Forgiveness Meditation

Happy Sunday. I hope all is well this beautiful day.

I thought today would be a great day for a meditation that I heard back in March. It is based on the powerful Ho’oponopono prayer. People use different words, but basically it goes as follows:

I’m sorry

Please forgive me

Thank you

I love you

The first time I heard about this prayer was in an article about Dr. Hew Len. Dr. Len was an appointed clinical psychologist at a facility  for mentally ill criminals. Their crimes were serious, and the accused would be sent here to see if they were sane enough to stand trial. Pele who worked there were terrified of those who were committed. 

Most doctors did not stay in this position for long. When Dr. Len came, the workers felt it would be no different. They were wrong. He did not operate like any other doctor. He never tried to see any inmates; he would only ask for their files, but he wouldn’t even look at them.

Slowly, thing started to change at the hospital. Prisoners shackles were coming off; drugs were decreasing. The employees were not as frightened because the behavior of the criminals was changing. If anyone asked Dr. Len what he did in his office all day he would reply, “The Ho’oponopono prayer.” 

Within a couple of years, Dr. Len emptied the ward of the criminally insane. WOW!! A book written by Joe Vitale tells the story.

A dear friend of mine, Ron D’Amico gave a meditation on this prayer which I would like to share. This was part of his March 2022 21 Day Catalyst: Awakening the Christ Consciousness Within.

When we allow our selves to tap into this and what the essence of what this is, we are saying everything we see going on around us, is a result at some level of an imbalance that we created or expressed ourselves some way throughout eternity. We were not ourselves. And we literally step deep within to apologize in a very simple way to express, I am sorry.

I am sorry for everything I have ever done to create this pain that you struggle with. (Frame it, format it anyway you wish.). I’m sorry for being separate from myself, and who I am and not having had the ability or the will at the time to bring my love, my truth, my support into this scenario. Please forgive me for being that maligned self, in whatever fashion or form I acted it out. I ask that you forgive me, as I now am forgiving myself. For I am now healing my pain, my shame, my wounds, everything I brought into my life, that caused this incongruency that exists before me and around me. That I corrected by correcting it within me. With all that I am, I love you. I love with you. I love as you. And I hold this space that you will feel the love that you are within, as I now choose to hold it within and externally express it through and from me. Thank you for receiving me, thank you for hearing me. I am not only thanking you, I am thanking my human form for hearing my spirit essence in all that I am and all that I ever have been and will be.

Let your spirit feel these words. Let your words of forgiveness soar. Our world is in desperate need of healing. We are the messengers by our own actions, words, and thoughts. Let us forgive ourselves and let go of our pain by letting go of actions we believe have harmed us.

Some say, “How can I forgive?” With that I have two stories. The first one was told by Graham Cooke. He had a friend who was repeatedly raped and then murdered. One of the men who took part in this murder was in prison when Graham went to see him. The man in prison said that day changed his life. As she was being raped and beaten all Graham’s young friend kept saying was “I forgive,” over and over. Two words that changed his life forever.

In WWII Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty worked in the Vatican. Though the Vatican did not support him, he saved thousands from the Gestapo. The Gestapo knew about him and pursued him. After the war he helped Germans saying “God has no country.” He even got his nemesis, Herbert Kappler (SS chief of Rome) and his family out of Italy. Father also visited him in jail month after month. His actions of kindness and forgiveness led to Kappler’s conversion.

Let us choose Love because that is who we are. May your day be filled with kindness and forgiveness. Thank you. Love and Light to all.