This is Wai’ale’a, who, while raising her three sons as a single mother and at the same time living with depression and panic attacks, fought the urge to jump every time she caught sight of a window.
At the age of thirty, when she felt from the very bottom of her heart that she could not go on raising her children together with this mud-heavy suffering, she cried out for help — and that was when she encountered Ho’oponopono.
Thirty-five years have passed since then, and Wai’ale’a says that each time she cleans, she feels as though she is living with a new heart, every time, within this body given to her by Divinity.
We sat down with Wai’ale’a for this interview.
Note: this interview was conducted in 2021

Today, I am wearing a blue shirt.
I noticed that my neighbor was wearing a white T-shirt. And each of you reading this must also be wearing something you chose for today.

Each is a choice.

Whether it comes from our own free will, or whether it was assigned to us by someone else, like a uniform, on this day each of us has chosen and put on our clothes — out of some reason, some feeling, or some inspiration.

Every one of us experiences things differently. Even if we live in the same house, attend the same school, and take up the very same profession, our experiences are still, after all, different.
That is why, no matter the moment, I want first to clean what is happening within me and what I am feeling, and then to make my choices from inspiration.

Moment by moment. (every moment, every moment)

These are words that — beginning with the late Morrnah, and then KR, Ihaleakala, and every Ho’oponopono instructor — are spoken in the course of practicing cleaning.

Whenever we want to clean something — anything at all, no matter what it is — we clean, moment by moment.
For example, out of the experience that my eyesight is gradually growing dim, when I think, ‘Let me clean my eyes!’, I clean what I experience regarding my eyes. If, just then, there is the experience of being hungry with nothing to eat, I clean that too. And the next moment, if I feel like going on a trip, I clean that as well.
By including in your cleaning everything that lies along the path you walk — everything you come upon, everything you notice — a change is born in the direct cause of that experience.

In America, vaccinations have already begun. Like many others, I too am experiencing the unease, the fear, and the questions surrounding them. And yet, even so, this is ‘my experience,’ and I need to make ‘my choice.’

At a certain point, I began to clean my own thoughts about whether or not to receive this vaccine, and the very identity of this thing called ‘the vaccine’ itself. As I did, a reality came into view within it: that I had not seen my newborn grandchild for two years. And I had the realization that I was feeling it was about time to go and see them.

Then there was the time I accompanied a client, for whom I provide medical care, to receive their vaccination.
The moment the client’s shot was finished, the staff member turned to me and asked, ‘There happens to be one dose left — what would you like to do?’
In that instant I cleaned, and because I felt that this was my own path, I decided to receive the vaccine.

I am not saying that this outcome is the right way for everyone.
It is only that, when you include the feelings and events that appear before you — moment by moment — in the process of cleaning, your own path can come into view in this way.

Knowing the right answer is not what cleaning is, nor is it the purpose of life.
Rather than being bound by our thoughts and by the information of society through trying to know the right answer, by choosing to clean we can remain ever open to the information given to us by Divinity.

Aloha.
Wai’ale’a Craven X