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Topic: Inspirational Alternative Healing
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Hexxie
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posted July 19, 2006 11:47 AM
 
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.
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"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."
~Linda Myers "Whatever you are giving your attention to activates the same vibration in you. It becomes your point of attraction; it becomes your point of allowing. It might be a good idea for you to decide what you want to make active within your vibration."
~Abraham-Hicks In Love and Light...
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`Who are you?' said the Caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, `I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.'
~Lewis Carroll
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posted July 19, 2006 02:12 PM
An excellent post. Thank you.  ------------------
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posted July 20, 2006 01:16 AM
wow that's fantastic. IP: Logged |
Hexxie
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posted July 20, 2006 11:37 AM
I think i'm still assimilating what this article has said! I mean, I knew I was personally responsible, but personally personally responsible... wow, just wow! Pretty cool!------------------
`Who are you?' said the Caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, `I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.'
~Lewis Carroll
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posted July 20, 2006 11:50 AM
Really deep. But you can never be responsible for another person's illness. Choose a different word.------------------
And I will give thee the treasures of darkness
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26taurus
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posted July 21, 2006 12:17 PM
Thanks so much for posting this!! I wanted to jump out of my seat...up and down....something. Because this is what I've been knowing lately. 
Thank you, thank you!I'm passing this on. 
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26taurus
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posted July 21, 2006 12:18 PM
quote:
"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.
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Hexxie
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posted July 21, 2006 12:46 PM
Greetings, how d'ya do maklhouf?!I must say that when I read the above article, what you had said "But you can never be responsible for another person's illness. Choose a different word." did not even occur to me. It was not even in my perception! Upon thinking over what you wrote I would like to say that there are different kinds of responsibility. I did not 'get' that one is responsible for creating the ills of the world (or in a single other human being for that matter). What I did 'get' is that if a person, who happens to have whatever illness, has come into one's life (or even just the knowledge of that person has come into one's life) what am I going to do about it, if anything? Why did I attract that into my life, however distant (i.e. is it a close friend or just something seen on the news?!) I do not think one has to necessarily become an 'activist' to help out 'cuz it begins with/inside the self! It sort of reminds me of this quote: "We must become the change we want to see in the world."
~Mohandas Gandhi I think it's really about getting more humans to open their heart chakras and help one another & this spinning ball we call Earth  ------------------
`Who are you?' said the Caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, `I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.'
~Lewis Carroll
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26taurus
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posted July 21, 2006 12:49 PM
I  you, Hexxie.  IP: Logged |
Hexxie
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posted July 21, 2006 12:54 PM
Love ya too 26T!!
Seems as if you caught my post before I slightly edited it to my liking hehe! I DO have Mercury in detailed Virgo (which is my Chart Ruler) so it just has to be perfect hehehe  ------------------
`Who are you?' said the Caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, `I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.'
~Lewis Carroll
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artlovesdawn
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posted July 21, 2006 01:37 PM
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ScorpioRising
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posted July 21, 2006 01:38 PM
AMAZING! Does this man have any books out? I would love to read more about this!IP: Logged |
26taurus
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posted July 23, 2006 04:33 AM
artlovesdawn, I was thinking the same thing recently. I've grown so much in the two years that I've been a member of the site.  Hexxie, My moon in Virgo thinks everything you write comes from a place of perfection. 
I really love reading your posts. Thank you.  IP: Logged |
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posted July 24, 2006 12:59 AM
Thanks a lot Hexxie! = )IP: Logged |
Devilfish
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posted July 26, 2006 10:35 AM
this topic has become very personal to me.if you want to understand why read my post under the topic lymphoma.
Thank you so much for posting this.
i want to mention another experience i had with this topic.
recently as i sat in the doctors waiting room there was an old man carrying some type of body fluid bag that was attached to him with a tube running up his shorts.he keep nodding his head from side to side moaning and was with some type of case worker.
i felt so bad for him , he looked so disturbed.when he sat down people moved and did not want to sit by him cause it was so sad.
i remembered this post and begin to think of love. i love you i thought , i know you are hurting and im sorry you are ,i love you.
then i got flashes in my minds eye and could see him as a boy in a poor abusive family , he had a stutter that fustrated him and made him insecure, i held the boy and said i know, i love you.
then the old man stopped shaking and looked at me straight in the eyes, he open his mouth wide as if to sream, again in my mind i said i know, i love you.he closed his eyes and again he looked at me in the eyes calmly and than sat still.
it was amazing, i do not know what to make of this, he was not healed but i think he felt for a brief moment calmed.
i havent read anything on this, i know nothing beyond this post but love can never harm, and there is something to the technique that really moves me.there is truth in this topic and it has had a powerful effect on me again i thank you IP: Logged |
Hexxie
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posted July 26, 2006 01:36 PM
Devilfish ~ That is really beautiful! I am SURE he felt the vibrational shift in some way. I replied to you thread called lymphoma, I am really happy for you! It brings tears to my eyes when I hear about people who have such big hearts! I sometimes carry with me a little ruby fuschite heart (it's a kind of gemstone that's fuscha pink and green, heart colors!) to remind me to stay in my (and operate from) my heart chakra
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`Who are you?' said the Caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, `I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.'
~Lewis Carroll
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Devilfish
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posted July 27, 2006 09:15 AM
TY
your stone sounds lovely IP: Logged |
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posted August 18, 2006 07:46 AM
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posted August 24, 2006 04:11 PM
Wow Hexxie, that is so time appropriate for me. Thank you for sharing. Sychronicity, I just finished reading your book "The Attraction Factor" Great book, I loved it! IP: Logged |
Hexxie
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posted August 25, 2006 12:20 PM
Hi Angel*24 ~Glad you like this as much as I did!
Who is "The Attraction Factor" by? Haven't heard anything about it but it's an interesting title. ------------------
`Who are you?' said the Caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, `I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.'
~Lewis Carroll
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posted August 25, 2006 12:30 PM
Hi Hexxie,The Attraction Factor is by Joe Vitale. Same guy who wrote about the HO'OPONOPONO. Sorry was scattered yesterday and noticed that I said "your" book! Great book, I read it after Lynn Grabhorn's "Excuse me your Life is waiting" both are about how your thoughts make your life, highly recommend both! I practiced the HO'OPONOPONO ideas yesterday and I'm really glad I ran across this thread. Good stuff!
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