mind boggling I'm sorry...I love you!

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You are responsible for what I think and do (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.The therapist had used a Hawaiian healing process called ho'oponopono.

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. 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. He explained that he worked at Hawaii State Hospital for four years. The 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 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. 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." 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." 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.

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. 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--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. This is tough to grasp, let alone accept or actually live. Blame is far easier than total responsibility, but 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.

How did Dr. Len go 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.

Turns out that loving yourself is the greatest way to improve yourself, and as you improve yourself, your improve your world. I was simply evoking the spirit of love to heal within me what was creating the outer circumstance.

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."

This article is from the forthcoming book "Zero Limits" by Dr. Joe Vitale and Dr. Lena



In response to this, Thea Cook wrote:

I completely believe this to be true. It's the same as what Gary Renard is teaching...that EVERYTHING out there is my own projection and I made it up. What I see is a product of my own mind. He says too that the only way to heal it is to love and forgive the part of my mind that created it. So, the "I love you" and "I'm sorry" is for healing the contents of one's mind, hence, heal the cause of the projection. The images I see are coming from a projector hidden in my unconscious mind. The projector is where we can change what appears to be out there. To undo it. There is no world. How we see others is how we see ourselves because they're not there! Gary says that the reason we even make up the projection in the first place is because of unconscious guilt(ego) and the practice of sending love and forgiveness heals the unconscious guilt(ego) so that eventually, we won't have a need to create any more projections. There is no one and nothing out there, ever! That's why he named his book, The Disappearance of the Universe. What I see is all being projected from one part of my mind and being viewed from a separate part of my mind which thinks it's real. I can tell you that I have been actively practicing this in my own life and absolutely KNOW without a doubt that it works. I try to identify the cause (my own mind), love and forgive my own projections because they are not real and replace it with oneness. There is nothing out there...NOTHING. I made up everything that causes me the slightest bit of irritation in any way. In fact, I don't even consider this a radical idea anymore. Deepak Chopra talks about it too. We project our own reality and the only way out of it is to heal the cause (my mind) , not the effect (the world). We definitely create the separation because on the quantum level, there is only oneness. Here is what Tommy Koenig had to say (founder of The Comic's Studio in Manhattan if anyone likes to laugh)!! I was fascinated by that Hawaiian doctor you told me about and decided to apply it when I was disturbed. I was in the park and a baby was screaming crying, really hard to take. But instead of getting upset, I said "I'm sorry. I love you" and it stopped. Same on the bus with loud cellphone talker, and again with drilling in my neighborhood when I tried to take a nap. I find myself now repeating those words over and over in relation to anything that disturbs me or saddens me and it shifts the focus so the perception I'm projecting changes.

If you think about it the two sentences "I'm sorry" and " I love You" succinctly sum up the principles of A Course In Miracles. By saying "I'm sorry" I not only take responsibility for the creation of what I perceive but by apologizing to the image, am asking for forgiveness and forgiving them/it for what they/it hasn't done at the same time. And The "I love you" is obvious. Forgiveness leads to Love and if you love what you are seeing it is all completing the circle of at-one-ment. First of all forgiveness is done silently—it’s something that’s done in the mind. You don’t walk up to people and say I’m forgiving you—that would make them really angry. It is done at the level of Cause, which is the mind, not at the level of the world, which is Effect. That is important because it means you can live a normal life, doing everything you would have done anyway. “Seek not to change the world, seek rather to change your mind of the world.” So what it’s about is having a different perception of things; looking at things with right minded ideas with your whole spirit (Holy Spirit) instead of with wrong minded ideas with the ego. You don’t have to give up anything—what you’re doing is forgiving as you go, so to speak. You go into life living it and forgiving it at the same time. And as you remove those blocks you practice forgiveness which is the equivalent of Buddhism’s idea of undoing the ego. As you do more and more of that what you gain access to is what you really are—which is love. So we don’t have to struggle to be what we are—we are love—what we need to do is to remove the blocks that we place between ourselves and our experience of our perfection. And it’s through this kind of forgiveness that the blocks are removed and the ego is undone. * * * * *

I practiced it after coming across this information and I find it works and feels good doing it too.

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