Five-minute practice · 5 minutes
How to practise Hoʻoponopono in five minutes.
Hoʻoponopono — a practice from Hawaii is The Hawaiian art of cleaning memory, four phrases that repair what is broken inside. Here is how to bring it into your life when you only have a coffee break to spare.
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Step 1
Sit, and start the timer for five minutes
Anywhere quiet enough. Phone face down. You do not need a cushion or a candle. Hoʻoponopono did not come from a studio.
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Step 2
Recall the single sentence
Hold this in mind: The Hawaiian art of cleaning memory, four phrases that repair what is broken inside. Do not analyse it. Let it stay there the way a stone stays at the bottom of a well.
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Step 3
Find one thing today that matches it
One moment. A small one. The work is not to engineer the moment; it is to notice when it arrives. When you do, the five minutes is over.
That is the entire practice. You do not need a longer version of Hoʻoponopono than this — only a more regular one.
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