This is an interview article with KR. KR’s responses are highlighted in green.

Respecting the Land and Real Estate  

── KR, who works in real estate and farm management, also offers a service called “land cleaning.” What was the initial reason for your involvement with land?  

It started a long time ago. As a single mother raising three children, I was making a living as a massage therapist, but my income was unstable, and I was being forced to move out of my home. I consulted with a friend in the real estate business, asking if I could somehow buy a house. The response was blunt: “No one would sell a house to someone in your situation.” At the time, I was already involved in meditation under Morrnah, but even through meditation, I didn’t know what to do. Then Morrnah advised me, “Work with the land,” and that’s how I started doing “land cleaning” with her. This led me to think, “I’ll study real estate and buy a house myself,” so I went to university, got qualified, and eventually bought a house. After that, people who practiced Ho’oponopono started asking me, “KR, could you do some land cleaning?” and it naturally developed into a business of buying and selling real estate. 

── Specifically, how do you interact with the land? 

The land is a very profound existence; it can be considered the very body of the Earth. When you think about how many living beings and people have lived on that land over the years, you can feel the enormity of its existence. The truth is, we know nothing about the land.  
Before engaging in actions like selling, buying, or renting any property or real estate, I start by cleaning with myself. Then, I introduce myself to the land, asking, “May I work with you?” and proposing my plan. Rather than repairing a house on my own accord, I begin by seeking permission from the house itself, whether it’s fixing a water pipe, replacing a floor, or pruning a tree branch. Unlike a typical real estate business, I don’t actively promote or advertise.  
In America, property prices are decided during the viewing, and it’s common to negotiate based on flaws or haggling, but ideally, you would respect the identity of that real estate, perform cleaning, and follow the laws of the universe. My clients are all practitioners of Ho’oponopono, so if someone starts complaining, “The roof is rotten” or “The house smells,” I remind them, “Excuse me, but whatever the reason, it’s disrespectful and rude to make sudden comments to a house you’ve just met. Of course, repairs will be made, but the house already knows its ceiling is rotten. If you are experiencing a rotten ceiling, maybe your ceiling is rotten, or maybe you smell bad to the house. First, apologize to the house and clean yourself. If you can’t do that, you don’t have the right to rent or buy the house.” The first thing is respect. You should say things like, “I’m happy to be with you,” or “Do you like the new ceiling?” 

Cleaning with judgments and expectations  

── When doing this cleaning, sometimes things go smoothly, but sometimes unexpected and terrible things happen. What makes the difference?  

Ho’oponopono is a plea to “correct this problem,” isn’t it? So, the outcome is entrusted to the wisdom of the divine, which leads to your spiritual evolution. Therefore, if your mind says, “This event is terrible,” it’s a judgment that “I know what’s the right course of events,” so you should clean with that.  
It’s okay to feel like, “This isn’t the result I was hoping for.” That feeling is vital information that needs cleaning, something only you can notice. What’s important is not to deny how you felt inside, but to honestly accept it and then clean it. For example, thinking, “I expected to be able to buy this house after cleaning,” or “I thought my friend would be discharged from the hospital,” is a judgment from a narrow human perspective. Ho’oponopono is about erasing and correcting the problematic memories and returning to the natural flow of the universe, which always benefits you, your family, relatives, and ancestors, reaching all those connected.  
Especially in land cleaning, it’s cleaning between all the entities involved, so it’s a profound and dynamic experience from the divine presence for our evolution in this era. When hoping to buy or rent land, I clean myself and then say, “Dear land, please guide me so I can become aware.” 

── You always go back to the basics. I’ve noticed my biases about the entire real estate business. 

The basics always come back to ourselves. In any profession, the inner life of the person involved is unknown to anyone else, so we have to clean ourselves of the judgments like, “This person must be like this because of their job,” or what we notice and see are just the replaying of our memories. For example, the values differ by country; a high-rise condominium in Hawaii is a single independent building, but in China, there are hundreds of the same building lined up. Since witnessing a scale I couldn’t comprehend, I’ve been constantly cleaning.

Land and houses are family members too  

“The sale didn’t go through, but my child got into college,” for example, means that the benefits obtained from cleaning, like making a plea, are holistic and always positive, even if they are different from what you expected.  
Land and houses are like family members, so they understand what we are doing. There are various experiences, such as “unexpectedly moving to a rental with new information.” I suggest that purchasing a house is as special and joyful as giving birth to a child, and before moving in after the contract is completed, we light a candle, introduce ourselves, and spend a special time like a first date. 

── That’s lovely. I feel like I want to expand my awareness within the environment I’m in. And the fact that change is dynamic, as if the longer the history, the more memories it shows you, really feels like the power that the land holds.

Exactly. You clean again from what you’ve noticed. The Earth is such a vast and living planet that the land is dynamic because it’s part of a whole that is connected. I feel honored to be able to clean that.

── And since the Earth is a part of the universe, maybe we’re dealing with the universe itself.

That’s right! Ho’oponopono is dealing with the multidimensional universe.