Article 1. Ho'oponopono Rules
Ua ola loko i ke aloha - milość jest źródłem życia
author: T.Pomai'kai Mocna
Ho'oponopono
Ho'oponopono is a process of brinning the ballance for individual and system. It works on physival, mental, emotional and finally spiritual level. It goes deep into traumatic memories and toxic bonds created sometimes long time ago.
Traditional Ho'oponopono bring back the inner balance into everyday life, into human relationship in private and professional life.
Ho'o - means "to do".Pono means model of proper behaviour based on highest culture values.
Elements of Ho'oponopono
Full Ho'oponopono would mean that the whole Ohana become healty. The prayer, conversations, confession and readiness for Pono actions were in use during the process. On the end of the process project have been created - which would help to ballance the wrong actions. The important element of Ho'oponopono process was support of Aumakua. When recieved help of Aumakua, participants were obligated to fulfil given requrements.
Kahunas were taking care for practical ways to reach the center of the problems. When problems have been deep - the God Kane have been asked for help.
Pohaku o Kane
was in old time a place for contacting Aumakua. Pohaku o Kane was not a temple, was rather place for experiencing high energies. In such meeting person could decide about the process of healing the relationship with Gods – mohai ho’olu’olu. Aumakua support only people, who decide to give up mohai hala (wrong actions) in the future.
Pohaku o Kane was the place for contacting with Gods until 1819. After 1819 such places became slowly forgotten. Today Hawaiians come back to old ancestors practices understading how deep wisdom is hidden there.
La pau lapa'au a Ho'oponopono
Kahunas knew that using herbst help in Ho'oponopono process to some degree. Although they believed that using herbst only helps to restore the body, but could not help in healing the relationship and spiritual part of the problem. When in family the problem occured (diseases, difficult emotions), all members of the family would meet. All members of Ho'oponopoon process would investigate their own intentions and actions toward all the others.
"We were forgiving and it was forgiven to us, in the difficult process of all mistakes and hurts. It was connecting us stronger and stronger." (Mary Pukui, 1958 ).
Forgiveness for often important but not the only part of Ho'oponopono process. For the process to be properly done, the problem were send to Aumakua as well.
People participating in Ho'oponopono
To make traditional Ho'oponopono both sides of the confict had to be involved. In case of physical disease of one person from the Ohana, all members of Ohana would meet to healing process. Only such full involvment of all would garantie the long term healing. It was no way to refuse the "invitation" of Kahuna for Ho'oponopono process. Even today, when Kahuna inform person about his actions toward healing, the person become spontaniusly get responsibility for making changes in own actions and approach to the problem. The authority of Kahuna of some type - is still on Hawaii very high.
this statement does not refer to people, who call themself Kahunas - outside the Ohana, without acceptrance of Kahuna Nui and other kahunas or certain type)
Kahuna - as Haku - during the healing process of Ho'oponopono was buiding the connection between visible and invisible world of humans and Gods. He/she knew the ways to build such connection, kept own intenstions pure for effectivity of the whole process. What is very important as well, Kahuna knew peoples life, their characters and problems very well and could predicts possible problems and solutions long before they occured.
Value of Ho'oponopono process today
Hawaiian people using Ho'oponopono believed, that most life mistakes can be healed. As base of this faith was their practical results - Hawaiian people belong to most balanced race in the world - with their deep sense of proudness and strengh, which you can feel from single, ordinary person anywhere on the street. Although Hawaiians meet all the life challenges we have in typical western world, their inner presence is far different - most of the time. ...
Article "Ho'oponopono - rules on old Hawaii", author T.Pomaikai Mocna, copyrights © 2012