Improve Your Life with This Simple Hawaiian Practice — “Ho’oponopono”
Because you deserve forgiveness and healing
Come closer! I am here with something unique — a simple yet effective practice for self-forgiveness, inner peace, and their magical consequences that will change your life. This practice is called “Ho’oponopono.”
Ho’oponopono is a Hawaiian word which means ho’o- to make, pono- right, and translated as “to make it right, to put into an order or shape, revise, fix, amend, relieve”. When you say the phrase twice, like ponopono, you clean and revise not only you but also others.
This magical practice became famous in the modern world after Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len’s book “Zero Limit”, where he shares his personal experience of curing criminally insane patients using ho’oponopono method. The strange fact about it is that he did not meet those patients face-to-face even once, but cured them by healing himself. He focused on the patients and their reflection in himself, cleansed any negative perceptions of them, and in the end, somehow all the patients were cured magically.
That is the whole point of this miracle- If you want to change the world, start from yourself.
According to Huna, the ancient Hawaiian discipline, ho’oponopono cleans toxic emotions, memories, and expectations attached to us. It lets us accept that we are 100% responsible for whatever happens in our lives and it is 100% up to us to change them and start from the zero. If we cleanse those memories, we get liberated from resentments, illnesses, toxic behaviors; find inner peace and a state of zero.
“Zero state — it’s where we have zero limits. No memories. No identity.”- Dr. Len
I am currently practicing ho’oponopono and in fact, already noticing some changes. I repeat the magical four statements before I sleep, or in the mornings. Now, I am so used to the peaceful feeling it brings that sometimes I find myself whispering the phrases during the day, especially when I am stressed.
Just focus on a particular will, or an issue you want to solve and start chanting the magic. The best thing about this meditation is that it is super simple — consists of four repetitive phrases and yet quite effective.
All you have to say is:
I am sorry
Please forgive me
I thank you
I love you
How it works
Ho’oponopono is a method of cleaning memories from past lives, childhood traumas, and cutting your chords with unpleasant memories stored in your subconscious mind. It affects the root of the problem, cleans it, and changes the foundation. It cuts the chord between you and the negative memories. By this way, you can even cleanse others by healing their reflection in you.
Traditionally, it was used as a “conflict resolution” technique to amend family arguments in Hawai. The family members in the conflict would sit face-to-face, talk to each other to bring resentment out. An older adult in the family would lead/council the reconciliation process conducting the ho-o-ponopono practice to help them build peace and become pono.
You don’t have to say those basic four phrases to anyone’s face. You imagine someone, forgive them for yourself in silence and send them your good, peaceful vibes. People feel it.
Oh, “Why even to bother?” you may ask. “Some people don’t deserve forgiveness” you may say. That is right. Maybe some people do not deserve forgiveness, but you do. Resentment hurts you more. You deserve to forgive and be free from the negative feelings caused by others’ mistakes. Accept your part of the story, forgive, ask for forgiveness, and let God solve the rest.
Let go, Let God
The steps of this process go like this:
- Acceptance — I am sorry. The most important and challenging step is to accept full responsibility. Your logic, conscious mind and ego won’t let you acknowledge that you are the only person responsible for everything that happens. This phase is challenging, but once you accomplish it, you open the door to many miracles on the way. Even if you doubt its power, nothing will hurt you by testing it. Try, it is simple. Just say I am sorry. Mean it.
- Forgiveness — Please forgive me. Asking forgiveness will release you from what you were sorry for before. You will feel that the storage of toxic emotions and unpleasant connections are melting down while you say it and you are being reborn. Forgive. with all your heart.
- Gratefulness — I thank you. Be grateful for this chance of cleansing, for every possibility that comes your way, for your family, partner, life experiences. Gratitude multiplies what you have in hand. Be thankful.
- Love — I love you. The beauty of this practice is that it is grounded by Love. Love has that vibrational power to spread warmth in hearts. Love yourself. Love what heals you. Love the ones you just forgave and are grateful for.
Ho’oponopono is easy to practice. You can do it by yourself anytime, anywhere. I also leave you links to my favorite meditation practice, beautiful ho’oponopono song, and the repetitive phrases for women video (for Portuguese speakers), if you prefer to be accompanied by an instructor online.
Let me know if you notice any changes!
Stay blessed!
