Mental Cleaning to Spiritually Release Emotional Blockages
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One of the main components of the ho'oponopono process is that of mental cleaning, or the clearing of psychological blockages accumulated over a lifetime of bad experiences.
This process involves the removal of the repressed memories of traumatic events that occurred in the past and that, in many cases, the person has no recollection of them ever happening to them.
This article looks at the topic of memory repression and how the buried incidence of each separate trauma affects present behaviour and thinking and how these hidden memories can be eliminated.
Memory Repression
To have lived through an entire childhood and early youth without ever experiencing a traumatic event is a rare occurrence.
Most of us have encountered situations in early life that caused us to be frightened, fearful or shocked to the extent that the event could be described as traumatic, especially when we believed at the time that we were somehow to blame for the event taking place.
Associated with the experience is a negative emotional response, commonly guilt, shame or inadequacy if we blamed ourselves when in fact it was not our fault at all. It is the influence of these powerful emotions that cause such memories to be repressed as a self-preservation mechanism and where the technique used in ho'oponopono can provide a solution.
In other experiences where great fright was experienced, associated emotions would typically be terror, fear or shock but often these experiences are not repressed as long as we do not accept blame or feel we are somehow at fault for the event having taken place.
In adult life, an accumulation of repressions where guilt or shame were the presiding emotions are often externalised in behavioural abnormalities. These can take the form of anxiety, phobias or sociopathic behaviour where no obvious underlying reason is evident.
In other words, you could have an irrational fear of enclosed spaces (claustrophobia), which is more common than you may believe, and not know why. Similarly, you could experience anxiety attacks when confronted with situations that most other people would not find out of the ordinary.
Often, irrational fears or phobias have their roots erroneously attributed to a remembered event in childhood of a similar kind, such as being locked in a small, dark cupboard by a parent as punishment for some wrongdoing being the cause of your present claustrophobia. The true cause may be more elusive, as it will almost certainly be that of an unknown repression rather than of a known past event.
Identifying Repressed Memories with Psychoanalysis
There is a branch of psychology called psychoanalysis that is designed to help a person to identify one or more repressed memories through a series of "sessions" with an analyst.
This can often take many months or even years of regular sessions to get to the actual repressed event, but once identified and come to terms with, it can be released, with the associated behaviour no longer necessary and therefore "cured."
A similar process is undergone using hypnosis, known as hypno-analysis or hypnotherapy which uses the same principles as psychoanalysis. The hypnosis speeds up the process somewhat, allowing the person to locate and identify and accept the repression sooner, leading to catharsis.
The end result is that the person remembers the lost memory, accepts it and is able to let go of it and all the associated emotions that it carried. This produces a catharsis, which is an experience of complete release and self forgiveness.
Cleaning with Ho'oponopono
The method of eliminating repressed memories through ho'oponopono is different from mainstream psychological techniques in that the goal is not to go after the lost memory, but to clean the mind.
The process is one of letting go through the repetition of a simple four-part mantra that positively manipulates the psyche to enable release. The ho'oponopono mantra is explained in this article.
The mechanics of the ho'oponopono process is not fully understood by modern experts, but enough is known to make an educated guess as to what is occurring within the mind of the person being "cleaned." The practitioner repeats the mantra to themselves and cleans their own mind, accepting all responsibility for the patient's situation.
As the practitioner cleans their own mind, they also clean the patient's mind of blockages causing their problems. The process is entirely spiritual in essence, defying all logical explanation, yet it works!
There is documented evidence of Dr. Hew Len's experience of cleaning and ultimately curing an entire Hawaiian prison hospital's allocation of psychologically damaged inmates remotely and without ever coming into physical contact with a single one of them.
Summary
Cleaning the mind of emotional blockages through mental healing results in the freeing of a person from whatever had been restraining their personal growth in life.
Free from the hindrances of the weight of emotional negativity, a person can let go of restrictive behavioural patterns and with renewed positive thought power available, move forward unhindered in the achievement of their goals. Whichever process works for a particular person is always good as long as it just works.
There is merit in both mainstream psychological (ie psychotherapy/hypnotherapy) and spiritual (ie ho'oponopono) techniques to achieve that end. Which you choose to explore is up to you and if it works for you, then you made the right choice.
Posted: October 21, 2024
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