August 19, 2006

• Well Helloooo and Happy Weekend !!

  
  

  I am a Minister and I am on a wonderful mail list that other Ministers share stories on - this morning I got a story that was really worth sharing on this blog . You are going to love it .. enjoy !!  xoxoxoooxoox C xoxooxxoxoxoxoxxo

  
  

  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."

  
  

   

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

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