Ho'oponopono

In Hawaiian, “Ho” means cause and “ponopono” means perfection. Ho’oponopono is the ancient Hawaiian art of making it right with the people with whom you have relationships, dead or alive. How does Ho’oponopono work? Well, the prayer goes something like this:

I Love You
I am So Sorry
Please Forgive me
Thank You
God Bless

The wording can be a little different for everyone. You will get a feel for what fits you. As the words leave your lips, or sail off in your mind, a transmutation takes place. What ever the uncomfortable feeling, or thought, was that inspired you to say the prayer is erased across the matrix of our collective consciousness all the way back through history. Ugliness that has sometimes been stored for… who knows how long? It really is that simple and anybody can do it.

How empowering is that?!

Ho’oponopono gives us a tool to be able to neutralize and purify anything we see, or feel , or experience that we do not resonate with. It releases the energy of painful thoughts that cause imbalance and disease. The beautiful thing about it is that you don’t have to understand Ho’oponopono, understand your problem, or understand your bad feeling in order to clean it. All you have to do is take responsibility.

Why would taking responsibility make a difference?

It is a common concept in the Eastern traditions of China and Japan this cleaning up of issues hanging on from ancestors, cleaning up problems in past relationships, especially with relatives so patterns don’t continue being passed down through the generations of families. Here in the west though the idea of taking responsibility is not a popular or prevalent paradigm. We are rather masters of rationalizing 101 reasons why what ever we don’t like is NOT our fault. We are raised to be victims of circumstances loathe to taking any responsibility spiritually, in relationships, families, business, government, or at work.

Practitioners of Ho’oponopono propose an entirely different way of looking at life. Your life, my life, either way you phrase it the responsibility is right there in the description of your existence. This life is all yours and only you see the world the way that you do; it exists through your eyes and the filter of your mind. So the idea is that what ever you see is your creation; you are responsible for what you are seeing and experiencing. And that makes you by extension 100% responsible for cleaning up the error.

Ho’oponopono is all encompassing … asking for forgiveness for not only the life you are living but for the lives that preceeded your family, relatives, and ancestors … People leave a trail of energetic destruction as they live and some of any current problem could very well stem from an ancestor who did something reckless in a ancient history. I go back to people like Charlemagne and Hrothgar the Horrible. That can’t be good. I look at the 32 generations of my family’s history we have tracked down and sigh at all of the Ho’oponoponoing there is still to be done.

The remedy is the willingness to be 100 % responsible for your life from moment to moment. We petition Love to rectify the errors within us. “I am sorry. Please forgive me for whatever is going on inside of me that manifests as the problem.” Love then purifies the errors within that manifest as an “external” problem. By sending the negativity into the divine light we aren’t polluting the universe with our discarded garbage.

So say you’re a mom driving afterschool carpool. The kids all hop in the car to go home complaining about classmates, sniping at each other, arguing about having to keep their hands to themselves, do their chores, homework and have chicken for dinner, again. Whose deal is it? Mom’s. Whenever your kids are off kilter it is the perfect time to ask what inside of me has drawn these experiences into my outer world? Say the prayer above and ask for forgiveness for holding thoughts that are out of alignment with the principle of Oneness and Love. I learned the hard way as the carpool mom of 5 boys Ho’oponopono BEFORE you arrive in the parent pick up line.

Say you are a healer, or a therapist and a client comes to you with a long list of symptoms, stories and problems. Whose responsibility are they? Yup yours again. The errors in your mind will be what shows up in your clients. I am hearing that those of us who end up in the healing arts have caused A LOT of pain over the course of our many incarnations. We are attracted to the field to give ourselves the opportunity to clean it up; harsh, but at least there is a simple powerful tool for making it right. You don’t focus on the outcome, because we’re not in charge of that. When it doesn’t look like its working realize there could be many painful memories or a lot of past history the problem. Just keep cleaning.

here is so much stress and pressure, we get tired of being told our conditions are due to stress. But stress is an inevitable result of living in present day America right? For the longest time I thought that was true and there was no way around it. But by paying attention to the things we notice and feel all day long and even while we are sleeping we can erase the beliefs and disharmonies that are polluting our physical existence. Then life and health just begin to flow.

Morrnah Simeona, Dr. Len’s teacher, used to say “It’s an inside job. If you want to be successful, it’s an inside job. Work on yourself!” And seeing as how we really can’t love anyone else until we love and honor ourselves isn’t it nice to know of a tool for clearing the way to self love? Ho’oponopono allows us to give ourselves the gift of Peace and Oneness by asking for anything that doesn’t resonate with that to be released. Because after all …

“We exist to be our Divine Selves.”