Finding Peace Through Forgiveness

There is so much need for peace right now. One element of being at peace is through the practice of forgiveness. You can do such deep work by looking deep within letting go and healing ancient wounds. I do a talk and meditation and use Ho'oponopono techniques to truly forgive and heal so you can be at peace.

Transcript

Oh,

It's so good to be here with you today,

Because today is International Peace Day.

Well,

No,

I'm sorry,

It's Thursday is International Peace Day,

But I wanted to bring it to our attention so we can celebrate peace,

Because I've been on this path studying peace for a long time.

I got a Peace Award from UNESCO Poet Laureate Peace Award.

I also got,

I don't know,

A Gandhi Art Peace Award.

So then I thought,

Well,

I better work harder to understand peace,

Because it's not just like a one-time thing.

Peace is an ongoing,

Ever-going process.

Peace is an amazing thing,

Because you go deeper and deeper and deeper into yourself and find things that you need to forgive and to clear,

To find a state of peace that will maintain you,

That will maintain that beautiful essence of peace,

A peace that passes all understanding.

Now,

You can get to that place of peace inside yourself in meditation.

I'm sure you can.

If you can stop your mind and breathe and allow the peace to come in,

You will do that.

But to maintain and to be peace,

Aloha,

It's good to see you joining us today.

Glad you're here.

To maintain peace means clearing a lot of things that may have come up that pushed your buttons and sometimes some,

It might involve doing a forgiveness,

A ho'oponopono for people who have really hurt you,

People who have deeply done things that have touched you,

Especially if you're an empath.

If you're an empath,

And I don't know if you are,

But if you are an empath,

You're going to feel that even more strongly because you're sensitive and you try hard.

So when you see things going wrong or you see things where people get angry or blame you for things,

You're going to get very deeply hurt and you need to forgive and release and let go.

I always go back to this as everyone does.

It's known as the St.

Francis Peace Prayer,

But I found out about two years ago,

St.

Francis didn't write this.

It was actually written by one of his disciples in early 1900s.

Did you know that?

Aloha,

Welcome.

Good to see you here today.

So I thought we'd breathe in peace and we all know this prayer for peace.

And I thought we'd join together as we breathe in peace with a few clearing breaths for peace,

Breathing in and just clearing anything that might be anything other than peace and letting it go,

Letting it go,

Letting it go.

Breathing in peace and saying internally with me,

Lord,

Make me an instrument of your peace.

Where there is hatred,

Let me sow love.

Where there is injury,

Pardon.

Where there is error,

The truth.

Where there is doubt,

Faith.

Where there is despair,

Hope.

Where there is darkness,

Light.

And where there is sadness,

Joy.

Oh divine master,

Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console.

To understand,

To be understood as to understand and to be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive and it is in pardoning that we are pardoned and it is in dying that we are born in eternal life.

How do we do that,

Right?

I think meditation is a key.

I think negotiation is a key to peace.

But as Buddha said,

Peace begins within.

And I did a book,

I have a course on Insight Timer,

The Inner Peace Manual.

It talks about all the elements of peace,

Which I did after I got that Peace Award because I realized when I started doing interviews with people who were peace icons,

That peace has many elements to it,

Right?

Now part of the elements that I'm going to focus on today is forgiveness.

Because we all have things inside ourselves that we should maybe dig deep and let be released and revealed so that we can forgive it.

Even if we think,

Well,

Maybe I don't have that much to forgive.

Believe me,

There are things there that people may have done to you that it would really help to dig up,

See it,

Release it,

And forgive it and let it go and you'll find such amazing clarity in that.

So in the Ho'oponopono tradition of forgiveness,

It's interesting because you have to have that realization that we are all one.

Okay,

So you there,

You there,

You there,

You there,

Thank you for being here today.

You are one with me in this energy field of every atom,

Part of the one great love and light of the universe.

We're one.

So if we can imagine that if we go inside and clear,

We really clear ourselves out to that place where everything is oneness,

We go to that source where there's oneness.

By doing that practice,

That deep practice of finding that peace,

We will in that practice actually help others who may have been the ones that instituted something that made us feel bad,

That they will be able to come to that clarity of recognition as well.

That's a very interesting point.

And it goes deep into the practice of forgiveness,

Because if we can find the power and the strength and the courage to dig deep and to really forgive,

To take responsibility for things that even we didn't instigate,

But we still forgive,

Because we were part of that process,

Then we can really get to that point,

That beautiful point inside,

Where not only can we forgive,

We can change the energy of the whole situation that may have created it.

It's a very,

Very deep practice.

Now maybe some of you have heard of it.

And I wrote a poem about it just the other day,

SK.

As we start all over again,

Because that's that clear slate,

Right?

And many times we're born again and again and again,

And we learn,

And we learn these lessons of our life again and again and again,

Because life is a set of learning lessons that we've come here for.

So as we begin again,

Of course this was influenced by the fires in Lahaina and up in Kula.

And as so many people are starting over again,

They're having to forgive,

Because we're in the stage of that grief where people are angry,

And people need to forgive others that they are blaming right now.

So as we pray and clear any obstacles so God's light can shine upon us,

We try to say,

I'm sorry,

I'm sorry.

Now if there's a situation you can put yourself in right now,

Where there was something that happened that pushed your buttons,

And there was something exchanged that could go very deep within you,

And you go to that place and go within,

Where you can deeply realize that you are sorry,

Because there was this situation that came up in your life with someone,

And that could be yourself,

Got hurt.

So you could be even saying you're sorry to yourself,

I'm sorry,

Please forgive me.

That's kind of that repentance,

Beautiful time of saying,

Please forgive me.

I think Elton John did a song called Sorry May Be the Hardest Word to Say.

I don't know,

I'm a DJ,

So I relate everything to songs.

So sorry is a very difficult word to say sometimes,

Because what happens is our ego gets involved in defending ourselves.

Can you realize,

Or have any of you experienced that?

You say,

Well,

I didn't do anything wrong,

They did it,

That's not my fault.

But if you go back and go,

Okay,

I'm just going to clear the whole situation by saying,

I'm sorry,

Please forgive me.

You are saying that to the whole situation.

So that's that part of that unity in you and the other person,

Right?

Joining in oneness,

And by saying,

I'm sorry,

You are clearing it in the other person,

And clearing that situation where you got hurt in yourself.

So I'm sorry,

Please forgive me.

The next part is when you really feel that that energy is shifted.

Can you relate for a second to the energy you felt when you were really hurt by someone?

And there's so many elements that come up with that.

It can be anger,

It can be deep hurt,

It can be,

Gosh,

Anything where you go online and talk about,

Do you believe this person did this to me?

You've seen that on social media,

I can't believe this person did this.

You know,

That just feeds the ego,

Right?

I'm right,

They're wrong.

Can you believe it,

Right?

You know,

This is where most wars really have started from.

You go to the roots of anything in the world where there's wars,

We're right,

They're wrong,

They shouldn't have done this.

This always comes up in any conflict.

And the problem with that,

The problem with that,

That the UNESCO and UN and everyone that's tried to be peacekeepers,

Peacekeepers have had to encounter,

Is both sides have a way to think that they are right,

And the other is wrong.

But if you go down that road as a peacekeeper,

You won't find a way to achieve peace.

So what do you do?

You get past the right and wrong.

You get past the ego that will never ever,

So the ego doesn't like to step back.

It's like,

Take a step back.

But if you let the ego go and say,

Hey,

We both,

We both here have a way of believing what's going on.

Let's talk about it,

Right?

Let's both bring our beliefs and what we thought happened to the table.

This is what real peacekeepers have to do,

And it's not an easy job.

Because like in Palestine and other places,

It goes back a long,

Long ways,

And there's always someone that's done on the,

Oh,

Gosh,

The wars and the killings that have gone on.

I mean,

And there's so much anger,

There's so much pain.

How do you bring that to a solution of finding peace?

Well,

We know peace begins within,

And if we go back within ourselves and realize what we have to do to find that peace within,

And then bring that peace out to the world,

It goes back to those steps.

Peace inside.

Peace inside in all the ways that happen in confrontation,

That all the ways that happen in this world that is truthfully not a peaceful place.

This world has had wars going on since it started,

Battles,

You know?

We're here in a planet that is not a peaceful planet.

It was so hard for me to accept that,

Because we all want peace on earth.

Come on,

Every Christmas,

It's like,

Peace on earth.

Have we achieved it yet?

Well,

No,

But we can achieve that peace inside.

We can find that peace,

And one of the greatest ways is the forgiveness,

And what helps forgiveness but love.

So in the Honoponopono practice,

After you achieve some kind of clearings with that oneness,

That realization that you do have the power within to find peace,

It may not be easy.

It may take some very deep digging.

You may have to go real deep inside to actually let go of what you thought was right and wrong,

And let it go,

And once you do,

Then you can say thank you,

Because there comes this moment of letting that weight and that battle,

That fight,

Inside go,

And then finding that peace,

And then you say,

Thank you,

Thank you,

And then you say,

I love you,

Because love conquers all.

It's the love that you have to say and have for yourself.

It's the love you have to have for another,

Knowing that they are part of you,

That they are one with you,

That they need that love,

That something inside them that was causing that terrible anguish and pain you went through was really just asking for love.

It's hard to find sometimes,

But if you go into any of the prisons,

And you have looked like some of these ministers have,

In the eyes of those who have caused great harm and murder and just terrible situations,

They want love,

But they don't even know anymore what that love is about,

Because there's so much shame and guilt.

So if you were going to try to solve this with the country,

And you have a country full of so much killing and anger,

How do you achieve that love,

Right?

How do you get past that anger of that person that killed so many people?

Well,

That takes that understanding of forgiveness.

It's a huge,

Huge process,

My friends,

And I know you're here,

And you understand this.

This is not an easy thing,

And that's why it's such a deep and important process that we each go into ourselves and go,

Okay,

What is it there?

What could have been causing this deep hurt?

What might have caused this incidence where someone did something outrageous,

And why?

It's not fair.

We're going through this on Maui.

How did these fires kill so many people,

Take away their houses,

Over 2,

000 structures?

And so what people are doing is natural.

They're trying to blame the police department,

The fire department,

The government.

They're trying to blame everyone,

And this happens in tragedies,

And the things I'm really concerned about as I experienced this personally here on Maui is then we see the earthquake in Morocco,

And one of the first things you see on the news is there was no help.

We were abandoned.

The government didn't get here.

If you see the floods in Libya,

And thousands and thousands and thousands killed,

And they try to come to terms with the bodies laying on the street,

My friends,

We're going to be seeing this situation more and more as we see more and more unfortunate climate-driven disasters happening.

Any time you're turning on the news now,

You are,

Hello,

Eva,

So good to see you,

My friend.

You're the first person that showed up there.

So I think as people of light,

And people of love,

And people who are wise,

And people who are here who know how to meditate,

I think this is very important for us all to try to help and participate in at this time,

Because more than ever,

We're going to see situations that do not seem fair in this world,

And who are you going to blame?

Well,

I'm sure there's going to be a lot of lawyers making a lot of money off these situations,

Maybe some insurance companies,

Unless they go bankrupt,

But who are we really going to,

After all that,

Have you ever talked to someone who's gone through a very heavy divorce case or some kind of lawsuit,

And maybe they even got the money at the end,

And they get this,

And then they feel empty,

Because they thought that winning a lawsuit would make them feel good,

But then they went,

You know,

That really can solve the problem,

I still feel bad inside.

That's where forgiveness comes in,

To feel the peace.

So we have to really,

In this time and place,

Where we are all working together to bring a better world about,

We're all trying to find peace and happiness and joy,

And to find that these days,

There's so many elements of peace we must really go within to find,

And love,

Love goes beyond all of that.

Love is the answer,

And love can help you find all of the elements of peace.

It can.

Love is such a key here,

Because if you love enough,

You can love yourself enough to understand the power to forgive.

You can love enough to understand that that other person,

That soul,

That you,

That soul right there,

You also have a soul,

I have a soul,

And the elements of love and the source of all love,

We are one in that soul,

And we can connect in love,

And in that love,

We can build a fertile field of peace that can help change the world.

Thank you for the love in the hearts,

Because you understand.

So this is where all of these elements come through in the practice of peace.

Since it's International Peace Day this Thursday,

I thought it'd be good to go within and find a way,

Find a way to search within ourselves to be at peace,

To be at peace enough where that peace,

Like a ripple caused by a beautiful jewel thrown in a pool,

Spreads out further and further to reach every single one of us here.

Every single one of you,

And then as each one of you knows so many beautiful people,

You can share that ripple of peace to all of the people you know.

And as all of the people you know feel a ripple of the energy frequencies of peace,

Then that can spread out further.

And as we not only become peace,

But then we live with peace,

Then we can call upon that peace in any moment by breathing that moment of peace and love into our hearts.

Thank you,

Michelle,

So good to see you.

Thank you.

So let's just be at peace.

Let's just take a moment,

Just breathe in peace and let that peace be that ripple of energy frequency that's so powerful and so beautiful and so healing and so full of love.

Just getting comfortable and taking in a breath of peace,

Breathing it in and letting that peace spread like that ripple throughout every part of our being,

Seeing a ripple of that light of peace in our head and let it circle around in beautiful frequencies and energies that still the mind.

And as we breathe pre-peace in,

We let that breath sweep our mind,

Sweeping it with compassion and understanding and forgiveness.

That any of those thoughts that you may have had completely be blessed with the light of forgiveness and love.

Breathing that wonderful energy into our throat chakra and let that be a beautiful pool of aquamarine energy,

A beautiful pool of peace that is there right where you are,

Right in front of you.

Let's dive into that beautiful pool,

That pure pool of peace and see the ripple surrounding you as you just let yourself float,

Just floating and you know how it feels when you float.

You just let go and trust that energy that holds you and then you feel this beautiful energy all around you as the pool of water holds you and the sounds of the beautiful water surround you with ripples and the light is there as you can look up into the sky with clouds drifting by and you realize how beautiful this planet is and in this beautiful pool of peace you send your loving energy out to nature for holding you there in that water and in the sky above you as the clouds drift by in beauty and peace and you feel that peace expanding and expanding outwards until the ripples that are there in the water expand out and now we are all in this pool together.

It's a party pool of peace and you let the water completely surround all of us and we're all sharing in this wonderful field of love that is there and present and we let everyone we know in our circle of friends join us here right now in this field of this beautiful blue pool of energy that is now encompassing everyone we know and invite someone you know that may have some time long gone maybe recently or long ago get you upset and invite them to come come come come be the presence of peace join us in this wonderful pool that will heal you and as they join you in this wonderful pool of blue energy they are transformed by this wonderful frequency of peace that is there in you right now and they say I'm sorry please forgive me I love you thank you and we each say as we think of someone that we may have heard it sometime without even knowing maybe I'm sorry we feel that amplified in the accuracy the frequencies the echoes within all of us I'm sorry please forgive me and as we recognize that forgiveness in ourself the other recognizes that we all recognize the power of being an instrument of God's peace of God's love of God's light of God's healing energy and right now we let that pull surround all of us our entire body our entire energy field spread outward to the world so the whole world and those that are suffering from wars from disasters from pain and sorrow let them be a part of this beautiful frequency this blue energy field that is spreading out to the entire world and we say I'm sorry please forgive me I love you and thank you and slowly we feel that energy field coming back and back carry thank you thank you restore your energy so my light shines brighter what a wonderful prayer we need this energy for our entire planet to shine brighter so you feeling this helps do that makes that a reality we know this is true we can feel this is being true and I know that each and every one of you feel some energy that you can share and bring out into your world so that we can all feel that power of being peace of living peace of sharing the love that brings about that peace within us so we can be at peace with others it's I think a daily practice you know I've been doing this every day of my life since I've been 13 meditating and writing and you know you think after that much time and it's been over 50 years that you get it down but let me just tell you something friend this is a this goes on and on the more you work the more you learn the more you learn the more lessons you have the more lessons you have the more you have to expand and learn to share that because this is something that is the path onwards we all are on this each and every one of you here is on this path together that goes on and on it's a long and winding road my friend has been going on for a long time but it's so good it's so good to know there are so many more you and how many people do you know now that are working on this there's so many working on bringing about peace and light and love through music through poetry through yoga through teachings through insight time we're here you know the love shared and it does my heart really good it is just such a blessing I'm going to close with the way I usually close here um the Aramaic Lord's Prayer and I didn't say anything about donations there were a lot less people here today I don't know exactly why but um you know it's good because each one of you is a peacekeeper a peace bringer a being of light and love and I thank you for being here and I say thank you Michelle I really appreciate that thank you Carrie and thank you also Eva you I do appreciate you being here today and I do love you I say father mother of the cosmos that's right it's one father mother it's a sacred light it's a shimmering light of all calm focus your light within us as we breathe your holy breath enter that sanctuary of our hearts uniting within us the sacred rays of your power and beauty let your heart's desire unite heaven and earth which is part of my practice uniting heaven and earth Carrie yes that prayer is using music and movement yes thank you very much Carrie um yes there is a wonderful way and it's good to have it in music because it's like a chant and you can remember it easily there let your heart's desire unite heaven and earth through our sacred union we can have that sacred union and when we have that union with the source of all light and love it brings that light into us and we become part of it right we bring heaven to earth help us fulfill what lies within the circle of our lives today and I just would add to that remember when you do find that help and there's a hard situation or maybe it's a forgiveness ask for that help and and be enforced by that help the energy of the peace that passeth all can be called upon to help your process forgive our secret fears oh gosh I've been doing that so much there's been so much here that's going on with people's fears that have been unfortunately the buttons have been pushed by what's been happening there's so much fear and you know the only thing that conquers fear is love so we forgive others as well when we see that because we know that love is so necessary right now let us not enter forgiveness tempted by false appearances that's the illusion in the maya right and that illusion that we build around our life so that's the awakening right for from your astonishing fire comes the eternal song and I love that eternal song that music of the spheres the frequency of love which sanctifies all renewed eternally in our lives and throughout creation we seal these words and hearts committed in trust and faith a mama a moa a mama a mama ua noa which in Hawaiian means the prayer is free Carrie thank you so much each and every one of you god bless you I love you be at peace and share that peace now and always