All About Ho'oponopono

Information heavy post. I write what Ho'oponopono is, how to practice it, the essential inner child meditation, cleaning tools & extras. Therefore keep scrolling & skip sections until you find what you are looking for! 

Ho'oponopono is an ancient Hawaiian healing practice in which you say the following mantra -

'I love you, 

I'm sorry, 

Please forgive me, 

Thank you' 

in any order you like to clean away negativity and then you will see changes in your life as problems are miraculously solved and inspiration is received. The mantra is an internal silent dialogue which you repeat to yourself or can be uttered out loud as often as you like depending on how desperate your situation may be. You are cleaning away memory programs picked up until you get to zero state which is a clean slate and inspirational ideas from the divine will replace the old data. 

The mantra works on the basis that you must accept any problem in your life as 100% your own fault, even other people's problems which you find out about/hear about/come to you. That includes the poverty you see, starvation, wars, cancer, your evil boss and unruly hyperactive kids. You must accept responsibility that if it's reached you in any way, it is actually a problem which is occurring in you, through negative 'memories/data/negative subconscious thinking/ancestral code' that you have picked up and therefore you must heal yourself by repeating the mantra which cleans and purifies the negativity away and erases it. Repeat the mantra focusing on you. Even if a loved one is ill. If you want to heal 'them', accept that the problem is you. To change them you have to change you.Then get to work and focus on curing yourself by repeating the mantra. You will then see changes in the other person. 

Sounds absolutely bizarre right? Repeat a few words and watch your life change? I thought so too as I curiously researched away after having seen a Ho'oponopono enthusiast post a comment about it on an unrelated video but the true story of how a Ho'oponopono worker called Dr. Hew Len successfully treated a whole ward of mentally ill criminals without seeing or coming into contact with any of them is so amazingly incredible that you'll probably feel it's worth a shot. Especially as Dr.Hew Len refutes the treatment as being miraculous and says we all have the power, and duty even, to practice Ho'oponopono and heal yourselves and others through yourself and see results.

Dr Hew Len

Here's the rub of what happened with Dr Hew Len and the patients

 At the Hawaii State Hospital was a ward of mentally ill criminals who had committed a variety of the most serious crimes such as rape, murder and kidnap.

 Patients, nurses and staff were attacked daily. Workers walked with their back against the walls even when patients were in chains, such was the aggression. Things were as bleak as they could get. Workers didn't last long, taking sick leave and no therapist could make a difference - and they tried a many - but none lasted past the one month mark. Not even the paint would stick to the walls! Enter clinical psychologist Dr. Hew Len, called in as a last resort. The unusual therapist refused to see any patients, instead insisting only on having their files. He sat in an office, repeating the mantra and unbelievable changes occurred. 

The atmosphere lightened up, patients became less violent and were even unshackled when beforehand no one would have even dared suggesting such a thing. Less intense medications were used, inmates were allowed outside, they played tennis with staff. This time the paint actually stayed on the walls when painted. Nurses on sick leave started working again.  Dr Hew Len actually repeated silently 'I love you, I'm sorry'over and over. He evoked in himself "the spirit of love to heal [in him] what was causing the outer circumstance" he informed. He said he had no intention to empty the ward, only to heal in himself his perceptions of the patients as he read their files and felt emotions such as apathy,rage,confusion and felt his reactions to what they had done, before working on what he felt within himself - healing himself of it. He noticed whatever the emotion was that the person brought up in him and that's the feeling he wanted to clear and that's what he went to the divine with and was basically saying 'I don't know where this came from, I'm sorry for what I might have done or what my ancestors might have done to bring this into reality. 
Please forgive me for being unconscious to the creation of this, thank you for clearing and cleaning this, [and always ending with] I love you'. [I love you is a return to the state of divinity.] Dr.Len stayed for four years from 1983 to 1987 and the patients were treated and released until the ward had to be closed down. 

How on earth could such a thing take place I wondered and proceeded to dedicate the day to frantically pulling up videos and any information I could find. All that just by uttering a few words! It sounded too easy. Well look up Ho'oponopono and you'll soon come across Dr.Len's story and that's partially thanks to Joe Vitale, the motivational law of attraction speaker you may have seen on Rhonda Byrne's film The Secret. He had heard the story a couple of times before deciding to contact the man in the supposed urban legend Dr.Ihaleakala Hew Len only to find out that he did indeed exist and that it was all true. They worked together on a book telling detailing Ho'oponopono and the result was 'Zero Limits, the Secret Hawaiian System for Wealth, Health, Peace and More'.

Zero Limits book By Joe Vitale and Dr Hew Len

Joe Vitale believes now that inspiration is better than intention. Although he has written books on having a clear intention, visualizing and saying affirmations, he now believes that cleaning with Ho'oponopono is more effective because problems you don't even know you had clear up, good and amazing things start to happen to you and inspiration (million dollar ideas) reveal themselves to you. He gives examples in the book mentioned.

Who are you addressing?

I love you - You are appealing to the divinity within you. The divinity in you has the information to purify and turn data into nothing before replacing the space with inspiration. 

I'm sorry - You are sorry for not being conscious of all the negative data you are holding on to. 

Please forgive me - For being so unconscious. Please forgive because I have not been aware of everything going on in my life. I have not been aware of everything going on in me. I have not been aware of what I have in me whether it be from my programming, my beliefs or my ancestors, to bring in the reality I am now experiencing. 

Thank you - You are addressing it to the divine. You are saying thank you God for erasing this.

The short version is to just say 'I love you' to yourself. Your whole vibe will change. How you interact with others will change. What you put out in the universe will change. You will be helping to clean and heal the world. 

Inner Child meditation

Dr Hew.Len says that doing the Inner Child Meditation is vital. Cleaning might not even work unless you first address the mother child relationship within you so that your mind lets go of negative data/memories for you. Do this and your mind will clean even whilst you are asleep.

The mother is your conscious mind and the child is your subconscious mind. There is nothing wrong with our child at all; the only downfall is the negative memories and information which we pick up and make the child (subconscious) cling to. Connecting, addressing and fixing this relationship between the mother and child is the most important duty in all of creation! It’s the number one cleaning tool.

This is Dr.Hew Len teaching the inner child meditation. If you are unable to view it or would like a transcript then see below the video where is has been transcribed in steps 1-17.

During this meditation you close your eyes and relax before first acknowledging your inner child. You are choosing to care for the child instead of ignoring it. You child has all the memories since creation and is burdened. So if you have depression, it is the information in your child which is burdened.

1-      Do this slowly. Say ‘for the first time in creation I am acknowledging that you are part of me

2-      Say ‘I love you’. Simple as that, slowly and with feeling, ‘I love you’.

3-      Acknowledge that all the hurts and pains are data kept in this child. Say ‘I’m sorry for all the accumulated data you experience as sorrow, pain and grief’. You are talking to the child, acknowledging your responsibility that all the woes of the child is what you have created, accepted and accumulated and you would like to have it undone.

4-      The process for undoing is first to ask your child for permission. Say ‘Please, please allow me to stroke the top of your head with love and concern’. Then just do it. See yourself just stroking the top of the head of the child whilst saying I love you.

5-      Keep gently carefully stroking the head and say ‘please forgive me for all the woes you have stored in you that I’ve accumulated, I’m sorry’. (This is us teaching the child to do the cleaning but if you haven’t been acknowledging or caring for the child it wont do it)

6-      Say thank you for being part of me, sorry for being neglectful, manipulating you, not taking good care of you and keep stroking.

7-      Then you take an inventory. Talk to the child where all the memories are replaying. Say to child ‘if you don’t mind, help me to let go. Start from your head. If u have any headache, work your way down or any back pains, say to the child, ‘I am experiencing this headache. Please let go of the memories that are replaying this. I don’t need to know the memories. I don’t want to know but you know’. We can offer it to the divinity through the super conscious, we can let it go. Very gently stroke the top of the child’s head.

8-      Now you ask permission from the child to hug it gently. Do not bear hug. A bear hug frightens the child. Say ‘please allow me to hug you very gently’. When you do it you just do it. Hug it gently. Cradle it in your arms and talk to it. Say ‘thank you for being part of me, I love you and I’m sorry for all accumulating the memories you experience as pain n suffering. Please, please forgive me’.

9-      Ask the child to give you its hand when you’re done saying ‘Please give me your hand so I can grasp it gently and gently stroke it. Whatever hand you want to give me please give it to me’. In your mind you reach for the hand, gently grasp and stroke it. Acknowledge the child. Say ‘Thank you for being part of me, a part I have not paid very much attention to. And I’m sorry. Please forgive me. I love you’.

10-  Then take another inventory. Maybe a financial one and say to the child – ‘ok it’s just memories that are the problem. I’m asking you to let go. Please’. Whatever financial difficulties you are going through and tax audits you might want to work on that. Anything to do with foreclosure of the home etc, the problem is not the foreclosure or the finance. It’s the memories replaying the woes. It’s the mortgage on your soul. You want this child who holds the memories to let it go ‘Please let it go, whatever memories you have where we been abusive to money, have been overdrawn, any finance, the land, please let go’.

11-  Ask child permission to hold its other hand, reach mentally for other hand. Grasp gently, gently stroke it. Be clear. This child is where all the problems are stored so you want to have a good relationship with this child so it will let go and let God.

12-  Then look at you. What is going on in me that I am experiencing these problems with these certain people? Bring them up. Say ‘Ok, I don’t know what the memories are but I notice that when I hang out with this person I am annoyed and irritable and I don’t know what it is all about but it’s the memories in me so please let go’. Your relationship with this child who is the memory bank is the most important essential relationship in all of creation. If the mother can win the child over she is home free and the child will help with cleaning, be willing to let go, willing to intuit within her and say ‘This is coming up, we better get to it’. Say to the child ‘Thank you very much’.

13-  Now ask child permission to hold its shoulder ‘please allow me to you’re your shoulders’ so you reach for shoulders and you begin the dialogue again. The dialogue is all about love. Acknowledge the presence of the child ‘I love you, thank you, thank you for being part of me. I’m really grateful to know there is you in me that I have not been caring for since the beginning of time. Please forgive me for ignoring you and not caring for you, causing u great harm, pain and sorrow. I’m sorry. I love you. Thank you for being part of me’.

14-  Then reach for its shoulders say ‘please allow me to hold your shoulder and give you unlimited love’. If you are looking for a business partner, know that this mother and child relationship is the best in creation. If you have a good relationship here, you will have a good relationship anywhere for everything.

15-  Hold the childs' shoulder and look in its eyes and fess up saying, ‘I ignored you, caused you pain and sorrow. I am sorry, please. please forgive me, I love you. Thank you for being willing to let go so you and I can be memory free and walk hand in hand with the divinity into the light’.

16-  Do this meditation in the morning or evening. Take a few minutes out of your busy schedule to get reconnected and realigned up. If you are willing, the child will be your partner.

 17- Then do 7 rounds of breathing. Ensure both feet are touching the floor.Touch your thumb and              forefinger together on each hand and place on knees or in lap. Breath in for 7 seconds. Hold                for 7 seconds. Exhale for 7 seconds. Do 7 rounds. 

         

Cleaning tools which aid in the removal of negative memories/energy

Here is where things get quite strange. Apparently objects and words can be said or touched in order to clean because they have special properties. Dr Hew Len listed the objects that I've compiled in a list below but he also says to test it out for yourself to see if it fits you. He said to be aware of what you may come up with yourself as you clean and have ideas come to you about what you can use to aid cleaning. I guess there is no harm in giving it a try, (especially the solar water which seems to be the main additional tool) seeing as this is the man who healed criminally insane people he didn't ever meet after all.

Blue solar water - Dr Hew Len recommends putting tap water into a glass blue bottle - not metallic- and leaving it in the sun for at least half an hour. Drinking this is very beneficial. You can add a few drops to your drinks,food,cooking and baths.

Blue Solar Water

Ginger snaps/biscuits -  Eat to use as a cleaning tool.

Ice Blue - Say 'Ice Blue' particularly before cutting grass/trees down and when you or others are in pain especially to heal bruises/cuts etc. 

Touch ferns (the plant) - Or imagine touching them in your mind/repeating the word fern in your mind to use as a cleaning tool.

Touch Bluebells (the plant) and/or Blue Bonnet (the plant) - Or imagine touching them/repeat the word bluebell/blue bonnet to use as cleaning tool

Saying the word 'Hawaii' and 'Aloha' - the two words are cleaning tools as Hawaii means breath of divinity and water of life whilst aloha means in the presence of God.

Breathing exercise - Free yourself from negative vibrations by breathing in for 7 seconds, holding your breath for 7 seconds then breathing out for 7 seconds. Do this 9 times.

Arrow company's Blue corn meal - Eat this to use as a cleaning tool. Mix a little in your food or water. Eat as corn chips etc must be from Arrowhead company.

Blue corn 

Dew Drop - Say this when you are fearful,upset or see others in trouble. 

Dew Drop

Eraser - Use an un-sharpened pencil with an eraser at the top or any eraser to tap yourself and objects which may need cleaning including any electrical items and objects. 

Blue - Whenever you see the colour blue, repeat mantra phrases. 

M&M’s – eat to give you pure energy.

Eraser – Use an eraser/rubber to tap

Vanilla ice cream – Eat to bring peace to your life.

Ceeport – Products like stickers and pins which have been cleaned on by Dr.Hew Len. Stands for clean erase erase as you return to port/home. Investigate further or buy here - http://ihhl-ceeport.com/

Bottle Palm plant – Imagine touching it and say I clean on money problems I love you, in order to clean money memories. Do it daily for a healthy bank balance.

Bottle Palm plant

Pretzels – Eat. They represent wheat on earth.

Bubblegum – Eat to release intellect.

Pancakes – Eat to clean on abuse and death.

Jellybeans – Eat to be in the right place at the right time.

Strawberries – Eat even just a little bit to erase memories. Solves weight problems. Strawberries heal heartache and they are even heart shaped. 

Strawberry

Blueberries – Eat to open up angelic realms, good for thoughts.

Candy canes – eat, lick or imagine to fix missed opportunities and catch anything missed by other cleaning tools.

Hot chocolate – drink as a cleaning tool as it represents putting God first.

Orange juice – Imagine filling a glass to the brim with orange juice. The orange juice represents Gods sunbeams. Imagine yourself putting money in the juice and leaving it there. This cleans the money. 
Fly paper - say this to clean negative energies including to clean relationship problems.

Additional information gathered from watching videos

- You don't have to feel anything as you say the mantra because if you say it enough the feeling will just come. Feeling it as you say it does make results appear faster. 

- Everything is pretty much living. Talk to everything. Ask the glass to clean for you. Ask the walls to clean for you. 

- If you work with people helping them in any sort of way, clean before you even meet them. Relax, look within yourself and say the mantra.

- You do not even have to understand any of this, just do the cleaning regardless. We have a lot of damage to repair and we all will benefit. 

- There is no such thing as 'depression' or 'schizophrenia' or any mental illness terminology given. It is all just data (negative memories gathered wither from yourself or your ancestors memories or DNA that's been passed down to you). Don't call the data the medical terminology as you are just making it real. Just clean and in the words of Dr.Hew Len to a woman whose husband had cancer 'I don't see why divinity would not heal it'. 

- From what I have gathered, it seems that reaching zero state (removal of data) works best if you start from zero state. By that I mean zero state sounds a lot like the state your mind is in when meditating. It sounds as though if you practice mindful meditation (watching your thoughts, not feeding your thoughts but letting them pass if they come to you whilst you just try to focus on your breathing instead) then your mind is as clear as you can get it and saying the mantra in this state yields the best results. Dr.Hew Len says in one video 'meditation is cleaning'. 

Side note - Ho'oponopono/Religion/God/Christianity

To those religious folk out there I would say that there is really nothing wrong with giving this a try. The divinity that Dr.Hew Len speaks of is God. Jesus promulgated the gospel of forgiveness and love and Ho'oponopono too, is centered on love and forgiveness. You don't have to believe in karma as that is just one aspect of where practitioners reason that data may come from. 

You can say the mantra appealing to and loving the God within you (just as Jesus said 'The kingdom of heaven is within you') and then trusting God to take data/memories/sin away from you (Ho'oponopono says the inner child gives the information up to Divinity/God, through the 'superconsciousness') on the basis that you are cleaning away everything you picked up and stored in your subconscious since the day you were born. Trust your Holy Spirit if you came across this and it helps.

There are many miracle stories out there on the web to motivate you. Share your thoughts and experiences or any questions you have! Iris xoxo