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.

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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.

 

 

zero limits 8 : the evidence (3)

The drive to Austin felt like a vacation after 
months on the road with the show. Leaving 
Houston behind was more than a 24-hour break
from the all-encompassing universe of a 
production on tour. It was the juncture of a night 
of reckoning that would reorder my reality even
before the dinner presentation that Dr. Joe Vitale 
was hosting began.

It had been months since I’d last listened to one 
of Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len’s Ho’oponopono 
presentations—a year and a half to be exact. Even 
though I’d never met Joe Vitale before, I felt 
grateful for the fact he had brought Ihaleakala to 
a location within driving distance and I could be 
part of the event in Austin.

As changing scenery and little Texas towns 
skimmed by the car window en route to Austin, 
thoughts of other Ho’oponopono presentations 
surfaced and things I’d forgotten came back to 
mind. I flashed back to the first of many times 
I’d heard Ihaleakala speak and had gotten chills 
down my spine when he read the Opening Prayer 
in Hawaiian. I remembered how I’d landed a book 
contract two weeks aftertaking my first 
Ho’oponopono training, virtually by just showing 
up at a publishers convention, talking and leaving 
my card.Two days later a publisher called and 
asked me to submit ideas for a book they were
doing. I had the contract by the end of the month.

As the distance to Austin grew shorter, I also 
reflected on a time just six months earlier when a 
veterinarian in Montreal conveyed the sad news 
that my dear cat Maya had intestinal lymphoma. 
It was questionable whether she would live long 
enough for me to take her from the clinic.When 
Maya was released, the vet thought that with 
luck, I’d have a few weeks to “tell her good-bye.
” I contacted Ihaleakala for help with a special 
cleaning, something to clean whatever this 
precious little creature had taken on of mine. It is 
now a year and three months since Maya’s 
diagnosis. Little could I have imagined at the 
moment I was prepared for her imminent 
departure that months and miles later she would 
still be with me on tour.

Seeing Ihaleakala again in Austin was like 
breaking through the surface after being 
underwater—one of those “back in the world” 
kind of experiences.Yet it was also immediate 
immersion into the most profound life-altering 
practice I have experienced in 25 years of delving 
into everything from Buddhism, Celtic spiritual 
traditions, traditional psychotherapy, dream 
analysis (and I was good at that), energy work, 
and even Wicca.

And there I was in Austin, face to face with 
Ho’oponopono again, a philosophy, a tradition, 
that virtually wipes the slate clean of the 
practices, procedures, and endless analytical 
activities I’d so diligently studied for so long 
before it—all in an effort to understand, fix 
myself, and live the life I came here to live. I 
have to admit, there was a part of me that 
was ready to jump right in among those 
who’d never encountered Ho’oponopono before 
and let them know “I already do that,” but I 
started cleaning and the nonsense (memories) dispersed.

Before Dr.Vitale had even introduced Ihaleakala 
that evening, a revelation hit me like a bolt of 
lightning, causing me to jump up from the table 
where I was sitting and run to the ladies’ room, 
choking back tears. In that moment in Austin, in 
a room that looked out on the downtown skyline, 
Ho’oponopono enveloped my being and I had a
moment of clarity when I knew I no longer 
wanted to be on tour, no matter what. Six weeks 
later, Maya the cat and I were heading west en
route to Los Angeles, bound for a new home in 
Topanga Canyon that surfaced just in time for our 
arrival when the person who was going to take it 
suddenly decided not to rent it.

Another seven months have passed and just 
last week as I wavered on the edge of yet another 
significant change, I read a phrase that Ihaleakala 
wrote:“Zero is home base.” I cleaned and stepped 
off the edge of another existence as I’d known it 
and now can say that I didn’t fall.

Thank you for this opportunity to share the 
changes, revelations, and reflections about 
Ho’oponopono that surfaced from my trip to
Austin in February.

POI(Peace Of I)

Elizabeth Kaye McCall

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Before learning about and applying the method, I 
was experiencing struggle in many areas of 
my life: a husband who didn’t believe in me 
and my ability to build a thriving practice, a 
practice that was far from successful, and a 
feeling that I was all alone in pursuit of 
bigger dreams and goals.

During the weekend with Joe when I learned the 
method, I met a young woman who had 
similar interests and goals and we 
agreed to do a business venture together.
That venture was extremely successful 
and took my practice from limping to 
thriving in just two months.We are 
working on our next project. I feel as 
if we’ve been close friends for years 
and not months.The best and most 
significant change is that even before
my business took off, the relationship 
with my husband changed in just a 
few weeks. I had been using the 
method whenever I experienced 
discomfort with my relationship 
and suddenly my husband was 
rereading my e-books, asking me 
questions, and sharing his own 
experiences. He took on more 
responsibility at work and has a 
renewed sense of pride and love 
for himself, which has a sizzling 
impact on our relationship!

I have an unwavering trust and confidence in 
myself and what unfolds before me, all 
the while just doing a simple method in minutes a day.

Thank you!

Karrie King

Author of The Red Hot Bedroom (www.redhotbedroom.com)
Creator of Joyful Spaces (www.joyfulspaces.com)

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Ho’oponopono Goes Back through Time

I’m an animal lover.

A huge one.

I don’t care or worry only about my own—I love them all.

Years ago, a friend of mine turned me on to 
The Animal Rescue Site 
at www.theanimalrescuesite.com.


You can fund food for animals in sanctuaries by 
going to this site and clicking on the 
"Feed an Animal in Need” button. 
Every click provides 6 bowls of food to 
the hungry.A click per day is all 
it takes to make a difference. I’ve been 
visiting this site for the past five years, 
every day, without fail.

One Saturday morning, I was cleaning out my 
e-mails and feeling good about doing my 
part in the world—“feeding the animals 
in need.” I happened to notice a picture listed 
by one of the site’s sponsors.

What I saw was an animal in a cage trying to eat 
its way through the bars. It looked so 
sickly and gaunt that not even all that 
beautiful fluffy fur could mask its pain. 
In fact, it looked so terribly tortured 
that I couldn’t even make out what 
kind of animal it was! Was it a bear? 
A raccoon? I honestly couldn’t tell.
Truthfully, I didn’t want to look closer.

My fear told me that I would only be reminding 
myself how much pain exists in the world and that 
there was very little I could do about it. Still, I 
know better than to look the other way just so 
that I can feel better.

I felt this overwhelming need to tune in. I could 
hear the animal calling to me, asking me to wake 
up and pay attention.As I looked closer, to my 
horror I discovered that what I was seeing were 
captured bears, held in their cages for tens of 
years on end. The bears live in cages little bigger 
than themselves for ease of “milking.” Bile is 
extracted through a cut made in the bear’s 
abdomen and into the gallbladder,where bile is 
stored after being secreted by the liver via the 
hepatic duct.A tube is inserted into this opening 
to tap the bile, or a steel stick is forced into the 
gallbladder with the bile then running down it 
into a basin.Between 10 and 20 ml of bile is 
tapped from each bear twice daily.The WSPA 
[World Society for the Protection of Animals] 
reports that, during milking, investigators saw 
bears moaning, banging their heads against their 
cages,and chewing their own paws.The mortality 
rate is between 50 and 60 percent.When the 
bears stop producing bile after a few years, they 
are moved to another cage,where they either are 
left to starve to death or are killed for their paws 
and gallbladders. Bear paws are considered a 
delicacy. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bile_bear)

I felt completely sick to my stomach and had a 
knee-jerk reaction to unleash my anger toward 
these ignorant poachers. It took all the discipline 
I had to remind myself that shame and blame 
never change a person and that thankfully, thanks 
to Dr. Joe and Dr. Hew Len, I now had something
much better in my bag of tricks that I could apply: 
Ho’oponopono.

I began to recite the phrases,“I’m sorry. Please 
forgive me. I love you.Thank you.”As I repeated 
the mantra over and over and over again, I
visualized the bear farmers’ hearts being filled 
with love, understanding, and compassion. I saw 
them having their own “lightbulb moment” as my
information passed through them and they got in 
touch with their own awareness.With their level 
of consciousness being raised and no one to
blame for the blood on their hands but themselves, 
I imagined them falling to their knees in complete 
agony—begging and pleading with God and the 
bears to grant them mercy and forgiveness for the 
torture and suffering they’ve caused these 
beautiful creatures.Then, I saw them releasing all 
the bears and providing them with the medicine, 
care, and healing that they were in dire need of 
and finally setting them free again.

Many of you don’t know (as I didn’t know) that 
bear bile has been used for centuries.Today it is 
used in wine, shampoo, and medicine.The 
enormous weight behind this tragedy didn’t solely
involve healing the present moment—my clearing 
work occupied going back through time, through 
the ages.There was hundreds of years’worth of 
pain here to heal.

This experience consumed me. For hours that day, 
I couldn’t focus on anything else and kept 
repeating:“I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank 
you. I love you.”

The heaviness of this global pain was inescapable 
and undeniable. I was consumed with anguish.
And I was grieving. It was as if I was the one who 
captured those bears and held the key to their 
prison myself.


Once a week, my husband and I make it a point to 
have a “date day.” On this day he invited me to 
go see a movie with him. I was inagony and didn’t
feel much like going out. But I knew it wouldn’t
make any sense to say,“No thanks. I’m really not 
up to it—I’m worried about the bears.”

Keeping my own clearing work to myself, I agreed 
to go out with him.We went to see the movie 16 
Blocks with Bruce Willis. Little did I know then 
that the theme of this movie would be in complete
alignment with what I was already experiencing.
The highlighted message in the movie was 
“People can change.”

All throughout the movie, I practiced Ho’opono-
pono. In one scene,I noticed a bus in the back-
ground and the banner/ad on the side of the bus 
showed a picture of a teddy bear and the words 
beneath the bear read:“Send Love.”

My previous training would reveal to me that this 
was a “waking dream.” My current teachings 
would say,“Keep doing what you’re doing.You’re 
on the right track!” Is this how the universe 
speaks to us? I’d like to think so.

It was yet another reminder to me that the bear 
farmers didn’t need my anger to change; they just 
needed my love.The bears needed my love.The 
world needs our love. Love changes people and 
there are no exceptions to this rule. Sending love 
to a dangerous, ugly, or abusive situation is the 
only thing we can do if we’re looking for drama-
free healing and everlasting change. It’s not 
always an easy thing to do, but herein forever 
lies the answer: love.

As my hyper vigilance started to quiet down and 
the day faded into evening, the nausea, anxiety, 
guilt, pain, and grief that I was feeling earlier 
were finally starting to subside. Still, I continued 
to Ho’oponopono my way throughout the 
remainder of the day until I fell asleep that night.

Not too long thereafter, I was walking past the 
television one day and heard the newscaster 
announce a recent bear rescue. In my heart of
hearts, I knew that this message was meant for me
—that I was given confirmation of how we truly 
can make a difference in any part of the world, no 
matter where we live.And yes, even when we’re 
out eating popcorn and watching a movie.

Thank you, Dr. Joe and Dr. Hew Len and all of 
those before you who have brought the message 
of Ho’oponopono into our lives so that we can 
awaken and carry the knowledge that we have 
the power to heal the world and make a 
difference. Our work here has only just begun.

Please, let us always remember:

Harm none.

Love everything.

Love everyone.

Ho’oponopono travels across time....

Suzanne Burns
www.ThankYouth.com

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My Lifelong Search for an Asthma Cure Was Over 

One mysterious evening, after over 50 years of 
asthma and allergies, this condition abruptly, 
magically halted. 
Dateline: February 25, 2006.

Earlier that day, while relaxing over an Austin 
Tex-Mex lunch, I felt a quickening in my being. 
Oooooh, it felt very mysterious, like something 
was happening and I was somehow being worked 
on.A waveof love overwhelmed me and then I 
resumed lunch.

That evening in the hotel meeting room an 
electricity filled the air—an inexplicable pulsing 
of excitement. Dr. Hew Len, the speaker,ended up 
sitting at my table. Midway through the meal I 
told an asthma experience I had, and he used 
that later to springboard into his talk.

Well, I was familiar with the Hawaiian huna 
spiritual healing model but not the healing 
and forgiveness methodology and philosophy
at the heart of the healing, which he explained at 
length. Dr. Hew Len told us he was working on 
clearing each of us in attendance at the dinner, 
by reading our names and getting clarity and 
“oneness” with us.

How he does it is by expressing love for each 
person, asking for forgiveness for any wrongdoing 
consciously or unconsciously from the past or 
present of himself and his ancestors, to us and our 
predecessors, all the way back to the beginning 
of time and microbic life forms.Wow! That’s a lot 
to clear—so that he and we can all get back to 
true relationship in and of Divinity.

The next day unveiled the miracle at hand. I met 
my mentor (from Joe Vitale’s Executive Mentoring 
Program) and his wife for lunch, being that I was 
from out of town and we’d never met in person. I 
had to walk quite a few blocks to the restaurant 
and realized I didn’t need an inhaler at all during 
the trek.That was most unusual and the first clue.
They remarked how far it was from where my car 
was parked and I told them that perhaps I no 
longer had asthma and that it felt like it was so.

Later that evening I had the pleasure of dining 
with Dr. Hew Len and we spoke of the healing of 
Ho’oponopono and that now, having experienced 
its power in my life with asthma, I could go and 
help others with this problem. He also spoke of 
the importance of drinking water before each 
meal to flush out toxins and also to rid the home
environment of clutter. Ahem!

Well, the best got better and better. It’s been 
nearly six months since, and even though I 
got bronchitis, I bounced back without 
medicines. I never wheezed or needed an 
inhaler or asthma drug of any sort. Since
then I’ve been in homes with cats, dogs, 
and birds for hours at a time and had no 
wheezing or need for inhalers. My lungs 
are clear as a bell and I can breathe 
deeply and fully, and this for the first 
time ever.Wow!

Dr. Hew Len, though you don’t call it a healing or
 yourself a healer, and would say that the universe 
and my soul did it, thank you,and thanks to Joe 
Vitale for sharing Dr. Hew Len and a night of
healing magic! I’m forever grateful.

Martha Snee


www.translimits.com

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And here’s one more:

An Irishman Finds Aloha

Ten years ago, I began the study of myself 
through the use of Ho’oponopono. I came into
the understanding of this Hawaiian problem
solving process after years of study in Asian 
systems of healing, martial arts, and energy work.

I had been through what could be called the 
wringer in terms of my search for what could 
be understood as enlightenment, and being Irish, 
I am always looking for the proof of the pudding 
(meaning seeing results versus smokescreens of 
words). Being raised in South Boston,
Massachusetts (a tough as nails, Irish working-
class neighborhood where the sounds of gunfire 
and police sirens were like inner city birdcalls),
chances of discovering metaphysical under-
standings of the universe didn’t often come up. 
So, upon finding an opportunity to attend a free 
lecture, I jumped at the chance to check out 
this Hawaiian understanding of life.

What I found was very different. Many systems 
utilize and move energy (like moving pieces on 
a chessboard). Ho’oponopono, however, 
awakened me to how to erase the negative 
elements that manifest as problematic situations 
inside myself (thus removing the chess pieces
altogether). I was intrigued, to say the least. 
Many of the concepts at the time flew over my 
head, as all of the ideas were new to me. But at 
the end of the lecture, I figured I would give the 
two free tools that were given out as a gift a 
chance and began to use them as much as I 
could during the day and throughout my 
massage practice to see if the proof of the 
pudding was in the eating.

In the past, I practiced Tui Na, a form of Chinese
medical massage, and over time, my viewpoint 
began to shift in terms of my understanding of 
treatments. Before doing the tools, I had a set
understanding of what was wrong within a 
person based on the Asian traditions of energy
and meridians. But as I used the tools, I 
noticed that my understanding of the how or 
why changed and that it did not correspond 
with my prior training, as I would be treating 
areas that had no correlation to the reported 
issues of the clients coming in. As I did so,the 
client(s) would report almost instant results 
for varied issues. Needless to say, I began to 
wrestle with my understandings and started
to see a bigger picture of this Hawaiian art 
form begin to unfold.The next spring, I 
attended a full training and began to truly 
apply the methods and practices.

One day I received a call from a former client 
whom I will call Jo, a practicing psychologist. 
She asked me to see a patient of hers whom 
she was very concerned about (I will call her 
Farah), who had a clinical diagnosis of bipolar 
disorder, attempted suicide numerous times, 
and was committed on a few occasions for 
her own safety. I said to Jo,“What did I ever 
do to you?” She laughed  and said,“I know 
you can help her.You have to. If you don’t, she 
won’t make it.” So I agreed.At the end of the
call, Jo also said that Farah was once attacked 
by a massage therapist. I asked myself,“What 
am I going to do to help this woman?”
When I went home that evening, I sat for a while 
and wondered what could I do. How could I 
effect change on this level? After some intro-
spection, Ho’oponopono! Ho’oponopono! kept 
playing in my mind like a broken record. So I 
began to use the tools as I never had before. I 
put marathon efforts into each session before, 
during, and well after, never telling Farah 
anything about my secret. 
During our meetings, the treatment room was 
full of humor and the air had a sense of thick 
peace to it as I cleaned.To make a long story 
short, Farah had a complete turnaround and 
is now a productive woman able to handle 
life as it comes. She is walking proof that if 
we take 100 percent responsibility, situations 
can indeed shift.
My massage practice also has shifted and has 
moved ahead, and I rarely touch anyone 
anymore. Currently, I find myself driving 
through life, hitting speed bumps now and 
then, amazed at where the cleaning will 
bring me next. Has it been simple? No, but 
I truly value all the situations that have 
come up and made me realize who I am.
After many years as a volunteer for the 
Foundation of I, Inc.

Freedom of the Cosmos, my viewpoint is simple:

The Shocking Truth about Intentions

zero limits 4 :The Shocking Truth about Intentions

Our subjective inner life is what really matters to 
us as human beings.Yet we know and understand 
relatively little of how it arises and how it 
functions in our conscious will to act. —Benjamin Libet, Mind Time

After that first call with Dr. Hew Len, I eagerly wanted to know more. I asked him about the seminar he was doing a few weeks later. He didn’t try to sell me on it. He said he was constantly clearing so only the right people went to it. He didn’t want a crowd. He wanted open hearts. He trusted that Divinity—his favorite term for the power bigger than all of us, yet all of us—would bring the right arrangement.

I asked my friend Mark Ryan, the man who first 
told me about Dr. Hew Len, if he wanted to 
attend. I offered to pay his way, as a gift for 
telling me about this miracle and miracle worker. 
Mark agreed, of course.

I did a little more research before the trip. I 
wondered if this therapist’s method had anything 
to do with huna, a popular healing method from 
Hawaii.As I read, I learned it had nothing at all to 
do with it. Huna is the name that entrepreneur-
turned-author Max Freedom Long gave his version 
of Hawaiian spiritualism. He claimed to have 
learned a secret tradition from Hawaiian friends 
while working as a schoolteacher in Hawaii. He 
founded the Huna Fellowship in 1945 and later 
published a series of books, one of the most 
popular being The Secret Science Behind Miracles. 
While fascinating, Long’s work had nothing to do 
with the therapist I was investigating. As I was 
beginning to learn, the therapist was practicing 
something Long had never heard of, at least not 
in the way Dr. Hew Len practiced it.

As I kept reading and learning, my curiosity 
deepened. I could hardly wait for the day I would 
fly out and meet the healer himself.

I flew out to Los Angeles, met with Mark, and went to Calabasa, California. Mark showed me Los Angeles before doing so, and we had a great time. But we both wanted to meet the man we had heard so much about.While Mark and I had stimulating and deep conversations over breakfast, what we both wanted was the seminar.

When we went to the event room, we found a line 
of about 30 people. I kept trying to stand on my 
toes so I could see over everyone’s head. I wanted 
to see the healer. I wanted to see the mystery man. 
I wanted to see Dr. Hew Len. When I finally made 
it to the door, Dr. Hew Len greeted me.

"Aloha, Joseph,” he said, extending his hand. He 
was soft-spoken yet with charisma and authority. 
He wore Dockers, sneakers, an open shirt, and a 
business jacket. He also wore a baseball cap, 
which I later learned is his trademark.

“Aloha, Mark,” he said to my friend.

There was small talk as he asked about our flight, 
how long it took to get from Texas to Los Angeles, 
and so on. I loved this man instantly. Something 
about his quiet confidence and grandfatherly 
style of being made me resonate with him.

Dr. Hew Len likes to start on time. As soon as the event began, he called on me.

“Joseph, when you delete something from your computer, where does it go?”

“I have no idea,” I replied. Everyone laughed. I’m sure they had no idea, either.

“When you erase something from your computer, where does it go?” he asked the room.

“To the recycle bin,” someone shouted out.

“Exactly,” Dr. Hew Len said.“It’s still on your computer, but it’s out of sight.Your memories are like that.They are still in you, just out of sight. What you want to do is erase them completely and permanently.”

I found this fascinating, but I had no idea what it meant or where it was going. Why would I want memories permanently deleted?

“You have two ways to live your life,” Dr. Hew Len explained. “From memory or from inspiration. Memories are old programs replaying. Inspiration is the Divine giving you a message.You want to come from inspiration.The only way to hear the Divine and receive inspiration is to clean all memories.The only thing you have to do is clean.”

Dr. Hew Len spent a lot of time explaining how the Divine is our zero state—it’s where we have zero limits. No memories. No identity. Nothing but the Divine. In our lives we have moments of visiting the zero limits state, but most of the time we have garbage—what he calls memories—playing out.

“When I worked at the mental hospital and would look at patients’ charts,” he told us, “I would feel pain inside me. This was a shared memory. It was a program that caused the patients to act the way they did.They had no control. They were caught up in a program. As I felt the program, I cleaned.”

Cleaning became the recurring theme. He told us a variety of ways to clean, most of which I can’t explain here because they are confidential. You have to attend a ho’oponopono workshop to learn them all (see www.hooponopono.org). But here is the method of cleaning Dr. Hew Len used the most, and still uses, and the one I use today:

There are simply four statements that you say over and over, nonstop, addressing them to the Divine. 

“I love you.”

“I’m sorry.”

“Please forgive me.”

“Thank you.”

As we went through this first weekend event, the phrase “I love you” became part of my mental chatter. Just as sometimes you wake up with a song playing in your head, I’d wake up hearing “I love you” in my head.Whether I consciously said it or not, it was there. It was a beautiful feeling. I didn’t know how it was clearing anything, but I did it anyway. How could “I love you” be bad in any way, shape, or form?

At one point in the event, Dr. Hew Len again singled me out. He asked, “Joseph, how do you know whether something is a memory or an inspiration?”

I didn’t understand the question and said so.

“How do you know if someone who gets cancer gave it to themselves or it was given to them by the Divine as a challenge to help them?”

I was silent for a moment. I tried to process the question. How do you know when an event is from your own mind or from the mind of the Divine?

“I have no idea,” I replied.

“And neither do I,” Dr. Hew Len said. “And that’s why you have to constantly clean, clean, clean.You have to clean on anything and everything, as you have no idea what is a memory and what is inspiration.You clean to get to a place of zero limits, which is the zero state.”

Dr. Hew Len states that our minds have a tiny view of the world, and that view is not only incomplete but also inaccurate. I didn’t buy this concept until I picked up the book, The Wayward Mind by Guy Claxton.

In it Claxton writes of experiments that prove our brains tell us what to do before we consciously decide to do it. In one famous experiment a neuroscientist named Benjamin Libet hooked people up to an electroencephalogram (EEG) machine, which showed what was happening in their brains. It revealed that a surge of brain activity took place before the person had the conscious intention to do something, suggesting that the intention came from the unconscious, and then entered conscious awareness.

Claxton writes that Libet “discovered that the intention to move appeared about a fifth of a second before the movement began—but that a surge of activity in the brain reliably appeared about a third of a second before the intention!”

According to William Irvine, in his book, On Desire: Why We Want What We Want, “Experiments such as these suggest that our choices are not formed in a conscious, rational manner. Instead, they bubble up from our unconscious mind, and when they finally reach the surface of consciousness we take ownership of them.”

And Benjamin Libet himself, the man who ran the controversial and revealing experiments, wrote in his book, Mind Time: “The unconscious appearance of an intention to act could not be controlled consciously. Only its final consummation in a motor act could be consciously controlled.” 

In other words, the urge to pick up this book may seem like it came from your conscious choice, but in reality your brain first sent a signal to pick it up and then your conscious mind followed with a stated intention, something like,“This book looks interesting. I think I’ll pick
it up.” You could have chosen to not pick up this book, which you would have rationalized in some other way, but you could not control the origin of signal itself that was nudging you to take action.

I know this is hard to believe. According to Claxton,“No intention is ever hatched in consciousness; no plan ever laid there. Intentions are premonitions; icons that flash in the corners of
consciousness to indicate what may be about to occur.”

Apparently a clear intention is nothing more than a clear  premonition.

The thing that troubles me is this: Where did the thought come from?

This is mind-blowing. Since I wrote about the 
power of intention in my book The Attractor 
Factor, and since I spoke about it in the movie 
The Secret, coming to realize intentions aren’t my 
choice at all was a shock. It appears that what I 
thought I was doing when I set an intention was 
simply verbalizing an impulse already in motion 
from my brain.

The question then becomes, what or who made my brain send the intention? In fact, I later asked Dr. Hew Len,“Who’s in charge?” He laughed and said he loved the question.

Well, what’s the answer?

I confess I was still confused about intentions. I 
lost 80 pounds by being mentally tough and 
asserting my intention to lose weight. So was I 
declaring an intention or just responding to my 
brain’s signal to lose weight? Was it an inspiration 
or a memory? I wrote and asked Dr. Hew Len. He 
replied, saying:

Nothing exists at Zero, Ao Akua, no problems, 
including the need for intention.

Weight concerns are simply memories replaying, and these memories displace Zero, you. To return to Zero, you, requires Divinity erasing memories behind weight concerns.

Only two laws dictate experiences: Inspiration from Divinity and Memory stored in the Subconscious Mind, the former Brand-New and the latter Old.

Jesus is purported to have said: “Seek ye first the Kingdom (Zero) and all else will be added (Inspiration).”

Zero is the residence of you and Divinity . . . 
“from where and from whom all blessings—
Wealth, Health, and Peace—flow.”

POI, (PEACE OF I)
Dr. Hew Len

From what I could see, Dr. Hew Len was looking past intentions and going to the source—the zero state, where there are zero limits. From there you experience memory or inspiration. Concern about weight is a memory.The only thing to do is love it and forgive it and even give thanks for it. By cleaning it, you ensure that the Divine has a chance to come through with an inspiration.

What appears to be the truth is that my desire to overeat, which made me obese most of my life, was a program. It bubbles up from my unconscious. Unless I clean it, it will stay there and keep bubbling.As it keeps surfacing, I have to keep being aware of my choice: to overeat or not.This ends up being a lifelong battle. It’s no fun.Yes, you can over-ride the tendency to indulge by saying no to it. But obviously, that
takes enormous energy and diligence. In time, saying no to indulging may become a new habit. But what a hell to go through to get there!

Instead, by cleaning on the memory, it will one day disappear.Then the desire to overeat will no longer surface. Only peace will remain.

In short, intention was a limp rag compared to inspiration. As long as I kept intending to do something, I kept fighting with what is. As soon as I gave in to inspiration, life was transformed.

I still wasn’t sure if this was how the world actually worked, and I was still confused about the power of intention. So I decided to keep exploring.

I had dinner with Rhonda Byrne, the creator and producer of the hit movie The Secret. I asked her something I longed to know. I asked, “Did you create the idea for the movie, or did you receive the idea?”


I knew she had received the inspiration to create the now-famous movie trailer that caused a viral marketing epidemic. (See it at www.thesecret.tv.) She once told me that the idea for the movie teaser came to her suddenly and within a few 
seconds. She made the actual preview within 10 
minutes. Clearly she received some sort of 
inspiration that led to the making of the strongest 
movie teaser in history.

But I wanted to know if the idea for the final 
feature movie itself came from inspiration or if 
she felt she did it for some other reasons. This 
was the crux of my concern about intentions.
Were we stating intentions that made a difference 
or receiving ideas that we later called intentions? 
That’s what I asked her as we sat together at dinner.

Rhonda was quiet a long time. She looked off, 
contemplating my question, searching within 
herself for the answer. Finally, she spoke.

“I’m not sure,” she said.“The idea came to me, 
for sure. But I did the work. I created it. So I’d 
say I made it happen.”

Her answer was revealing.The idea came to her, 
which means it came to her as an inspiration. 
Since the movie is so powerful, so well done, and 
so brilliantly marketed, I can only believe it’s all 
the Divine unfolding.Yes, there was work to do, 
and Rhonda did it. But the idea itself came as an 
inspiration.

It’s interesting that after the movie had been out 
for several months and the buzz for it was 
reaching historic proportions, Rhonda sent out 
an e-mail to all the stars in it, saying the movie 
now had a life of its own. Rather than stating 
intentions, she was answering calls and seizing 
opportunities. A book was coming out. Larry King 
was doing a two-part special based on the ideas 
in the movie. An audio version was coming out. 
Sequels were in the works.

When you come from the zero state where there 
are zero limits, you don’t need intentions.You 
simply receive and act.

And miracles happen.

You can stop the inspiration, however.

Rhonda could have said no to the nudge urging her to make the movie. That seems to be where free will comes into play. When the idea to do something appears in your mind—coming from either inspiration or memory—you can choose to act on it or not, if you are aware of the impulse.

According to Jeffrey Schwartz, in his powerful book, The Mind and the Brain, your conscious will—your power to choose—can veto the impulse that started in your unconscious. In other words, you may get the impulse to pick up this book, but 
you can override that impulse if you want to do so. 
That’s free will, or, as Schwartz describes it,“free won’t.”

He writes that “in later years he [Libet] embraced the notion that free will serves as a gatekeeper for thoughts bubbling up from the brain and did not duck the moral implications of that.”

William James, the legendary psychologist, felt that free will took place after the impulse to do something and before you actually did it. Again, you can say yes, or no, to it. It takes mindfulness to see the choice. What Dr. Hew Len was teaching me was by constantly cleaning all thoughts, whether inspiration or memory, I would be better able to choose what was right in that moment.

I began to see that my weight loss came about because I chose not to obey the memory or habit that was nudging me to eat more and exercise less. By choosing not to follow those additive impulses, I was kicking in my free will or free won’t ability. In other words, the urge to overeat was a memory, not an inspiration. It came from a program, not from the Divine. I was ignoring the 
program or over-riding it.What I gathered Dr. 
Hew Len would suggest as a better approach is 
to love the program until it dissolved and all that 
remained was Divinity.

I still didn’t quite understand all of this, but I was listening and choosing to not cancel anything out because it was new. Little did I know what was in store for me next.