"Why We Need to Forgive"

I was interested to read the June 2006 Huna Work
article on Ho‘oponopono before I attended a refresher
course on Laser Reiki energy healing last fall. It
seemed a strange coincidence – or was it the universe
at work? – that the main focus of this energy healing
training session was on forgiveness. The teachers of
the group even referenced an article on Morrnah
Simeona's Self I-Dentity Ho‘oponopono written by new
age guru Joe Vitale.

In it he tells the story of a therapist who cured a
ward of criminally insane patients – without seeing
any of them – through the process of Ho‘oponopono, or
forgiveness.

As an energy healer who practices Laser Reiki and
Huna, I’ve found that many of the blockages my clients
have are the result of the hurt, anger, or even hate
he or she may be carrying from a past event. And
sometimes, no matter how hard I try to clear the
blockages energetically, they won’t budge. That’s
usually when I ask the Life Manager (the client’s
subconscious self) if the client needs to forgive
someone, or even him- or herself. Almost always the
answer is yes.

Forgiving someone who has hurt us deeply is extremely
difficult for most people. I think the reason is
because we’ve been raised to believe that when we
forgive someone, we make what they did okay.

But if we look to the Huna beliefs of the ancient
Hawaiians, we see that forgiveness, or Ho‘oponopono,
is really about letting go of our hurt and anger and
loving ourselves in order to heal.

On the energy plane, negative emotions are like hooks
in the energy field that tie us to the person who
wronged us. The more emotion we give to it, the
stronger the hooks and the trauma get. By forgiving
the person who wronged you, what you are really doing
is draining the emotional charge from that incident or
relationship. It sends a signal to your subconscious
that you are ready to let go of it and move on. When
we can let these deep hurts and angers go instead of
hanging onto them, we free ourselves for new and
better experiences. When we hold onto this stuff, we
tend to relive the pain and then we fear it will
happen again. The more we focus on it and worry about
it and put emotion into it, the more we tend to
attract it into our life. This then becomes a
viciously repeating cycle of reinforcement.

Now comes the really difficult part for most of us to
accept – if everything is energy and intention and we
can create our reality – then on some level (karmic or
otherwise) we chose to have that experience for our
personal growth. This is hard to take, because who
would consciously choose to have painful events in
their life? If there is an afterlife and we’ve all
lived before, then maybe we made those choices so that
we could experience the entire spectrum of human
triumphs and failings. Maybe in a past life we were
the aggressor and we now want to see what it feels
like to be the victim. Or maybe we made a contract to
overcome trauma in this life, so that we could gain
strength and the wisdom for future greatness. That is
why it is so important that we also forgive ourselves
for choosing to do this.

By forgiving yourself and others for your experiences,
you acknowledge that it happened but you are choosing
to let it go. You alert the subconscious that you
choose never to experience this again. When you do
this you open the way for positive energy to enter
your life and for you to create better experiences for
yourself in the future.


-- Kris Larson
Huna Research Associate

"The Complete System of
Self I-Dentity Ho'oponopono"
by Morrnah Simeona
http://morrnahsimeona.com/dvd