30 days of abundance // day 12: forgiveness ceremony

the fourth chakra is the heart chakra. not much explanation needed. it's about love. the emotional seat of the body.

today, for me, is about forgiveness. yesterday I let go of some ideas and things that kept me tied to someone long after we had parted ways. and I felt incredibly free of it for the first time in a very long time. I even had amazing things happen immediately after. but last night I realized that while I had released, finally, I had not yet fully forgiven.

 

and forgiveness is about love. and to forgive anyone we have to forgive ourselves at the same time.

I've found this Hawaiian forgiveness ceremony to be deeply healing. you can do it alone or with others. I feel like it works even if you just read it over in silence. just make sure that you're on the list so that you can forgive yourself.

Ho Opono pono (Ceremony of Forgiveness)

Preparation:
1. Calm your heart  ( Gate Gate Para Gate Parasum Gate Bodhi Swaha) repeat 9 times
2. Make a list of everyone towards whom you hold any negative feelings, or who have negative feelings towards you.
3. Make sure that you are grounded and that your feelings, inner child and subconscious are in agreement with the process.

Prayer:
I am saying this to all people especially those on my list
Peace be with you
All of my peace
The peace that is the I
The Peace that is the I am
The Peace that is for always
Now and forever more

My peace I give to you
My peace I leave with you
Not the world's peace
But my peace
The peace of the I  (repeat 3 times)

Divine creator, father, mother, son's and daughters all as one.
If I and all those gathered here, the names we are going to mention, my family, the family of all the people we are related to,
if anyone has offended you in thought, word, deed or action from the beginning of our creation to the present.

Humbly, Humbly, Humbly
I ask you all for forgiveness
(repeat 3 times)

For all of our fears, all of our errors,
resentments, guilt's, blocks, offenses
and attachments that we have created
and accumulated and accepted from
the beginning of our creation to the present
We all ask for forgiveness
(repeat 3 times)

Let divine intelligence include all
pertinent information that we have knowingly
or unknowingly omitted.

Now free here all the negative vibrations
of all the information that we have written,
also all the property, documents, jewelry, objects, 
autos, furniture, free and transform all their negative vibrations.

Please forgive us all and let all of us be released from all possible spiritual, 
mental, physical and material, financial and karmic bondage.

Pull out of all our memory banks, from all
of our subconscious minds and release, severe and cut 
the unwanted negative memories and blocks that tie and
bind and attach us together. Erase completely the cause,
core, memory and the record of all these unwanted negative memories.

Yes, forgive us, and release all of us
from all possible spiritual, mental, physical and material,
financial and karmic bondage.
(now let all the people, situations, events and things run through your mind)

Cleanse, purify and transmute all these unwanted negative energies into pure light.
Erase completely their cause, core, memory and record.
( repeat 2 more times)

And fill all the spaces that these unwanted energies occupy with divine lite.
Let divine order, light and love, peace and balance,
wisdom and understanding and abundance be made manifest to all of us
through the infinite power of the Divine Creator, Father, Mother, Son and Daughter all as one.
In whom we rest and abide and have all of our being.

SET ALL OF US FREE!
( now read your list out loud)

( repeat once more from "cleanse and purify.....)
     - Burn the list-
SET US ALL FREE!
SET US ALL FREE!
IT IS DONE!   SO BE  IT!
 

30 days of abundance // day 9: fire in the belly

wow. I just had a moment...scrolling through my content here...and looked at my post from February 22 of this year, right when I launched this site. when I have any inclination to freak out about progress, I take a look at how far I've actually come in nine months. so much has come clear.

and it's apt: today I'm writing about will. 

I've taken a circuitous route through the chakra system, so we're just arriving at the 3rd...Manipura, the solar plexus. the seat of self-identity, self-confidence, self-esteem, and self-worth. it's a source of personal power, will, and freedom of choice.

it's also linked strongly with digestion, and it has an important quality of intuitive sense - a "gut feeling."

what a perfect day to write about this. on two levels: one, I awoke with a sense of purpose and will today - of reorganizing, making decisions, and taking strong action in my next steps. second, I'm a big fan of gut flora (microbes), and I believe the digestive-emotional-intuitive link is not a conicidence.

if you read up on gut flora a little, you'll find that these microbes have almost everything to do with everything from our nutrient uptake to our moods to our bowel movements. allergies, inflammation, even brain functions. as I've noted before, we actually have 10 times more microbial cells than we have human cells.

so maybe the link between will, personal power, and self-esteem make sense in the physical space of digestion, where many of our most important functions happen.

 

and perhaps the "gut instinct" effect is a reflection of the signals our bodies give us around what we intuit. and when our gut is really against something, perhaps our body actually physically registers important information from our environment.

 

strong gut = strong will. 

something to think about today: take care of your gut. it's important. try probiotics. I love Yakult. it's good for if you need to poo.

avoid pesticides. pesticides kill microbes.

not awesome. only organic foods are legally required to not use pesticides. so buy organic or grow or own, and you'll know that you're not poisoning yourself. and try breathing down into your belly. it's great. today's a good day to start taking care of that gut.