Hooponopono comes from Hawaiian culture and is an ancient practice of forgiveness. It is also the practice of taking full responsibility for everything in your life. Hooponopono masters believe that the problems we face in life begin within us, and will go away only when we work on ourselves, and not on them. All the baggage that we carry during our life, as well as suppressed negative thoughts or actions, is stored in our subconscious and must be brought to the surface and released into the Universe.
Traditional hooponopono
The traditional hooponopono technique is about forgiveness, love and acceptance and does not contradict religious beliefs such as Christianity. It is an act of mental cleansing. Ponopono means to do things right. Early beliefs were that any illness that happened was caused by a violation of spiritual laws, wrong actions in life. And a person cannot be completely healed until he asks for forgiveness for his actions and even thoughts from himself, from God.
Hooponopono in modern times
In 1976, a healer named Morrna Simeona decided to change the traditional methods of hooponopono to create a more modern version that fits the social realities of today. The modern version is a general problem-solving process that transcends family and clan and creates a psycho-spiritual self-help process as opposed to a group process.
The modern version of Morrna was heavily influenced by her Protestant and Catholic Christian education, as well as her philosophical studies about India and China. Like the ancient Hawaiian hooponopono, its modern version focuses on prayer.
However, unlike traditional hooponopono, she says that problems are the result of negative karma, stating that "you yourself must experience what you have done with others" and "you are the creator of your life situation." Any wrong action is remembered inside you and is reflected in every entity and thing that happens in your life. The goal is to “release negative experiences of past actions, as well as eliminate and remove mental trauma from the person's“memory bank”.
After the death of Morrna Simeona in 1992, her student Dr. Ihaliakala Hugh Lin, in collaboration with the American entrepreneur and writer Joe Vitale, published a book called Life Without Limits. This is how the whole world learned about Hawaiian technology. The book tells about the technique itself, how it works and how Vitale learned about Dr. Lina and the hooponopono technique.
This story is extraordinary and amazing. At one time, Dr. Hugh Lin worked as a psychotherapist in the ward for the mentally ill criminals at a government clinic. There were people in the department who had committed serious crimes and were declared incapacitated, so it was dangerous to work there and the staff was constantly changing. As a rule, it is almost impossible to cure such people, the meaning of their maintenance in the clinic is to maintain vital and psychological functions. So Dr. Hugh Lin did not work with patients, he worked on himself.
The power of the hooponopono
The essence of the technique lies in the fact that if a person has some events in his life that he does not like or make him nervous, it means that he himself has somehow attracted these events. It would seem, in this case, what is the connection between the doctor's work and his life. But Hugh Lin reasoned like this: if such a job appeared in his field of vision, in his environment, life, it means that he created such a life for himself. This is his quantum field. In order to change this field, you need to clear it. And in order to do this, or rather, to clear the space around you, you need to work with yourself. By changing yourself, you can change everything around you.
Hooponopono technique
First of all, regardless of the severity or complexity of the life situation, you need to take responsibility for it. Consciously, clearly. This is the hardest part, because most people are used to blaming anyone but themselves. But the problem is not even of a person, but deep inside. Therefore, to take responsibility is not to take the blame upon oneself, it is something else - to understand that the problem is within oneself.
After that, you need to say four magical phrases that change the state inside and, accordingly, outside.
These phrases are:
"Forgive me"
"I'm sorry"
"I love you"
"Thank you".
How can these phrases make a difference?
The phrase "Forgive me" is an appeal to yourself, God, a situation, a bad person. You don't just ask for forgiveness, which can cause dissonance if, for example, someone was rude to you. You ask forgiveness from yourself and the higher powers for unwittingly causing this situation in your life in some way.
The phrase "I'm sorry" speaks of regret that this happened in your life, that which brought suffering.
The phrase "I love you" is the most powerful way to cleanse yourself and space. Everything around becomes harmonious.
The phrase "I thank you" means acceptance of the fact that yes, this happened in life and it was this situation that made it clear to the person that he did something wrong, that there is some problem inside and it needs to be cleared.
Dr. Hugh Lin recognized within himself that it was he who caused, consciously or unconsciously, the presence of so many sick people, which means a negative situation, an unsolvable problem in his life. Then he began to work on himself. By clearing himself, he changed the space around him.
How did he do it? It's simple. To work you need an object, object or situation. What does not suit, annoys, spoils life. Dr. Lin worked with case histories. He sat in the office all day, going through papers describing the diagnoses of patients and uttering cleansing phrases. Since his work was mentally related to the people around him, people began to change. Although Lin was cleaning himself, his soul, his space. After a couple of months, several patients were on the mend. After a few more months, others began to change. The special violent ones became calm and they began to be let out of the rooms. And some even had to be recognized as healthy and discharged.
How it works?
If we talk about the use of hooponopono in everyday life, then the technique can quite easily cope with evil neighbors, conflicts at work, lack of money, bad relationships with parents or get away, and even with constantly breaking equipment.
To test the effect of the technique, it is enough to say 4 magic phrases aloud, preferably several times. In a few minutes, the speaker will notice an improvement in the internal state, calmness, detachment from the problem.
And the next day, the effect of technology will begin to manifest itself: a neighbor will apologize, a colleague will give something, a loved one will call after a quarrel, money will come, and so on.
If the problem is temporary, then the effect of the technique occurs within a week. If these are old, constantly repetitive situations, then it is recommended to work with the technique for several days and not stop with small improvements. If something has been tormenting a person for several years, then it is worth spending a week or two to change the negative situation forever.
Just take responsibility for everything that happens and use the magical technique of hooponopono.
