I think there is some benefit to just mentally saying, "I love you, I'm sorry for the error in my thinking that created this 'problem.'" But at this point, I don't know the rest of the process--I read all the articles online, etc. It feels intuitively true for me that I may need to just not go looking for it or try to figure it out. I might not have the whole process, or the official method or whatever, but if I can reach the shift in my perspective that is the benefit of hooponopono, then I have received the gift from it.

I know I'm in for a real benefit when I have a difficult time with a particular module. That is a sign to me that it is going straight to the biggest areas of resistance in my mind.

So far, I'm still feeling extremely anxious about where I stand with people, and I create them judging me in my mind. I've been aware of this habit for a few years, and it comes and goes with varying intensity. Now, I have a deeper feeling-awareness of it, where before I mostly had an intellectual grasp. At first this emotional awareness of what I had been doing to myself was really hard to take. But on another level I know that the past isn't "real" either.

Peace--not quite yet. Deeper awareness that is hard to fully put into words? Yes. And there's some relief in that, even if the process is making things seem temporarily worse.