{"id":11414,"date":"2026-02-04T18:22:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hooponopono-asia.org\/en\/?post_type=interview&p=11414"},"modified":"2026-02-04T18:22:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:22:33","slug":"the-day-the-world-stopped-being-scary","status":"publish","type":"interview","link":"https:\/\/hooponopono-asia.org\/en\/interview\/waialea-craven-x\/the-day-the-world-stopped-being-scary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day the World Stopped Being Scary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
To be honest, I will speak plainly and just as I am. For 40 years, I have walked together with this teaching called Ho\u2018oponopono. But at the beginning, I understood nothing. I barely managed to graduate from high school, and I didn\u2019t like reading, writing, or math. I simply wanted to spend time with horses in the forest. That was my only real interest. Other than that, I thought about wanting children, drifted along with whatever was happening at the time, avoided what I wasn\u2019t good at, or was pushed forward against my will, all the while continuing to search for something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the midst of all this, when I encountered the Ho\u2018oponopono process, I realized that the Unihipili (the subconscious) was the missing piece for me. I was able to accept that there is a child within me\u2014that my emotions were not illusions, nor vague and unreliable things that appeared because I was weak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don\u2019t cry. Don\u2019t get emotional. Don\u2019t do that. Haven\u2019t we all grown up surrounded by conversations like these? Yet by meeting the presence called the Unihipili once again, I realized that there was this \u201cmissing part\u201d within me, and that I simply didn\u2019t know how to love it, nurture it, or cherish it. In that moment, I was freed from the fear of emotions that might arise irrationally at any time, and from the guilt I had felt toward them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI am a precious being.\u201d At the very least, I was able to gently accept this most important part of myself. For the first time, I touched a sense of relief\u2014an assurance that I, too, was one of the precious things in this world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The morning after I took my first class, while driving home, I tried asking my own Unihipili a question for the first time. \u201cYou\u2019re hungry, aren\u2019t you? What should we eat?\u201d Then she\u2014my inner child\u2014said, \u201cFish sandwich.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Those words came naturally from within. In that moment, tears flowed. She is very simple. But she has always responded properly, every time. Until then, I had not understood that. At the time, I was 30 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Through the practice of Ho\u2018oponopono, I rebuilt my relationship with my inner child and came to understand that Divinity exists within us. As a result, the relationship between the world and me also began to change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Until then, it felt as though everything that could hurt me existed everywhere in the world, and I believed that in order to protect myself, I had to run away from it or fight against it. However, in Ho\u2018oponopono, I learned that all of it actually exists within me. With that understanding, the overwhelming fear of the world that had lived inside me gradually disappeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What appeared in its place was the understanding that everything is a projection of memories being replayed within the subconscious\u2014memories that have shown up so that I can live my true self once again. By repeatedly practicing cleaning, I learned anew how to treat myself, and I was able to take on the most precious work of restoring sacredness to all things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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