Dr. Joe Vitale - What is Ho'oponopono?

tell me about this this Hawaiian practice that did you that you go through and it involves I believe repeating a set of kind of four mantras in your mind tell me a bit about it because it's it's it's interesting oh it's fascinating and we need a lot more time to talk about it I wrote two books about it zero limits and ten years later I wrote at zero this book has changed millions of lives it's the true story of a therapist who helped heal an entire ward of mentally ill criminals by using this Hawaiian process

called ho oponopono now you don't need to remember ho oponopono but I'll tell you how simple it is there's four statements and what the therapist was doing he was working at a hospital for the mentally insane these people were shackled and sedated because they were so dangerous they were murderers they were rapists they were violent the the hospital couldn't keep staff it couldn't keep doctors in a desperate attempt to get a doctor on call they found this Hawaiian therapist who said well I'll go and I'll be there as your therapist and you'll satisfy your state

requirements but I'm not going to do traditional therapy I'm gonna do hope oh no pono so he started doing HOH upon opponent of these four phrases and as he did it those patients get better they didn't have to be shackled they didn't have to be sedated in a few months they started to be released being pronounces healed and whole in four years that ward was closed I researched this I interviewed him I wrote zero limits which is the story about this I did seminars with the therapist and the four phrases are so simple he is

saying these four phrases inside himself to his connection to the universe to God to the divine to Gaia whatever you want to call that higher power we all have different words I call it the great mystery of the great something and he's saying inside himself I love you I'm sorry please forgive me and thank you I love you I'm sorry please forgive me thank you that's all so what's happening when he was looking at the charts of these criminals he's looking at their charge he's not looking at the criminals he looking at their charts he's

feeling emotions he's feeling embarrassed rage anger guilt any number of different things he wants to clear those emotions it's not trying to heal the patient the patient is triggering emotions in him so whatever's being in triggered in him he's feeling it and he's kind of talking to the divine the universe the great something the great mystery please forgive me thank you i love you i'm sorry it's a short hand is kind of a petition or a prayer where he's saying please forgive me i don't know what part of me or my ancestors helped create this

person this belief system in them it must be in me if i'm noticing it in them i'm sorry for any part of my role in this even though he wasn't physically involved with any of it he's taking responsibility i'm sorry for any part of that thank you for healing this for erasing this for removing this i love you for this healing for this clearing from my life for this rejuvenation as a result of saying those four phrases over and over and over again those feelings in him disappear so he's removing his beliefs he's removing his

emotions and getting back to that little spiritual vibe that i said earlier was going through him as a result of him getting to peace the patients responded to it and got better now let's take this by extension for everybody that's watching this for you and me i have heard from tens of thousands people who have used these four statements for money problems relationship problems health problems animal problems employer problems business problems world problems everything everything and what's happening is there's a couple fundamental concepts one is you have to accept total responsibility for whatever you're noticing

so if you don't like whoever is in the political party right now and you're blaming them for everything not in ho oponopono and hope on opponent you have to look within yourself and say some part of me helped create this and if i don't like it i love you i'm sorry please forgive me thank you please heal it please clear it please remove it you do this for whatever is surfacing in your life you've got a relationship problem somebody at work an employer or employee health problem anything like that you notice that you're noticing it

the therapist used to say have you ever noticed that when there's a problem you are there meaning you're the common denominator you are participating in this problem unknowingly so you take responsibility for it even not knowing how you are responsible and whatever crazy way so you take responsibility like okay I see that I'm not getting along with my sister but it's not my sister it's my perception of my sister the problems over here the sister is a trigger the triggers here in me all goes back to everything we've been talking about it's all inside and

it's coming from a belief one way to change that belief that perception is with ho'oponopono I love you I'm sorry please forgive me thank you saying it to the divine the great something the great mystery until that dissolves okay so say I see President Trump acting out in the way that others right well sure this happens to a lot of people right yeah and maybe in some ways that they like as well but again people always say when you see something in someone else it's a reflection of that thing inside of you they don't like

nobody wants to hear that joke that's right okay right so say in this case I see him I don't know whatever separating migrant families so first of all some of those four mantras one of them shows me that that maybe I am somehow part of this whole occurrence somehow there's something in me that might have contributed to this behavior or the lack of action in me or whatever it is right and so I have to take ownership of that and is that through one of those phrases through all four of all four of those phrases

so when I say I'm sorry I love you I'm saying that I love you to the world to Trump to the situation I say it to the great something so in other words I'm saying thank you I'm sorry please forgive me and I love you to the great something I am NOT speaking to another person and I never say them out loud and I would never say them to you if I had a problem with you I wouldn't be saying it directly to you I would walk up to you and say hey I love you

I'm sorry please forgive me thank you you would have no clue what I was doing it would be internal because I'd go oh if I have a problem with him which could be Trump it could be anybody have a problem with anybody out there the problem is in me it's my perception that is causing me pain I clean my perception and the outer will get better [Music]