Ho’oponopono Healing: How to Make Things Right, Cut Cords and Find Peace
Episode 87 - Spiritual Awakening with Shaz Podcast
Ho’oponopono is a simple but powerful Hawaiian healing practice that uses four phrases:
I’m sorry.
Please forgive me.
Thank you.
I love you.
In this episode of Spiritual Awakening with Shaz, Shaz introduces Ho’oponopono, what the word means, how it works energetically, and why this practice can help you clear old pain, release energetic cords, reset relationships and come back to peace.
Shaz explains that Ho’oponopono means “to make right, right.” Ho’o means “to make” and pono means “right.” With pono repeated twice, the deeper meaning becomes making it right with me and making it right with you.
This does not mean you need to face the person who hurt you or have a dramatic conversation. Ho’oponopono can be used as a metaphysical, meditative, visualisation or journalling practice. It helps you release yourself from the cords, ties, memories, trauma and emotional charge that keep you connected to old pain.
This episode also explores soul-level forgiveness, personal responsibility, childhood wounds, energetic cord cutting, journalling prompts, relationship clearing, self-forgiveness and why freedom often begins when you stop waiting for another person to apologise.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- What Ho’oponopono means
- Why Ho’oponopono is more than a spiritual quote
- How the four phrases help clear emotional energy
- Why “I love you” is spoken from a soul level, not always a human behaviour level
- How to make right with yourself and another person energetically
- Why you do not need the other person present to use this practice
- How old childhood memories can create adult patterns
- Why small moments can become big unconscious stories
- How Ho’oponopono can support abundance, receiving and self-worth healing
- Why forgiveness does not mean excusing harmful behaviour
- How cord cutting and Ho’oponopono can work together
- How to journal with Ho’oponopono
- Why self-forgiveness matters just as much as forgiving others
- How this practice can help reset relationships and clear energetic charge
- Why freedom comes from taking responsibility for your own healing
Key themes in this episode:
- Ho’oponopono
- Ho’oponopono healing
- Hawaiian forgiveness prayer
- Cord cutting
- Energetic clearing
- Self-forgiveness
- Relationship healing
- Soul-level love
- Emotional release
- Trauma healing
- Childhood wounds
- Inner child healing
- Abundance blocks
- Receiving
- Forgiveness practice
- Journalling prompts
- Spiritual awakening
- Personal responsibility
- Energy healing
- Making things right
A powerful reminder from this episode:
Ho’oponopono is not about pretending nothing happened.
It is not about excusing harmful behaviour.
The practice helps you clear what you are still carrying, return energy that does not belong to you, call your own energy back, and release the emotional charge from your body, mind and spirit.
You can love someone at a soul level and still have boundaries.
You can forgive and still walk away.
Peace does not require access.
What Ho’oponopono means
Shaz explains the meaning of Ho’oponopono by breaking down the word:
Ho’o means to make.
Pono means right.
Pono is repeated twice.
So the deeper meaning becomes making right, making right.
Making it right with me.
Making it right with you.
This is not always done face to face. In many cases, the work happens energetically, metaphysically, through journalling, visualisation, meditation or prayer.
The four Ho’oponopono phrases
The four phrases are:
I’m sorry.
Please forgive me.
Thank you.
I love you.
Shaz explains that “I’m sorry” does not always mean you were wrong. Sometimes it means you are acknowledging the pain, the memory, the burden, the story, the misunderstanding or the part of you that has been carrying it for too long.
“Please forgive me” can be about forgiving yourself, asking forgiveness from the other person’s soul, releasing blame, or recognising where you allowed a pattern to continue because you did not know better yet.
“Thank you” honours the lesson, even when the experience was painful.
“I love you” is not about approving of someone’s behaviour. It is about seeing from the soul level and releasing the emotional hook with love, discernment and finality.
Shaz shares:
In this episode, Shaz shares how a childhood memory around being told no created a deeper pattern around receiving, abundance and self-worth.
As a young child, something as simple as wanting a lolly and being told no became connected to a story of not being worthy, not being able to receive, or not being allowed to ask.
Years later, that small moment revealed a much bigger energetic pattern.
Through Ho’oponopono, Shaz was able to sit with the memory, make peace with the person involved, release the old story, and understand that a young mind had created meaning where there had only been a simple moment of life.
This episode reminds us that some of the biggest patterns in adulthood can come from small moments that were never processed properly at the time.
Cord cutting with Ho’oponopono
Shaz also shares how she uses Ho’oponopono with cord cutting.
This can be done by visualising the person, memory or situation in front of you, noticing where the energetic cord sits in your body, cutting or clearing the cord, then repeating the mantra:
I’m sorry.
Please forgive me.
Thank you.
I love you.
You can also say:
- I release you.
- I release me.
- I return my energy back to me.
- I return your energy back to you.
- I choose peace now.
This practice helps clear unhealthy attachments without hate. It allows you to release the energetic charge while returning to love at a soul level.
A simple journalling practice from this episode
Choose a person, situation, memory, relationship or pattern that still feels active in your body.
Write their name or the situation at the top of the page.
Then ask:
- What am I still carrying here?
- What about this situation still triggers me?
- Is there a part of me wanting to be witnessed?
- Where did I abandon myself?
- What lesson is ready to be received?
Then use the four phrases as journalling prompts:
I’m sorry for…
Please forgive me for…
Thank you for…
I love you because…
This practice can be used for relationships, childhood wounds, money, your body, old versions of yourself, family patterns, friendships, strangers, regrets, self-sabotage or anything still looping in your mind.
Soul-level love and forgiveness
One of the deeper teachings in this episode is the difference between loving someone at a soul level and approving of their behaviour.
Shaz explains that saying “I love you” in Ho’oponopono does not mean you excuse betrayal, abandonment, manipulation, hurt ...
