Dearest John, what can I say! When we first met I knew we'd work together on
many levels... ...what a start... ...blessings and deepest peace and love to
you... ...thanks for everything you are... ...thanks for your post John, it's
just what I needed today. Tom's message and thoughts are inspired as well and
open yet another thread... ...It's late now John and I have to work tomorrow,
however, I'll check out the link over the next few days. I'm thinking it may be
time to have that meet! I'll speak soon... ...your Brother, Terry.

P.S. you might like this link...

http://www.attitudinalhealing.org/


John Rogers <john.rogers@...> wrote:
I just want to respond to Terry's thoughtful comments on duality and
the need to love with this mind-blowing story I received via Jean Hudon's Earth
Rainbow Network list which is located at: EarthRainbowNetwork@...




From: http://educate-yourself.org/zsl/hooponopono25jul06.shtml

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.

"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."

More from http://hooponopono.org and http://hooponopono.org/lectures.html
<http://hooponopono.org/lectures.html>




John Rogers

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