Zero Limits : The Secret Hawaiian System for Wealth, Health, Peace, and More

By (author)  Joe Vitale , By (author)  Ihaleakala Hew Len .


Praise For "Zero Limits."


  "This riveting book can awaken humanity. It reveals the simple power of four phrases to transform your life. It's all based in love by an author spreading love. You should get ten copies of it----one for you and nine to give away. It's that good." ---- Debbie Ford, New York Times bestselling author of The Dark Side of the Light Chasers. (click here to LOOK INSIDE The Dark Side of the Light Chasers)


  "I love this book! I feel it will be the definitive personal-change/self-help book for at least a generation and viewed as a watershed event by historians. There is real potential for this book to start a movement that will end war, poverty, and the environmental devastation of our beloved planet." ---- Marc Gitterle, MD, www.CardioSecret.com 


 "This book is like a stick of dynamite, and the moment you start reading, the fuse is lit. It blows away all the complex and confusing success paradigms of the past and reveals a refreshing and clear path to transform your life with just one simple step. As you explore Zero Limits with Vitale, be prepared for a journey that is both challenging and inspiring beyond anything you've imagined." ---- Craig Perrine, www.MaverickMarketer.com 


 "There are more than 6 billion different manifestations of human existence on the planet and only one of us here. In Zero Limits, Vitale has captured the truth that all great spiritual, scientific, and psychological principles teach at the most fundamental level. Boil it all down to the basics and the keys are quite simple---- the answer to all life's challenges is profound love and gratitude. Read this book; it's a reminder of the truth and ability you already possess." ---- James Arthur Ray, philosopher and bestselling author of Practical Spirituality and The Science of Success 


 "Wow! This is the best and most important book Vitale has ever written!" ---- Cindy Cashman, www.FirstSpaceWedding.com 


 "I couldn't put it down. This book elegantly sketches what I've learned and learned about in twenty-one years of personal study, and then it takes it to the next level. If you're looking for true peace along with 'the good stuff,' then this book is for you." ---- David Garfinkel, author of Advertising Headlines That Make You Rich


  "Zero Limits is Vitale's adventure into the most mind-altering reading experience of your life." ---- Joseph Sugarman, President, BluBlocker Sunglasses, Inc.


We asked a group of children from an economically-challenged background an interesting question: “What makes you happy?” Most of these children walk to the school, sit for long hours on the school floor, have never used a computer and don’t know what the Internet is. Yet the most astounding feeling of happiness one gets from these kids is mind blowing.
Many of these beautiful children attend tiny one-room establishments and feel happy to help and serve in the school and deeply desire a strong social support network of family and friends. Especially with the upcoming holiday season, we are conditioned to thinking that happiness comes from online shopping! When you watch the innocent faces of these children, you’ll realize happiness is a conscious choice.
This video will make you smile and bring warmth to your heart. Enjoy and share it with HAPPINESS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMD9XCQy3CA

100% Responsibility

Ho'oponopono teaches us to take 100% Responsibility for everything in our lives. Dr. Hew Len is a shinning example.

Dr. Hew Len didn't invent this idea or notion of 100% responsibility. However, he has been a phenomenal example in living this principle . 

But we need to ask ourselves , is this really necessary? Do we really have to take 100% responsibility ? Well, when it comes to therapists, they will typically say, "Is the patient or client ready to change."  So, they're putting all of the responsibility on to the patient. And we do have a "tendency to blame others." Just in general, we're taught that if things aren't going right, well, first, let's see what everybody else is doing to cause that problem. And we might get to the point where we realize what it is that we're doing. Of cause we're not required to take 100% responsibility. However, we do need to (take 100% responsibility) if we want others to change. If we want us, ourselves to be able to change and in order to create any type of positive and lasting changes in our lives. Sometimes this is easier said than done . If we look at a three year old child who perhaps has a father that's an alcoholic and physically abuses this child. Can we really sit here and say, "Well,  that three-year-old needs to take responsibility for what's going on if he wants to change the situation that doesn't really fly. However , if that three-year-old is now say 23 years old. Well, at this point  in his life, he does have the ability to take 100% responsibility. Not that he should responsible for his father's action necessarily  but he should be responsible for everything in his current life at that age of 23 if he truly wants to make changes, moving forward.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qqH6SGGNtg


http://theinnozablog.blogspot.sg/2017/02/zero-limits.html


Dr. Hew Len’s Ho’oponopono Training: Don’t Blame. Take 100% Responsibility. Clean It Up.

If you see something you don’t agree with, instead of criticizing, condemning, or complaining – ask yourself this, “What is it in me that is CAUSING me to feel this way?”
And pause for a minute.

Simply clean how it is making YOU FEEL. Not how wrong the situation was or how that other person fell short.

During Dr. Hew Len’s Ho’oponopono training he teaches us to take 100% responsibility and clean how it’s making you feel. CLEAN THE MEMORY ON HOW THAT EVENT IS AFFECTING YOU. And clean THAT!

If you spot it, then clean it up. If you have that yucky feeling – even better. It means there is a healing opportunity there. Don’t blame. Don’t brush it off. Instead take 100% responsibility for the situations and clean the emotions attached to the incident. Feel your feelings and transform it. Let those emotions dissolve and transmute into light.

All you have to do is TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF.
Because if you start thinking you need to do it for others – thinking cleaning the emotions for them would help them – you’ll be in for a big surprise. Not a very good one I may add. (I’ve been there…and trust me, it wears you out.  You are opening doors that should be left alone.)

Not until I re-listened to Dr. Hew Len’s audio again did I understand why I should not be cleaning how OTHERS’ are feeling. But instead I should ONLY FOCUS ON ME – cleaning only what I feel. Dr. Hew Len mentioned, if you try to clean the other person, you are essentially  trying to process EVERYTHING connected to that person. That’s a butt-load of memories. You are cleaning all things connected to that person’s past and present occurrences. Anything from their family history as well.

Can you believe it?

You are trying to clean for them, their mother’s, father’s, grandparents’, great grandparents, ancestors, and all those connected to them. You are trying to clean up ALL this person’s blood line of stuff.

That’s why Dr. Hew Len teaches his students to only to TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF. Just focus on cleaning your stuff. This will raise your  vibration. You’ll have a cleaner vessel. That will in return raise the vibrations of those nearest to you and clean up those dirty stagnant energy near you. At least, you’re cleaning the space around you (where ever you go).

When you do this you make room for inspiration to come in. The contagious “feel good clean energy” may inspire those connected to you to take actions to raise their own vibration.

I’ve seen it happen right in front of my eyes over and over again. It’s amazing!

People are attracted to clean, high vibration, and feel good energy. It’s very contagious.

So remember, start with cleaning and taking care of yourself first. Let the good feeling overflow abundantly from you.

Dr. Hew Len’s Ho’oponopono Healing Secrets Revealed…

A man in Hawaii healed the patients in a special ward, a clinic for the mentally ill insane criminals… And closed down the entire hospital.

So how did psychologist, Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len, do it?

At the time this Hawaii State Hospital was filled with individuals who committed murder, rape, and other serious crimes. People who worked there were so frightened of the dangerous environment and unpredictable threatening attitude of the inmates that staff would constantly call in sick. Nobody wanted to come and work in fear of being attacked by a patient-inmates. The employee turnover became so bad that many workers quit after a few months.

How did Dr. Hew Len change all that?

He practiced, what he calls, “Ho’oponopono“. It basically revolves around the concept that everything that you perceive or that happens around you is your own creation and take this…You are 100% RESPONSIBLE for it. No exception.

Pretty hard to swallow, huh?

Doing ho’oponopono, it’s claimed, you can virtually heal yourself and you can can virtually heal whoever or whatever that appears to you as a problem. The phrase, “If you spot it, you got it…” pretty much says we are all connected. If the problem was introduced to us, it means we attracted it. Somehow we are responsible. Not necessary at fault, but responsible because the world is our creation. As Dr. Hew Len likes to point out, “Didn’t you notice that whenever you experience a problem, you are there?”

Dr. Hew Len points out that “Peace begins with me.” If there is going to be peace in the world, it starts with first cleaning ourselves.

So how do we do this “cleaning”?

Here’s the healer’s SECRET technique that freed the mentally insane criminals.

By simply feeling and saying these 4 Simple Phrases (in any order you like) daily to situations that appears to you as a problem.

I’m sorry.Please forgive me.I love you.Thank you.

Take ownership…the whole 100% responsibility for the happening. Apologize for the situation and feel that. Ask the Divine Creator for forgiveness thus cleaning and cutting any negative memories, blocks, and vibrations of that unwanted energy from the beginning of our creation to the present. Because we just aren’t that big to see all and why the problem came to existence. We sometimes have to just ask and let and trust the Divine to see it through. And then feel the love and appreciation by saying, “I Love You” and “Thank You” to the Divine Creator and ourselves.

This ritual has the intention to cleanse, purify, release and cut any negative memories and blocks connected to that energy and situations and wiping it clean. Which brings you back to the original state he calls the “Zero” where there are zero limits. This is the state where one is free from the past, wrongs, gunk, and any unwanted energies…  And where space is made for the Divine creator, light, and love to come in.

Only when we have clarity can The Divinity provide us with insight, inspiration and whatever is perfect for us… And true lasting change can take place.

6 Quick Daily Care Tips for Empaths and Highly Sensitive People

 

Are you the #1 Priority on Your List?

It’s crucial we make our health and well-being our number one priority. Why? Because many of us are busy taking care of others needs first while completely ignoring our own needs. If this becomes a habit, it’s easy to start feeling resentful (even towards the people we love). We can feel like no one truly appreciates us after giving and giving till there was nothing left for us to give.

When we are feeling great and in our optimal state of well-being, things flow easily. Giving become more effortless. Time sort of flies by. Many individuals can tap into this state of being when they are doing what they enjoy.

When you give after taking time off for yourself, you can give from a place of abundance and love.  Others can feel the difference.
Many empaths and highly sensitive people feel selfish when they take time off to take care of themselves. This is cause for concern because we are wired different than the average Joe. If we don’t take care of ourselves, we can’t effectively do what we’re here to do…but we’re not exactly wired to take care of ourselves first.

Yes, we are called towards tasks that require priority attention over our own needs but as an empath or highly sensitive person (HSP) it is vitally important we continue to take care of ourselves each and every day so we can contribute to the world as we are called.

6 Quick Daily Care Tips for Empaths and Highly Sensitive People:

 

1. Drink lots of clean pure water to hydrate your body and keep it functioning at its optimal. Water cleanses and purifies your body giving you sharp mental clarity. Trust me, you’ll be a happier person with a well hydrated body.

 

2. Exercise regularly. Taking care of your physical body. Get moving. This helps you move out old energy and bring in fresh new energy. Like water, movement is extremely vital for your well-being.

 

3. Eat healthy nutritious meals. Consume plenty of dark green leafy lettuce and vegetables. Note: Many empaths and HSPs find eating things that are grown closely to or below ground to be very grounding for them. Some examples are potatoes, yams, carrots, peanuts, squashes, pumpkins, and broccoli. And also some find eating red meat to be grounding for them. Overall, just eat well balanced meals throughout the day.

 

4. Feel your emotions. Process them as they come up. Don’t just shove it down and bury it. When you do, you actually become more and more numb and disconnected… And it’s not always easy to feel your feelings but do it anyway. These energy in your body needs to be move and transformed. I promise, you’ll feel better, lighter, and cleaner afterward.

 

5. Talk with positive individuals. Just immerse yourself in their positive energy by being in proximity or enjoying a nice conversation. This also does wonders –for we humans are social creatures.

 

6. Get some fresh air and sunshine. You can’t elevate your mood as easily when you are stuck inside a building. You are a living breathing creature who needs to be connected to nature –not hidden inside some concrete building with artificial light and air. So go outside. Breathe. And bask in the warm sunshine.

 

For more solutions & techniques for Empaths and Highly Sensitive People, I invite you to check out Dr. Michael R. Smith’s eBook,  The Complete Empath Toolkit: 44 Practical Steps to Master Your Energy and Personal Power.

“Hi my name is Faey Szeuw and I am an Empath.”

How Do You Know You’re One? Take This Quick Empath Test and See If You Have The Empath Traits.

Ever feel overwhelmed by your environment? Does it sometime feel like others energy soaks into your personal space? Ever catch yourself feeling exhausted, angry, irritable, moody, or sick for no reason–it just came like a sudden flood out of no where? Have you ever asked yourself why you are so sensitive to others around you and the environment?

 

The good news is these feelings might NOT be yours.
You may be what others call an “empath” also know as a “highly sensitive person” (HSP). Empaths are highly sensitive of the environment and energy. Often they can sense others energy and even absorb others energy. They can sense how another person is feeling just by being in proximity or seeing the person as if the feeling is in their OWN body.

The following list is provided by Michael R. Smith, Ph.D of EmpathConnection.com to help you discover if you are an empath.

You May Be An Empath If…
1. You look at someone and “just know” their emotional state.
2. You can feel the energy coming at you (or being drained) from another person, especially from the eyes.
3. You have a blocked feeling in your chest [or core], as if someone is tugging on it.
4. Tend to run away from people when stressed, rather than engage.
5. You’ve been called “oversensitive,” especially if you’re male.
6. Always know where danger may lurk. (Curiously, you may have avoided accidents).
7. Are drawn to the tranquility of animals.
8. Are drawn to mountains, nature, the ocean – anywhere outdoors.
9. Can not bear violence in any form.
10. Can easily produce tears, sometimes at will.
11. You can feel the physical aches & pains of others.
12. Feel better after a good, intense cry.
13. See things from the “bigger picture” and from “the larger scheme of things.”
14. Are overwhelmed by large crowds or mobs (e.g. shopping malls).
15. Can sometimes feel affected by the energy of the full moon.
16. Have intense, fantastic, and sometimes lucid, dreams.

If this sounds like you… You’re not alone.
For more helpful energy tips and techniques to help Empaths & Highly Sensitive People, check out Dr. Michael R. Smith’s The Complete Empath Toolkit: 44 Practical Steps to Master Your Energy and Personal Power.

 

You Don't Have to Suffer With Other's Negative Energy or Emotions   Empaths & Highly Sensitive People.... Master Your Energy with Practical Steps.   The Complete Empath Toolkit Has the Answers!

 

If you've ever had the experience of easily feeling other people's emotional states, and are able to feel subtle spiritual or emotional energy, then the chances are that you are an Empath, or Highly Sensitive Person.  

If you're an empath or sensitive person, you will generally have the following traits:



* You are a good listener, & other people may 'dump' their stories on you.
* You feel emotions deeply and cry easily, often for no reason.
* You have good intuition, especially when it comes to other people. You can 'just know' about someone, especially if they are lying to you.
* You may often become over-stimulated in public places like malls.
* You may attract the wrong partners (e.g. often narcissistic).
* You may isolate yourself from others to hide from perceiving pain.
My name is Dr. Michael Smith, and I've been working professionally as a spiritual coach and counselor for 20 years. My goal is to help all emotionally and energy sensitive individuals to blend the best of Western self-improvement techniques with the ancient traditions of Eastern, indigenous, and holistic medicine.

Over 950,000 individuals have transformed their lives through my books, videos, audios and guidebooks.  NY Times bestselling author Sonia Choquette endorses my work.  (And you can read comments about the high quality of my instruction here).  Those are just statistics to capture your attention.  The focus of my work has always been, and will continue to be, helping YOU.

My studies have taken me to the far reaches of the globe from tribal villages in rural Asia to Mayan temples in Mexico.   I've had the benefit and pleasure to learn from some of the most talented and humble indigenous leaders, shamans, medicine men/women, channels, and healers.    

And along the way, I picked up a degree.....(or four)!    :)

And now it's time for me to share that knowledge with all those who are spiritually, emotionally, or energetically sensitive.  I am honored that you are interested in these writings and audios.

Although the Complete Empath Toolkit series is described as being for empaths or highly sensitive people, you don't have to identify with either of those words or labels to benefit from this information.

You just have to want to learn how to better manage your energy and connect more deeply with your Divine, intuitive, and Spiritual gifts.  That's what all of this information will help you to do.

 

 

Our First Conversation

zero limits 3: Our First Conversation

Every man takes the limits of his own field of 
vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer

I'II finally spoke to Dr. Hew Len for the first time 
on October 21, 2005. 

His full name is Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len. But he told me to call him “E.”Yes, like the letter in the alphabet. Okay. I can do that.“E” and I 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 three 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. Hew Len or “E” told me he never saw patients professionally. He never counseled with them. He agreed to review their files. While he looked at those files, he would work on himself. As he worked on himself, patients began to heal.

This became even more fascinating when I learned the following:

“After a few months, patients who had been shackled were beingallowed to walk freely,” he told me. “Others who had been heavily medicated were getting their medications reduced. And those who had been seen as having 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 turn-
over 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 cleaning the part of me that I shared with them,” he said.

Huh?
I didn’t understand.

Dr. Hew 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.

That means the terrorists, 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 yourself.

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. Hew Len, I 
began to realize that healing for him and in 
ho’oponopono meansloving 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 yourself.

I asked Dr. Hew 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.

It turns out loving yourself is the greatest way to improve yourself.And as you improve yourself, you improve your world.

As Dr. Hew Len, or “E,” worked at the hospital, 
whatever came up in him, he turned over to 
Divinity and asked that it be released. He always 
trusted. It always worked. Dr. Hew Len would ask 
himself, “What is going on in me that I have 
caused this problem, and how can I rectify this 
problem in me?”

Apparently this method of healing from the inside 
out is what is called Self I-Dentity Ho’oponopono. 
There appears to be an older version of 
ho’oponopono that was heavily influenced by 
missionaries in Hawaii. It involved a facilitator 
who helped people heal problems by talking them 
out.When they could cut the cord of a problem, 
the problem vanished. But Self I-Dentity 
Ho’oponopono didn’t need a facilitator. It’s all 
done inside yourself. I was curious and knew I
would understand this better in time.

Dr. Hew Len has no materials on his process yet. 
offered to help him write a book, but he didn’t 
seem interested.There is an old video available, 
which I ordered. He also said to read The User 
Illusion by Tor Norretranders. Since I’m a 
bookaholic, I instantly jumped on-line and 
ordered it from Amazon.When it arrived, I 
devoured it.

The book argues that our conscious minds don’t 
have a clue what is happening. Norretranders 
writes,“The fact is that every single second, 
millions of bits of information flood in through 
our senses. But our consciousness processes only 
perhaps forty bits a second—at most. Millions 
and millions of bits are condensed to a conscious 
experience that contains practically no 
information at all.” As I understood Dr. Hew Len 
to say, since we don’t have any true awareness of 
what is happening in any given moment, all we 
can do is to turn it all over and trust. It’s all about 
100 percent responsibility for everything in your 
life: everything. He says his work is about 
cleaning himself.

That’s it. As he cleans himself, the world gets 
clean, because he is the world. All outside of him 
is projection and illusion. While some of this 
sounded Jungian, in the sense that the outer that 
you see is the shadow side of your own life, what 
Dr. Hew Len seemed to be describing was beyond 
all of that. He seemed to be acknowledging that 
everything is a mirror of yourself, but he also was
saying that it is your responsibility to fix 
everything you experience, and from the inside of 
yourself by connecting to the Divine. For him, the 
only way to fix the outer anything is by saying 
“I love you” to the Divine, which could be 
described as God, Life, the Universe, or any 
number of terms for that collective higher power.

Whew.This was quite a conversation. Dr. Hew 
Len didn’t know me from Adam but he was 
giving me plenty of his time.And confusing me 
along the way. He’s almost 70 years old and 
probably a walking guru to some and a nut case 
to others.

I was thrilled to have spoken with Dr. Hew Len 
for the first time, but I wanted more. I clearly 
didn’t understand what he was telling me. And 
it would be really easy to resist him or dismiss 
him. But what haunted me was the story of his 
using this new method to heal so-called throw
-away cases, such as mentally ill criminals. I 
knew Dr. Hew Len had an upcoming seminar 
and I asked him about it.

“What will I get out of it?”

“You will get whatever you get,” he said.

Well, that sounded like the oldest training of the 
1970s: What-ever you get is what you were 
supposed to get.

“How many people will be at your seminar?” I 
asked.

“I keep cleaning so only the people ready to be 
there will be there,” he said.“Maybe 30, or 50. 
I never know.”

Before we ended our call, I asked “E” what the 
signature on his e-mails meant.

“POI means peace of I,” he explained.“It is the 
peace that surpasses all understanding.”

I didn’t understand what he meant at the time, 
which, today, makes perfect sense.

zero limits

zero limits

The Secret Hawaiian System for Wealth, Health, Peace, and More

JOE VITALE
IHALEAKALA HEW LEN, PhD

To Morrnah and Ka’i
—Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len

To Mark Ryan and Nerissa
—Dr. Joe Vitale

Ho’oponopono is a profound gift that allows one to develop a working relationship with the Divinity within and learn to ask that in each moment, our errors in thought, word, 
deed, or action be cleansed. The process is essentially about freedom, complete freedom from the past.  ---Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona, 
Ho’oponopono Master Teacher, 
creator of Self I-Dentity  Ho’oponopono, 
named a Living Treasure of the 
State of Hawaii in 1983 by the Hongwanji Mission of Honolulu and the Hawaii State Legislature.


Acknowledgments

Two key people deserve thanks for this book: Mark Ryan is the priceless friend who first told me the story of the unusual therapist you’re about to read about, and Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len is that unusual therapist who 
has become my latest priceless friend.  Nerissa, my love, is my main support person and domestic life partner. Matt Holt and my dear friends at John Wiley & Sons, Inc. are terrific people to know and work with. Suzanne Burns is my key assistant and publicist, and proofread an early draft of this manuscript. My mastermind group supported me in this project, including Jillian ColemanWheeler, CindyCashman, Craig Perrine, Pat O’Bryan, Bill Hibbler, and Nerissa 
Oden. Early readers of this book who helped me shape it and perfect it include Mark Weisser and Mark Ryan. I also want to thank the Divine for guiding me in the process of writing this book. 
I am grateful to all.


Contents

Preface: Where Peace Begins Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len ix

Introduction: The Secret of the Universe Dr. Joe Vitale xi

The Adventure Begins 1

Finding the World’s Most Unusual Therapist 11

Our First Conversation 19

The Shocking Truth about Intentions 27

What Exceptions? 39

I Love You 51

Eating with the Divine 67

The Evidence 77

How to Create Faster Results 113

How to Receive Greater Wealth 123

Skeptical Minds Want to Know 137

Choice Is a Limitation 147

Cigars, Hamburgers, and Killing the Divine 163

The Truth Behind the Story 177

Epilogue: The Three Stages of Awakening 189

Appendix A: Zero Limits Basic Principles 197

Appendix B: How to Heal Yourself (or Anyone Else)
and Discover Health,Wealth, and Happiness 203

Appendix C: Who’s in Charge? Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len 207

Bibliography 225

Online Resources 229

About the Authors 231

Index 233

How to Experience Zero Limits Right Now 238

Preface


Where Peace Begins

Dear Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona, the creator 
and first master teacher of Self I-Dentity Ho’oponopono, had on her desk a placard that read, “Peace begins with me.”

I witnessed this peace beyond all understanding as I worked and traveled with her from December 1982 to that fateful day in Kirchheim, Germany, in February 1992. Even as she lay in death on her bed surrounded by chaos, 
she exuded that stillness beyond all understanding.
It was my great good fortune and honor to have received the training from Morrnah in November 1982 and to have been in her presence for a decade. I have been doing Self I-Dentity Ho’oponopono ever since.I am 
pleased that, with the help of my friend Dr. Joe Vitale, this message can now reach the world.

But the truth is it only has to reach you, through me, as we are all one and it all happens inside.

Peace of I,
Ihaleakala Hew Len, PhD
Chairman Emeritus
The Foundation of I, Inc. 
Freedom of the Cosmos

www.hooponopono.org www.businessbyyou.com

Introduction

The Secret of the Universe

In 2006 I wrote an article titled “The World’s Most Unusual Therapist.”
It was about a psychologist who helped heal an entire ward of mentally ill criminals—without ever seeing any of them professionally.
He used an unusual healing method from Hawaii. 
Until 2004, I had never heard of him or his 
method. I searched for two years before I 
found him. I then learned his method and wrote 
that now famous article.
That article swept the Internet. It was posted on 
newsgroups and e-mailed to huge lists of 
people from all walks of life. My own list at
www.mrfire.com loved it, and passed it on to 
tens of thousands of others. They in turn 
forwarded it to family and friends. I estimate
about five million people saw that article.
Everyone who read it found it hard to believe. 
Some were inspired. Some were skeptical.
All wanted more.This book is a result of their 
and my quest. Even if you’re a veteran of the 
five steps in my earlier book,The Attractor 
Factor, you may not understand the incredible 
insights I’m about to reveal to you here, at 
least not at first glance. The simple process 
I’m going to share in this book will help 
explain why I’ve been able to manifest some 
huge accomplishments without actually
trying to make them happen. Here are a few 
of them:

■ My Nightingale-Conant audio program, The 
Power of Outrageous Marketing, happened 
after I quit pounding on their door for 10 years.

■ How did I go from homeless to poverty to 
struggling writer to published author to best-
selling author to Internet marketing guru with 
no plan at all?

■ My desire to attract a BMW Z3 sports car led to 
me being inspired with an Internet marketing idea 
no one had ever thought of before—which made 
me $22,500 in one day and a quarter of a million 
dollars in a year or so.

■ My desire to buy and move into a Texas hill 
country estate when I was broke and going 
through a divorce led to me creating a new 
business that brought in $50,000 in one day.

■ My huge weight loss of 80 pounds occurred 
after I gave up and opened myself to a new 
way to achieve my desire.

■ My desire to be the author of a #1 best-selling 
book led to my writing a #1 best-selling book 
that I never planned to write at all and wasn’t 
even my idea.

■ My appearance in a hit movie, The Secret, 
happened without my begging,pleading,
intending,or orchestrating anything at all.

■ My appearance on Larry King Live in November 
2006, and again in March 2007, happened without 
my ever intending it.

■ As I write these words, Hollywood hotshots are 
talking about turning my book, The Attractor 
Factor, into a movie, and still others are 
negotiating to get me my own television program.
The list could go on, but you get the idea. I have 
many miracles happening in my life.

But why are they happening?

I was once homeless. Today I’m a best-selling 
author, Internet celebrity, and multimillionaire.
What happened to me to create all this success?
Yes, I followed my dreams.
Yes, I took action.
Yes, I was persistent.
Haven’t a lot of other people done those same 
things and yet not achieved success?

What’s different?
If you look at the accomplishments I’ve listed 
with a critical eye,you might see that none of 
them were directly created by me. In fact,what 
they all have in common is a spirit of Divine 
planning, with me a sometimes unwilling 
participant.

Let me explain this another way: Toward the end 
of 2006 I taught a seminar called Beyond 
Manifestation (www.BeyondManifestation.com), 
which is heavily influenced by what I learned
after I discovered the mysterious Hawaiian 
therapist and his method.
In that event I asked everyone to list all the ways 
they knew to manifest or attract something in 
their life.They said things like affirmations,
visualizations, intentions, body awareness 
methods, feeling the end result, scripting, 
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) or tapping,
and many, many more. Once the group 
inventoried every single way they could come up 
with to create their own reality, I asked them if 
those ways worked all the time, without exception.
Everyone agreed they did not always work.
“Well, why not?” I asked them.
No one could say for sure.

I then hit the group with my observation: “All of 
those ways have limitations,” I declared. “They 
are toys your mind plays with to keep you thinking 
you’re in charge. The truth is, you are not in 
charge, and the real miracles come when you let 
go of the toys and trust in a place inside yourself 
where there are zero limits.”


I then told them that where you want to be in life 
is behind all of those toys,which is behind the 
chatter of the mind and right there with what we 
call the Divine. I went on to explain that there 
are at least three stages to life, beginning with you as 
victim, then moving on to you as creator of your 
life, and ending—if you’re lucky—with you 
becoming servant to the Divine. In that last stage,
which I’ll discuss later in this book, astonishing 
miracles happen—almost without you trying.

Earlier today I interviewed a goals expert for my 
Hypnotic Gold membership program. (See www.HypnoticGold.com.) He has written a 
dozen books and sold millions of copies of them. 
He knows how to teach people how to set goals. 
Most of his philosophy revolves around having a 
burning desire to accomplish something. But
that’s an incomplete strategy. I asked him what 
he suggested when someone can’t find the 
motivation to set a goal, let alone complete it.
“If I knew that,” he began,“I’d be able to solve
most of the problems in the world.” He went 
on to say that you have to be hungry to achieve 
a goal. If you aren’t, you won’t keep up the 
discipline needed to focus on it and work 
toward it. “But what if you’re not hungry 
enough?” I asked. “Then you won’t reach 
your goal.” “How do you make yourself 
hungry or motivated?” He couldn’t answer.

And that’s the rub. At a certain point all the self-
help and goalsetting programs fail.They come 
up against the troubling fact that if someone 
isn’t ready to achieve something, they won’t 
maintain the energy needed to manifest it.
They’ll quit. Everyone knows this experience 
from setting resolutions on January 1st and
forgetting them by January 2nd. The good 
intentions were there. But something deeper 
wasn’t in alignment with the conscious desires.
So how do you take care of that deeper state that 
isn’t “hungry”? That’s where the Hawaiian 
method you’ll learn in the book comes in 
handy. It helps clean the unconscious, which 
is where the block resides. It helps dissolve 
the hidden programs that keep you from 
attaining your desires, whether health, wealth, 
happiness, or anything else. It all happens
inside you. I’ll explain all of this in the book 
you are holding right now. For now, consider 
this:There’s a quote from Tor Norretranders’ 
book, The User Illusion, that sums up the 
essence of the mental roller-coaster ride 
you’re about to embark on:“The universe 
began when nothing saw itself in the mirror.”
In short, Zero Limits is about returning to the zero 
state, where nothing exists but anything is possible. 
In the zero state there are no thoughts, words, 
deeds, memories, programs, beliefs, or anything 
else. Just nothing.
But one day nothing saw itself in the mirror and 
you were born. From there, you created, and 
unconsciously absorbed and accepted, beliefs, 
programs, memories, thoughts, words, deeds, 
and more. Many of these programs go all the 
way back to the beginning of existence itself.
The whole purpose of this book is to help you 
to experience wonder moment by moment. 
From that place, miracles like the ones I 
described will happen to you.They’ll be unique 
to you.And they’ll be just as marvelous, 
magical, and miraculous. My experience of this 
spiritual rocket ship into power beyond
comprehension has been almost indescribable. 
I have success beyond my wildest dreams. I have 
new skills, and my level of love for myself
and the world is on a level of understanding 
words often fail to describe. I live in a near-
constant state of awe. Let me put it this way: 
Everyone has a lens through which they view 
the world. Religions, philosophies, therapies, 
authors, speakers, gurus, and candlestick 
makers all perceive the world through a 
particular mind-set.What you’ll learn in this 
book is how to use a new lens to dissolve all
other lenses. And once you succeed, you’ll be 
at the place I call zero limits.

Please understand that this is the first book in 
history to reveal this updated Hawaiian method 
for healing, called Self I-Dentity Ho’oponopono. 
But also please understand that this is just one 
man’s experience with the method: mine.While 
this book is written with the blessing of the 
therapist who taught me the amazing method, 
everything to follow is written through my own 
lens of the world.
To fully understand Self I-Dentity Ho’oponopono, 
you need to attend a weekend training and 
experience it for yourself. (Trainings are listed
at www.hooponopono.org and www.zerolimits.info.)
Finally, the entire essence of this book can be 
summed up in one phrase—a phrase you will 
learn to use; a phrase that reveals the ultimate
secret of the universe; a phrase that I want to 
say to you and the Divine right now: “I love you.”
Take a ticket and have a seat.The train into your 
soul is about to take off.

Hold on to your hat.

I love you.

Aloha no wau ia oe.

Dr. Joe Vitale
(Ao Akua)
Austin,Texas

www.mrfire.com

The universe began when nothing saw itself in the mirror.(Tor Norretranders, The User Illusion)

zero limits 1: The Adventure Begins
Peace be with you, all my Peace.

O ka Maluhia no me oe, Ku’u Maluhia a pau loa.

In August 2004, I was speaking and working a 
booth at the National Guild of Hypnotists annual 
convention. I enjoyed the people, the event, the 
energy, and the networking. But I wasn’t 
prepared for the life-changing event that would 
begin that day.
My friend Mark Ryan was working the booth with 
me. Mark is a hypnotherapist, as well. He’s very 
open-minded, curious, articulate, and penetrating 
when it comes to exploring life and all its mysteries.
We often had conversations that lasted for hours.
We talked about our heroes in therapy, from 
Milton Erickson to lesser-known shamans. It was 
during one of these conversations that Mark 
surprised me by asking, “Have you ever heard of the therapist who healed
people without ever seeing them?”
The question stopped me. I had heard of psychic 
healers and remote or distance healers, but Mark 
seemed to be suggesting something different.
“He’s a psychologist who healed an entire mental 
hospital full of the criminally insane (30 to be 
exact)w a single patient.”

“What did he do?”
“He used a Hawaiian healing system called ho’oponopono.”
“Ho-oh-what?” I asked.
I asked Mark to repeat the term about a dozen 
times. I had never heard it before. Mark didn’t 
know the story, or the process, well enough to 
tell me much more. I admit I was curious, but I 
also confess that I was skeptical, as well. I 
figured this had to be an urban legend.
Heal people without seeing them? Yeah, right.
Mark went on to tell me the following story:
“I had been traveling to Mount Shasta in 
California for about 16 years in search of myself,” Mark
 explained. “One friend there gave me a little 
booklet that I never forgot. It was white paper 
with blue ink. It was an article about this Hawaiian 
therapist and his method. I read that article over 
and over again for years. It didn’t describe what
the therapist actually did, but it said he healed people with his method.”
“Where’s that article now?” I asked. I wanted to read it.
“I can’t find it,” Mark said. “But something told 
me to tell you about it. I know you don’t believe 
me, but I’m as fascinated as you are. I want to 
know more, too.” A year passed before the next 
convention. During the intervening months, I 
poked around online but couldn’t find anything 
about any therapist who cured people without 
seeing them. Sure, there’s information on 
distance healing, where someone heals another 
without the other person being present, but I 
understood that the Hawaiian therapist didn’t 
do that. As I would come to learn, there’s no
distance at all in the type of healing he did. 
On top of all that, I didn’t know how to spell 
ho’oponopono to look it up online. So I let it go.
Then, in 2005, at the next annual hypnosis 
convention, Mark again mentioned the therapist.
“Did you ever find anything about him?” he asked.
“I don’t know his name, and I don’t know how to 
spell how whatever that term is,” I explained. “So 
I couldn’t find a thing.”
Mark’s a go-getter.We took a break, pulled out 
my laptop, found a wireless Internet connection, 
and went searching. It didn’t take long to find 
the main and only official site for ho’oponopono 
at www.hooponopono.org. I looked around and 
saw a few articles. They gave me a quick 
overview of what I was about to get into.
I found a definition of ho’oponopono: 
“Ho’oponopono is a process of letting go of 
toxic energies within you to allow the impact
of Divine thoughts, words, deeds, and actions.”
I had no idea what that meant, so I looked 
around some more. I found this: “Simply put, 
Ho’oponopono means,‘to make right,’ or ‘to 
rectify an error.’ According to the ancient 
Hawaiians, error arises from thoughts that are 
tainted by painful memories from the past. 
Ho’oponopono offers a way to release the 
energy of these painful thoughts, or errors, 
which cause imbalance and disease.”
Interesting, yes. But what did it mean?
As I explored the site, looking for 
information on the mysterious psychologist 
who healed people without seeing them, I 
learned that there is an updated form of 
ho’oponopono called Self I-Dentity through 
Ho’oponopono (SITH).
I didn’t pretend to know what all of this 
meant. Mark didn’t pretend, either.We were 
fellow explorers. Our laptop was the horse we
rode into the wilderness of this new land.We 
were in search of answers.We eagerly typed 
forward. We found an article that helped 
explain a few things:

Self I-Dentity Through Ho’oponopono
Being 100 Percent Responsible for the Problems 
of My Clients
By Ihaleakala Hew Len, PhD, and Charles Brown, LMT

In traditional approaches to problem solving and 
healing, the therapist begins with the belief that 
the source of the problem is within the client, 
not within him. He believes that his responsibility 
is to assist the client ...
( http://files.meetup.com/3684022/ZeroLimitsJoeVitaleINGLES.pdf
 ...in working through his problem. Could these
 beliefs have resulted in systemic burnout throughout the healing profession?
To be an effective problem solver, the therapist must be willing to be 100 percent responsible for having created the problem situation; that is, he must be willing to see that the source of the problem is erroneous thoughts within him,
not within the client.Therapists never seem to notice that every time there is a problem, they are always present!
Being 100 percent responsible for actualizing the problem allows the therapist to be 100 percent responsible for resolving it. Using the updated Ho’oponopono approach, a process of repentance, forgiveness, and transmutation developed by Kahuna Lapa’au Morrnah Nalamaku
Simeona, a therapist is able to have erroneous thoughts within himself and within the client transmuted into perfect thoughts of LOVE.
Her eyes brim with tears. Deep trenches enclose the corners of her mouth. “I am worried about my son,” Cynthia sighs softly. “He’s back on drugs again.”As she tells her painful story, I begin the cleaning of the erroneous thoughts within me that have actualized as her problem.
As erroneous thoughts are replaced by loving thoughts in the therapist and in his family, relatives, and ancestors, they are replaced too in the client and in her family, relatives, and ancestors.The updated Ho’oponopono process allows the therapist to work directly with the Original Source who can transmute erroneous thoughts into LOVE. Her eyes dry up.The trenches around her mouth soften. She smiles, relief dawning across her face. “I don’t know why, but I’m feeling better.” I do not
know why, either. Really. Life is a mystery except to
LOVE, who knows all. I just let it go at that, and 
just thank LOVE from whom all blessings flow.
In problem solving using the updated Ho’oponopono process, the therapist first takes his I-Dentity, his Mind, and connects it up with the Original Source, what others call LOVE or GOD.With the connection in place, the therapist then appeals to LOVE to correct the erroneous thoughts within him that are actualizing as the problem for himself first  and for the client second.The appeal is a process of repentance and forgiveness on the part of the therapist—“I am sorry for the erroneous thoughts within me that have caused the problem for me and for the client; please forgive me.”
In response to the repentance and forgiveness appeal of the therapist, LOVE begins the mystical process of transmuting the erroneous thoughts. In this spiritual correction process, LOVE first neutralizes the erroneous emotions that have caused the problem, be they resentment, fear, anger, blame, or confusion. In the next step, LOVE then releases the neutralized energies from the thoughts, leaving them in a state of void, of emptiness, of true freedom.
With the thoughts empty, free, LOVE then fills them with Itself. The result? The therapist is renewed, restored in LOVE.As the therapist is renewed so is the client and all involved in the problem.Where there was despair in the client, there is LOVE.Where there was darkness in her soul, there is now the healing Light of LOVE.
The Self I-Dentity through Ho’oponopono training 
teaches people who they are and how they can solve problems moment to moment, and in the process be renewed and restored in LOVE.The training begins with a two-hour free lecture. Attendees are given an overview of how thoughts within them actualize as spiritual, mental, emotional, physical, relational, and financial problems in their lives and in the lives of their families, relatives, ancestors, friends, neighbors, and associates. In the weekend training, students are taught what a problem is, where the problems are located, how to solve different kinds of problems using over 25 problem solving processes, and how to really take good care of themselves.The underlying emphasis in the training is on being 100 percent responsible for themselves and for what happens in their lives and for solving problems effortlessly.
The wonder of the updated Ho’oponopono process is that you get to meet yourself anew each moment, and you get to appreciate more and more with each application of the process the renewing miracle of LOVE. 

I operate my life and my relationships according to 
the following insights:

1. The physical universe is an actualization of my thoughts.

2. If my thoughts are cancerous, they create a cancerous physical reality.

3. If my thoughts are perfect, they create a 
physical reality brimming with LOVE.

4. I am 100 percent responsible for creating my 
physical universe the way it is.

5. I am 100 percent responsible for correcting the 
cancerous thoughts that create a diseased reality.

6. There is no such thing as out there. Everything 
exists as thoughts in my mind.


Mark and I read the article and wondered which 
author was the therapist we sought: Charles Brown 
or this Dr. Hew Len.We didn’t know.We couldn’t 
tell.And who was this Morrnah the article 
mentioned? And what was Self I-Dentity Ho-oh-
please?

We read on. We found a few more articles that 
shed light on what we sought. They included 
revealing statements, such as:“Self I-Dentity through Ho’oponopono sees each problem not as 
an ordeal, but as an opportunity. Problems are 
just replayed memories of the past showing up to 
give us one more chance to see with the eyes of 
LOVE and to act from inspiration.”

I was curious but I wasn’t getting it. Problems 
were “replayed memories of the past”? Huh? 
What were these authors trying to explain? How 
did this ho-whatever help the therapist who healed 
people? Who was this therapist, anyway?

I found yet another article, this one by a reporter 
named Darrell Sifford, who wrote about meeting 
the creator of this ho’opo-whatever process. Her 
name is Morrnah and she’s a kahuna, or keeper of 
the secrets.What this Morrnah does to help heal 
people is “appeal to the divine creator of our 
choice ‘through the divinity that is within each 
person . . . who is really an extension of the divine 
creator.’ ”

Maybe you understand that. I didn’t at the time. 
Neither did Mark. Apparently this Morrnah said 
some words, like a prayer, that helped people heal. 
I made a mental note to locate that prayer, but 
right now I was going on a different mission: to 
find the therapist and learn his method for healing. 
My eagerness to know more and to meet this 
shaman therapist was becoming more and more 
exciting.

Even though Mark and I really needed to be back 
at our booth at the convention, we let it slide so 
we could continue our quest.

Based on the articles and web site, we guessed the 
therapist we wanted to find was named Ihaleakala 
Hew Len. Some first name. I had no idea how to 
pronounce it, let alone spell it. I didn’t know how 
to locate him, either.The site didn’t have any 
contact information for him. Mark and I tried to 
Google him, but turned up nothing. We began to 
wonder if this ethereal therapist was a fiction, or retired or even deceased. I closed my laptop and went back to the convention.

But the adventure had begun.