I think what your question is getting at is the time investment required for Distraction Methods vs Clearing Methods.

In a nutshell, Distraction Methods are generally easy and quick to apply but you need to keep applying them because they don't create a permanent shift in a vibrational setpoint. So, over the long run, they eat up vast amounts of time to keep providing temporary relief with little long-term benefit.

While you refer to Ho'oponopono as a cleaning/clearing method, I would tend to disagree that it is and instead I would put it in the category of Distraction Method. And I would suggest to you that is why it feels like you are using Ho'oponopono all the time.

In my view, the Ho'oponopono mantras...

• I love you
• I'm sorry
• Please forgive me
• Thank you

...are too "off-the-subject" to prevent reactivation of a painful subject in future, which is basically what genuine clearing methods achieve.

Instead they provide easy temporary relief, which is precisely what a Distraction Method does. But that's not to say there is anything wrong or bad about the approach. Distraction Methods are entirely appropriate on occasion.

For example, say, you've just crashed your car.

Now your mind is racing about how you can afford the repairs, about all the inconvenience that is going to result to people who rely on your car, about how you are going to get home without a car...and a gazillion other things that are clouding your judgement in that moment.

Those Ho'oponopono mantras will give you that quick and easy temporary relief in the moment to get your mind clear enough to probably think about how to get home at least.

But, once home, as you think about how to get your car repaired, consider the difference that the Ho'oponopono mantras would make compared to some focused belief-shoring statements.

Ho'oponopono statements approach to finding a car repair solution

• I love you
• I'm sorry
• Please forgive me
• Thank you

Focus Blocks/Wheels statements approach to finding a car repair solution

• Uncle Joe will be visiting tomorrow. Perhaps he can lend me his car for a while
• I've got some money put aside for emergencies. I can use that to pay for a repair
• Actually, the damage doesn't seem that bad. My friend Jimmy is quite good with cars. He might take a look at it and fix it for free
• Perhaps I can give my insurance company a call and see what they suggest. Since I'm such a long-standing customer, they might be willing to help me with the repairs without it affecting my policy

Hopefully, you can see which approach is more likely to permanently reduce the emotional pain connected with getting the car repaired.

Even if none of the belief-shoring statements (the Focus Blocks/Wheels statements) are valid options for you, the fact that you now directly feel better about the subject opens you up for possibilities to being inspired to a workable solution.

Having said all of this, you probably could use Ho'oponopono in a clearing method way if you tweaked the approach slightly. And that is to strongly elicit the bad-feeling state that, say, your car repair is bringing up within you and then - while deliberately keeping focused on the state - say the Ho'oponopono statements with the deliberate intention of neutralizing the state.

But even then, I'd say that EFT achieves this same result much more reliably and quickly.

As far as my own life is concerned, I rarely spend more than a handful of minutes a day in actual clearing time even when I feel I have lots to clear because I only use clearing to generate enough relief for me to use it as a stepping-stone to an aligned state.

I spend the vast, vast, vast majority of my life in good-feeling states, not trawling through bad-feeling ones looking for things to clean up.

If you stay dominantly focused on clearing/cleaning stuff long enough, the Law of Attraction will start to bring you more stuff to clean up...because that's where your dominant attention is focused.

You wanted some views...so there's my view :)