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The problem is not outside of you.
The true cause of the problem lies within\u2014within the part of you called the Unihipili, who has been storing memories all this time.
Through Ho\u2019oponopono, you learn how to erase these memories.
Then, you can live as your true self\u2014perfect and beautiful, just as you were meant to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Ihaleakal\u0101 Hew Len<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The World’s Most Unusual Therapist\u3000\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years ago, I heard about a therapist in Hawaii who cured a complete ward of criminally insane patients-
without ever seeing any of them. The psychologist would study an inmate’s chart and then look within
himself to see how he created that person’s illness. As he improved himself, the patient improved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I first heard this story, I thought it was an urban legend. How could anyone heal anyone else by healing
himself? How could even the best self-improvement master cure the criminally insane?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It didn’t make any sense. It wasn’t logical, so I dismissed the story.
However, I heard it again a year later. I heard that the therapist had used a Hawaiian healing process called
ho’oponopono. I had never heard of it, yet I couldn’t let it leave my mind. If the story was at all true, I had to
know more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had always understood “total responsibility” to mean that I am responsible for what I think and do. Beyond
that, it’s out of my hands. I think that most people think of total responsibility that way. We’re responsible for
what we do, not what anyone else does. The Hawaiian therapist who healed those mentally ill people would
teach me an advanced new perspective about total responsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His name is Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len. We probably spent an hour talking on our first phone call. I asked him
to tell me the complete story of his work as a therapist. He explained that he worked at Hawaii State Hospital
for four years. That ward where they kept the criminally insane was dangerous. Psychologists quit on a
monthly basis. The staff called in sick a lot or simply quit. People would walk through that ward with their
backs against the wall, afraid of being attacked by patients. It was not a pleasant place to live, work, or visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Len told me that he never saw patients. He agreed to have an office and to review their files. While he
looked at those files, he would work on himself. As he worked on himself, patients began to heal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a few months, patients that had to be shackled were being allowed to walk freely,” he told me. “Others
who had to be heavily medicated were getting off their medications. And those who had no chance of ever
being released were being freed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was in awe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He went on<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the staff began to enjoy coming to work. Absenteeism and turnover
disappeared. We ended up with more staff than we needed because patients were being released, and all the
staff was showing up to work. Today, that ward is closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is where I had to ask the million dollar question: “What were you doing within yourself that caused
those people to change?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was simply healing the part of me that created them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Len explained that total responsibility for your life means that<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everything in your life – simply because it is in your life–is your responsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a literal sense the entire world is your creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 yourresponsibility because it is in your life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This means that terrorist activity, the president, the economy–anything you experience and don’t like–is up
for you to heal. They don’t exist, in a manner of speaking, except as projections from inside you. The
problem isn’t with them, it’s with you, and to change them, you have to change you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know this is tough to grasp, let alone accept or actually live. Blame is far easier than total responsibility, but
as I spoke with Dr. Len, I began to realize that healing for him and in ho ‘oponopono means loving yourself.
If you want to improve your life, you have to heal your life. If you want to cure anyone–even a mentally ill
criminal–you do it by healing you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I asked Dr. Len how he went about healing himself. What was he doing, exactly, when he looked at those
patients’ files?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I just kept saying, ‘I’m sorry’ and ‘I love you’ over and over again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

he explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turns out that loving yourself is the greatest way to improve yourself, and as you improve yourself, your
improve your world. Let me give you a quick example of how this works: one day, someone sent me an email
that upset me. In the past I would have handled it by working on my emotional hot buttons or by trying to
reason with the person who sent the nasty message. This time, I decided to try Dr. Len’s method. I kept
silently saying, “I’m sorry” and “I love you,” I didn’t say it to anyone in particular. I was simply evoking the
spirit of love to heal within me what was creating the outer circumstance.
Within an hour I got an e-mail from the same person. He apologized for his previous message. Keep in mind
that I didn’t take any outward action to get that apology. I didn’t even write him back. Yet, by saying “I love
you,” I somehow healed within me what was creating him.
I later attended a ho’oponopono workshop run by Dr. Len. He’s now 70 years old, considered a grandfatherly
shaman, and is somewhat reclusive. He praised my book, The Attractor Factor. He told me that as I improve
myself, my book’s vibration will raise, and everyone will feel it when they read it. In short, as I improve, my
readers will improve.
“What about the books that are already sold and out there?” I asked.
“They aren’t out there,” he explained, once again blowing my mind with his mystic wisdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They aren’t out there<\/p>\n\n\n\n

he explained, once again blowing my mind with his mystic wisdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are still in you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, there is no out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would take a whole book to explain this advanced technique with the depth it deserves. Suffice it to say that
whenever you want to improve anything in your life, there’s only one place to look: inside you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“When you look, do it with love.”<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

This article is from the book \u201cZero Limits\u201d by Dr. Joe Vitale and Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ihaleakala Hew Len, Ph.D. heir to SITH Ho’oponopono and a leader in its spread throughout the world. He graduated from the University of Colorado in 1962, then the University of Utah, and received his doctorate from the University of Iowa in 1973, where he was Dean of Education and Director of Special Education. He later became President of the Medical College and Assistant Professor of Education, then Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaii in 1974, and Executive Director of the Hawaii Association for the Mentally Handicapped in 1976, where he worked on rehabilitation of offenders and support programs for the physically handicapped. He was a frequent speaker at the United Nations, UNESCO, and World Peace Conferences, etc. He passed away on January 15, 2022 at the age of 82. He published many books (click here <\/a>for the list of publications). Click here <\/a>to read an interview with Ihaleakala Hew Len, Ph.D.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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