Ho'oponopono Technique

What is ho'oponopono explained in simple terms? How does a person use it and for what purpose? What is the ho'oponopono technique and is it easy or difficult to learn?

These questions and more are discussed in this site that I have created to demystify this powerful and life-changing form of ancient Hawaiian prayer for healing and mental cleansing.

Ho'oponopono is actually very simple to practice once you know what you are doing.

One thing to be aware of is that it does require a mental shift in order to access its most potent healing capability and mental cleansing on a level makes the time spent in mastering it well worth it.

What is Ho'oponopono?

Let's begin by explaining what ho'oponopono is.

The Hawaiian word ho‘oponopono is formed from ho‘o (meaning "to make") and pono (meaning "right").

The repetition of the word pono means "twice right" or being made right with both self and with others.

Basically, ho‘oponopono is a process whereby we are able to forgive ourselves and others we are connected to.

Practicing Ho‘oponopono is a mental cleansing process that allows a person to cut a bad connection in a very positive, loving way, all the while knowing that they can make a brand new connection.

When you become right with others, it naturally follows that you become right with yourself.

Ho'oponopono can aid anyone in letting go of resentment.

How Important is Forgiveness?

When it comes to acquiring a greater understanding of how we interact with each other, learning to forgive others becomes a major aspect of personal happiness.

We can learn an awful amount from ancient indigenous people like those inhabitants of Hawaii before the Westerner arrived. The people understood on a gut level that the harboring of resentment against others actually hurts the person who will not or cannot forgive.

The Hawaiian forgiveness process, allows a person to cut the aka connection. This is essentially a clearing out of preconceptions in the way in which we view others.

It allows a person to create new connections and rejuvenate relationships.

In the ancient Hawaiian discipline of energy and healing, known as Huna, the process of ho'oponopono is essential if a person wants to be pono (right and congruent with themselves).

This makes a lot of sense, as it begs the question of how anyone can possibly feel good about themselves and their own lives while walking around raging inwardly over how they had been wronged in some way.

Making Use of Ho'oponopono

Getting on with the explanation, here is where I'll explain the process that enables the cleansing of the mind, the removal of internal blockages and the enablement of rightness.

The technique itself assumes that everything we perceive as being reality is experienced by each of our individual minds. What we see, hear and feel and even the things or people that we know or come into contact with are influenced by our inner self.

In that sense, everything around us involves our participation, mentally and emotionally. That's because when it boils down to it, we are ultimately responsible for what we think and feel.

Has it ever crossed your mind that we ourselves are often our own worst enemies?

Manifestation

Each thought we manifest in our minds can activate a mechanism that can either create an amazingly wonderful experience.

Or conversely, a world of problems, fears and anxieties. It is the latter scenario where ho'oponopono comes to the rescue.

The main purpose of the process of ho’oponopono is to seek to make right the cause of these problems through forgiveness. This does not necessarily require the forgiveness of others, but it does most especially require the forgiveness of oneself.

How this is done is with the understanding that whatever can and does happen to you does not matter, but what does really matter is what you do with whatever happened.

The process takes the form that if your mind and the thoughts created in it have caused you problems, then they are also able to solve those problems.

Mantra

The commonly adopted, modern version of ho’oponopono comprises the repeating of a simple mantra that consists of four phrases. These are:

I’m sorry
Forgive me
I love you
Thank you

These phrases can be repeated in any order so long as they are all used together as a complete mantra that itself is repeated often.

Ho'oponopono Certification Course

One of the best ways of learning about ho'oponopono is to take a dedicated practitioner certification course created by who I consider to be one of the foremost experts on the subject, Dr Joe Vitae.

The reason I mention this is that this course in particular not only teaches in-depth ho'oponopono strategies, but also enables the student to progress to becoming a certified teacher of ho'oponopono in their own right. There are several advantages to going this route.

The main one in my opinion, is that the very fact that the aim is to take what you have learned and then use it to train other students, makes you more determined to become an expert in your own right. To become an expert means learning the subject in great depth as well as actually practicing it for yourself to get a real-world, first person experience of how it works.

PS: You can obtain more information about Joe Vitale's ho'oponopono certification course here.