The existing reality is a creation of your mind
What is outside of yourself is in fact a mirrage of something inside of you, you could classify it as convictions, toughts or memory's. It is a theory wich is the contrary of the lessons we, westerlings have received and in wich the pressure of the christion-jo-ish traditions are enormeous. It is alot easyer for us to shift responsibility to others en play the role of victim: that is way more simple to not question yourself.
But it is not correct. Whatever happens, you are not the victim. You never have been! you and you alone are 100% responsible for everything that happens to you.
It seems in first instance hard to accept. But it is the key of the complete HO'OPONOPONOproces. That is why it is necesary to own this idea before you can use thet technique fully.
A negative tought shal create a negative reality!. With a positive tought you create a reality of harmony and peace. En in that moment you need to realize that everything is inside of yourself! This way of thinking is mostly quite hard to make it your own. Till now we lived in the assumption that the other is responsible and that the things we experience are comming from outside. With HO'OPONOPONO we just look at it inverted. In fact there is nothing that changes. We just did'nt know we where unconcious creating our own reality.