What Is Ho’oponopono (You Tube)

This is an unusual post because normally the focus is on ho’oponopono, rather than us. This video, however, marks the second of what we hope will be many that will help to guide you in your understanding of ho’oponopono.

Ho’oponopono began many years ago, possibly with a tribe that may be considered to be indigenous to Hawaii known as the Mu.

As the tribe passed down information during conversations between family members, and the materials used to create their clothing and tools were organic (and therefore biodegradable) there’s no archaeological evidence which supports their existence.

Yet, as may be expected amongst those with such an oral tradition, there are chants which support their existence prior to the Polynesian occupation in around 1000 CE.

Originally, a ho’oponopono was a ceremony designed to correct an error in perception.

This error was the disconnection within people of their connection with a common divinity.

It especially occurred when disputes broke out between different groups because of matters relating to fishing, land, or water rights.

Today, I guess, we may say that people would lose their rags.

Conversation would get rooted in what to do about the ‘wrongdoers’.

Ideas about a common source would be lost.

The ancient Kahunas (Shamans) would conduct the ho’oponopono in order to correct this error.

It was, just as much an error within themselves (as witnesses to the event) as it was a concern of those other groups concerned.

Over time, the ho’oponopono came to be practiced for marital, and family disputes (which in such a traditional society affected whole communities).

Today, social workers and others continue to practice this form of ho’oponopono on the islands of Hawaii.

Back in the mid-twentieth century a Kahuna called Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona recognised that ho’oponopono could be adapted for an even more general use.

Indeed, she understood that the world needed people to undergo a perceptual shift which would reconnect them with their own senses of Divinity (rather than the acquisitive mind-set of materialism).

Initially she worked with a small team of followers. Later she was joined by Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len, a psychologist who helped to popularise the technique (especially in the years following Morrnah’s death).

Today, many people are learning how to correct the errors within themselves.

Some, however, have forgotten the sacredness of the rite, and so it’s being used to justify worldly success and profits.