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Lāʻau lapaʻau is frequently accompanied by other traditional healing methods. These include lomilomi (massage), haha (diagnosis through feel), and ho'oponopono (family counseling). [6] Many practitioners of traditional Hawaiian medicine today employ a combination of healing techniques to holistically treat their patients. [11]
Although the word hoʻoponopono was not used, early Hawaiian historians documented a belief that illness was caused by breaking kapu, or spiritual laws, and that the illness could not be cured until the sufferer atoned for this transgression, often with the assistance of a praying priest (kahuna pule) or healing priest (kahuna lapaʻau).
The word has strong cultural and spiritual connotations of "a state of harmony or balance", and is the aim of the Hoʻoponopono practice. Pono is often used as in affirmative prayers , especially within Kanaka Maoli healing arts and the Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement .
Over the past 11 months, 931 Hawaiian healing sessions were provided, consisting of 797 lomilomi sessions and 134 kukakuka, or informal talk-story, sessions. ... Though the Hawaiian word means ...
Hawaiian surfing master Duke Kahanamoku may have been referred to as the Big Kahuna, but he rejected the term as he knew the original meaning. [20] In the New Age spiritual system known as Huna, which uses some Hawaiian words and concepts appropriated from Hawaiian tradition, [21] kahuna denotes someone of priestly or shamanic standing. [22]
The easiest recorded Hawaiian name of the stones was "Ka Pohaku Kahuna Kapaemahu," or the Healer Stones of Kapaemahu, correctly interpreting "Kahuna" as an expert in any field, in this case healing; however, the translation given at that time was the "Wizard Stones," which seems disrespectful by current standards.
The word lomilomi comes from the Hawaiian and Samoan languages. Lomi means "to knead.” The smooth flow of the strokes mimic the ocean waves. [1] It may also mean "to take and turn, to shift" as in "the sacred shift within you that is inspired by the healing kahuna," spoken twice for emphasis. [2]
The ruins of a healing heiau, Keaiwa ("the mysterious"), are located at the entrance to Keaiwa State Park in ʻAiea. [13] Puʻuhonua o Honaunau, in South Kona on the island of Hawaiʻi, is a place of refuge. It incorporates a heiau complex within it.