HO'OPONOPONO Healing

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HO'OPONOPONO 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.

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> "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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