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Joe Vitale is a very well known figure in internet business "with a spiritual twist", so the happenings he reports in the below article showing how we can
heal others by concentrating on love are very likely to be true* (but see the Important Update 2014 below). While they
may sound unbelievable to the "non-initiate", they perfectly tally with
the concepts espoused by recent authors and books such as ACIM
(A Course in Miracles), Conversations With God and Seth & also
echo C.G.Jung's pioneering study of the role of 'projection'.
All of the former three underline that we (at least co-)
create the reality we perceive, & the great personal
and global healing potential inherent in
recognizing our responsibility and
cultivating an attitude of love.
*Important Update 2014
A comment re the book "Zero Limits" found at www.amazon.com/review/R2WOO07JXTFDH2/ref=cm_cr_pr_cmt?ie=UTF8&AS IN=0470101474 as well as the German pages www.pacificaseminars.de/hawaii-state-hospital.htm and
www.pacificaseminars.de/morrnah-simeona-vs-hew-len.htm say that the true Ho'oponopono teaching and story are NOT not as promulgated by Joe Vitale in the below article Ho'oponopono — Miracle Healing From Hawaii.
I came across the evidence presented above as I was researching the recent (very surprising) death of the author of "Cosmic Ordering" and similar
"anything is easily attainable" books, Bärbel Mohr (according to whom any desired reality can simply be ordered from the universe). Mohr died (at age 46)
of cancer (in spite of a very healthy lifestyle) and among other things, apparently had taught a presumably "falsified" version of Ho'oponopono (see the German discussion of this matter at
http://bewusstseinblog.alex-energies.org — one can use http://translate.google.com/ to get an idea what the above sites are talking about).
Personally, I find the evidence presented in the above-stated links convincing and would encourage the reader to further research the issue before deciding
whether to indeed adopt the spiritual practice explained in the following — personally I will certainly not.
Ho'oponopono — Miracle Healing From Hawaii
HO'OPONOPONO by Joe Vitale
Two years ago, I heard about a therapist in Hawaii who cured a complete ward of criminally insane patients--without ever seeing any of them. The psychologist would study an inmate"s chart and then look within himself to see how he created that person's illness. As he improved himself, the patient improved.
When I first heard this story, I thought it was an urban legend. How could anyone heal anyone else by healing himself? How could even the best self-improvement master cure the criminally insane? It didn"t make any sense. It wasn't logical, so I dismissed the story.
However, I heard it again a year later. I heard that the therapist had used a Hawaiian healing process called ho 'oponopono. I had never heard of it, yet I couldn't let it leave my mind. If the story was at all true, I had to know more. I had always understood "total responsibility" to mean that I am responsible for what I think and do. Beyond that, it's out of my hands. I think that most people think of
total responsibility that way. We"re responsible for what we do, not what anyone else does--but that's wrong.
The Hawaiian therapist who healed those mentally ill people would teach me an
advanced new perspective about total responsibility. His name is Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len. We probably spent an hour talking on our first phone call. I asked him to
tell me the complete story of his work as a therapist.
He explained that he worked at Hawaii State Hospital for four years.
That ward where they kept the criminally insane was dangerous.
Psychologists quit on a monthly basis. The staff called in sick a lot or simply quit.
People would walk through that ward with their backs against the wall, afraid of being attacked by patients. It was not a pleasant place to live, work, or visit.
Dr. Len told me that he never saw patients. He agreed to have an office and to
review their files. While he looked at those files, he would work on himself. As he worked on himself, patients began to heal.
"After a few months, patients that had to be shackled were being allowed to walk
freely," he told me. "Others who had to be heavily medicated were getting off their medications. And those who had no chance of ever being released were
being freed." I was in awe. "Not only that," he went on, "but the staff began to enjoy coming to work.
Absenteeism and turnover disappeared. We ended up with more staff than we
needed because patients were being released, and all the staff was showing up to work. Today, that ward is closed."
This is where I had to ask the million dollar question: "What were you doing within
yourself that caused those people to change?"
"I was simply healing the part of me that created them,"
he said. I didn't understand. Dr. Len explained that total responsibility for your life means that everything in your life--simply because it is in your life--is your responsibility. In a
literal sense the entire world is your creation.
Whew. This is tough to swallow. Being responsible for what I say or do is one
thing. Being responsible for what everyone in my life says or does is quite another. Yet, the truth is this: if you take complete responsibility for your life, then
everything you see, hear, taste, touch, or in any way experience is your responsibility because it is in your life. This means that terrorist activity, the
president, the economy or anything you experience and don't like--is up for you to heal. They don't exist, in a manner of speaking, except as projections
from inside you. The problem isn't with them, it's with you, and to change them, you have to change you.
I know this is tough to grasp, let alone accept or actually live.
Blame is far easier than total responsibility, but as I spoke with Dr. Len, I began to realize that healing for him and in ho 'oponopono means loving yourself.
If you want to improve your life, you have to heal your life. If you want to cure anyone, even a mentally ill criminal you do it by healing you.
I asked Dr. Len how he went about healing himself. What was he doing, exactly,
when he looked at those patients' files?
"I just kept saying, 'I'm sorry' and 'I love you' over and over again," he explained.
"That's it?"
"That's it."
Turns out that
loving yourself is the greatest way to improve yourself, and as you improve yourself, you improve your world.
Let me give you a quick example of how this works: one day, someone sent me an
email that upset me. In the past I would have handled it by working on my emotional hot buttons or by trying to reason with the person who sent the nasty message.
This time, I decided to try Dr. Len's method. I kept silently saying, "I'm sorry" and
"I love you," I didn't say it to anyone in particular. I was simply evoking the spirit of love to heal within me what was creating the outer circumstance.
Within an hour I got an e-mail from the same person. He apologized for his
previous message. Keep in mind that I didn't take any outward action to get that apology. I didn't even write him back. Yet, by saying "I love you," I somehow healed within me what was creating him.
I later attended a ho 'oponopono workshop run by Dr. Len. He's now 70 years old,
considered a grandfatherly shaman, and is somewhat reclusive.
He praised my book, The Attractor Factor. He told me that as I improve myself, my
book's vibration will raise, and everyone will feel it when they read it. In short, as I improve, my readers will improve.
"What about the books that are already sold and out there?" I asked.
"They aren't out there," he explained, once again blowing my mind with his mystic
wisdom. "They are still in you." In short, there is no out there. It would take a whole book to explain this advanced technique with the depth it deserves.
"Suffice it to say that whenever you want to improve anything in your life, there's
only one place to look: inside you. When you look, do it with love."
The words of Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len:
" Ho'oponopono is really very simple. For the ancient Hawaiians, all problems begin as thought. But having a thought is not the problem. So what's the problem? The
problem is that all our thoughts are imbued with painful memories, memories of persons, places, or things.
The intellect working alone can't solve these problems, because the intellect only
manages. Managing things is no way to solve problems. You want to let them go! When you do Ho'oponopono, what happens is that the Divinity takes the painful
thought and neutralizes or purifies it. You don't purify the person, place, or thing. You neutralize the energy you associate with that person, place, or thing. So the
first stage of Ho'oponopono is the purification of that energy.
Now something wonderful happens. Not only does that energy get neutralized; it
also gets released, so there's a brand new slate. Buddhists call it the Void. The final step is that you allow the Divinity to come in and fill the void with light.
To do Ho'oponopono, you don't have to know what the problem or error is. All you have to do is notice any problem you are experiencing physically, mentally,
emotionally, whatever. Once you notice, your responsibility is to immediately begin to clean, to say, "I'm sorry. Please forgive me."
Note: A somewhat similar protocol is used in past-life hypnotherapy via reliving
the past and forgiving oneself.
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