Author: Hālau ʻĀha Hūi Lanakila

The first step toward healing is one of Honest Self-Analysis, self-inventory, self-inquiry.  (Ernest Holmes, Science of the Mind, at 248.)

     Forgiveness is not always easy. To forgive the one that wounded your heart, at times, feels more painful than any physical wound suffered. Unfortunately, most of us (stubbornly?) refuse to clear the emotional blocks created. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.  So, most of us are stuck and can’t seem to achieve that positive spin of acceptance through which the Law of Attraction operates most favorably Therefore, the answer for many of us must be to embrace forgiveness in order to receive abundance.

The Ancient Hawaiians personified the caring of one’s spiritual health as a polished hand-carved Koa bowl given to a child before the age of five. Each person carries their Spiritual Greatness reflected within that bowl. This light, which is reinforced by the light-life energies of the Ancestors, light the path ahead of you.

However, your Bowl of Light isn’t always light and clear. At times, the light reflected from your bowl can become obstructed by stones that land inside it as you go about your life’s journey. Each time a bad word is uttered, whether from your mouth or from another’s, each time a bad act is committed, whether by you or against you by another, leaves a rock inside your bowl. In time, the bowl becomes dull and heavy to carry. Also imagine that most stones, or negative memories, are received by the soul in the womb of the mother. Every hurtful, stressful, abusive emotional injury that happens to the mother during pregnancy places a scar (a samsara moment, or character tendencies), or spiritual test, or karmic lesson to be learned in this lifetime, on the soul of the child. And, that child’s walk up the mountain of life is burdened with those stones in its sacred bowl of light until he or she learns how to huli – turn over — the bowl to empty them out.

All people climb the same Mountain. The Mountain, however, has many pathways, each with a different view. A person knows and understands only what he sees from his own pathway, from where he is standing on the mountain. As he moves up the mountain of life, his view changes. Only when he reaches the top of the mountain will he begin to see and understand the diverse views of mankind. But, who among us has reached the top of the mountain? How is it possible when the Bowl we carry has become so very heavy?

These are some of the stones in the sacred bowl of light that must be released through ancient ceremonial ways.  Ancient Hawaiians trained their young in witness consciousness as a way of learning to see clearly with awareness and awakened consciousness … without judgments, opinions, expectations, “should’s” and limited understanding … of what you think that you are looking at. This allows one to walk awake and always connected to the voice of the ancestors, to shine light on what one witnesses from deep within the na’au (heart). The Ancient Hawaiians understood that the MIND is your First Weapon to defeating victim consciousness. It must be polished and disciplined to persist. Thus, your mind is either your best friend or your worst enemy. The Power that unleashes the opportunities brought by the Law of Attraction is Within YOU!!!  Change Your Thinking and Change Your Life.

Forgiveness affirmations are the most thorough way of evoking these cleansing energies.

Tomorrow, we, too, will see a different view. We have not finished growing. We address the spiritual dynamics of human relations and the goal of transformation and healing the hearts of humanity, including intergenerational trauma, right now through the act of forgiveness.

Walk into this Now with a clean sacred bowl of light, as an awakened spiritual being here for a human experience, and not a human being here for a spiritual experience. Let go of all victim consciousness and blame … that was just a bad dream of separation. There are no accidents. Everything happens for righteous cause. This is the experience called the play of consciousness!

I recommend five to fifiteen minutes of daily forgiveness meditation before you go to bed as spiritual practice. This cleans your Sacred Bowl of Light which, in turn, cleanses your creative power that magnetizes your life spark, which in turn, harmonizes you with the Law of Attraction and increases abundance in your life.

May you awaken with opportunities for Abundance knocking at your door.  Aloha e malama pono kakou.

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Forgiveness Affirmation

O Lord of the Universe,

For Myself,

My Spouse,

All Our Family Members,

All Our Relationships,

All Our Ancestors and

All Their Relationships

Back Through All Time,

Through All Of Our Lives,

Please Assist us all

To Forgive,

Be Forgiven, and

Forgive all Ourselves

Completely and Totally,

Now And Forever.

(3 times)

I Bless This Day and

Give Thanks For My Life

I Forgive Completely

All People Who Have Hurt Me

(Repeat 3 Times)

I Ask All People I Have Hurt

To Please Forgive Me

(Repeat 3 Times)

I Apologize To Myself For My Wrongs

To Myself and

My Wrongs To Others

(Repeat 3 Times)

I Apologize For All My Hurts Or Wrongs

To All Life Forms

(Repeat 3 Times)

I Apologize For All My Hurts Or Wrongs

To The Earth And The Life Of The Earth

(Repeat 3 Times)

With This Release, Freedom, Peace, Power and New Life,

I Bless All Creation In The Entire Universe

And I Fill The Entire Universe With My Love

I Love And Bless The Earth,

All Life, And All Humanity

I Love, Bless, And Respect,

The Visible, And The Invisible

I Rejoice And Give Thanks

For My New Life, Power, And Health,

And Give Complete Blessings And Love

To All Life And All Creations, Always.

And so It Is.