Universal relevance if Ho'oponopono (to put right) – the natural intelligence of our human connectedness

WHY is it that few medical professionals know of Hawaiian psychologist Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len who after being appointed head of a mental institution housing violent psychiatric persons brought about near magical transformation by using on himself four short sentences whenever he would go through the files of the acts carried out by the inmates.

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He would use the lines on himself when diverse emotions cropped up in his own mind such as revulsion, fear and judgement

The four lines are: I am sorry. Please forgive me. I thank you. I love you

These phrases could be described as verbal therapy to oneself—transforming the nervous system and inducing self-love

What was proved by Dr. Hew beyond all theories and scepticism is that deep non-judgement of ones’ own self created ripples in the ‘other’ proving what all sages across time preached

That unconditional love is the cure. That compassion transcends beyond what we see falsely as separation from ‘the other’

What it proves in a large scale is that in this limited span of life that each human spends on earth—harming of the other in thoughts, words and actions is equivalent to self-harm

The reader is invited to experiment on how these words create change to whatever issue at hand; guilt, fear, difficulties and estrangement with ‘other’ humans, including restoring physical health

WHY did we bring this up now? It is not to delve deep into the beautiful mystery of ancient Hawaiian spirituality. We will do so in detail soon. But the immediate reason that these lines kept resonating in my head were few scenes I witnessed this week in Jaffna.