The Ho'oponopono Prayer: Forgiving and Listening
Love Notes From Gaia...with a poem from my book and a song from my heart...
“Hello darkness my old friend…” I bet some of you hear the melody in your head now. Doesn’t it take you back? And isn’t it relevant today too? The shadows these days cast long and large, they loom above and around us in catastrophe, doom and helplessness… but when our hearts are ready, they are ours to embrace also.
For those who are called, it is our task to transform these neglected, sometimes ancient and ancestral, forgotten wounds with our wise and brave, loving hearts and minds. And to discover and transform them into gifts, yes this is possible, I can attest to it. It doesn’t mean we have to forget if it doesn’t serve our highest good or if we are not ready. Let’s honor where we are. When we are ready, forgiving lifts those burdens off of our shoulders and off of our hearts and minds.
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We live within a profound relationship from here (this moment in the heart) to there (what we witness and experience around us). This is the bridge we are being offered. It is found in silence, darkness, innocence, playfulness, honesty and humility.
From our hearts to our heads, and from our hearts to our hands we can reach out to rebuild, nurture, create, to reconcile and to forgive ourselves and others.
The Goddess, Gaia, Pachamama, Mary, Isis, Inanna, Sophia, whatever name you give Her…. She is a bridge who lives in everyone of us and She will carry us across the abyss. She propels us forward and She cannot be erased.
She exists in the sound of our attention, rapt in listening, loving and creating and uncolored by ideas, beliefs, expectations and doubts. Which begs the question:
How do WE listen like that?
How do we listen for what is intangible, and offers us nothing and yet is everything we need to be whole and to heal?
I invite you to try to listen like this, with a tender and open heart:
meditate without meditating
listen without listening
sing without singing
love without judging
and forgive everything
starting with your self…
I leave you with a poem from my book, Careless Blossoming and a song from my heart, a version of the Hawaiian Ho'oponopono Prayer. How We Forgive how do we forgive our transgressions locked in solid ice too hard to remember? how do we forgive our forgetfulness the fog and the hairline fractures? how do we let go of the tension of the stretching and the seeking for more and more detail in an effort to rescue a small wind that carries the message she is a breeze blowing through our hair and our hands that whispers the answers on our faces and in our hearts how do we listen to that? ~Lana Maree Haas from my book of poems Careless Blossoming
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…if you listen
you can hear her
like a river flowing freely
her voice embedded in the coursing
and the knowing
a love so deeply and silently
singing
singing
singing…
~Lana Maree Haas
I recorded this version of the Ho'oponopono Prayer ( a Hawaiian forgiveness and transformative prayer) years ago and didn't know the whole prayer at the time so I subsequently left out a very important line in the prayer, "Thank You". So I've added it in text.
Your offerings into the world are exquisite. Thank you. 🤍🙏🏽🤍