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Living · 2007
Zero Limits
Modern Manifestation / Law of AttractionZero Limits, written with Ihaleakala Hew Len, introduces a Western self-help audience to a modernised form of the Hawaiian reconciliation practice Ho'oponopono. Its central claim is that limiting memories can be cleared, and reality thereby changed, through a practice of inner cleaning paired with total responsibility for one's experience.
The method centres on the repeated phrases "I'm sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you," offered as a means of cleaning the memories held to shape what one encounters. Vitale grafts this forgiveness-and-responsibility practice onto the law-of-attraction framework, blending New Thought, salesmanship, and an ethic of taking complete responsibility.
Its significance is as the principal bridge between mainstream manifestation culture and Ho'oponopono. Coming from a teacher already prominent through The Secret, it exemplifies the syncretism of the modern ecosystem, importing a non-Western practice and reframing it as a clearing technique that links the manifestation cluster to the Ho'oponopono lineage.
In its words
It's not your fault but it is your responsibility.
The purpose of life is to be restored back to Love, moment to moment.
Suffice it to say that whenever you want to improve anything in your life, from finances to relationships, there's only one place to look: inside yourself.
It turns out loving yourself is the greatest way to improve yourself.
Practices it teaches
Ho'oponopono Cleaning — The Four Phrases
Self-Identity Ho'oponopono "cleaning" is a deceptively simple practice: when anything disturbing shows up in your life — a difficult person, a problem, a painful feeling — you take 100% responsibility for it (on…
Zero Limits 'Cleaning' — Vitale's Constant Clearing Toward Zero
This is Joe Vitale's popularized, manifestation-oriented application of Self-Identity Ho'oponopono, as taught in Zero Limits and its sequels.
100% Responsibility — Hew Len's Radical Ownership Stance
This is the stance that underlies all of Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len's Self-Identity Ho'oponopono — separated here from the four-phrase mantra because for Hew Len the…
Cleaning on the Data — Hew Len's Four Phrases Applied to What Arises in You
Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len's distinctive application of the four phrases: you do not clean on the person or problem "out there" — you clean on the "data" (the memory/program) it triggers in you.
Cleaning Tools — Hew Len's Blue Solar Water, 'Ice Blue' & Other Erasers
Alongside the four phrases, Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len taught a set of small, concrete "cleaning tools" — physical objects, foods, breaths, and one-word phrases — each said to "clean" or "erase" the memories/data…
The Four Phrases — 'I'm sorry, Please forgive me, Thank you, I love you
The best-known fragment of Morrnah Simeona's Self-Identity Through Hoʻoponopono (SITH) is the four-phrase cleaning: silently (or aloud) repeating, in any order, > "I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you.
I Am the I' — Morrnah's Identity Contemplation Prayer
"I Am the I" is a short prose-poem prayer that Morrnah Simeona said came to her as "a verbalization of the vibration of Divine Intelligence" received through the sands of Kahala Beach on Oʻahu.
Morrnah's Cleaning Prayer — 'Divine Creator... transmute to pure light
Morrnah Nālamakū Simeona (1913–1992), a Hawaiian kahuna lapaʻau (healer) honored as a "Living Treasure of Hawaii," modernized the traditional family-mediation rite of hoʻoponopono (literally "to make right") into a…
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