From Joe Vitale, coauthor of the book:
"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. 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. He would
say to himself "I'm sorry for creating you by seeing you as ill.(what
he was unknowingly doing that affected the mass consciousness of mankind
reflecting back as negativity in those susceptible).
I love you". 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
understood the truth)," he said.
"I didn't understand.
Principle is that we heal the world simply by
changing our mind about the world. The world you see is simply a projection
of your thoughts about it, strange as this may sound, but it has
to do with the fact of eternity; that is, there is no past and future in
eternity. Eternity is always in the present. Past and future exist only
in our minds, our memories, our expectations, our plans, dreams and hopes.
You cannot see what your attention
has bypassed. That's why many are not spiritual. Attention is elsewhere
for whatever reasons they may have and no doubt attention is elsewhere
because experiences and decisions were
haphazardly made along their way
of life to now, and in this, so much of life turns out to be just the 'spinning
of wheels'.
This is at first difficult, to say the least, for
many to understand. How can the world simply be a projection of thought
- and your thought only? This is nuts! But hey, we have much to
yet understand about the fantastic world of invisibility:.1Corinthians
13:12; 2:9. How can all you see, all you experience be caused by you, but
it is.
"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.".Ok,
let's assume
this is all true for now and see if we can do anything for us and the world.
"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..(true;
even here we see the oneness of the universe {John 9:1-3} but most of us
still believe in separateness; and remember that all the world's a stage)
"This means that terrorist
activity, the president, the economy, 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..(how
on Earth can this be?).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
Email 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."
Dr. Len's complete prayer is.(remember,
it's the attitude, it's what the words mean to.you):."I'm
sorry. Please forgive me. I love you! Thank you. The Great Infinite One
is blessing you now."
And, the long version from Morna Simeon.(Dr.
Len's teacher).is: "Divine
creator, father, mother, son as one ... If I, my family, relatives and
ancestors have offended you, your family, relatives and ancestors in thoughts,
words, deeds and actions from the beginning of our creation to the present,
we ask your forgiveness ...Let this cleanse, purify, release, cut all the
negative memories, blocks, energies and vibrations and transmute these
unwanted energies to pure light. And it is done."
And another version:."I'm
sorry I have caused this in you. I love you and will fix it.".How?
By looking at your own dark side.