Hooponopono : The Ancient Hawaiian Ritual and Prayer for Forgiveness

"I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you."

Do these words seem familiar to you? I know and we use them everyday of our lives. But did you know that this a very powerful prayer that you can use to heal yourself and others. You don't have to touch others to heal them but to just say the prayer to yourself AND accepting responsibility of the situation can heal and change the way a situation is or how a person is treating you.

Why take responsibility when it isn't really your fault? Have you heard of generational curse? It works something similar to that. The dynamics is similar to that. Everything that is happening to us in the present is a result of our ancestors' actions. In other words, if I may say , 'karma' if you believe in that.

The things that you are experiencing right now, is something that your ancestors had done in the past. So in accepting responsibility for the situation, and asking for forgiveness for that, you are able to change the dynamics of the present situation you are in.

I know this sounds kind of woowoo but this is an ancient Hawaiian prayer. The person who re-introduced this to the world was Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len , the doctor who cured every patient in the criminally insane ward of a Hawaii`i State Hospital without even seeing them personally. He just worked on their patient's records with Hooponopono and the patients just became calm. Dr. Hew Len was a student of Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona, who was recognized as a kahuna lapaʻau in Hawaiʻi and taught her updated version of hoʻoponopono throughout the United States, Asia, and Europe.

There are 2 significant Hooponopono practitioners that worked closely with Dr. Hew Len, Dr. Joe Vitale and Mabel Katz. I took the Hoonopono certification with Dr. Joe Vitale. 

So how do you use the prayer? There are four steps :

1. Step 1: Repentance – JUST SAY: I'M SORRY. ...
2. Step 2: Ask Forgiveness – SAY: PLEASE FORGIVE ME. ...
3. Step 3: Gratitude – SAY: THANK YOU. ...
4. Step 4: Love – SAY: I LOVE YOU.

This is what you call a cleansing. Dr. Hew Len said that we need to be cleansing all the time. And to do that in a faster way is to just recite " I'm sorry, please forgive me. Thank you, I love you." over and over again. Before you do something that's very important to you, for example, appeasing a person's anger towards you, you can start cleansing.You don't have to chant this to them, or say it in their face. You can just do it on your own. Dr. Hew Len would cleanse 4x before he would go and talk to someone. 

There are other things about Ho'oponopono than just the prayer. There are tools that you can use to cleanse like the blue solar water. But that needs another whole new post.

I would vouch for the effectivity of this prayer 100%. If you do it the right way, you will find the peace you've wanted for so long.

 If you want to know more about how to use Ho'oponopono in your daily life, check out Mabel Katz.