MORRNAH’S PRAYER

A lovely example of a ancient Hawaiian Ho'oponopono prayer from Morrnah Simeona courtesy of Star Orchid.com

"Divine Creator, Father, Mother, Son as one …

If I, my family, relatives and ancestors have offended you, your family, relatives and ancestors in thoughts, words, deeds and actions from the beginning of our creation to the present, we ask your forgiveness … 

Let this cleanse, purify, release, cut all the negative memories, blocks, energies and vibrations, and transmute these unwanted energies into pure Light...
 
And it is done..."

Beyond Traditional Means: Ho'oponopono

New York Times contributor Deborah King interviews Morrnah Simeona & Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len about their Ho'oponopono philosophy and work:

"We can appeal to Divinity who knows our personal blueprint, for healing of all thoughts and memories that are holding us back at this time," softly shares Morrnah Simeona. "It is a matter of going beyond traditional means of accessing knowledge about ourselves."

The process that Morrnah refers to is based on the ancient Hawaiian method of stress reduction (release) and problem solving called Ho'oponopono. The word Ho'oponopono means to make right, to rectify an error. Morrnah is a native Hawaiian Kahuna Lapa'au. Kahuna means "keeper of the secret" and Lapa'au means "a specialist in healing." She was chosen to be a kahuna while still a small child and received her gift of healing at the age of three. She is the daughter of a member of the court of Queen Liliuokalani, the last sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands. The process that is now brought forth is a modernization of an ancient spiritual cleansing ritual. It has proven so effective that she has been invited to teach this method at the United Nations, the World Health Organization and at institutions of healing throughout the world.

How does Ho'oponopono work? Morrnah explains, "We are the sum total of our experiences, which is to say that we are burdened by our pasts. When we experience stress or fear in our lives, if we would look carefully, we would find that the cause is actually a memory. It is the emotions which are tied to these memories which affect us now. The subconscious associates an action or person in the present with something that happened in the past. When this occurs, emotions are activated and stress is produced."

She continues..READ THE FULL INTERVIEW HERE : The Peace of I

Morrnah Simeona

In the next few posts we're going to look at some of the major players in the Ho'oponopono world starting with the founder of modern Ho'oponopono Morrnah Simeona:
Born in Hawaii in 1913, Morrnah grew up in a native family steeped in tribal practices and traditions. Her mother was a Kahuna to the last reigning monarch of the Islands;
 Queen Lili’uokalani,

It was Morrnah who first took the Ho'oponopono technique and updated it to more suit the demands of modern day living. She spent many decades up to her death in 1992 promoting and teaching the revised process and it's philosophy around the world. The cumlmination of these efforts resulted in the the creation of the Foundation of 'I' A teaching centre on Hawaii. established to teach the new updated version now called SITH Self Idendity Through Ho'oponopono. She presented the new version of Ho'oponopono to the United Nations and the World Health Organisation and in 1983 she was officially recognised as a 'National Living Teasure' of Hawaii.

Morrnah only released 3 text books on the new SITH process during her lifetime; Self-I-Dentity-Through-Ho'oponopono Basic 1,2 & 3, Basic 3 to be used after 5 years of practice. The entire courses are taught in confidence at the 'Foundation of 'I' centre in Hawaii and come highly recommended by all who attend.
It was left to our next Who's Who in Ho'oponopono- Dr Hew Len to light the spark that spread the new technique around the world...