What's New on IJHC (Sept 2008)

IJHC September 2008, Volume 8, No. 3 features:

USING ANY THERAPY AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO HEAL THE COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS AND OUR PLANET: LESSONS FROM HO'OPONOPONO AND WHEE        
Daniel J. Benor, MD, ABHM         

There is fascinating, impressive research evidence suggesting that a collective consciousness exists. Meta-analyses confirming telepathy, clairsentience, psychokinesis as components of collective consciousness are of such a high confidence levels that the chances that these results are random occurrences range between less than one in a million to one in ten million billion billion. If we accept collective consciousness as a fact of our existence, then each of us is like a brain cell in the mind of the All.

The collective consciousness may then offer us various ways to address and heal the ills of our planet – directly and through shifts in the collective consciousness of humanity and of broader planetary awarenesses.

This article suggests that releases of collective negativity can be markedly enhanced if we set the intention that all our personal releases will simultaneously invite releases of similar negativities from others in the collective consciousness of which we are a part – taking a lesson from Ho'oponopono, which teaches this approach in individual therapy/healing. This type of release can clear our inherited consciousness through our family of origin, as well as the consciousness of our families of choice, community, nation and the globe.

Transcending space and time through the collective consciousness, it is possible to clear our lingering negativities from our own and others' past lives, past relationships, and the past lives of everyone in the collective consciousness through all time. All therapists can help to release major collections of negativity by systematically facilitating with their clients similar releases as individuals, and this is simultaneously an opportunity to release a load of collective consciousness negativity.

Such a concerted focus on clearing collective negativity could help to transform the negativity of humankind, which manifests as a collective post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).  This is vitally important because humanity carries enormous collective PTSD residues that are expressed as the abused becoming abusers. This is one of the core psychological mechanisms bringing us to the point of the collective suicide of humanity and the genocide of countless other species on this planet through wars, global heating, pollution and wanton ecological mismanagement.

Using Ho’oponopono (a Hawaiian healing method), WHEE (Wholistic Hybrid derived from EMDR and EFT), or any of many other varieties of healing as a platform to heal the collective consciousness, we can release the angers, fears and hurts that lead us collectively to behave in these destructive ways. At the same time, each of us can be using our own individual healings not only to release negativity, but also to build positive, healing energies in ourselves and the collective consciousness, as practiced in WHEE (Wholistic Hybrid derived from EMDR and EFT). Similarly, therapists can help clients to do this type of clearing as they practice self-healing approaches on their own.

HO’OPONOPONO:  UNIVERSAL HEALING METHOD FOR MANKIND
Amy Thakurdas, PhD

Ho’oponopono is an ancient Hawaiian method of stress reduction, conflict resolution and energy clearing from people and places. This article refers to the transforming wisdom and its modern psychology and spiritual based applications. Ho’oponopono provides a profound method of healing that promotes the Universal Law of the Interconnection of Life.  It is a powerful method that can meet the stressful challenges of our times.  At its best it provides practical ways of how we can participate in the transformation of consciousness on both the individual and collective levels.