I haven't read Miracle in the Mirror in two years. I just picked it up to write a post on another blog. It's the true story of young college student Nita Edwards descent into a debilitating illness. Flipping through it, I was surprised to see how much Nita's prayer resembled ho'oponopono in intent.
I found the book through serendipity during a dark time in my life. As I was reading it I focused more on her finding a cure and being healed. However, I did underline the passage where she starts to asking to know her purpose in life rather than to be saved. Re-reading that page today, it talks about the more she delved into that style of prayer the more she was clearing herself to be a direct spiritual pipeline so she would know the answer and live it.
The word 'cleaning' is the #1 word Dr. Len uses to describe ho'oponopono. If you clean (or clear) whatever is obscuring direct divine inspiration (he calls it inspiration, and other times zero point or zero state). I call it inspiration as well, not intuition (there's often a sense of "checking in" with intuition whereas inspiration is immediate and spontaneous and without a second thought.) Basically, in the present moment, if one was not obscured by relying on, grasping to and repeating past memories and patterns, it's clear what to do (or not do) in divine harmony (usually in a fresh, fluid way).
It's interesting (that is all in the past for both Nita and myself) to note the symbolism of Nita's disease as it applies to what was going on in my life during a dark time two years ago. (I wasn't combining Louise Hay's symbolism and ho'oponopono then, I think.)
Spine: Flexible support in life.
Affirmation: I am supported by life.
Paralysis: Fear, terror. Escaping situation or person. Resistance.
Affirmation: I am one with all life, I am safe and totally adequate for all situations.
Inflammation, -itis: Fear. Seeing red. Inflated thinking.
Affirmation: My thinking is peaceful, calm and centered.
There's not a direct entry for myelitis, so I'm using the primary symptoms and body areas of the disease below. For instance, Spine: At the time I did not feel supported by life (but if truth be told it was because I wanted my mind/brain to figure out and wrestle down the answer, or in other words, I was being a control-freak and not allowing life to unfold in a graceful way). Paralysis: The worse the hardship was the more I resisted and felt intense fear around sheer survival.
I included the affirmations not because I use affirmations as is but because they sort of point to an antidote, or a hint. Surrendering to Life to support me one moment to the next through its guidance and inspiration and grace would have done wonders for me at that time (still does).
Inflammation: I was frustrated and angry that compromising my work (to be palatable to masses or in other words, publishers) had resulted in financial hardship, and I probably blamed a whole host of people who didn't seem to be helping the situation.
Again, the most important point for me in flipping through the book tonight was not the curing of the disease but that clearing of herself to be open to divine guidance and inspiration. The Divine (inclusive of you, I'm not referring to an exterior being but all Being) is already well-being itself, so all that's necessary is to clear away blocks.
A few excerpts from the book, Miracle in the Mirror:
"She lay sulking in the bed, a bag of bones, praying, "Why me, God?" and angrily holding back the tears, when the husband of another relative walked in with Colton Wickramaratne. For a long time, he had wanted Colton, his pastor, to pray for Nita.
Nita made every effort to be pleasant, as always, as they were introduced, but she was not disposed toward socializing at the moment. She was still mad at God. She answered the preacher's questions, smiled sweetly, and closed her eyes as he prayed. As he left she said, "Thank you for coming," but she really meant, "Thank you for going."
[In this excerpt, the pastor Colton revisits her and reveals a vision he had. . . . ]
"She was dying of myelitis, a creeping paralysis that was destroying her limbs and vital organs, and, apart from that, she had always been cynical about visions and dreams and voices. The story Colton told her really bore no relevance to her.
"God is going to heal you," Colton insisted. "You're going to have an impact on all of Asia."
"You can't be sure of that," Nita replied coolly. "I come from a family of medical people. I know full well that my disease will eventually reach my heart and lungs, and I will die. But you're good to try and encourage me."
"I would never give you false hopes," Colton answered. "But I saw your face in the vision. You are going to live."
Nita shrugged. The preacher could believe whatever he liked. She couldn't stop him.
[Days later . . . . ]
"Oh, Colton," Nita sobbed, "why don't you just stop praying for me?"
"No," he replied, adamant. "I'm not going to let go until God tells you what He intends to do with your life."
A subtle change occurred to Nita that day. Her prayer life experienced a fundamental change.
"I'm not asking for healing any more," she told the Lord each day. "I'm not asking to be taken home to heaven. Just tell me what you created me for, and do anything you like with me."
She doggedly repeated the prayer, day after day, night after night.
"If your plan is to let me die, that's fine," she often added, her fear of death completely gone.
"If your plan is to let me lie here like a vegetable for thirty years, that's O.K. I don't like it, but I'll live for you right in this bed. Just tell me what you want me to do, why you created me, what purpose you intended when you formed me in the womb. What is your plan for me?"
. . . When she felt herself doubting that God would ever answer her, she repeated the last verse of Isaiah 40 as a counter-argument:
"But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint."
And for Nita, that promise--mounting up, running, and walking--made it worth the wait, even if it would only be a figure of speech.
It was a strange change, after so many months of demanding a miracle of healing. Colton and Suzanne, her mother, and hundreds of Christians all over the world, were demanding her healing, and in the swirling midst of all this, she was asking only for a word --not action.
And daily, Nita's spiritual pipeline was being cleared. The earthly longings she had felt for so long were being swept away. The obsessions of her teen years, the self-indulgent prayers, the earmarks of immaturity began to be dissolved within her by a divine touch. Every day, she could sense in her spirit that her spiritual pipeline was coming close to a total cleansing--a little closer to the day when it could freely transport God's answer to her heart.
. . . The advance of death indeed appeared to continue in Nita's body."
Nita got her answer. And it wasn't the healing--that was the echo of the song. The answer was the clearing itself. A purely physical healing would have been much, much less than what she asked for.
It's hard to believe that the paralysis caused by myelitis, the whole disease itself, and visible scars from surgery vanished completely for Nita but she testifies (and others) that they did and knowing and seeing some of this type of miracle first-hand, it did so because any disharmony is an overlay (and even dare I say an illusory one). Once the overlay is cleared, metaphorically, what's always been real (well-being) is simply there. Just like clouds don't remove or replace the sun, yet can they obstruct it.
“You really need to take that into account because it's so different for everybody,” Dragan said. “If they're not comfortable, you're going to be miserable.”
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