Hawaiian Method For Help - written by Zinn Jeremiah

The search for assistance is a search humans are entirely familiar with. Humans have encountered problems for as long as there has been humanity. There are times when we are capable of tackling and solving problems entirely on our own. There are other times when difficulties feel overwhelming and unsolvable. It's especially when facing extreme difficulties like this that people are most inclined to seek out or directly ask for outside help in some form or other.

This search for problem solving again goes back an awfully long time. There are sources of problem solving that can be traced back to almost the origins of the human species. Tools can be thought of as problem solving devices. The human need to do tasks in an easier and more expedited fashion is certainly what brought tools into existence. Here then the problem could be described as improving work, and the solution would be the development of tools.

Spiritual solutions to problems have also been in existence for much of humanity. There's a particular spiritual problem solving solution that comes from ancient Hawaiian culture known as ho'oponopono. The original form of ho'oponopono was a method for resolving conflict between people. In Hawaiian culture, and this continues to be used today, when there was disagreement or dispute entire families would come together with the intention of offering apology and making amends. Ho'oponopono was and is the methodology used to bring disputes to resolution.

An updated form of ho'oponopono exists today and it's generating a considerable reaction throughout the world. This updated version of ho'oponopono is known as Self Identity ho'oponopono. Self Identity ho'oponopono is thought to have been developed by a Hawaiian Kahuna, or shaman, named Morna Simeonna. This new version of ho'oponopono is a direct connection between an individual and the divine creative force, sometimes referred to as God. While God does play a role in the Self Identity ho'oponopono method, the form itself is not religious in nature. Ho'oponopono is a secular spiritual practice.

Ho'oponopono has become an increasingly popular technique, with a growing number of advocates. Joe Vitale, one of the teachers from the movie The Secret, has embraced ho'oponopono above even the methods he suggested in The Secret. Likely the best-known practitioner of ho'oponopono at this point is a man named Ihaleakala Hew Len, a psychologist who learned the ho'oponopono technique directly from Morna Simeonna. Len credits ho'oponopono with helping him successfully treat an entire ward of mentally ill patients in Hawaii. In addition to people like Joe Vitale and Ihaleakala Hew Len, average people have used and embraced the ho'oponopono technique, furthering its reputation as a successful method for getting help.