What does it mean?
What does Hoʻoponopono mean?
Hoʻoponopono is The Hawaiian art of cleaning memory — four phrases that repair what is broken inside.
Where it comes from
Morrnah Simeona · Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len · Mary Kawena Pukui · ancient Hawaiian tradition. The word lives in the long lineage of practice-oriented practice, but its specific shape is unmistakably Hawaii — and that shape is part of the answer.
What the practice actually is
In the late 1970s a Hawaiian woman named Morrnah Simeona took the ancient family-reconciliation practice of hoʻoponopono and stripped it down to a self-administered version with four phrases — I am sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you. Her student Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len then used those phrases to help treat …
If you want to go deeper
A short definition is a doorway, not a room. The full practice — the framework, the daily tools, the verses or maxims, the warnings, what to do today — lives in the concept hub below.