Dear Lightworkers, seekers of wholeness and lovers of peace,
Today, at 22.22hrs, 26/11/09, I feel impelled to write this piece and hope to start a collective Ho'opono pono practice movement.
Exactly a year ago, as terrorists stormed Mumbai, the jewel of India, I felt as if the "Hour of God' had begun in right earnest.
Today's Economic Times editorial "Awaken, not Mourn" resonated..As did PM Manmohan Singh's statement on his
US tour: "Pakistan cannot be wished away".
It seems to me that Pakistan is India's Jungian "shadow". And India, Pakistan's. Carl Jung described the 'shadow' as that
part of ourself which we have rejected, suppressed, denied, disowned. As a reult, we are doomed to remain incomplete
until we can reclaim these disowned parts of ourselves. "The road to liberation" he said, "is through embracing our shadow".
Lasting peace can only be attained when we become Whole again.
Polarised nations and peoples also represent each other's collective shadow. Not being able to wish the other away, they
are as if locked in a macabre, unending 'dance of death'. Think Israel-Palestine, US-Al qaida, China-Taiwan...
Psychiatrists Hal & Sidra Stone explained this most eloquently in their 'Open letter to George Bush' in Feb '03, urging him
NOT to go to war with Iraq/Saddam Hussein.
http://www.delos-inc.com/Reading_Room/A ... Letter.htm
"it is all inside as it is all outside. Each human being is a microcosm of the macrocosm. Just as in our world there is good and
evil and light and dark, so it is within the human psyche. Our conclusion is that each one of us lives with a most amazing
combination of good and evil. And each one of us is challenged to deal with this on an inner level as best we can, so that
we do not add our disowned evil to the very real evils outside of us, causing them to spiral out of control. That is the work
we are challenged to do and that is the work you are challenged to do.
Saddam Hussein is a man ruled by dark forces. We have no issue with that. Our deepest concern however is not the
Saddam Hussein that lives in the world. It is the Saddam Hussein that lives in the hidden recesses of your own heart, of
our own heart, in everyone’s heart. If we don’t ultimately recognize that this kind of energy lives in each of us, we keep
projecting it on the outer Husseins and this makes it impossible to deal with the darkness in the world in any way other than war. "
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"What can any of us do? What do we ask of you? What do we ask of ourselves?
One of the strongest indications of a mature personality is the ability to stand between the opposite viewpoints in conflict
situations and to be able to hold both when making decisions. This doesn’t mean that we become passive in the way we
conduct our life. This doesn’t mean that we don’t have an ethical or moral sense! It means that we are able to feel the two
sides of a situation. We must still ultimately make a decision about the situation. But the decisions we make are not made
on “automatic pilot”, the decisions we make come from a deeper and wiser place within."
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To anyone willing to do the work, I suggest the Hawaiian technique of self-Ho'opono pono which serves as a potent inner way
of embracing one's shadow. If each of us can integrate part of our own violence, there will be that much less left in the world
outside. Also, if we can do it collectively, as "we' instead of "I", we can help clear and embrace our national shadow too.
To those who don't know, self-ho'opono pono is an inner forgiveness and affirmation practice that begins by taking FULL
responsibility for everything that 'shows up' in our awareness, our reality. It works with the premise that we ATTRACT our
disowned material (shadow) again and again into our lives as It is seeking to be integrated back into our Being, our-its One-ness/Wholeness.
The practice is deceptively simple.
You just repeat as often as you can, like a mantra-japa, deep within yourself, as sincerely as possible:
"Whatever it is in us (India) that is causing this partition/conflict (with Pakistan)
• Please forgive us
• We are sorry
• We love you
• We thank you
• We welcome you back into the Light"
I believe the more each of us can embrace our inner Pakistan and heal the fracture/fragmentation wound within,
the less the outer Pakistan will be in conflict with us.
In fact, if we can do this for all our neighbours where there is strife: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Tibet, Burma and Sri Lanka,
we will help return these original parts to the soul of India and help create a larger 'federation' around India which will bring much
needed peace and stability to the region, which will in turn lead to the awakening of India/the region's full potential which is
destined* to 'show the way' and lead the world to human unity through a higher consciousness. (*Sri Aurobindo)
If any of this resonates with you, please start doing the self-ho'opono pono practice daily and especially when you hear about
the India-Pakistan conflict (which is in the news all too often).
Please also forward this to all your like-minded friends who wish for world peace and human unity, asking them to join us in
the practice. It will be interesting to see the combined effect we can have on the 'war on terror'.
As Margaret Mead said "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
Om Shanti, Shalom, In Peace
PS: for more see
http://www.hooponoponohelp.com/