Healing With Ho'oponopono

I'm Sorry,
Please Forgive Me,
Thank You,
I Love You

These four simple phrases are the spiritual cleansing ritual that are the basis of Ho'oponopono. When something comes into your awareness you repeat these phrases just like a mantra and the process of cleaning our thoughts happens. You may clean life situations, places, relationships, even financial situations. The process is about freedom...complete freedom from the past.

"We can appeal to Divinity who knows our personal blueprint, for healing of all thoughts and memories that are holding us back at this time,"
-Morrnah Simeona. "

I'm Sorry - This statement opens the door to atonement. I take full responsibility for whatever it is within me that caused this suffering, even if I don't know what it is.

Please Forgive Me - I ask for forgiveness from the Divinity within me with the absolute certainty that it has already been granted.

Thank You -.Gratitude acknowledges that I recognize forgiveness and balance have been restored.

I Love You - Love is the greatest healing power, the painful memories are healed and replaced with love.

Mornnah Simeona founded the non-profit Foundation of I, the more modern version of ancient Ho'oponopono, to promote the Ho'oponopono principles of Self-I-Dentity around the world. Morrnah was a Kahuna or healing priest who taught Ho'oponopono to small and large groups of people as well as to hospitals, colleges and even to United Nations personnel. In 1983 she received the great honor of being designated as a living treasure of Hawaii.

Mornnah eventually passed the torch to her long time student Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len, master teacher of Ho'oponopono and co-author of the book "Zero Limits" who continues to teach.

"The main purpose of this process is to discover the Divinity within oneself. The Ho'oponopono is a profound gift which allows one to develop a working relationship with the Divinity within and learn to ask that in each moment, our errors in thought, word, deed or action be cleansed. The process is essentially about freedom, complete freedom from the past."
- Morrnah Simeona

Divine creator, father, mother, son as one...

If I, my family, relatives and ancestors have offended you, your family, relatives and ancestors in thoughts, words, deeds and actions from the beginning of our creation to the present, we ask your forgiveness...

Let this cleanse, purify, release, cut all the negative memories, blocks, energies and vibrations, and transmute these unwanted energies into pure light....And it is done.

When a friend first introduced me to Ho'oponopono, I thought the idea of being responsible for everything was ridiculous! However as time has gone by and I have grown spiritually, I am seeing this idea of responsibility in a different light. I already knew that I was creating my life with my thoughts and that much of this creation was do to subconscious thought. I also believe that we are all one consciousness suffering from the illusion of separation, just as seeing a wave in the ocean as separate from the ocean is an illusion. It therefore follows that if we are all one than we are all responsible for everything that happens and many spiritual teachings follow this principle.

"I am responsible for what I see. I choose the feelings I experience, and I decide upon the goal I would achieve. And everything that seems to happen to me I ask for and receive as I have asked." - A Course In Miracles

I think when we first come into this realm we see the world with the love and clear sight of our creator. But then life happens to us, and all the experiences we have color or cloud the lens through which we see the world...instead of seeing the world through the eyes of our creator our perception is clouded by painful memories from the past that are held in our subconscious mind. What Ho'oponopono does is to clear out those memories so that we are once again seeing the world through a clear lens (the eyes of our creator).

"Conflict and war in the world reflect conflict and war in the mind, and both this inner and outer turmoil are born of thoughts of anger and attack. The relinquishment of anger and attack and the practice of forgiveness are, therefore, essential to the realization of peace both in the world and in ourselves."
- A Course In Miracles