What is Hoʻoponopono Technique?

17 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief interview segment, speaker A asks Paridhi Dhingra to define Ho'oponopono. Paridhi describes it as an ancient Hawaiian tribal practice used for community conflict resolution and personal healing. She outlines its core ritual of reciting four statements—“I am sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you.” She then recounts the well‑known story of Dr. Hew Len, a psychiatrist who, while heading a violent ward in a mental hospital, reportedly healed all patients within six months using Ho'oponopono alone—without medication, electroconvulsive therapy, direct conversation, or physical contact. The anecdote emphasizes the technique’s claimed power to transform deep‑seated trauma through intention and forgiveness.

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Tell me what Ho'oponopono is also.
So Ho'oponopono is a Hawaiian research, uh, Hawaiian technique, uh, what we call tribal people. So tribal people practice this in their community for hundreds of years. Whenever something goes wrong, they say 4 statements: I am sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you. So Dr. Hew Len is a psychiatrist who's no more now, but when he was alive, he was working at the mental hospital heading a department which is a violent department where people were kept in body jackets because they would kill others and themselves. ठीक, so he healed these people in six months without medication, without electric shocks, without conversations, without meeting them physically. Six months, all of them were released. Literally released, like left home. He used hope no no on them.