Quote by Joe Vitale

You are responsible for what I think and do

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




I aslo found this on the internet:

Here's a simplified version of the modernized proven methods to heal yourself (or anyone else) of anything you notice. Remember that what you see in another is also in you, so all healing is self-healing. No one else has to do these processes but you. The entire world is literally in your hands.

The way Dr. Hew Len likes to heal is to first say "I'm sorry" and "Please forgive me." You say this to acknowledge that something - without you knowing what it is - has gotten into your body/mind system. You have no idea how it got there. You don't need to know, either.

By saying "I'm sorry," you are telling the Divine that you want forgiveness inside yourself for whatever brought it to you. You're not asking the Divine to forgive you; you're asking the Divine to help you forgive yourself.

From there, you say "I love you" and "Thank you."

The "I love you" transmutes the energy from stuck to flowing. It reconnects you to the Divine. Since the zero state is one of pure love, and has zero limits, you are beginning to get to that state by expressing love. When you follow that statement with "Thank you," you are expressing gratitude.

You are showing your faith that the issue will be resolved for the highest good of all concerned.

What happens next is up to the Divine. You may be inspired to take action of some sort. Whatever it is, do it. If you aren't sure about the action to take, use this same healing method on your confusion. When you are clear, you'll know what to do.

Ho'oponopono Prayer

I'm sorry

Please forgive me

I Love you

Thank you

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Good stuff - thanks Vivamis! When I first came across the notion (through ACIM) that there was truly nothing "outside" the mind, I balked. How could I interact with other people and perceive an entire world, if they/it didn't exist? It certainly doesn't fit in with our normal understanding of what reality is (to put it mildly!).

Very interesting, thank you for posting this. I have been aware of projections, but hadn't thought about carrying it this far.

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Vivamis123... WOW, incredible approach! Thanks for sharing this!

I'm curious if anyone has experimented with this, and if I could ask you all for some insights into one sentence from this topic posted in this thread.


There is someone very dear to me that I have basically cut off communication, who has borderline personality disorder. I'm very curious to know how I can go about 'realizing' what it is in me, that causes that in someone else. Can someone tell me an approach in breaking through my 'blind spot' of myself in these regards?

I have done research on this disorder, and somewhat understand these dynamics of it... now what?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Dear Amanda,
I don't know anything about personality disorder, but I have had experiences with Spiritual Healing, which goes in alignment with the Ho'oponopono Prayer.

First of all you do not need to know anything about the illness or problem. The spiritual approach to healing does not look for a cause other than to recognize what is not real. The underlying belief using the Ho'oponopono Prayer is that we recognize that if it is in our consciousness we created it and we have the power to uncreate it.

Spiritual healing approaches an illness as the nothingness, it is only in the realization of it's nothingness the illness/problem disappears.

I wrote an article for the International Journal on Miracles. Here a short part of the article:

How healing happens

Over the years, I have come to understand through personal observation that we are spiritual and not human. Nothing of this world really matters and nothing of this world will give us true fulfillment. What everyone is truly seeking consciously or not is to find themselves within God and God within themselves. This means freedom to the soul. When we find ourselves within God, we find comfort, unconditional love, true joy, and bliss and we lose ourselves. We are a part of God, and there is no God apart from us. Just like an atom is a part of me, it simultaneously represents the full essence of me without being the manifestation of me with hair and legs. Wholeness is the realization of oneness. There is no you and me and God. It is all the same thing but in different manifestations. It’s like saying a ceramic cup is separated from its substance ceramic. The ceramic can take on different forms: it could be a plate, a vase, or many other things, but it is still ceramic. Without the substance ceramic there would be no ceramic cup. God is the ’substance’ spirit – pure being. Pure being has no thought; to think is to have doubt. I do not think God exists. I know God exists.
The 'no thought concept is based on the belief that the appearance of discord is an illusion of the mind, a belief in being human and not spiritual. But this appearance must change in the presence of Truth – Realizing who we really are. By giving no thought to an appearance, we demonstrate the Truth of our being. Jesus said in St Matt 6:25: Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on." In truth, we are perfect and everyone around us is, too (even if they claim to be sick). But if we fear, fight or resent an appearance by judging it good or bad, we have given in to the appearance and continue to make it real and appear. Since it is an illusion, it only appears to be real).

Everything we see and whatever is brought to our attention is a reflection of our belief. We would not see it if we could not perceive it.

Do we need something to believe in because we can’t comprehend that God is our very being? Do we need a bridge to understand this truth? Our mind (human mind) is made up of three parts: conscious mind (that which we are aware of); sub-conscious mind (the power source of our experience); and the super-conscious mind (our connection to the true source). Whatever we put our attention to (this is our free choice) energy flows to it and creates it. Jesus was not subject to Karma. At the Christ consciousness we are free from Karma. Karma is created whenever we walk without the awareness of being one with the creator in spirit. I choose not to mislead people by making them believe that by me touching them they are healed. It is their belief in me having a special connection to God or believing that I have some kind of power that heals them. Yet I did not set them free; I only helped them become healed from that one problem. I was only present, providing a reference point to anchor the belief people have about me being a healer, having a power separated from God – (so that within their current belief systems they could allow the healing to occur). What do you want? A healing? Or to be free from all worldly bondages, which a belief in being human holds us to? In my opinion, the goal of life is the realization of our oneness with the substance of spirit; not healing, abundance or a great relationship. The things of this world such as healing/health, abundance or a great relationship are just bonuses of finding our true Self. They are not pathways to finding our true Self; the things of this world are just ‘add ons’ after we find our true Self.
As long as we believe in two powers (God and you, or as some religions believe – God and a devil), God and another source (good and evil), then we will continue to create the experience of suffering We are that power-full! Yet we can only create in the physical realm. We cannot create in the spiritual realm; nothing can be added or subtracted from God. God is never–changing, unconditional love. We have the power to create an illusion. Imagine this: you take your child to the playground and your child plays cowboys and Indians. You child gets shot with a play gun and pretends to be dead. Do you panic? Do you take your child to the hospital? No, you don’t because you know it is only a game. When it is time to go home, you know everything will be OK again. So it is with the creator in spirit. He/she/it created you perfectly. You may just have taken on a role of being which you are truly not (being sick, poor and/or confused). It is our job to hold that vision of who we truly are, no matter what the appearance shows forth, until the appearance disappears.
A miracle is not actually a miracle as we have been taught through religion. A miracle is not an act of God ‘doing’ something. A miracle is the dropping away of an illusion, the disappearance of the appearance of a discord.

If you would like to be a witness to a miracle in your life, next time an appearance of discord catches your attention, take no thought, do not fear it, fight it or resent it. Turn your attention completely away from the appearance, go about your ways and do not think about the problem anymore. Trust that with God all things are possible. Don’t think about how the appearance could or will change. Just let it go. If someone else in is need of healing, reach out through compassion and remember that there is no one to be healed. If it is being brought to our attention, it is a clear sign that We ‘The Healers’ are still believing in two powers. How else could we see someone ill? And if we don’t see them as ill, then why would we try to heal them? From what? And how? We have no power separated from God. There is but one power, one truth! And we are ALL part of that Truth.

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Vivamis123... thanks for sharing that too. My spirit just lapped that up! Much of it, I was already aware... yet, there were also some added gems that I took with me too.

Actually, I was so intrigued by your article you've shared here, that I had started doing some investigation on the net. Here are two more articles I've found on this healer.

An interview with him here:

http://www.drcat.org/articles_interv.../hotfudge.html

And a home page on how he does it, here:

http://www.hooponopono.org/

I also experimented with this technique, since I am very interested in hypnosis and was able to go into my subconscious... and I made an enlightening discovery. Those steps he suggests, 1. repent 2. forgive 3. transmutation was the outline I also used. I felt it did some transforming within me, as a revelation about myself spontaneously erupted as I asked for it. Yet I will have to see about the other person with time. The personal results are encouraging enough for me to do this again.

Thanks for all of it!

You are so welcome Amanda. Thank you too for the other two articles, I will check them out : )

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Thanks Vivamis for sharing your wonderful writing with us, and thanks Amanda for those websites and for sharing your insights. I don't have anything original to contribute, but here's a few more thoughts along the same lines.

Angel Eyes, that was so wonderful! I was pleasantly awakened by the concept in ACIM, that everything is a cry for love. My goodness... what a change in perception that was for me! Thanks for sharing this too Angel Eyes.