EFT & Ho'oponopono

In therapeutic interventions it is essential to work with the client in the path of least resistance. This is how Milton Erickson worked. They say (whoever they maybe) that whatever you resist - persists. So what ever problem someone has, if they or the therapist resists it, it will persist. I use the analogy of putting on a seat belt. When you pull on the seat belt really hard it becomes stuck and it can not reach the belt plug. No matter how much you try to pull with force it never wants to come unstuck. When you then relieve the seat belt back a bit then try pulling gently towards the belt plug it works. When the therapist does not understand and appreciate the clients problem then the intervention already has resistance. When understanding the problem and then accepting it with a deep sense of peace, forgiveness and gratitude the problem seems to fall way.

This is a brief description of a Hawaiian technique called Ho'oponopono. This involves the client "clearing" their past memories (references and/or beliefs). A presupposition of Ho'oponopono is that you are responsible for everything that comes into your experience. It also says that every problem is just a repetition of a memory. I believe this means that references/beliefs that we hold consciously or unconsciously we express. Because we hold these "programs" we are responsible for them. When people complain and resist the problems that are held in their unconscious as beliefs they either persist or get reinforced. The Ho'oponopono technique is created to target the problem and "clear" it to "zero point." This means that the therapist/client approaches the problem with the opposition of resistance - acceptance. When targeting the problem they are focusing on the unconscious references and beliefs and treating them with love, forgiveness, and gratitude. What this does is recode the references and beliefs to a "zero point" of where they have no power anymore. In this void the affirmation "I love you. I'm sorry. Forgive me. Thank you." replaces the old references and beliefs with a deep sense of peace and love. In this state the client is fully resourceful and able to create a powerful alternative to their old pattern.

This therapeutic pattern is similar to EFT and the Sedona Method. Each one targets the references and beliefs (and the emotions anchored to them) and "clears" them with an affirmation and pattern interrupt.