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ON SELF-HEALING 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. http://hooponopono.org/Articles/beyond_traditional_means.html Beyond Traditional Means: Ho'oponopono An interview with ... Morrnah Simeona and Dr. Stan Hew Len* by Deborah King -- frequent contributor to the New Times We can appeal to Divinity who knows our personal blueprint, for healing of all thoughts and memories that are holding us back at this time, softly shares Morrnah Simeona. It is a matter of going beyond traditional means of accessing knowledge about ourselves. The process that Morrnah refers to is based on the ancient Hawaiian method of stress reduction (release) and problem solving called Ho'oponopono. The word Ho'oponopono means to make right, to rectify an error. Morrnah is a native Hawaiian Kahuna Lapa'au. Kahuna means keeper of the secret and Lapa'au means a specialist in healing. She was chosen to be a kahuna while still a small child and received her gift of healing at the age of three. She is the daughter of a member of the court of Queen Liliuokalani, the last sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands. The process that is now brought forth is a modernization of an ancient spiritual cleansing ritual. It has proven so effective that she has been invited to teach this method at the United Nations, the World Health Organization and at institutions of healing throughout the world. How does Ho'oponopono work? Morrnah explains, We are the sum total of our experiences, which is to say that we are burdened by our pasts. When we experience stress or fear in our lives, if we would look carefully, we would find that the cause is actually a memory. It is the emotions which are tied to these memories which affect us now. The subconscious associates an action or person in the present with something that happened in the past. When this occurs, emotions are activated and stress is produced. She continues, The main purpose of this process is to discover the Divinity within oneself. The Ho'oponopono is a profound gift which allows one to develop a working relationship with the Divinity within and learn to ask that in each moment, our errors in thought, word, deed or action be cleansed. The process is essentially about freedom, complete freedom from the past. Every memory of every experience, since the first moment of our creation, eons ago, is recorded as a thought form which is stored in the etheric realm. This incredible recorder/computer is also known as the subconscious, unihipili or child aspect within us. The inner child is very real and comprises one part of the Self. The other aspects are the mother, also known as the uhane or rational mind and the father, the superconscious or Spiritual aspect. The three comprise the inner family, which, in partnership with The Divine Creator, makes up one's Self I-Dentity. Every human being in creation, every plant, atom and molecule has these three selves and yet each blueprint is completely different. The most important task for people is to find his or her true identity and place in the Universe. This process allows that understanding to become available. The purpose of Ho'oponopono is to: 1) Connect with the Divinity within on a moment-to-moment basis; 2) To ask that movement and all it contains, be cleansed. Only the Divinity can do that. Only the Divinity can erase or correct memories and thought forms. Since the Divinity created us, only the Divinity knows what is going on with a person. In this system, there is no need to analyze, solve, manage or cope with problems. Since the Divinity created everything, you can just go directly to Him and ask that it be corrected and cleansed. In the area of problem solving: the world is a reflection of what is happening inside us. If you are experiencing upset or imbalance, the place to look is inside yourself, not outside at the object you perceive as causing your problem. Every stress, imbalance or illness can be corrected just by working on yourself. It is important to mention that this system is fundamentally different from other forms of Ho'oponopono. In traditional methods, everyone who is involved in a problem needs to be physically present and work it out together. In Morrnah's system everything can be handled by you and the Divinity. You don't need to go one inch outside yourself for answers or help. There is no one who can give you any more relevant information than you can get by going within yourself. Morrnah especially recommends Ho'oponopono for those in the healing profession. It is important to clear Karmic patterns with your clients before you start working with them, so that you don't activate old stuff between you. Perhaps, you shouldn't be working with that person at all. Only the Divinity knows. If you work with a person and it isn't your business, you can take on the person's entire problem and everything associated with it. This can cause burnout. The Ho'oponopono gives the tools to prevent that from happening. Morrnah wished for our Western society that everyone would do things to reduce the stress. Western people have great difficulty in putting the intellect behind. It is difficult for the Western mind to get a grasp of a Higher Being because in traditional Western churches, the Higher Beings are not made evident. She continues, Western man has gone to the extremes with his intellectualism it divides and keeps people separate. Man then becomes a destroyer because he manages and copes rather than letting the perpetuating force of the Divinity flow through him for right action. Morrnah works with her associate, Dr. Stanley Hew Len, who spent several years as a consulting clinical psychologist at the Hawaii State Hospital. He has had profound results by using this process with the most dangerous, violently mentally ill criminals in Hawaii. Yet he never talks to them, in fact, he never even sees them. He writes down their name and then just works on himself. He cleanses his judgments, beliefs, attitudes and asks the Divinity what he can do for the person. As those attachments and memories are cleansed, the patient improves. The Divinity, comments Stan, says it is time to bring all the children home. [* also known as Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len] Founded by Kahuna Lapa’au, Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona, The Foundation of I, Inc. Freedom of the Cosmos prese nts Self Identity Ho’oponopono classes throughout the world.
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Opportunities on the event horizon
by Jim Channon Oil companies realize they are liquid transportation companies and
start to move fresh water to needy places on the planet. Major engineering companies respond to rising seas and create canals
that take the excess water into barren lowlands inside the continents
where it is needed. The national military forces of the planet merge to form natural
security teams and restore their respective parts of the earth's forests,
plant life, watersheds, wildlife and the biosphere above all that. That schools recognize that content is already available on line and
change their courses to life skills, learning based pursuits, and a new
partnership with nature. That Universities build upon the science of conscious evolution, a
visionary mindset, and life force living intelligence and then structure
their experience based curricula to that end. That government decentralizes into bioregions and organizes military
units, school kids, fire departments and others to generate food foraging
forests in all available sites for complete global food security. That neighborhoods take on a wide variety of energy producing solutions
to become fully independent but not totally separate from the power grid. That web-based democracies attend to their regionally
based constituents and use the global web intelligence system to optimize
local living. That railheads, airports, and warehouses converge to be
able to launch global air rescue missions that deliver major emergency
living villages to all peoples globally within hours of a disaster. That the global public achieves a clear unifying identity and the
pre-emptive political power to defang the nuclear arsenal and its fear
based factions while offering alternative product lines for the military
industrial complex. That we accept the notion that life is more likely to exist in the
galaxy than not and prepare for the real benefits of new connections. That we embrace a new level of profound simplicity and reintroduce
creativity as a replacement for things and mindless entertainment.
A New Year's Offering For You
Thought for the Day
CALL ON YOUR MIGHTY
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