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Our Inner Content

Note: As this subject needs a deeper explanation the article is broken down into four parts.
The first deals with the nature of interconnectedness and the technique of Ho’oponopono
The second explains how we create reality through interpretation and projection
The third deals with how our mutually created realities are formed.
The fourth analyzes the details of our inner content and how we contribute to the world situation.
 
Our beliefs, emotions, programmings, needs, desire, fears, attachments and behaviors all reflect back to us through others’ behaviors and life itself.
Following is a list of some aspects of ourselves that might be reflecting back to us through others’ behaviors or situations.

Note: Ho’oponopono does not require that we know what it is within us that needs to be cleaned. The following list is simply to help us see the varied possibilities of what might need to be cleaned because of what is being brought to our attention – perhaps by someone’s behavior or situation.   
 
The presence of any of the below can easily attract corresponding behaviors and situations.

1. When we feel negative emotions about that is happening – we attract that so that we can become free within ourselves.

2. When we have specific limiting beliefs about others and what is happening or when we perceive someone or something as sad, wrong, unjust etc., we attract that so that we can work on it.  

3. Our own behaviors until now towards this person or towards others in the past reflect back to us in the present so that we can learn from them.
 
4. Our fears attract and create realities. Especially our fears concerning our self-worth, security, freedom, pleasure or control?

5. We also attract what we expect from others and life.
 
6. Our doubts about what we deserve, limit our reality to what we believe we deserve.

7. How we behave towards ourselves, causes others to do behave towards us in similar ways.
 
8. At times we attract behaviors from others that a part of ourselves would like to imitate but fears to do so.

9. Unresolved childhood experiences tend to replay repeatedly in our lives, until we manage to heal them.

10. The roles we identify with for our meaning, self-worth and security can attract life situations and corresponding behaviors from others – so that we can free ourselves from the illusions and limitations of those roles.  We might be playing some of the following roles: A. the victim B. the intimidator C. the teacher D. the parent E. the child F. the intelligent one G. the righteous one H. the rebel I. the strong one - without needs J. the just one K. the Good person L. the one Responsible for all M. the server N. the weak one O. the spiritual person P. the judge Q. the Aloof one, R. the Critic or Interrogator Q. Some other role?

11. Those needs and attachments that are limiting our peace, happiness, love or evolution  may reflect in various life situations and behaviors so that we can have an opportunity to free ourselves from them.

12. Our tendency to feel guilty, attracts behaviors and situations that stimulate that programming so that we can free ourselves form it.

13. We bring into our lives whatever we criticize, judge, reject or have prejudiced perceptions of.  
 
14. We attract whatever causes us to feel jealousy, pain, anger, bitterness, injustice or any other negative emotion so that we can have an opportunity to get free from the illusions that create those emotions.
 
15. We attract whatever we cannot forgive in others or in ourselves.
 
16. When we compare ourselves to others we bring them into our reality.

17. Our own inner conflicts and self-doubt attracts specific behaviors from others that bring those feelings to the surface.

18. When we fail to communicate clearly assertively but without criticism or complaints – we create realities in which we do not get what we need.

19. If we have become accustomed to a reality, we tend to stay it in because of our fear of change.

20. If we fear happiness, abundance, health, being loved etc, we will create analogous realities.  

These and other aspects of our inner world can very easily be contributing factors in the realities we are co-creating.
 
How Might we be Contributing to World Crises?
 
Most of us are unhappy with the way the world is and tend to be critical of our own and other leaders and how they are handling these issues, which might be global warming, the Middle East, terrorism, Africa, the economy etc. When we feel rejection or hate towards whatever is in our reality, we actually energize and increase it. We actually empower whatever we hate, whatever we allow to bother us in any way.
 
How might these world crises actually be a manifestation of ourselves?
 
1. First of all, our leaders are simply a manifestation of our group consciousness. When our consciousness changes, our leaders will change. We need to look into ourselves to understand why we have the leaders we do and how we empower them.
 
2. Another way that we contribute is through our dependency on comfort and material things. All of these require oil, heat, and deplete the natural resources of the earth. Our addiction to these comforts causes us to give much money and thus power to the conglomerates that produce them and they in turn have the ability to control the governments. We are giving our power (through money) to the businesspersons who are controlling the politicians who are making the decisions. Our life style is directly responsible for global warming and policies that have to with need for oil.
 
3. Our personal identification with the small group of persons we feel comfortable with and our alienation from people from other religions, races or nationalities reflects in the situations in Kosovo, Ireland, the Middle East and Africa all over the world where people from different groupings are fighting with each other. They are a reflection of the fact that we do not yet feel the same unity with all religions, races and nationality or even social classes.
 
 4. The unjust and biased misuse of power in the world simply reflects our own misuse of power as parents, spouses, employers etc. Few people have learned to use their power in a totally just and unbiased way. Our governments are simply doing the same. They are nothing more that reflections of our own state of evolution – or lack thereof.    
 
5. We can never know what we would do if we were in the others’ position. If a foreign power came into and occupied the USA or Europe, would we be pacifists or terrorists until they left. Were the early Americans, who ambushed and killed the British, terrorists or freedom fighters?  On the other hand, if we are responsible for a whole country and someone bombed us and killed our people, could we do nothing about it?
 
Most often the actions of both sides in these conflicts are extreme, unjust and unenlightened – but they are the exact reflection of our personal tendencies. It is easy to judge others when we are not experiencing their situation. This judgment only increases what is happening.
 
There is a potential terrorist in each of waiting to manifest in the right conditions of feelings of injustice when we feel all others avenues are hopeless. And there is a vindictive and unmercifully avenger in all of us, if our family has been unjustly harmed. In each of us there is a bigot. Even a rejection towards the bigots, is a form of bigotry. We may be for peace, but we may hate those who prevent that peace. Then we are the same as them, and they are reflecting us to ourselves.
 
6. All of our problems start with the illusion of our separateness from others, which then leads to fear, self-protective mechanisms, alienation, indifference for how others are fairing. We become imprisoned in self-serving lives with a basic mistrust those we do not know or of those who are not like us. This in itself is an illusion that attracts a wide variety of personal and social realities. Political and religious leaders add to these fears and mistrust by reinforcing the idea only we have the truth that the others are bad and want to do us harm. When we are functioning in such paradigms, we are contributing to the social and world situation as it is.
 
These world situations are simply reflections of our own mental tendencies that need to be purified and evolved with Ho’oponopono and other methods. Ho’oponopono declares that if someone does us wrong, then we or our ancestors must have done something to warrant that and we need to ask for forgiveness from them and express our love to them and ask the Divine to remove from us, whatever may have caused that. This is a far cry from our usual reactions.
 
 
We Are All in a Process of Growth
 
As souls in the process of becoming more emotionally, mentally and spiritually mature and enlightened, we attract to ourselves situations that offer us the opportunity to learn the next lessons we need to learn in our evolutionary process. Of course, we have free will to learn from these situations or not. We have the option of holding on to our pain, fear, guilt and anger, or we can let go of all that as we upgrade our perception of reality and move into forgiveness, self-acceptance, love and peace.
 
Some of the situations we are attracting are for the purpose of learning these lessons. We may not have done something in the past to warrant what is happening. We may have chosen as souls for this to happen because we can use to that to let go of fear and old dysfunctional beliefs and move forward.
 
In such cases we are responsible not because we have harmed someone, but because we have chosen this as a growth process. In such as case we can ask forgiveness or simply “free the other or life situation” from the need to be that way any more, because we have learned the lesson, that we are responsible and that we can love whomever or whatever it is. Having learned to love, we do not need the lesson anymore.
 
On the other hand, some of these behaviors or situations may be the result of actions and choices in previous or parallel lives, in which case it is appropriate to ask forgiveness for anything we might have done that is attracting the present reality. We do not need to know what it is.
 
We Are All One Spiritual Consciousness.

Most religions teach that we are ultimately all one with the Divine and that in the divine we are one. St. John the Evangelist repeating quotes Christ as saying, “I am in you and you are in me and I am in the Father and Father is in me.” Eastern religions are even more emphatic in declaring that we are actually all expressions of one divine consciousness. We are one consciousness, which seems to have split into many, as does the light of the projector at the cinema appear to break up into many different beings and their interactions on the screen. We are all projections on one divine consciousness, which is ultimately interacting with itself through our actions.
 
We, however, have the free will (or won’t) and power to hinder the purity of that expression and are in a process of purifying and evolving our ability to express our true spiritual nature. We are all evolving together and each person’s success in that process benefits us all. Simultaneously each person’s refusal affects us all.
 
Ho’oponopono is a process in which we recognize that we are not yet enlightened that we still are attracting realities based on ignorance, memories and programmings. Having realized this, we ask forgiveness from the phenomena we are attracting and reestablish the state of love, which is based on the truth that we are actually one being. Then we thank the divine for removing from us whatever may be other than love.
 
Conclusion

Ho’oponopono is a process in which we realize that:
 
1.    We are attracting all that is in our reality for some reason – it is not by chance.
2.   We are co-creators of all that is happening personally and socially.
3.   Everything is as it should be for the moment – as a stimulus to correct it in ourselves.  
4.   We can only correct ourselves and by doing so, affect the others and the whole.
5.    We do not need to know what we are correcting in ourselves.
6.   We do not need to know what it in us that is resonating with that which has our attention.
7.    The causes of our reality are either in the subconscious as memories, programs or lessons we have chosen to learn, or once we are pure, by divine inspiration or guidance.
8.   The solution is the removal of inner causes for ourselves and others
9.   When we free ourselves from any aspects that are contributing to what is happening – then what is happening is less a function of us and more of others’ own lessons and / or divine creation – choice.
10. Freedom from memories and programs allows inspiration to come.
11.  The solution is love for others and self.
12. This is the goal of life - a road to enlightenment
 
In short Ho’oponopono is:

1.    Realizing that what has come to our attention is within us – that we are attracting or co-creating it.
2.   Asking forgiveness or setting other person(s) or situation free.
3.   Expressing love  
4.   Thanking the divine that the causes are now being dissolved.