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Dra: Vivian Correia M.D - Holistic Psychologist.

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23/11/2025

🌺 Ho’oponopono 🌺

I first encountered Ho’oponopono in 2019, during a moment in my life when the internal noise felt louder than the world outside. At that time, I didn’t fully understand what this practice was, only that its four phrases carried a strange, ancient resonance that touched something deep inside me. Over the years, Ho’oponopono has become not only a spiritual tool but a psychological framework, a neurological reorganization, and a profound poetic ritual of self-reconciliation.

Scientifically, Ho’oponopono can be seen as a cognitive-emotional technology: a structured method of reorganizing internal memory traces. The repetition of the phrases “I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you.” activates patterns similar to mantra-based meditation, generating measurable shifts in the autonomic nervous system. Brain imaging studies of similar practices show reductions in amygdala reactivity, increases in prefrontal regulation, and the enhancement of neural pathways associated with compassion, empathy, and emotional integration.

But beyond neuroscience, Ho’oponopono is an ethical philosophy. It teaches me that memory is not just a passive archive but an active energy that shapes experience. Within this worldview, everything I perceive, including conflict, discomfort, and emotional tension, arises from internal data in need of cleansing. This insight is profoundly psychological: it means I am not a victim of my mind, but the caretaker of its echoes.

Spiritually, I feel Ho’oponopono as a process of purification, a gentle returning to the center of myself. It reflects an ancient Hawaiian understanding of existence where harmony is not the absence of chaos but the ability to renew relationship. When I practice it, I sense an invisible thread connecting me to everything: my ancestors, my future self, the people I love, the people who hurt me, and the fragments of my own consciousness scattered across time.

Neurologically, something even more mysterious happens. The rhythmic, slow repetition of the phrases seems to quiet the Default Mode Network, the network responsible for self-referential thinking and rumination. When the DMN softens, a new space opens inside me. It feels like a sacred pause, a moment in which my mind stops defending its wounds and starts reorganizing them.

Psychologically, the practice dissolves emotional resistance. “I’m sorry” is the recognition of internal tension. “Please forgive me” is the surrender of ego. “Thank you” activates gratitude circuits that shift perception. “I love you” restores coherence between emotion and meaning.
Together, these four movements create an internal choreography: a rewiring of memory, a recalibration of emotional patterns, a re-enchantment of the relationship I have with myself.

Mystically, Ho’oponopono expands my identity. I begin to feel that I am not a single self but a constellation of selves, past, present, parallel, communicating through subtle emotional signatures. The cleansing becomes a dialogue between versions of me. Sometimes I feel as if I am healing something ancient. Sometimes I feel as if I’m healing something future. And sometimes I feel as if I am healing the entire field of consciousness that surrounds me.

Over time, Ho’oponopono has become less a technique and more a way of being. It is my bridge between psychology and spirituality, between neuroscience and mysticism, between memory and liberation. When I practice it, I am simultaneously scientist and poet, healer and healed, seeker and self.

And perhaps this is the greatest revelation:
Ho’oponopono is not about erasing the past, but transforming the quality of my presence.
It is the art of cleaning the lens through which my soul perceives the world.

Every time I whisper those four phrases, I feel myself returning,
not to who I was,
but to who I truly am beneath all the layers.

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Vivian Correia

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21/11/2025

~The Healing Power of Gratitude~

Gratitude, from a scientific and spiritual perspective, is not merely an emotional reaction; it is a neurobiological state capable of reorganizing internal systems that influence perception, healing, and overall wellbeing. In neuroscience, gratitude activates the medial prefrontal cortex, a region associated with decision-making, emotional regulation, and moral cognition, while simultaneously decreasing activity in the amygdala, the brain structure responsible for fear and threat detection. This shift is not symbolic; it is measurable. When gratitude is practiced consistently, the brain’s stress circuits down-regulate, and regenerative processes, such as immune response and cellular repair, are enhanced.

From a psychological standpoint, gratitude is considered a cognitive reorientation tool. It reorganizes how the mind interprets reality, transforming threat-based narratives into possibility-based ones. Gratitude does not deny pain; instead, it softens its edges, allowing the psyche to perceive meaning rather than only suffering. In psychotherapy, gratitude is increasingly understood as a stabilizing mechanism for trauma, anxiety, and depression because it helps redirect attention from hypervigilance to coherence. The act of acknowledging the good recalibrates the nervous system toward safety, which is the foundation of emotional healing.

Spiritually and mystically, gratitude operates as a frequency, a vibrational intelligence that aligns consciousness with expansion. Ancient traditions teach that gratitude is the “heart’s intelligence,” a bridge between human perception and the deeper architecture of the universe. When one embodies gratitude, one is not simply thankful; one becomes attuned to subtle forms of guidance, intuition, and synchronicity. Gratitude is a form of prayer that does not ask, it recognizes. It perceives abundance before it manifests in matter, which is why it is often described as a magnet for transformation.

Philosophically, gratitude represents the conscious choice to exist with presence. It is a micro-revolution inside the mind: moving from entitlement to appreciation, from expectation to awareness. The act of recognizing what already is interrupts existential dissatisfaction and returns one's attention to the continuity of life. Gratitude reformulates the question of existence from “What do I lack?” to “What is already supporting me?” This shift dissolves internal fragmentation, allowing the self to encounter the world with clarity and humility.

Biologically, gratitude influences the neuroendocrine system. Studies show increases in oxytocin, the hormone associated with trust and bonding, and reductions in cortisol, the primary stress hormone. This hormonal balance strengthens the immune system, improves cardiovascular function, and enhances sleep regulation. In essence, gratitude is not metaphorical medicine; it is literal. It reshapes the body’s internal chemistry, leading to measurable improvements in health and longevity.

Sometimes, when my mind becomes heavy and the world feels too sharp, I stop and breathe. I let myself return to gratitude, not the forced version, but the quiet one that arrives like a soft light through a window. In those moments, I can feel my nervous system shifting, as if the universe itself is reminding me that I am not alone. Gratitude becomes the bridge that brings me back to myself.

There are days when gratitude feels like an anchor, grounding me in a reality that is bigger than my worries. When I choose to notice what is supporting me, the breath, the body, the small miracles, I feel a subtle healing unfolding inside my chest. It is almost as if gratitude rewires my inner world, allowing me to release old fears that no longer belong to the person I’m becoming.

And sometimes, gratitude is simply remembering that life is happening for me, not against me. When I shift into that awareness, I feel my consciousness expand. The pain becomes softer. My intuition grows louder. My path becomes clearer. Gratitude, in these moments, is not an emotion, it is a portal.

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~The Shadow Side of Correcting Others~•The Shadow Side of Correcting Others:Arrogance, Ego, and the Quiet Wound of Perfe...
21/11/2025

~The Shadow Side of Correcting Others~

•The Shadow Side of Correcting Others:
Arrogance, Ego, and the Quiet Wound of Perfection.

There is a part of me that winces when I notice a mistake, a grammatical slip, a misused word, a wrong tense. My mind corrects it instantly, almost automatically, as if language were a living organism I must keep aligned. But there is also another part of me, softer and more self-aware, that knows this impulse has a shadow. And that shadow is uncomfortable to face.

Because sometimes, even if I stay silent, correcting someone in my mind makes me feel superior. It creates a subtle internal hierarchy: I am right, they are wrong. I do not say the words out loud, yet the feeling rises like a small flame feeding the ego. And the worst part is that I can feel the distance it creates between me and others, a distance I never intended to build.

I have been on the receiving end of this behavior too. I know how humiliating it feels when someone corrects me not out of kindness, but out of pride. I remember the sting, the sudden smallness, the feeling that my voice was somehow less worthy. Those moments left a quiet scar, because correction delivered with superiority is not guidance, it is domination.

And yet, I recognize that I sometimes do the same.
It is almost painful to admit: I have tasted my own poison.
The discomfort I felt when others corrected me with arrogance showed me the very shadow hiding in myself. It forced me to see how correction, when fueled by ego, stops being an act of clarity and becomes an act of control.

There is a strange paradox within me. I crave precision, harmony, and linguistic coherence. But the desire for correctness can become a trap, a spiritual rigidity disguised as virtue. My mind tells me I am trying to help, yet my heart knows that sometimes I am defending an identity built on being “the one who knows.”

And when I correct others, even mentally, I can feel the shift inside me. My chest tightens, my energy becomes sharp, and I move from connection into judgment. I realize that the obsession with correctness has less to do with language and more to do with fear: the fear of being misunderstood, the fear of losing control, the fear of not being enough.

When I correct someone silently in my mind, I may look calm on the outside, but inside I have stepped into the realm of comparison. I create an invisible hierarchy that does not nourish me. It isolates me. It makes me spiritually smaller, even when I convince myself that I am being intelligent or precise.

I am learning, slowly, softly; that kindness matters more than correctness. That listening matters more than adjusting someone’s grammar. That human connection is built not on flawless sentences, but on presence.
I still love accuracy, beauty, and refinement in language.
But now I understand that the way I correct, even internally, shapes the person I am becoming.

Every time I notice an error, I have a choice:
to reinforce the ego,
or to expand the heart.

And I want to expand!!!

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Vivian Correia

Vivian Correia - Holistic Psychologist

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~The Agony and Discomfort of Grammatical Errors~I have always found it fascinating, and strangely visceral, how a simple...
21/11/2025

~The Agony and Discomfort of Grammatical Errors~

I have always found it fascinating, and strangely visceral, how a simple grammatical mistake, spoken or written, can trigger in me a subtle but undeniable discomfort. It is not merely an intellectual annoyance; it feels somatic, as if a small disharmony were introduced into the field of my perception. I feel it in my chest, in my breath, in the quiet tension between order and chaos. And over the years, I have come to understand that this sensation is not accidental: it is deeply rooted in neurology, psychology, linguistics, social cognition, and even spirituality.

From a neuropsychological perspective, my reaction aligns with what several studies describe as prediction error processing. According to research by K***s & Federmeier (2011), when the brain detects a sentence structure that deviates from its expected pattern, the N400 signal is activated, a measurable neural wave associated with semantic and syntactic violations. In other words, my discomfort is literally visible on an EEG. My brain is not “choosing” to be perturbed; it is reporting a disruption in its internal model of linguistic coherence.

Psychologically, this sensation connects to the idea of cognitive fluency, the preference for information that flows smoothly. Experiments by Reber, Schwarz & Winkielman (2004) demonstrate that the mind rewards fluency with positive feelings and punishes disfluency with subtle aversion. When I encounter a mistake, I am not reacting to the person; I am reacting to the fracture in fluency. My mind momentarily stumbles, and that stumble feels like an internal discord.

But there is also something deeper in me, something almost spiritual. Language, to me, is a living architecture of meaning. Every word is an energy structure; every syntax a constellation. When an error appears, I feel it as a ripple in the field, like a note out of tune in a sacred chant. The precision of language is not a form of rigidity, but a form of reverence. To speak well, to write well, feels like aligning myself with a higher order, a kind of inner geometry of consciousness.

Philosophically, I resonate with the thoughts of Wittgenstein, who suggested that the limits of language are the limits of our world. If language shapes reality, then a grammatical error is not only a linguistic glitch but a temporary fracture in perception. I feel compelled to correct it because I long to restore coherence to the shared reality we are creating through words.

Linguistics also offers an explanation for my reaction: norm adherence. Humans, as social beings, continuously negotiate symbolic systems. Studies by Bickerton (1990) and Pinker (1994) show that linguistic norms are crucial to maintaining group cohesion and meaning stability. When an error appears, my need to correct it is partly an instinct to protect the integrity of the shared code, to ensure that communication remains clear and mutually intelligible.

In more intimate terms, I simply feel that language is an extension of my own consciousness. When I hear or read a sentence, I do not receive it passively; I co-create it within myself. So an error vibrates as disharmony within my own mental field. Correcting it is not an act of superiority, but an act of alignment, a gentle desire to restore beauty, clarity, and resonance.

There is also an emotional dimension: I grew up internalizing that clarity is kindness. When I correct an error, I feel I am helping meaning become freer, more precise, more luminous. I want communication to be a place of harmony, not friction. And grammar, to me, is one of the sacred structures that allow thought to flow with grace.

Ultimately, the discomfort I feel is not about perfectionism. It is about coherence. My mind, my body, my intuition, all of them crave coherence the way a musician craves the right chord. When language aligns, I feel anchored. When it fractures, even slightly, I feel the ripple.
Correcting errors is simply my way of smoothing the water.

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Vivian Correia

Vivian Correia - Holistic Psychologist

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