{"id":11631,"date":"2026-05-22T17:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T08:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hooponopono-asia.org\/en\/?post_type=movie&#038;p=11631"},"modified":"2026-05-22T17:51:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T08:51:59","slug":"what-we-keep-searching-for","status":"publish","type":"movie","link":"https:\/\/hooponopono-asia.org\/en\/movie\/what-we-keep-searching-for\/","title":{"rendered":"What we keep searching for, and never quite find"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:rgba(26,43,74,0.55);margin-top:0;margin-bottom:36px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.8;letter-spacing:0.14em\">Instructor Irene Schwonek on the longing beneath every addiction<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a2b4a;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:40px;font-size:18px;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.10em;line-height:2.0\">What if every addiction \u2014 to YouTube, coffee, alcohol, even the past \u2014 is really a longing for something else? 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We notice ourselves returning, again and again, to the same place \u2014 a video stream, a glass, a screen. At first it brings something that feels like joy. Then, one day, it doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:rgba(26,43,74,0.92);margin-top:0;margin-bottom:28px;font-size:17px;letter-spacing:0.08em;line-height:2.1\">Schwonek&#8217;s response is unhurried. Addiction, she says, is rarely about the thing itself. It&#8217;s about a quieter hunger underneath \u2014 for love, for peace, for the simple feeling of returning home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group pullquote pullquote-jp\" style=\"border-top-color:rgba(26,43,74,0.22);border-top-width:1px;border-bottom-color:rgba(26,43,74,0.22);border-bottom-width:1px;margin-top:70px;margin-bottom:70px;padding-top:60px;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:60px;padding-left:0\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a2b4a;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;font-size:19px;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.18em;line-height:1.9\">&quot;Addiction is they can&#8217;t find love. That&#8217;s the real problem. It&#8217;s not the alcohol or binge watching. The problem is they have pain because of lack of love.&quot;<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:rgba(26,43,74,0.92);margin-top:0;margin-bottom:28px;font-size:17px;letter-spacing:0.08em;line-height:2.1\">When we cover that pain with substances or scrolling, we&#8217;re not failing. We&#8217;re searching. And when we begin to nourish ourselves with our own love, the substitutes quietly lose their grip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color\" style=\"color:#1a2b4a;margin-top:80px;margin-bottom:32px;font-size:28px;font-style:normal;font-weight:300;letter-spacing:0.22em;line-height:1.6\">The memories we carry from childhood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:rgba(26,43,74,0.92);margin-top:0;margin-bottom:28px;font-size:17px;letter-spacing:0.08em;line-height:2.1\">The conversation turns to something Irene Taira recognizes in herself \u2014 small habits she still carries from a childhood of financial worry. Walking into a supermarket, her eyes still find the discount rack first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group pullquote pullquote-jp\" style=\"border-top-color:rgba(26,43,74,0.22);border-top-width:1px;border-bottom-color:rgba(26,43,74,0.22);border-bottom-width:1px;margin-top:70px;margin-bottom:70px;padding-top:60px;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:60px;padding-left:0\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a2b4a;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;font-size:19px;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.18em;line-height:1.9\">&quot;I don&#8217;t say that&#8217;s bad. But I realize how much I&#8217;m still living in that situation.&quot;<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:rgba(26,43,74,0.92);margin-top:0;margin-bottom:28px;font-size:17px;letter-spacing:0.08em;line-height:2.1\">Schwonek listens, then offers a familiar Ho&#8217;oponopono framing: we are grown now, and the experiences we have today are made of memories or of inspiration. The way through isn&#8217;t to analyze the memory or chase its origin. It&#8217;s something simpler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group pullquote pullquote-jp\" style=\"border-top-color:rgba(26,43,74,0.22);border-top-width:1px;border-bottom-color:rgba(26,43,74,0.22);border-bottom-width:1px;margin-top:70px;margin-bottom:70px;padding-top:60px;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:60px;padding-left:0\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a2b4a;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;font-size:19px;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.18em;line-height:1.9\">&quot;You are responsible for your experiences now.&quot;<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color\" style=\"color:#1a2b4a;margin-top:80px;margin-bottom:32px;font-size:28px;font-style:normal;font-weight:300;letter-spacing:0.22em;line-height:1.6\">Beneath every emotion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:rgba(26,43,74,0.92);margin-top:0;margin-bottom:28px;font-size:17px;letter-spacing:0.08em;line-height:2.1\">When something catches us \u2014 a small ache walking through a familiar place \u2014 there&#8217;s almost always an emotion underneath. Schwonek asks us to name it. *What is it?*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:rgba(26,43,74,0.92);margin-top:0;margin-bottom:28px;font-size:17px;letter-spacing:0.08em;line-height:2.1\">For Taira, the answer is sadness. A quiet sadness that visits in supermarkets and other unexpected moments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group pullquote pullquote-jp\" style=\"border-top-color:rgba(26,43,74,0.22);border-top-width:1px;border-bottom-color:rgba(26,43,74,0.22);border-bottom-width:1px;margin-top:70px;margin-bottom:70px;padding-top:60px;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:60px;padding-left:0\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a2b4a;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;font-size:19px;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.18em;line-height:1.9\">&quot;It&#8217;s in your system, in your Unihipili. And you don&#8217;t know why. It could be from your childhood, or it could be sadness from your grandfather, your great-grandmother, some other ancestor.&quot;<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:rgba(26,43,74,0.92);margin-top:0;margin-bottom:28px;font-size:17px;letter-spacing:0.08em;line-height:2.1\">The sadness isn&#8217;t a problem to solve. It&#8217;s a memory asking to be released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color\" style=\"color:#1a2b4a;margin-top:80px;margin-bottom:32px;font-size:28px;font-style:normal;font-weight:300;letter-spacing:0.22em;line-height:1.6\">Detect, and set yourself free<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:rgba(26,43,74,0.92);margin-top:0;margin-bottom:28px;font-size:17px;letter-spacing:0.08em;line-height:2.1\">Schwonek&#8217;s invitation is simple, and it&#8217;s the practice itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group pullquote pullquote-jp\" style=\"border-top-color:rgba(26,43,74,0.22);border-top-width:1px;border-bottom-color:rgba(26,43,74,0.22);border-bottom-width:1px;margin-top:70px;margin-bottom:70px;padding-top:60px;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:60px;padding-left:0\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a2b4a;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;font-size:19px;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.18em;line-height:1.9\">&quot;The best is, when it comes up, to detect it. To say, &#8216;Oh, I feel this emotion of sadness.&#8217; Or to talk to your Unihipili. There&#8217;s this sadness again. Look, we have the sadness again \u2014 but we can let it go.&quot;<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:rgba(26,43,74,0.92);margin-top:0;margin-bottom:28px;font-size:17px;letter-spacing:0.08em;line-height:2.1\">There&#8217;s no need to find the cause. Sometimes we will never know what happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group pullquote pullquote-jp\" style=\"border-top-color:rgba(26,43,74,0.22);border-top-width:1px;border-bottom-color:rgba(26,43,74,0.22);border-bottom-width:1px;margin-top:70px;margin-bottom:70px;padding-top:60px;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:60px;padding-left:0\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a2b4a;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;font-size:19px;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.18em;line-height:1.9\">&quot;When you set yourself free from this emotion, then you set everyone free, even your parents, because they are connected. 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