Something I found interesting - off topic

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Hello all,

Someone sent this story to me last year and I found it fascinating, but I

haven't found anyone to bounce it off so far. Since you sound like an

open-mind bunch I thought I would try my luck. It's a bit long, but

interesting ... touches on the power of the mind and illusion and

perception. Anyway, here goes...

Best,

Leonie

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> This newsletter is a bit different from most I send out because something

kind of strange and miraculous happened this week. As some of you know, I

run a NY meditation group. When one of us gets an interesting piece of

info, we pass it on, some of us dialogue via email, people sending and

sharing interesting stories and information. This week, one of the members,

Silvia, forwarded me a story of a Hawaiian doctor that was fascinating but

seemed to good to be true. If it wasn't attributed to Joe Vitale, a popular

author and speaker, I never would've passed it around the group but I took

the chance and I did. It was mind-boggling and really got people thinking.

I got several interesting responses from other members and friends that

perfectly illustrate this new way of thinking and operating in the world. I

also got some responses with differing views. Instead of a channeled

message, here's the great mind-blowing good stuff! I love things that

expand my thinking--I hope you enjoy it, too!

>

>

> 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.

>

> 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. 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--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, your 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. "

>

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

and Dr. Lena

>

>

>

> In response to this, the wise and compassionate Thea Cook wrote:

>

> I completely believe this to be true. It's the same as what

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!

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.

> Anyway, I could go on and on, but wanted to thank you for sending it

and tell you that I TOTALLY support this viewpoint and practice it daily.

It's more real than this optical delusion we've created!

>

>

> Here is what my friend Tommy Koenig had to say (founder of The Comic's

Studio in Manhattan if anyone likes to laugh)!! Here's his response

entitled, It Works!

>

> 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.

>

>

> Renard's book, The Disappearance of the Universe is a commentary on

the tome A Course In Miracles. It's no coincidence that all three of the

members of this group connected them to the Hawaiian practice in the story.

Tommy adds:

>

> 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.

>

>

> And Finally, this is from Renard, the author of The Disappearance of

the Universe. Sylvia passed this one on as well!

>

>

> " It's not how other people look at you that will determine your

experience of yourself, it's how you look at them that will determine your

experience of yourself. " ( Renard)

>

> I had a breakthrough around October of last year- when all of a sudden I

found I could get up in front of crowds of people and speak and not be

nervous.

>

> My comfort with public speaking didn't come from speaking over and over

again; it came from forgiving speaking over and over again. There is just

freedom in that.

>

> 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.

>

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>

> If you find all these juicy concepts eye-opening, read the book

Disappearance of the Universe and study A Course In Miracles. I often

recommend Joe VItale's book The Attractor Factor if you're looking for

inspiration, it will surely put a fire in your heart. My book Psychic

Living is a perfect compliment to it, as my exercises are a great way to put

this information into practice on a daily basis.

>

> So today I end the newsletter with the wonderful Hindu traditional

greeting, Namaste, the God in Me honors the God in You. (Or, in keeping

with this newsletter, maybe I'm just talking to myself!!)

>

> I love hearing from you, please let me know your thoughts!

>

> Namaste!

>

> Stacey

> staceywolf.com

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