Ho'oponopono

This is a Hawaiian term. "Ho'o" brings the meaning of enabling while "ponopono" means perfection. What a beautiful term, enabling perfection. Ho'oponopono is actually a treatment originating from Hawaii which helps people to achieve wealth, peace, and more. The basic concept underlying this treatment is to enable us to eliminate all the negative schemas in our mind so that we may go back to a state of zero limit, an origin for all of us, from the day we were made by God.

After getting to know this term, something strikes within me. It is sort of an enlightenment. We have been living our lives with the expectations, memories, people, and situations in our mind that we think that we are carrying out our lives consciously (fully within our control) while the truth is that we are actually demonstrating or being carried away by those subconscious motives or desires or even memories that we are repressing. I am sounding much like Freud here now.

In fact, the hustle and bustle of our daily lives never really let us achieve our ultimate end which is happiness. It is only when we try to go back to the zero state and hear the real calling within our hearts that we might know who we really are and what really is the purpose we are here in this world for.

The question is how do we get back to the zero state? Based on Ho'oponopono's assumption, the four phrases above help us to achieve that. The main idea is that by filling these four phrases in our hearts, we begin to realize the importance of taking up the responsibilities to the happenings around us (in a positive way) and stop putting the blame on others. "Weren't you present when the happenings went on although you did not contribute directly? The professor therapist answered this to the question "How can I possibly be held responsible even for how people react to a situation? Yes you do. At least in part.

Try to cleanse all the negative memories and schemas and stop the blame on others, then you may find peace from within. Not temporal happiness, but eternal everlasting joy that shines from within. Not dependent on anything any person, but entirely dependent on you and your zero state.