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So Many Blessings!

Dr. Emoto and I  after the water blessing
On Thursday I joined fifty or so like-minded people to participate in a water blessing of the ocean at the south end of San Onofre Beach nearest to the nuclear power plant. The blessing was given by Dr. Masaru Emoto, whose molecular pictures of water we studied in our Beyond Limits class earlier this year. For those of you unfamiliar with those pictures see his book Hidden Images in Water. 
Dr Emoto spoke briefly in Japanese, then his speech was translated into English. Due to the close surf and the large circle, it was difficult to hear his entire message but we felt it in the blessing. He asked us all to face the ocean and pray for the water between San Onofre and Japan. Then he did a call and response chant in Japanese. (We all did the best we could but I think our English-speaking expression did not very accurately reflect his intentions.) We all om’ed together. Then a minute of silence. Then he asked us to repeat after him, the words of the Ho’opononpono Blessing of Ihaleakala Hew Len that Joe Vitale made famous.
Remember the story of Hew Len who was a director of an asylum for the criminally insane.  The inmates were violent. The workers were stressed, fearful and watchful. The staff had no morale. Everyone feared for their lives. The workers were drug and alcohol addicted. When they walked down the hallways they would walk with their backs against the wall so they could see everything on either direction. The staff were often absent due to sickness.
Dr. Hew Len was a new director. When he had only been there for a few months, the staff started relaxing and enjoying their work. The patients seemed to be calmer. Then the patients started to get better. One by one they were released from the institution until finally they closed the institution.
What kind of miracle work did Dr Len Hew do? What kind of psychological techniques did he know? How did he accomplish this huge turn-around?
He never saw a patient.
He didn’t do any therapy.
What he did everyday was to take the file of each patient and bless the patient with the Ho’oponopono Blessing. This blessing is very easy. It is the same blessing Dr. Emoto used for the water that Hew Len used on the mental patients. In Dr. Emoto’s words it is:
Water, I am sorry.
Water, please forgive me.
Water, I love you.
Water, thank you.
We repeated it three times. Then he sang a song to us and asked us to sing something into the circle. Nobody seemed brave enough to do it. He said that there was a melody everybody knew. He asked us to just sing La-la-la to “Ode to Joy.” He kept the pitch low and sweet.It was beautiful, simple and transformational. 
How blessed I felt that I had been invited to the blessing, that I had time on my calendar to do it and that we have further proof that in this Universe (uni-verse, one song)we are all connected.  Our positive thinking and feeling not only effects us but the world in which we live.
If there is anything that you are troubled by, I recommend chanting the words of Ho”oponopono silently for five minutes or so. You will know when you are complete because your energy about the situation will have changed. You will see with the eyes of Love.
To find out more about Dr. Emoto’s work, check out his book on Amazon.com. 
To find out more about Ho’oponopono,check out the book Joe Vitale and Hew Len co-authored entitled Zero Limits.

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Author: Heather Clark

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