Living Harmony through Ho’oponopono

A Daily Practice of Self-Forgiveness, Compassion, and Energetic Alchemy

Ho’oponopono came into my life when I was ready to release another layer of pain I didn’t even know I was still carrying. This sacred Hawaiian practice moved through me like a soft current—gentle, but undeniable. What began as a simple spiritual exercise has since become a living, breathing part of how I process, clear, and reclaim my energy. It’s one of the sacred practices that continues to reveal itself in new ways every time I return to it.

This post reflects my initial journey of practicing Ho’oponopono. I later expanded on this practice in Embracing Healing with Ho’oponopono—a piece that came from living with it longer, deeper, and more intentionally. That post explores how this prayer supported me in navigating emotional release and energetic recalibration. What I’m sharing here is the root, the foundation, the moment I said yes to using this prayer as a tool for harmony in my daily life.

I return to these words again and again:

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

These phrases became a quiet but powerful way to shift my internal weather, speak to the energy around me, and come back home to myself.

Ho’oponopono isn’t something I read about once and left behind. I live with it. I practice it when I feel overwhelmed or activated. I lean on it in moments of disconnection and confusion. Over time, it has revealed itself to be more than a prayer—it is a path. A rhythm. A remembrance.

Ho’oponopono is rooted in ancient Hawaiian tradition. At its heart, it honors the power of reconciliation, self-responsibility, and harmony. It speaks to the reality that I am not separate from what I encounter. I influence and am influenced by the energies I move through. My thoughts, my choices, my emotions—all of it weaves into the collective experience.

Practicing Ho’oponopono is not about blaming myself for everything that happens. It’s about taking conscious responsibility for the energy I hold and what I choose to release or transform. It’s about tending to the emotional and energetic threads that live within me—threads that may stretch through timelines, relationships, memories, or ancestral echoes.

In this practice, I embrace self-forgiveness as a sacred act. I don’t wait for others to apologize. I don’t perform for spiritual perfection. I go inward and meet myself with softness. When I say, I’m sorry, I honor the pain I’ve carried or caused. When I say, Please forgive me, I open space for healing. Thank you anchors me in gratitude, and I love you brings it all back to the frequency of creation.

There is alchemy here.

This isn’t a practice reserved for ritual spaces or high holy days. It lives in the day-to-day. I whisper it when my thoughts become heavy. I use it when I’m untangling old patterns or navigating relationships that mirror something deeper. I offer it to the parts of me still learning how to trust, release, and rise.

Sometimes I write the phrases down over and over, especially when I’m in an emotional fog or feel blocked. Other times I speak them while holding a crystal or cleansing my space. I say them silently when I’m driving or washing dishes or watching my children sleep. They become a current of peace moving through the mundane. A spell of reconnection.

The Body Remembers, and So Does the Energy

Ho’oponopono helps me face myself with honesty and gentleness. It supports my nervous system. It clears energetic residue. It aligns me with who I choose to be, not just who I’ve been. As someone who is constantly in conversation with energy—my own and others’—this practice helps me reset. It reminds me that I have agency, even when things feel chaotic.

When my nervous system feels frayed—tight chest, racing thoughts, skin prickling from too much stimulus—I begin with my breath and bring in the four phrases.

I say I’m sorry slowly, letting the words drop like warm water over the back of my neck.
I whisper Please forgive me and feel my shoulders soften, my jaw unclench.
I say Thank you with my hand over my heart, noticing the rhythm of my breath begin to slow.
I love you moves through me like sunlight, reaching even the places I’ve neglected.

Sometimes I speak the mantras out loud, voice low and steady, like a lullaby to my body. Other times I mouth the words silently, in rhythm with my exhale, like a secret code between me and Spirit. The repetition becomes a rhythm that grounds me. I feel the tension melt from my belly. I feel my awareness drop out of my spinning thoughts and into the weight of my body. My feet on the floor. My hips in the chair. My breath becoming a soft wave.

This is nourishment. Not dramatic. Not performative. Just true. Real. Regulating.

The mantras give me a place to land. They become anchors in the moment. When I can’t make sense of my emotions or when the intensity in the air threatens to pull me under, this practice brings me back to center. It reminds me I don’t have to solve everything at once. I only need to be here. Present. Loving. Willing.

As someone who absorbs a lot of energy—intentionally and unintentionally—I use Ho’oponopono as a way to clear the data. The stories. The energetic debris that isn’t mine. The practice helps me detach with love. I can witness what’s moving through without carrying it. I can be with what’s alive in the field and still stay rooted in myself. That clearing is necessary for me to stay open without being overwhelmed. To allow energy to move in and out, in and out, like breath.

Even when I’m overstimulated, on edge, or spiraling, Ho’oponopono helps me soften the edges of the moment. It invites my nervous system to rest. And in that rest, I find clarity. I remember who I am beneath the noise.

A Living Practice for Energetic Flow and Emotional Clarity

And it’s not just for me. Every time I engage with this practice, I send that energy out. I become a ripple. A shift. A subtle movement in the collective field. Because healing never happens in isolation.

This practice has deepened my sense of accountability and compassion. It’s given me tools to navigate difficult conversations and to witness myself more clearly. It’s one of the reasons I feel more emotionally regulated in situations that once overwhelmed me.

When I offer sessions and teachings through Healing through Visions, Ho’oponopono is part of the energetic foundation that holds my work. It reminds me to move from love. To root into truth. To stay open to repair, within and without.

There is so much more I could say about Ho’oponopono, and that’s why I returned to it in Embracing Healing with Ho’oponopono—a post that emerged after this one, when I had lived more fully into the practice and witnessed how it supported me in real-time emotional alchemy. That offering dives deeper into the ways this prayer clears stagnation and reconnects me with my power.

The essence of Ho’oponopono also aligns with the energetics I explore in Zero Point Energy and Embracing Zero Point. All of these practices—Ho’oponopono, zero point awareness, stillness as medicine—move through similar currents of returning to center, transmuting density, and anchoring into a place beyond reactivity. They are different doorways leading to the same remembering.

I also see the connection between Ho’oponopono and the sacred framework I laid out in A Guide to Healing and Growth. That guide reflects the heart of my work through Healing through Visions—supporting others in choosing themselves, meeting themselves with compassion, and honoring the wisdom already alive within them. Ho’oponopono complements this beautifully. It is one of the ways I choose myself. One of the ways I re-align. One of the ways I return.

All of these writings live in conversation with each other. They are expressions of the same truth told through different moments, moods, and energetic signatures. Each one reflects the layers I’ve peeled back on my journey of growth, harmony, and devotion to living awake.

I’m not here to tell anyone what to believe or how to heal. I share these practices because they’ve helped me remember who I am. If they resonate with you, allow them to be what they need to be—a mirror, a balm, a spark, or a portal.

And always, always return to love.

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

Want to Explore More?

You don’t have to walk this path alone. If Ho’oponopono is calling to you—or if you’re just curious about how it may support your emotional and energetic ecosystem—I invite you to explore more:

• Living Harmony through Ho’oponopono – This is where my journey with Ho’oponopono began. In this reflection, I share how the practice first came into my life and how it helped me ground my energy, regulate my nervous system, and return to love through emotional honesty and energetic awareness.
• Embracing Healing with Ho’oponopono – This post expands on how I’ve further integrated Ho’oponopono into my daily rhythm, my healing journey, and the services I offer through Healing through Visions. It reflects how this sacred work now lives at the core of my life, my spiritual path, and my business.
• Zero Point Energy – An energetic teaching on dissolving overwhelm and returning to neutrality. I explore how zero point is not emptiness—it’s potential, power, and peace. This post reveals how I access the still point at the center of chaos and use it as an anchor for healing and expansion.
• Embracing the Zero Point – This piece explores the power of pause—the fertile stillness where creation, dissolution, and transformation converge. Here, I share how zero point awareness anchors my energy, expands my clarity, and supports me in meeting the unknown with grounded presence and sacred neutrality.
• Unlocking the Root of Emotional and Spiritual Suffering – This living guide invites you to look beyond symptoms and into the sacred messages of your pain. Through journaling, meditation, therapy, energy work, and spiritual practices, I share how I uncover the root of suffering and move toward integration, embodiment, and wholeness.

If you’re ready to deepen your relationship with this sacred practice, I offer personalized sessions that include guided Ho’oponopono as part of the energetic foundation. As a Certified Ho’oponopono Practitioner, I hold space for the real work—emotional clearing, nervous system support, and energetic flow. Book your Energy Alignment session here, and let’s move through the clearing together, with love, responsibility, and power.