I felt completely sick to my stomach and had a knee-jerk reaction to
unleash my anger toward these ignorant poachers. It took all the discipline I
had to remind myself that shame and blame never change a person and
that thankfully, thanks to Dr. Joe and Dr. Hew Len, I now had something
much better in my bag of tricks that I could apply: Ho’oponopono.
I began to recite the phrases,“I’m sorry. Please forgive me. I love you.
Thank you.”As I repeated the mantra over and over and over again, I
visualized the bear farmers’ hearts being filled with love, understanding,
and compassion. I saw them having their own “lightbulb moment” as my
information passed through them and they got in touch with their own
awareness.With their level of consciousness being raised and no one to
blame for the blood on their hands but themselves, I imagined them falling
to their knees in complete agony—begging and pleading with God and
the bears to grant them mercy and forgiveness for the torture and suffering
they’ve caused these beautiful creatures.Then, I saw them releasing all the
bears and providing them with the medicine, care, and healing that they
were in dire need of and finally setting them free again.
Many of you don’t know (as I didn’t know) that bear bile has
been used for centuries.Today it is used in wine, shampoo, and
medicine.The enormous weight behind this tragedy didn’t solely
involve healing the present moment—my clearing work occupied going
back through time, through the ages.There was hundreds of years’
worth of pain here to heal.
This experience consumed me. For hours that day, I couldn’t focus
on anything else and kept repeating:“I’m sorry. Please forgive me.
Thank you. I love you.”
The heaviness of this global pain was inescapable and undeniable. I
was consumed with anguish. And I was grieving. It was as if I was the
one who captured those bears and held the key to their prison myself.Once a week, my husband and I make it a point to have a “date
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