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Hawaiian scholar Nana Veary in her book Change We Must: My Spiritual Journey [12] wrote that hoʻoponopono was a practice in Ancient Hawaii [13]: 61–62, 67 and this is supported by oral histories from contemporary Hawaiian elders. [14] Pukui (born 1895) first recorded her experiences and observations from her childhood in her 1958 book.
Hoʻoponopono (ho-o-pono-pono) is an ancient practice in Hawaiian religion of reconciliation and forgiveness, combined with (repentance) prayers. Similar forgiveness practices were performed on islands throughout the South Pacific, including Samoa, Tahiti and New Zealand.
Morrnah was born May 19, 1913, in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Kimokeo and Lilia Simeona, both native Hawaiians. [1] Her mother, Lilia, was one of the last recognized kahuna laʻau kahea or priest who heals with words. [2]
Lomilomi (massage) was the only healing art legal to practice in 1819. [7] Though the practice was banned, kahuna continued to practice in secret. [10] However, beyond political turmoil, the integrity of the kahuna lā'au lapa'au was also threatened by the introduction of disease.
The tradition of Kapaemahu, like all pre-contact Hawaiian knowledge, was orally transmitted. [11] The first written account of the story is attributed to James Harbottle Boyd, and was published by Thomas G. Thrum under the title “Tradition of the Wizard Stones Ka-Pae-Mahu” in the Hawaiian Almanac and Annual for 1907, [1] and reprinted in 1923 under the title “The Wizard Stones of Ka-Pae ...
Huna (Hawaiian for "secret") is the word adopted by the New Age author Max Freedom Long (1890–1971) in 1936 to describe his theory of metaphysics.Long cited what he believed to be the spiritual practices of the ancient Hawaiian kahunas (priests) as inspiration; however, contemporary scholars consider the system to be his invention designed through a mixture of a variety of spiritual ...
Dec. 26—At the age of 54, nurse practitioner Drizza Tabisola-Nuesca continued to struggle so much with her remaining student debt of $50, 000 that she constantly looked at jobs on the mainland ...
As a healing practice of native healers -- kahuna lāʻau lapaʻau (healers) and kahuna hāhā (diagnosticians) As a luxury and an aid to digestion, especially by the ruling chiefs ; As restorative massage within the family; By ʻōlohe lua (masters of the Hawaiian martial arts)