What Will I Learn?

I don’t think it really matters what the Mystery Schools of the past did or didn’t do. I believe that we create our own reality. Fresh mysteries are even better than ancient ones. The mysteries that are revealed to each of us now are the ones that are most relevant for our lives—if we can integrate this knowledge in a way that gives us a greater sense of connection with one another, with other life forms and with everything in the Universe. When we attain the wisdom to live in harmony with ourselves and with the rest of the Universe, we have successfully passed through this School of Life. The goal, as I see it, is to reach the point where we can look back at this, our most recent lifetime, and be content in the knowledge that we accomplished everything we set out to do. A successful Mystery School should help us to achieve that goal.

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Workshop Descriptions of the Vibrational Healing Program

Ho’oponopono

Ho’oponopono is one of many practices that I will be teaching in the RMA Mystery School. The word means “to make right” or “to rectify an error” in Hawaiian. Ho’o is translated as “cause” and ponopono means “perfection.” It is an ancient Hawaiian method of bringing balance into relationships. In the original tradition, the belief is that any illness or psychological imbalance is directly related to the whole community and family, and so all members of the family would be brought in to talk. With the help of a practitioner of the art (who was generally also part of the greater family), each member would repent and ask forgiveness of each other member, until balance and peace could be found and by then the patient would be healed.

But Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona, who was the Kahuna (high priest) for King Kamehameha, and was a Ho’oponopono Master Teacher, and was named a Living Treasure of the State of Hawaii, created a new and simpler form of this process, which she named Self I-Dentity Ho’oponopono. It is based on the belief that each person can work with the Divinity within, asking that our errors in thought, word, deed or action be cleansed, giving us complete freedom from the past, bringing us back to a state of Zero. She taught this process to a Ph.D. psychologist named Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len, who became famous for using her method to virtually cure an entire ward of mentally ill criminals at Hawaii State Hospital, without ever doing therapy with any of them in person. I studied with Neesa Maloney, who studied directly from Dr. Hew Len. I also took a course with Jean Nakasato and was certified by the IZI LLC Ho'oponopono organization. Jean studied directly with Morrnah.

“After a few months,” Dr. Len explained, “patients who had been shackled were being allowed to walk freely. Others who had been heavily medicated were getting their medications reduced. And those who had been seen as having no chance of ever being released were being freed.” Joe Vitale and Dr. Hew Len tell about this in their book, Zero Limits.

So here is my understanding of how it all works. First begin by knowing that we are all connected, including the rocks and the animals and the plants and the earth and we are all related, going all the way back to the first man and woman on this planet. Also know that we create our own reality, which means that everything—everything—in our world is a product of our own creation.

Now if just one person is willing to take responsibility for absolutely anything that happens in their world, then they can change it. They can take it out of disharmony and bring it into balance and alignment. Basically, no matter what we might be arguing about, we really just want to hear the other person take responsibility and say, “I’m sorry. I love you.” Then it all goes away.

So if I’m willing to go into any situation of disharmony and sincerely say to anyone or anything that feels maligned or hurt or injured, “If I or my ancestors, going all the way back to the beginning of time, have ever done anything to offend you, I’m sorry. Please forgive me. I love you. Thank you.”

The short version is just: “I’m sorry. Please forgive me. I love you. Thank you.” You can say it in your head or you can say it aloud. Just remember those four phrases and use them anytime you encounter anything that feels out of harmony. Use it to keep resetting your reality so that you are fully in the NOW. Any time you find yourself dwelling on past memories or future anxieties, just say those four phrases and bring yourself back to NOW. I have seen this simple method work absolute miracles. I saw, for example, a large family that was wracked with anger and recrimination for several years turn into a loving family within two weeks, after just one person in the family used these four phrases every day, in his mind, while holding each member of the family in his consciousness, without ever discussing this with any of them.

Last week, one of my clients—I will call her Cynthia— was on the road and far away from her two daughters and her ex-husband, but they were speaking daily on the phone. Her oldest daughter had recently gone back to smoking marijuana, and her father was threatening to kick her out of the house. My recommendation was for Cynthia to sit every day and think about her daughter and say the four phrases and then think about the ex-husband and say the four phrases. Then, while speaking to any of them on the phone, whenever anything unpleasant came into the conversation, to keep saying the four phrases in her mind. I told her to continue to say the four phrases, aloud or in her mind, throughout the day whenever she thought about her daughter or her ex-husband.

Cynthia called today and told me that her daughter, Sonya, voluntarily stopped smoking marijuana a few days ago. Sonya said it was making her feel confused and she didn’t like the feeling. Sonya said that she and her father were going to have a special night out, just the two of them, and she was excited about that.

Introduction to the RMA Mystery School

Here is Dr. Hew Lin's 5-page explanation of Self-Identity Ho'oponopono.