Your Personal Link

Your Higher Self is your personal link to your Source, or your God or Goddess and to the more expanded realms which are always available to you. There are many other cosmic beings who also assist. Your guides are those beings in spirit form who assist you and their wisdom can be accessed on a personal level. During a space of silence, you can make contact with your guides, learn their names if they choose to be known by a name. There are also beings that you are connected to that are more guardians that are also in spirit and they look after your welfare and help with protection if need be. In old Hawaii, guides and guardians often took the form of deceased relatives, totem animals and elements of nature. Gods and goddesses may also function as guides or guardians to you.

Angels are highly evolved beings who perform nurturing roles on a cosmic level. They often appear spontaneously when needed but their help can also be requested. Archangel Michael, a universal being, is a special helper to students of Huna and can be called on for help in difficult situations.

As you begin o spend more time in the silence and to work with your own Higher Self, you make yourself open to the benevolent effects of your guides, guardians, and angels on a daily basis. The Po'e Aumakua, or higher Selves, can be called on for assistance when the request is for larger societal or global chances.

The obstacles one is likely to encounter in this process of dialoguing with the Higher Self in the silence are fears and harmful basic assumptions. The Kahuna compared these to knots in a cord that prevented the free flow of energy along the cord. These knotty problems can originate from a variety of sources: from childhood, from a past trauma, from your training or education, and even from past lives. They encompass everything from embarrassing incidences to mindless terrors. They often take the form of faulty basic assumptions and severely limiting beliefs. Everyone has been exposed to these obstacle-creating experiences in their lives. Huna offers techniques to begin to undo the knots and release them.

As with every Huna practice, you start off simply and advance to the more complex. One way to begin eliminating blocks is to make amends and seek forgiveness for all the hurt you have ever done in your life. Sit down and make a list of all the people you have hurt in the past. If they are still alive, ask their forgiveness in person or in a letter. If appropriate, make amends on the material level with a gift or some form of recompense. If the persons have passed on, go into the silence and ask for forgiveness in ritual fashion, then make a gift of goods or money to a relevant charity in their name. For example, many people feel guilty for something they did or did not do for one or both of their parents while they were alive. Go into the silence and ask the parent's forgiveness. The next day, give a donation to the parent's favorite charity in his or her name.

A forgiveness dialogue might go like this: I may not know all the pain and hurt I have caused you and I sincerely regret it. I did not have the awareness I have now. Today, in the presence of my Basic Self, and Higher Self, my guides, angels, and guardians, I ask for forgiveness to make amends. I am truly sorry for your hurt and the ways in which I participated in it, and I sincerely as your forgiveness. I am letting go of all my guilt and shame I had because of this hurt to you. Let us both ascend to a place of light and walk our paths in peace. Let us both be released. So be it. It is done.

Spend time with this and do it with sincerity and a heartfelt desire to receive forgiveness for what you have done. Ask forgiveness of each person one at a time, in separate sessions until you have asked and received forgiveness from all of those you believe you have hurt. At the end, do a general ritual in which you ask forgiveness of all the people you have ever hurt in your life, including yourself, by thought, word or deed, both known and unknown to you, throughout all time. Ask that you be released from the hurt and guilt , and ascend to a place of light.

The next step is to make a list of all the people who have hurt you. Write out a description of the hurts that caused you pain in the past and the people associated with them. See if you can understand what was really going on. How were they mirroring you and vice versa? Did you contribute to being hurt? See the hurt in perspective. Then if possible, contact the person and forgive them face to face, by telephone, or in a letter. If this is not possible, do the ritual at home for each individual.

Go into the silence, with a picture of the person nearby if possible. Imagine them sitting there with you. Ask both the Basic Self and the Higher Self to be present, as well as your guides, angels, and guardians. Explain to the person, as though they were sitting beside you, about the hurt you suffered, and address them in this way: You will probably never know all of the pain and hurt I suffered that involved you.You did not have this teaching, and we are all learning and evolving. With this awareness, and in the presence of the Basic and Higher Selves, my guides, angels, and guardians, I fully and sincerely forgive you for my hurt and suffering. I acknowledge my feelings of anger and resentment and release these emotions to the universe to be transmuted to a higher vibration. I truly forgive you. We are now at peace. Let us ascend to a place of light. So be it. It is done.

In doing these ritual's, it may be necessary to go beyond individuals and forgive whole races of people for hurts to you or by you. For example, of you are Jewish, you may want to forgive all Germans, of you are Native American or African-American, all white people. If you feel guilty about the wrongs done to a group of people by your own group, you may want to ritually ask forgiveness of the entire group.. Group guilt and group victim hood can cause your Basic Self to feel unworthy and ashamed. Hurts and hatred can go back a long way and be part of your lineage and even your cellular makeup. But even these can be released.

Know that when you are asking for forgiveness and forgiving others, you are erasing is your Basic Self's load of negativity, which can only cause you harm and dysfunction. Stored anger, hatred, shame , and guilt rankle in the soul and become toxic. No matter what the acts of the past were or how badly hey affected you, the only health-giving way is to sincerely forgive, be forgiven, and move on.

(charlotte Berney)