at work or tension while looking at bills, what I am really facing is not the \u201cexternal situation,\u201d but myself.
Ho\u2019oponopono has many beautiful aspects.
One of them is how gently it guides us to turn our attention inward and begin taking responsibility for our own experience.
We can choose to let go of memories.
Before trying to figure out how to \u201csolve\u201d a problem, we first return within and restore balance.
Ho\u2019oponopono is not asking us to turn away from problems or pressure, nor to run from them.
Rather, it invites us to acknowledge our experience honestly: \u201cThis feels uncomfortable,\u201d \u201cI am feeling stressed right now.\u201d
We look at what we are feeling and ask, \u201cThis is my experience right now. May I let it go?\u201d
Instead of avoiding, denying, or blaming others by saying \u201cIt\u2019s your fault,\u201d Ho\u2019oponopono helps us realize that these experiences come from our memories.
The person or situation in front of us is connected to us through memory.
When we sever that connection through cleaning, we become free.
If we continue to cling to victim memories, the problem will always be something \u201csomeone else created,\u201d and we remain a \u201cvictim.\u201d
But when we pause, take a breath, and choose to say the cleaning words instead of arguing with our memories, we reclaim our power and return to being someone who takes responsibility for themselves.
Taking responsibility also means returning to a place of caring for ourselves.
Even though it may look like we are saying \u201cI\u2019m sorry\u201d to the outside, in truth, we are saying \u201cI\u2019m sorry\u201d to ourselves.
The Ho\u2019oponopono process is a process of caring for ourselves, of beginning to love ourselves again, a process of returning to love.
By letting go of memories in this way, we are able to experience love.<\/p>\n\n\n
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Earlier, you said that one of the appeals of Ho\u2019oponopono is that it reminds us to look within and take responsibility for our experience.
However, for people who have just begun practicing, Ho\u2019oponopono can sometimes feel like a magic wand.
For example, when unpleasant emotions or painful experiences arise, they may expect, \u201cIf I do cleaning, this feeling should disappear.\u201d
But even after cleaning, the emotion may still remain, or it may return again and again.
At that point, some people start to feel, \u201cMaybe Ho\u2019oponopono doesn\u2019t work.\u201d
So I\u2019d like to ask: how can we shift our perspective from \u201ctrying to erase something\u201d to seeing Ho\u2019oponopono as a process for looking within?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Every day, various emotions arise for me.
I feel down, irritated, or exhausted from overthinking.
In those moments, I suddenly remember, \u201cAh, I have another path: choosing inspiration from Divinity.\u201d
The thought \u201cHo\u2019oponopono isn\u2019t working\u201d or \u201cI\u2019m not getting better yet\u201d is also the voice of memory.
We always have a choice.
We can open the cleaning process so that perfect ideas and energy from Divinity can come and heal us.
Or we can cling to the memory that says \u201cHo\u2019oponopono doesn\u2019t work\u201d and remain inside its replay.
Morrnah shared a wonderful metaphor with us.
She said it\u2019s like riding a bicycle.
You have a bicycle, you inflate the tires, and you start riding while doing cleaning.
Then, along the way, you hit a stone and fall into a muddy puddle.
What do you do then?
Do you sit there in the mud?
Or do you stand up, lift the bicycle, and start moving forward again?
In this example, the moment you fall into the mud is the moment you get caught in memory.
And that\u2019s okay. As human beings, we sometimes fall into memory.
But as we practice Ho\u2019oponopono, we begin to notice:
\u201cAh, memory is playing again.\u201d
Even if it looks like the same problem or feels like the same emotion, it is not exactly the same.
Each time we do cleaning, a new opportunity appears.
And each time, we can choose again.
We can choose cleaning and activate the process of releasing memory.
Sometimes it doesn\u2019t feel like cleaning is \u201cworking.\u201d
Sometimes it seems as if we are seeing the same problem every day.
But please remember this:
We are cleaning layer upon layer of memories.
Even if nothing seems to have changed on the surface, every time we do cleaning, we are not the same person we were before.
Each day, we are given a new opportunity to let go of memory.
There was a time when I was cleaning back pain.
One day in the process, the pain suddenly disappeared, and eventually I even forgot that I had ever had that pain.
The work of Ho\u2019oponopono is very subtle and gentle, and it gives each of us exactly what we need at the perfect timing.
What is right and what is perfect in any situation can only be calculated by Divinity.
Within cleaning, we don\u2019t need to calculate anything.
We simply begin the process and take responsibility for our experience.
Sometimes people wonder, \u201cDoes taking responsibility mean that I am at fault?\u201d
No, it does not.
In Ho\u2019oponopono, taking responsibility means acknowledging this:
\u201cI am having this experience right now. I am feeling this problem. And I choose to clean with it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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One participant shared that they have been suffering from back pain for many years, don\u2019t know the cause, and don\u2019t know how to do cleaning for it.
I would love to hear about your experience with cleaning back pain.
Why does this kind of pain arise, and how does Ho\u2019oponopono approach it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s as if the Unihipili is waving a small red flag, saying, \u201cLook, here is a memory you can let go of.\u201d
We tend to want to analyze why the pain is happening.
We try to identify the cause.
But when I practice Ho\u2019oponopono, I say this to myself:
\u201cLet me love this back pain.\u201d
And I say to the pain I am feeling right now, \u201cI love you.\u201d
When I can love the pain, I am no longer fighting it.
Instead, I am saying:
Thank you.
Thank you for appearing.
Thank you for giving me the chance to choose to let go.
Through this process, the pain begins to soften and dissolve.
Even if the pain returns, I continue cleaning.
I love the pain again, say \u201cI love you,\u201d \u201cthank you,\u201d or use other cleaning tools.
In my experience, some conditions or symptoms disappear quickly through cleaning.
Others take time.
I have experienced both.
That is because it depends on how many layers of memory remain behind that pain and how much needs to be released.
Every time we do cleaning, memory is being released.
But no one knows how many layers of memory are piled up inside us, or how many memories are waiting to be freed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Participants often ask questions about their own illnesses or those of their family members.
And as you shared today, no matter what the condition is, it gives us an opportunity to release memory, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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