Ho’ oponopono Practitioner

A life practice for healing, forgiveness, and reconciliation

History

Polynesian cultures

  • Many believed that personal errors (hara or hala) resulted in illness due to guilt or divine anger
  • Rites developed to assist in healing
  • Confession a key element in this process
    • Individual
    • Family
    • Group
    • No confession no healing
  • The Vanuatu people taught that secrecy gave power to the affliction
  • The Hawaiians did and still do hold that social disorder impacts the land and promotes disaster
  • This practice goes back into the ages of time and is a part of Huna,
  • Hu – Knowledge and Na- Wisdom

Definition

The Hawaiian Dictionary states

Ho’ oponopono is

  • To put to rights, to put in order or shape, correct, revise, adjust, amend, regulate, arrange, rectify, tidy upmake orderly or neat …”
  • “Mental cleansing: family conferences in which relationships were set right, through prayer, discussion, confession, repentance and mutual restitution and forgiveness.”
  • Ho’ oponopono is made up of two words, ho’o a verb and pono meaning uprightness, goodness, morality, correct or proper procedures, excellence, prosperity, benefit, eased and many other similar meanings.
  • As with all Hawaiian language it is relational. The language like the culture is built upon relationship, to the land, the divine, the people, the creation – simply put there is the understanding that everything is relationship and nothing is separate unto itself.

The Traditional Use

The Hawaiians live in the land of aloha – the land of Love –

A foundational meaning of Aloha is “I see the divine in you and I see the divine in me.” – in essence we are the same and united to all and that there is only one real power in the world, the universe and that is unconditional love. We are united by the “mana” power of this energy which flows from the divine.

When we fail to acknowledge this and fall into error the unity and beauty of life and the creation is thrown into disarray and chaos. This separates humanity, individuals, nations, families etc.

The Hawaiian culture understood and( understands that the cure for illness of the spirit, soul, communities, families is restoration of the natural harmony and unity.
The traditional rite used for this is Ho (to make) pono (right) so
Ho’ oponopono literally means to make rightly right. To bring back to the natural state designed by the divine or the universe. As Ulrich Dupree is his book on Ho’ oponopono states to make anything rightly right means to join oneself again with the one’s Higher Self and Source of al being.”

This is done through

  • Finding and existing in one’s own center
  • Returning to harmony and balance
  • Being realigned with the environment
  • Reshaping reality
  • Returning to the original and right course of life
  • Becoming sound in body, mind, and spirit
  • Achieving joy and wellbeing

Ho’ oponopono means retuning to the divine (universes) plan which is often call the path to perfection.

Not only for one but for all

The Ritual is practiced to:

  • Correct
  • Restore
  • Maintain good and proper relationships
    • Family
    • Friends
    • Enemies
    • Communities
    • The Divine
  • This is done by getting to the causes or sources of the disruption and error(s), the very source of the trouble. It is led by a senior family member or Kahuna. It involves responsibility, confession, reflection, repentance and forgiveness. Leading to Kala (release) and ‘oki (cutting off the past). On Molokai a hala lei is given.

Expansion

Modern Evolution

  • “Aunty” Malia Craver – taught courses for 30 years and presented the power and right to the UN in August of 2000

In 1976 Morrnah Simeona a healing kahuna lapa’au

  • Adapted the process to modern issues
  • Extended to general problem solving for individuals
  • Taught the power for psycho-spiritual healing and renewal
  • Influenced by Christian education and philosophical studies
  • “you have to experience yourself what you have done to others”
  • “Wrong doing” is memorialized within
  • The Law of Cause and effect predominates all lifetimes
  • “to release negative experiences (memories) and resolve those traumas from memory banks:
  • Cleansing allows for the Divine to erase and renew
  • There is a Divine Creator takes care of “altruistic pleas of men”