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Ho'oponopono Healing

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 the 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. 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 that 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.

When! 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 and over again," he explained.

"Is that 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. I 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 is 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. Just say: "I'm sorry and I love you."
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Thanks Xania Possibly worth a try

I can think of a couple of non-institutionalized
Whakos I can use this for :wink:
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Hey
earlybird. I infer this to mean that if you go over to that healthiertalk forum and work on a few of the whakos there that I will notice an improvement in their behavior. You go do that and I will let you know whether I notice any change
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The Kahunas of Hawaii are very powerful and have held the key to healing and conscious evolution for a long time.

If you want to understand more get the books by Max Freedom Long who wrote about his experiences with the Kahunas near the turn of the last century. It was part of my study when I did fire walking. Fire walking is an initiational process in certain Kahuna pathways. It is also found in Indonesia. Not hard to do if you are in the right mindset. All the work is based in MANA. You know. that stuff god rained upon the Isralites when they were in the desert! Kahunas know mana and how to generate MANA, and the books will tell you also.
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earlybird. I infer this to mean that if you go over to that healthiertalk forum and work on a few of the whakos there that I will notice an improvement in their behavior. You go do that and I will let you know whether I notice any change :lol:
Donee, do you think it's worth posting this over there? LOL It would get lost in the general melee.
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Yes, that is right.
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Still, I think we are morally bound to try to heal some of the sickest. Donee, we rely on you to let us know the results of the experiment!
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Personaly I think with what's going on over there,,you would have your hands full if you jumped into the fray with this post!!
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I don't think this type of "therapy" -- wherein another person brings about the healing of a patient without any "physical" contact or procedure -- is new or different.

The yogis have pranic healing, the Chinese have qigong or ch'i kung, a Japanese developed Reiki, the Hawaiians also have an equivalent procedure, and even "Westerners" have Quantum Touch. Even EFT has "surrogate tapping." (Didn't transcendental meditators attempt to usher world peace by simultaneous meditation?)

So yes, this is just another one of the many ways we can bring about healing.

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Its my understanding that to "do a healing" on someone, karmically, you need their permission.
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If you are going to try a remote healing, on someone you do not know, you need to start out with the affirmation that they have the right to accept or reject your help.
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Yes, it is one of the differences beteen white magic and black magic. One should never supercede their will upon another.
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You got it, Donee

But, it probably wouldn't work as some don't Want to be healed.
They prefer the bickering and to a lesser extent, the
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The biblical perspective here is James, chapter 5,
verses, 14-16.

If you can believe the brother of Christ when he
instructs you to be a healer, I don't see much
difference in expressing love for your sick
brothers/sisters.
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