Hoʻoponopono · The Hawaiian art of cleaning memory, four phrases that repair what is broken inside.

In the late 1970s a Hawaiian woman named Morrnah Simeona took the ancient family-reconciliation practice of hoʻoponopono and stripped it down to a self-administered version with four phrases, I am sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you. Her student Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len then used those phrases to help treat an entire ward of criminally insane patients at Hawaii State Hospital, without se