Imagination · “Feel It Real”
Haipule
To direct creative focus toward a desired outcome by building energy with breath, defining the wish in words, vividly imagining and feeling it as real, and releasing it with a closing gesture.
Haipule (HA-I-PU-LE) in 4 steps: HA — breathe and build energy, imagining light filling your body. I — state your wish in clear, positive, present-tense words (say it, write it). PU — vividly imagine and feel it already real, holding the joy in your heart. LE — release it with a gesture (blow gently over your hands, sending it to your High Self), let go of strain — then act. Repeat lightly through the day.
What it is
Haipule is Serge Kahili King’s Huna “prayer” or focusing practice for directing creative energy toward what you want. King reads the word as a sequence of four Hawaiian roots that name its four steps — HA, I, PU, LE — each of which is also a method in itself: build energy (ha), affirm in words (i), imagine and feel it real (pu), and release it with a gesture (le).
It is King’s manifestation/intention practice — the Huna cousin of New Thought affirmative prayer and Neville’s “feeling it real,” grounded in his principle Mana (you have the power to create) and Manawa (the moment of power is now).
Unlike asking an outside deity, haipule is about focusing your own attention, imagination, and feeling, then handing the result to your aumakua (High Self) and acting.
The Method
King’s four-step format (HA-I-PU-LE):
- HA — build energy (breath). Begin by building your energy with the breath. Breathe a little more deeply than usual and, as you inhale, imagine light or energy streaming into your body — into the lower abdomen and up into the heart/chest. King often uses pikopiko or simple energizing breaths here. The aim is to feel charged, alive, and present before you focus the wish. → 2. I — affirm with words. Define what you want in clear, positive, present-tense words. State it out loud (and, King suggests, write it down). Keep it concrete and worded as if it is so. This gives your energy direction (the principle “energy flows where attention goes”). Example shape: “I now enjoy strong, easy health” rather than “I hope I won’t be sick.”
- PU — imagine and feel it real. Vividly imagine, visualize, and sense having what you want. See yourself already with it; engage the senses; and crucially feel the joy, relief, or satisfaction you would feel if it were already true. Hold that feeling/energy in your heart. This is the emotional-imaginal core — the same “assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled” move at the heart of New Thought (The Inner Creates the Outer, The Inner Creates the Outer).
- LE — release with a gesture. Make a gesture or action that releases the wish and symbolizes that it is done. King’s classic gesture: raise your hands toward your mouth and gently blow over them, sending the wish out for your High Self (aumakua) to work on; or simply exhale and let it go. The point is to stop holding, stop straining, and trust it to unfold — then return to ordinary activity (and take practical steps). This avoids the counter-productive grip that anxious wanting creates. Rhythm. King often has people do haipule briefly and repeatedly through the day (a charged breath, the worded wish, a felt image, a release) rather than one long heavy session — keeping a light, confident relationship with the outcome. (Sourcing note: the HA-I-PU-LE four-step breakdown — build energy / words / imagine-and-feel / release with a blowing gesture to the aumakua — is King’s documented teaching in Instant Healing and his huna.org material. Wording is faithful paraphrase.)
Source & Lineage
Serge Kahili King teaches haipule as the Huna form of effective prayer, framed by his Seven Principles — especially Mana (“all power comes from within” / you are the creator of your experience) and Manawa (“now is the moment of power”). → (King, Serge Kahili).
It descends from Hawaiian chant/prayer traditions and King’s Kahili-family training, and runs closely parallel to New Thought affirmative prayer (Holmes, Troward), Neville Goddard’s “feeling it real” / SATS, and the broad “ask, believe, feel, release” lineage.
King’s distinctive contributions are the breath-built energy first step and the physical releasing gesture to the High Self.
The Traditions' versions
Affirmative prayer (New Thought / Science of Mind) — recognize, unify, declare, give thanks, release; haipule maps onto this almost step for step.
- Neville’s “feeling it real” / SATS — assume and feel the wish fulfilled; haipule’s PU step is the same.
- Creative visualization (Gawain) — picture + feel + release the goal.
- Coué autosuggestion — worded, repeated, low-effort suggestion; haipule’s “light, repeated, don’t strain” rhythm rhymes.
- Intention rituals with a closing gesture — blowing, releasing, “and so it is” — to mark the wish as sent.
Common refinements
Skipping the feeling (PU). Words alone are weak; King’s (and New Thought’s) point is the felt sense of already having it. If there’s no emotion, it’s just a sentence.
- Negative or future wording. Frame the wish positively and as present/now (“I enjoy.” not “I hope I will stop.”).
- Never releasing (no LE). Clutching the wish with anxious wanting works against you. The gesture/exhale is there to let go and trust — and then move on.
- Heavy, effortful, one-off sessions. King favors light, confident, repeated focusing over straining once. Don’t grind.
- Treating release as permission to do nothing. “Hand it to the High Self” is not “skip the practical steps.” Pair haipule with action — this is the single most important honesty point.
- Vague wishes. Define it concretely enough to picture and feel.