The Hawaiian spiritual practice of Ho’oponopono nurtures a dynamic, inner connection to the divine. Based on quantum physics, Ho’oponopono teaches us how to do the internal work of ‘cleaning’ so that we can stay out of the way, and let change happen where it may.

As Dr. Hew Len, the most prominent teacher of this method, relates it: Ho’oponopono is the practice of taking 100% responsibility for the world by working with these four phrases:

• I love you
• Please forgive me
• I’m sorry
• Thank you

Dr. Len is known for his transformational work in the Hawaii State Hospital, the ward for the criminally insane, where his internal work brought unbelievable change in an otherwise hopeless situation. Even without any face-to-face contact with the patients, Dr. Len’s work slowly emanated into the halls, and within four years almost all of the patients had been released and/or were treatable. The ward was closed.

To use these phrases internally, one makes themselves a vessel to the divine within. “Clean” the world by bathing situations, people, places, energies in these words.

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