Watching the news about the children detained separately from their parents has been difficult. One cannot begin to feel how painful and terrifying that must be. What would be the effects of experiencing that kind of trauma? A study called the ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Study shows the long-term effects on health and social problems in people who experienced childhood trauma. It showed a higher rate of substance abuse, depression, suicide, high-risk sexual behaviors, disease and early death rate. For every child who experiences trauma, the effects ripple into their lives and into the lives of all the people they relate to. This creates a huge ripple into our societal health. We’ve got to understand the impacts of our actions for children everywhere. It’s heart-breaking and our world is suffering from the impact of the ripples. In a prayer and healing circle, we’re going to offer the Ho’oponopono prayers for the children detained at the border and for the children suffering from the effects of childhood trauma everywhere. The Ho’oponopono is a simple yet profound prayer of love, forgiveness and gratitude.
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Ho’oponopono Prayers For The Children
A hot topic in the news lately has been about the children who are being detained at our borders, who are being separated from their parents and held in facilities. There’s been an outcry about the disregard for the impact on the children. I have to admit I’ve been watching this and usually when I see things on the news I can really feel them in my heart. I feel them in my body and I just feel this reaction to them. There’s been such a protective wall that’s come up around this where I can’t let them in to feel it. I can’t imagine what that would be like in the experience of the child. When I try, I can let myself go there, but I don’t know that I really want to feel that because it is so painful to think about. I can’t imagine how painful and terrifying that must be for the children and the effects that this terror would be having on them coming to a country. They were coming with their parents and they’re expecting that they’re going to have a better life and then being separated and afraid and not speaking the language.
The ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Study
I don’t know who’s caring for these children. How are they being cared for? They don’t ever say anything about that. There’s a part of me that has thought, “I’ve got to do something.” I’ve been working a lot with the While We Were Silent project lately and still working with that. If you haven’t joined us, you’re welcome to join us for that, if it does impact you in any way. Everything impacts everything else. That’s the way we’re designed. The program is still going strong. The interviews are being re-released on the podcast. We have the Facebook group where we’re having some amazing conversations about healing and about the impacts of trauma on the body, on the heart, on the mental state, on the physical health, everything. There was an ACE study, Adverse Childhood Experiences study. It started back in ‘95. It was done over a couple of years and it was apparently the largest study of its kind that tracked people over long-term. People who had experienced trauma in childhood. It tracked them to determine what the long-term impacts were on physical health, mental health and emotional health.
The people that they were studying in general and those who had experienced the childhood trauma were shown to have a much higher rate of substance abuse, addiction, depression, suicide, high risk sexual behaviors, mental illness, physical disease and early death rate. The impacts of these things on the children themselves as they grow up are huge. It’s one of those things that common sense would tell you. It’s been proven in scientific studies and for some reason in our country, nothing’s valid until we see it in a scientific study. The effects have been shown. If you’ve ever lived with someone who is abusing drugs or alcohol, who is suffering from depression or has suicidal thoughts and tendencies or who’s experiencing disease, mental illness or physical illness or emotionally unstable in any way, you know the impact that that can have. It has the ripple from that person out to every person that that person relates to. These children grow up and they have children. All of these things, if they’re not healed, will continue to ripple to their children.
Conditioning Happens When Experiences Are Repeated
The study done with mice was they enhanced mice with a smell towards something that they would be attracted to. When they went toward it, they would administer a shock. They did this until they could monitor these poor little mice. Just the introduction of the smell would produce the reaction of the shock in their bodies without them having to actually administer the shock physically. It shows how the conditioning happens when various experiences, when they are repeated, can trigger the shock. Even when the shock itself is no longer there. That’s a physiological response. It shows in the body. Then they monitored over generations. They were able to monitor that this was passed down to the children and the children’s children of these mice in both the male lineage and the female lineage. They could introduce that smell and the children would experience the physiological response of the shock without actually having the physical shock.
What You Do To One, You Do To All
The effects of trauma on an individual ripple all throughout their lives and through the lives of everyone that they relate to in some way, shape or form and to the lives of generations that followed them. There are ways to heal and to clear all of these patternings, so not all is lost. However, we’ve really got to wake up to just how important it is to care for the lives of our children everywhere. What we do to a child or for a child is going to have a ripple effect into so many lives to come. It impacts the health of our entire society. There is that saying in the spiritual teachings, it says, “What you do to one, you do to all,” Not one of us is separate from any other. There is no such thing as an isolated incident. In one of the interviews that I did with the While We Were Silent project with Lisa Hare, she said, “It shows up a bit like dropping a pebble in a pond. You can freeze frame that. It contains all the impact of that incident. Then there are ripples through your life and it’s not just one pebble in a pond, it’s another pebble for everyone you relate to.” It’s great when these things come to light because these abuse, the neglect and the things that we do, they will thrive and continue as long as they stay in isolation and in silence.
The Ho’oponopono Practice
When we bring them to light and it brings this uproar and this outcry, that’s when we can start to do something about it. In our prayer and healing circle, we’re going to offer the Ho’oponopono practice for the children, for those who are detained at the border and for the children who are suffering the effects of childhood trauma everywhere. Statistically, it’s huge in our country. I would just share a couple more statistics with you. Child Protective Services gets calls for 6.6 million children here in the United States per year, 28% from the ACE study reported experiencing physical abuse as a child. Our statistics in terms of sexual abuse, say one in four girls and one in six boys experience sexual abuse before the age of eighteen. We’ve got a lot of prayer work to do. We’ve got a lot of healing work to do for all of the children in our culture, in our world and in our lives. One of the things that makes this so hard to look at is, it’s just so painful. How can you really let the eye of your heart see that and you’re going to feel it and it’s really hard to let yourself feel that.
When you put these statistics behind it, that showed just how prevalent it is. It’s mind boggling. It’s hard to think of how close this may be to you. You look at a room full of children and you think, “If statistics are correct, then this many of these kids are suffering from this kind of trauma.” You don’t want to look at every child and you’re questioning, “Is it you? Could it be you?” At the same time, you don’t want to turn the blind eye to it either. We’ve got to do something. What we’re going to do now is the Ho’oponopono practice. The Ho’oponopono practice was done by a doctor in Hawaii. He took cases of people who were detained in a facility for the criminally insane. People who had done things that they were never going to be able to be released from prison. They had committed crimes and they were called insane. They were never going to be able to be released back into society because they were too much of a risk. He took and read their case files and he never met them face to face. He did this Ho’oponopono prayer with them over a period of three years. Every single one of them experienced healing for their disease that they were struggling with. It’s a powerful prayer and it has the power to impact the people that we pray for.
[Tweet “What you do to one, you do to all.”]We’re going to go ahead and come into our prayer and healing circle. We call on the hearts and the spirits of the children everywhere who are struggling, who are suffering from the impacts of trauma. We’re going to call for the children who are being detained at our borders. We’re going to call for the hearts of all of the people who are in the position of making decisions of what can happen for these children’s lives. We’re going to ask for healing and also for guidance to come through to bring them healing for their hearts, their minds, their bodies, their souls and their spirits. That we can somehow as a people, be guided to heal and to also learn how to love. We pray so we can care for each other in a way that is going to foster health and healing for our world to come. Let’s go ahead and come into our prayer and healing circle. Let’s come into a circle and imagine us coming together, sitting side by side, shoulder to shoulder, knee to knee and elbow to elbow. As we come together to make one large circle. Together, let’s call on the One. In the name of the One, most merciful, ever compassionate. Calling on our Source. The Source of all of this life force energy that’s breathe into our physical forms to give consciousness to our physicality. To give breath to our lungs and a beat to our hearts. We’re calling on the essence of divine light, calling on the essence of unconditional love. Love with no conditions, the existence of love that is not dependent on what we do, but the existence. The ocean we swim in.
Calling on that essence of the eternal compassion, not dependent on time and space, but the existence of divine light, unconditional love and eternal compassion. That is the vibration, the energy of the ocean that we swim in as a people on planet earth. We are all cells in one body contained in the womb of our Mother Earth. “What we do to one, we do to all. What we do to any has an impact on the entire body.” If you’ve ever stumped your little toe, you know what I mean by that. Stump their little toe and it sends a ripple of pain wave all the way through your body. Let’s take a full and gentle breath. Breathing in through your heart center. In that heart center is that space in the front of your chest, that energy center at the front of your chest. If it helps you, you can put your hand over your chest and focus your breath into the space just beneath your hands. Let’s inhale through your heart center and as you exhale, relax, release and soften. Let all of this heart space become soft.
If there are any of the blocks and barriers that may have been stirred up as I’ve been talking about some of these painful things, let’s bring some light, love and compassion to that place inside your own heart, inside your own body and your own psyche, bringing in this essence of divine light, unconditional love and eternal compassion. Letting this flood into your heart space to fill your lungs, to infuse into your oxygen and into your fluids. As you exhale, relax, release and soften and just let your exhale carry away any of the tension that you may be holding. If you just imagine this pillar of divine light, unconditional love and eternal compassion streaming into the center of our circle. Turn the center of your heart to face directly into this pillar of light and love and compassion in the center of our circle.
If you imagine an eye at the center of your heart space and there is a funnel of energy that extends from the front of your heart space, that being your field of vision, turn that funnel and that eye at the center of your heart so it’s facing directly into the center of this pillar of light, love and compassion, that’s streaming into the center of our circle. This center of light, love and compassion is getting bigger, bolder and brighter encompassing the entire circle. Even surrounding each one of us, holding each one of us in that essence of divine light, unconditional love and eternal compassion. With your breath, with each inhale, draw that in through your heart center. Breathing this in, letting this vibration of divine light, unconditional love and eternal compassion fill all of your chest space, your lungs and your heart. Infusing into your oxygen and your fluids with this vibration of divine light, unconditional love and eternal compassion.
As you exhale, relax, release and soften and let your body become like a sponge and just drink that in. Letting that stream pour in through your heart funnel. Letting your entire core of your body absorb this vibration, this stream of divine light, unconditional love and eternal compassion. Inhaling in, draw this essence in through your heart center and let it go deep, as deep as you can into your heart space. With each breath, let it go a little bit deeper and with each inhale and with each exhale, let’s let this space relax and receive. As you inhale, draw this essence in light, love and compassion and let your conscious energy body lean back in your physical space so that you’re leaning back toward the back of your body along the front of your spine. You’re just dropping into this vertical pillar of your life force energy within your own body. Your own connection with all that is. Breathing in this essence, divine light, unconditional love and eternal compassion and resting in the stream of your own connection with the light, love and compassion. It gives life to everything on this planet.
As this vibration infuses into all of your oxygen and your fluids, circulates to all of your body, circulating this vibration to every cell of your body and every cell of your body carries consciousness. Allow every cell of your body to take in this vibration of divine light, unconditional love and eternal compassion. Make an invitation to all of the cells of your body, to all of the consciousness that you carry throughout all of your energy field to receive this vibration of divine light, unconditional love and eternal compassion. Continue to breathe that in and as you exhale, relax, release and soften. Just let everything go that wants to be washed from your space. Let’s focus on our circle and at the center of our circle, which is infused with this light, love and, compassion. We’ve created this container where we’re all containing this space of divine light, unconditional love and eternal compassion. Let’s invite in the spirits of the children. The children at our border and everything that they may be carrying and this is if their spirits are willing.
For all of the spirits who are willing to receive prayer and healing, we invite them into the center of the circle. If there are any children in your life that you would like to invite in, you can even include your own inner child. All of our inner children have experienced varying levels of trauma, which I think is one of the reasons that also makes it hard for us to look at other people’s trauma. Calling on the spirits of all of the children everywhere who have experienced or are experiencing trauma. We offer them a space in this infinite ocean of divine light, unconditional love and eternal compassion. I’ll just give you a minute if you’d like to even speak the name of some of the children, any children that you would like to pray for. You can just speak their name into the center of our circle. We offer them this Ho’oponopono prayer. Four simple phrases. You can say them with me or repeat after me, whichever is easier for you. The phrases are, I love you, I’m sorry, please forgive me and thank you.
If you’re asking yourself, why would I say I’m sorry, please forgive me when I’ve done nothing wrong? We are all one body and we offer these prayers on behalf of all of humanity for the hearts of all of the children. I love you. I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I want to invite their hearts to also join us in facing the center of our circle, this core light, divine light, unconditional love and eternal compassion. I want to invite their hearts to receive from this divine essence and to receive the sincerity of the words that we speak with the Ho’oponopono prayer. I love you. I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. He’s calling on the all of the angels of healing, all of the guides, all of the prophets and the saints and the perfected ones to help, to lift the burdens, to release the impacts of trauma, to bring healing for the hearts, the minds, the bodies and the souls of all of the children.
I love you. I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. When you ask for a seal of protection for the children and for all of those who are giving support and loving care for the children. We also want to invite in the spirits, the souls of all of those who are in the position of making decisions that will impact the lives of the children. The children at the border, as well as the children in every home or homeless situation who are suffering from the impacts of trauma and the traumatic experiences around the world. Pray for their hearts to be guided, to be led, to be awakened and to become aware of the impacts of their decisions. The importance of those decisions to the children and to all of our world.
[Tweet “Every cell of your body carries consciousness.”]Pray for their guidance. Pray to give them wisdom to turn their radar, their viewpoint and to include a global perspective on the impacts of their decisions and their actions. May we all come to carry a global perspective on the impacts of our decisions and our actions. That we act for the highest good of the planet, of the people and of our own selves. One of the big struggles of humanity, but we are not separate from any other. When we do what is right for the planet, we do what is right for the people. We do what is right for ourselves. Though sometimes it may seem conflicting, we really are all one. Another round of the Ho’oponopono for the decision-makers as well as the children for each and every one of us who is in the position of making decisions and choices that impact the lives of children. I love you. I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I pray that these words continue to ripple into the bodies, minds, hearts, souls and spirits, of all of those who we prayed for now, including your own personal prayers that you’ve offered.
I want to offer gratitude. Please join me in offering gratitude for what has transpired, the healing that has come through. We put our gratitude and trust in the wisdom of the One, the great universal orchestrator of all of life on this planet Earth. May we be awakened to the higher wisdom all the time. That we may be guided and protected on our journey as we strive to follow the yearning in our hearts, to know our oneness in subsistence and existence in this high vibration of divine light, unconditional love and eternal compassion. Thank you for listening. You can find information at JoyfullyLivingWellness.com under the weekly Prayer and Healing Circle. You can join us in the Facebook group, Community for Conscious Living, for a discussion there. If you’re leaving us, go in peace, love and service. Have a beautiful day, many blessings for you.
Important Links:
- While We Were Silent
- Previous episode with Lisa Hare
- Prayer and Healing Circle
- Community for Conscious Living Facebook Group
