Ho'oponopono - The Hawaiian Practice- A Practical View

Ho'oponopono is the Hawaiian art of forgiveness. However, it is more than that. It is a practice of mindfulness that can bring us into balance with our environment and with the people in our lives. It helps create harmonious relationships.

As a mindfulness tool, it is also excellent at resolving our Karma. Ho'oponopono is the repetition of four statements in the same order - "I am Sorry, Please forgive me, Thank you, I love you". These statements when practiced and repeated over time bring about great healing. It is a practice as strong as Reiki and it does not need attunement. Citing explanations from the Tarot, the wisdom of the Akashic Records and past lives, Physics, Biology, and Psychology, I aim to explain how to use this powerful practice to shift your life. I have also attempted to pair this modality with other healing modalities such as meditation, Reiki, Emotional freedom tapping and Yoga mudras. This is a course for you if: 1. You find yourself anxious or worrying often. (Ho'oponopono is great for shifting your energy to go with the flow as will be explained using models from Psychology). 2. If you feel the need to mend relationships of any kind- romantic or platonic. 3. If you are holding on to anger and need to practice forgiveness. 4. If you want to clear your Karma and open up the doors to Manifestation. 5. If you feel the need to connet with your spiritual side and start a practice of meditation, which is quick, simple and do-able when life gets busy.

The Hawaiian Art of Forgiveness and Practice of Mindfulness. This is a course like none other since it shows how Ho'oponopono works, and very skeptically breaks down the reasons why it works and connects the dots in a manner that is very common sense. The Course contains practical examples of the areas you can enrich your life in with the use of the practice in a totally common-sense manner. The Course also has a bonus module for Reiki Practitioners, so that they can bring in the use of Ho'oponopono and merge it with their healing modality.

What is the Ho’oponopono Mantra?

The Ho’oponopono Mantra/Prayer is as follows

I am Sorry, Please Forgive Me, Thank You, I Love You.

Why does Ho’oponopono work?

The Mantra works since millions of people have been repeating the mantra over time. The same four lines, repeated in the same sequence, all over the world has created a spiritual framework for people to ascend on.

How to Chant?

Focus on the four statements and do commit to the spirit of them. If possible, find a time of the day set aside for you to recite the mantra. This makes it a ritualistic practice and in time can become an emotional anchor. Find a comfortable position for you to sit in when you can recite the mantra. If you have a busy lifestyle, you can incorporate it into your activities. I usually play mantras in my car, on a busy day so that I can center myself on the go!! I believe that spiritual practice is essential for us to find our core. However, on the days that life doesn’t afford the time, it can still be built into the day. If you have found somewhere comfortable to sit down at, close your eyes and repeat the mantra. If your mind strays, be kind to yourself, treat your mind with compassion like you would treat a young and willful toddler and bring it back to the recitation of the mantra.

Do not spiral into worry that you have gotten it wrong.

Start with 5 minutes a day for a week, and then increase the duration to 30 minutes or an hour as the time in hand permits.

Meditation can be quite tedious for some people initially.

However, it is worth trying it out for 40 days. This is a practice you will not regret having started.

This is a great course for anyone looking to begin using Healing Modalities and healing themselves and others.

The Course is an excellent diving board for using occult devices like the Tarot, Numerology, and Akashic Records for one's benefit.

Psychological tools and Philosophic Models demonstrate how we can use Ho'oponopono to enrichen our lives and the lives of those around us,

1. Do the Meditation for 21 days straight. I am sure you see the benefit it brings to your life and can decide if you will continue to follow it.

2. It is good to do 108 repetitions of the mantra. This can be done at one sitting or broken up into parts through the day. 3. Punctuate the day with short Ho’oponopono Meditations- Example: 10 repetitions before lunch, or repetitions while walking down to the water filter!! 4. Pair it up with a Tarot, Mudra, or EFT Meditation.

There are so many benefits from practicing forgiveness. A low vibe benefit is you can say Sionara to the person who hurt you by letting them go in this lifetime, here and now. You don't carry the resentment that ties you to the person for another life!!

Have a Blessed Day!!

On the subject of Gratitude, THANK YOU, to all you fantastic people who make the world beautiful by bringing in your unique shine.

There are many Meditation Practices that one can choose from. If your mind likes to multitask constantly, then may I suggest visual meditation. You could also use Ho'oponopono along with Mudras as demonstrated in this program.

If you use tarot or Oracle cards, shuffle and ask the universe what you should focus on now? Pull a card. If you do not work with the tarot, choose a special picture. You can walk through the picture using the phrases - " I am sorry, please forgive me, Thank You, I love you!"

Breathe and step into the frame. Focus on the sights and smells of the environment you are visiting. Is there someone there? Initiate a conversation. It may seem silly for a while, but in time, your strengthening subconscious will be able to bridge out to you with riches from the depths of your soul.

Finding 5 minutes for Meditating can boost your productivity and your health. It can be anything from walking, to mantra recitation, or sitting mindfully, or even washing the dishes while focusing on just the dishes and nothing else. It could be sending out love and Forgiveness as in the art of Ho'oponopono.

What does the number of your home say about the spirit of your home?

Every house has an energy and a personality, pretty much like people. Sometimes a place is warm and welcoming and at others, it could be cold and aloof, even defiant and angry at those who dared to defy its boundaries and presume to call it their own. Whether or not we are sensitive we can't deny we all pick up vibes from the house we live in!

And very often it isn't just you who chooses the house, the house chooses you too. Despite all my spiritual and occult leanings, I do like to pride myself on being pretty common sense, and really feel that there is a myriad of factors that shape our lives. Over the years, I have come to learn that being at peace with the deity or the energies in your home is paramount, and as important as getting other things done.

In Thailand, many houses are mapped out and a small spirit house is placed in the center of the house. Apartment complexes have spirit houses so that the resident deity can be honored.

In 1988, we moved to Calcutta, Salt Lake City. My father was a pilot with the Indian Air Force, on deputation to a small airline carrier Vayudoot, that was new and upcoming. He was all out a family man, and he made sure that we were in a lovely community in Salt Lake. We moved in and loved our home. We were a family of four, and I have a younger sister, and it was blissful. Being kids from the defence services, we loved moving constantly since our family is close-knit.  Eight months into our idyllic stay there my father crashed on duty. We took a few months to wind up and left Calcutta for good.  The house stayed vacant for a few months and then a pilot from the Indian Army, moved in. This gentleman, about the same age as my father and of an equivalent position or Rank, was on deputation to another small carrier Pawan Hans. Eight months into their stay there, he crashed on duty. The family had two daughters. The parallels are unmistakable. I don't know what happened to the house after that. We heard of the second family since the owner of the house was also a Captain from the Indian Army, who happened to tell us, when we had a chance meeting. I guess the house was jinxed but during our time there- it was a happy home.

I've lived in a really creepy house, for a while, when I was on training for Singapore International Airlines, and there was a time when even the most practical of us housemates, did not want to spend a night in that home alone. There'd be footsteps every night around 3 AM, the doors would lock by themselves, the bell would ring at odd hours, I was almost convinced that it was a Poltergeist! I stubbornly refused to leave the house and I guess the entity there let me be. It was a home with hex signs all over the house. In Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, they have witch doctors that specialize in being a physical medium for spirits known as Bomohs.  I have always been a student of the occult, so I recognized the well-disguised hex signs hidden in the pelmets of the curtains. We never saw them when we saw the house for rental, else I for one wouldn't have signed up on that house.

I've lived in many happy homes, where I'd begin my day with a prayer of gratitude to the house deity. In 2015, we moved into a gorgeous huge apartment in Singapore. I lost my dog and my kids were ever unwell, and we had such a harrowing time that I consulted Vastu for the first time while shifting house. When I went to meet a friend, at the old condominium, six months later, the elderly matronly indulgent security guard told me that our apartment did not lie vacant at all. In fact, someone moved in, three weeks after we left. They had two children and the older one was mysteriously unwell, pretty much the same as mine. I constantly felt that the deity of that home, which was built in the 1970s did not like having people and for the last few months there, I'd sage the house and request kindness since we would be moving out.

Our present home is a modern airy light apartment, and I connected with the home the moment I walked in. We've been here 4 years and the home just grows on us. When I began my journey of looking at houses in terms of their numerology in addition to sensing the vibes, I realized, that my current home loves the traditional rituals and the occult!! My hubby likes to light an incense in the morning and that is one manner to appease the spirit. 

I guess that's enough about my house experiences since I could write a book on the vibes I've picked up visiting friends over the years.

What does the number of your home say about the spirit of your home?

Calculating the number of your home.

Add the number. so if your home is Appt #11-011 The total is = 1+1+0+1+1=4.

Add the number and the Street/Block Number. So if its Block 111, #11-011, Then the number =1+1+1+4=7

You can also convert the name of the building and add it to the number of the home.So OLD HOUSE=6+3+4+8+6+3+1+5=36=3+6=9.

Add the above total to the total of the pin code.

This may give 4 numbers, but we as humans are multi-faceted so are our homes.

2.  The House Numbers and what they tell us.

House Number 1

As the number 1 suggests, this house considers itself one of a kind. Honour your home by making it feel special and different from the others. Have something unique at the entrance, just as you would pamper your child pamper the home spirit, and make it feel special.

Since this is the "one of a kind" energy, it would hate to be a part of what is considered routine and mundane and an individual with a job that is not routine will gel with and be loved by the house.

This house is great for manifesting new, unconventional and original ideas. This is the perfect house for all things new as well, and to come into your light.

House Number 2

Number 2 is about duality and about possessing an intuition in addition to wisdom. Duality means that this home will be nurturing and accommodating to those who choose to live here.

The deities of this balanced number seek balance. They like the moderate path and are happy with peaceful activities, symmetry and the pursuit of knowledge and wisdom. This is a home where the residents help each other and strengthen each other. At any rate, staying here, you will always have someone on the inside or in the neighborhood to watch your back. Do take time out for your interrelationships, as the guardian of the home takes joy in these interactions.

House Number 3

They say Two's company and in this case, three is a village. Expect to have friends to brighten your day. your home loves having company. please call people over so that the spirits in the house are happy. The notes of joy, happy music and friendship, be it bonding over coffee or wine, is something that your home appreciates. Joy grows when we share with our community and the more we share the more the house attracts to itself. Of course, every house gives us our share of growth but this one assures a village along with it. Like the Graces from Greek Myth, the home will always be joyful with the regular lot of challenges thrown in. Its deity likes abundance and children. Do have children over every now and then or keep a pet!

House Number 4

This is the house where you can engage yourself in building something from the ground up. When you work on a foundation, the deities of the house are happy. They believe in disciple, structure, routine and of course cleanliness-A place for everything and everything in its place. This house loves, supports and will push you on your journey to self-betterment and laying foundations for a new job, business, or even building your own home. If you do seek to study here, the spirit of this house would lovingly watch over you. Do, appease the vibe, by keeping some books in this home.

House Number 5

Hmm, this is the house of dogma and beliefs. The diety of this house needs some sort of spiritual work, to be in the optimal mood. It also believes in scholarship and study, and community!! So the deity here has been more than happy when the community is adhered to. Community-minded projects will keep the guardian of this house in great spirits. maybe you could plan some fundraisers or bake sales, where the proceeds go to charity. Using the home as a place to be a planning stop for donations that need to be passed on is another way to honour the philanthropic deity.

House Number 6

Six is the number of beauty and Venus. This house loves the arts, music, and beauty in general. Do appease the spirits by adding an aesthetic to the place, by bringing in fresh cut flowers. As is Venus, the deity of this house likes being wooed and appreciated. Invite in people. Six after all is the double of 3, which loves company too. This home loves, the creation of intimate memories, deep discussions and genuinely caring for each other. Leave thank you notes for each other to keep the guardian of this home happy!!

House Number 7

Seven is a spiritual number and the number of the mystic. The guardian of this home is happy if you do have a spiritual practice. This could be anything that fills your soul. It may be that you commit to going for a run daily and return back home, with feelings of gratitude for all that is working in your life. This is a house where the inner mystic will be happy as the guardian loves you delving into your own mind. Do thank the house for shelter and every now and then create a five-element crystal bowl, which one person cares for. The elemental bowl is a crystal bowl with daily freshwater, floating candles, petals and coins and pebbles in it.This home loves ritual, be it your standard traditional prayer or occult rituals such as working with Tarot Cards, or studying astrological charts. Do light incense, since it adds the element of passion to the spiritual and the home, stays happy.

House Number 8

The house numbered 8, is an interesting one to live in. It is the number ruled by Saturn. The guardian of this home has the expectation of a high moral standard. Those who do live their life according to universal life principles can expect a huge blessing. On the downside, to stray from the path of principle first and give the emotional response precedence can lead to stress. Do bring home a bit of your work since this home really appreciates a sincere work from home scenario.

House Number 9

This is a home that is happy for you to follow your path. It supports individual growth and study. It is also a home that wants to be a pinnacle of culture. Do allow in light and make sure there is more than the adequate flow of light and the place is obsessively tidy. The guardian of this home is happy when intellectual property is given precedence. The number 9 calls to mind the Nine Muses of Greek Mythology who were the inspiration for poetry, drama, music and the house needs these vibrations to stay happy.

At the end of the day, be ever so humble, there's no place like home. Wishing you a Happy Home spirit. The Russians called the home spirit the Domovoi. The Thai's especially construct a miniature house known as ‘Saan Phra Phum’, or angel house, for the privacy and comfort of the guardian spirit, the Indians have a "Kula Devta", or guardian deity. Whatever is your belief, may your home be happy and joyful.

Have a Blessed time and Bond with your home.