Healing Through Ritualized Communication

The first medicine is forgiveness Aloha is the art of understanding Travis Taiepa, Aotearoa Ho’oponopono is the healing of relationships between individuals. [...] It is a way of understanding the role of truth in how we evolve and then using that truth as effulgent awareness in all aspects of our lives so forgiveness, the untangling of emotions from their ego moorings, becomes the practice. [...] Ho’oponopono then is more than a peace-making process, it is first a way of life, a way of being, and a way of seeing the world that has brought me to union, healing, and thus an understanding of my life’s meaning. [...] It is the product of a successful ho’oponopono but it is also its process: a simultaneous event that is nourished by humility and the intentionality that peace is preferable and loving is the song of songs. [...] It is a process, yes, but it is more a way of life teaching us the primacy of truth and the purpose of forgiveness, and that ultimately there is only loving left to do.