There is No Out There

by Joe Vitale

Two years ago, I heard about a therapist in Hawaii
who cured a complete ward of criminally insane patients
--without ever seeing any of them.

The psychologist would study an inmate's chart
and then look within himself
 to see how he created that person's illness.

As he improved himself, the patient improved.

When I first heard this story, I thought it was an urban legend.
 How could anyone heal anyone else by healing himself?

How could even the best self-improvement master
cure the criminally insane?

 It didn't make any sense.

It wasn't logical, so I dismissed the story.

However, I heard it again a year later.

I heard that the therapist had used a Hawaiian healing process
called ho'oponopono.

 I had never heard of it,
yet I couldn't let it leave my mind.

 If the story was at all true,
I had to know more.


I had always understood "total responsibility" to mean that
I am responsible for what I think and do.
 Beyond that, it's out of my hands.

I think that most people think of total responsibility that way.

We're responsible for what we do,
 not what anyone else does--
but that's wrong.

The Hawaiian therapist who healed those mentally ill people
would teach me an advanced new perspective
about total responsibility
.
His name is Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len.

We probably spent an hour talking on our first phone call.
I asked him to tell me the complete story of his work as a therapist.

He explained that he worked at Hawaii State Hospital for four years.

That ward where they kept the criminally insane was dangerous. Psychologists quit on a monthly basis.

 The staff called in sick a lot or simply quit.

People would walk through that ward
with their backs against the wall,
 afraid of being attacked by patients.

 It was not a pleasant place to live, work, or visit.

Dr. Len told me that he never saw patients.
He agreed to have an office and to review their files.
While he looked at those files, he would work on himself.

As he worked on himself, patients began to heal.

"'After a few months, patients that had to be shackled
were being allowed to walk freely,' he told me.

 'Others who had to be heavily medicated were getting off their medications.
And those who had no chance of ever being released were being freed.'

I was in awe.

'Not only that,' he went on, 'but the staff began to enjoy coming to work.
Absenteeism and turnover disappeared.

We ended up with more staff than we needed
 because patients were being released,
and all the staff was showing up to work.

Today, that ward is closed.'

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This is where I had to ask the million dollar question:

 'What were you doing within yourself that caused those people to change?'

'I was simply healing the part of me that created them,' he said.
I didn't understand.

Dr. Len explained that total responsibility for your life
means that everything in your life -
 simply because it is in your life
--
is your responsibility.

In a literal sense, the entire world is your creation.

Whew. This is tough to swallow.
Being responsible for what I say or do is one thing.

Being responsible for what everyone in my life says or does is quite another.

Yet, the truth is this: if you take complete responsibility for your life,
then everything you see, hear, taste, touch,
or in any way experience is your responsibility
because it is in your life.

 This means that terrorist activity, the president, the economy
or anything you experience and don't like--
is up for you to heal.

They don't exist, in a manner of speaking,
 except as projections from inside you.

The problem isn't with them, it's with you,
 and to change them, you have to change you.

 "I know this is tough to grasp, let alone accept or actually live.

 Blame is far easier than total responsibility,
but as I spoke with Dr. Len, I began to realize
that healing for him, and in ho'oponopono,
means loving yourself.

If you want to improve your life, you have to heal your life.

 If you want to cure anyone, even a mentally ill criminal,
 you do it by healing you.

 I asked Dr. Len how he went about healing himself.
What was he doing, exactly, when he looked at those patients' files?

'"I just kept saying, 'I'm sorry' and 'I love you'
over and over again," he explained.

 "That's it?"

 That's it.

Turns out that loving yourself is the greatest way to improve yourself,
and as you improve yourself, you improve your world.

Let me give you a quick example of how this works:

One day, someone sent me an email that upset me.

In the past I would have handled it by working on my emotional hot buttons
or by trying to reason with the person who sent the nasty message.

This time, I decided to try Dr. Len's method.

I kept silently saying, 'I'm sorry' and 'I love you.'

 I didn't say it to anyone in particular.

 I was simply evoking the spirit of love to heal within me
what was creating the outer circumstance.

 Within an hour I got an e-mail from the same person.
 He apologized for his previous message.

 Keep in mind that I didn't take any outward action to get that apology.
I didn't even write him back.

Yet, by saying 'I love you,' I somehow healed within me
what was creating him.

I later attended a ho'oponopono workshop run by Dr. Len.

He's now 70 years old, considered a grandfatherly shaman,
and is somewhat reclusive.

He praised my book, The Attractor Factor.

He told me that as I improve myself, my book's vibration will raise,
and everyone will feel it when they read it.

 In short, as I improve, my readers will improve.

 "What about the books that are already sold and out there?" I asked.

"'They aren't out there," he explained,
once again blowing my mind with his mystic wisdom.

 "They are still in you".

In short, there is no out there.

 It would take a whole book to explain this advanced technique
with the depth it deserves.

Suffice it to say that whenever you want to improve anything in your life,
 there's only one place to look:

Inside you.


When you look, do it with love.


“Forgiveness is the fragrance left by the violet on the heel that crushed it.” ... Mark Twain

Deliberate Intent

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Do Not Face Reality

Do not face reality unless it is a reality you want to create---for any “reality” only exists because someone has focused it into being.

Someone will say, “But this is a true thing, and therefore it deserves my attention.” And we say that you make whatever you give your attention to…your Truth. And so, it is extremely beneficial for you to focus primarily on the way you feel while giving only scant attention to the manifestations as they are unfolding, for whenever you are giving your primary attention to things as they are, you are hindering the expansion of what-is.

All those statistics that are gathered about your own experiences and about others---are only about how somebody has already flowed Energy. They are not about any hard-and-fast now reality.

Within your current society, there are many who gather the statistics of human experience. Their lives have become more about labeling the behavior or experiences of those with whom they share their planet than about their own creating.


And so, they find themselves in a very uncomfortable position as they come to believe that their happiness or Well-Being depends upon the behavior of others. They point to people, behaviors, or beliefs and call them inappropriate, saying no to them, without realizing that they are including into their experience the vibration of the very thing they do not want. And so without the knowledge of how it is that those unwanted things are making their way into their experience, they become increasingly guarded and fearful.


Freedom from the fear of unwanted experiences will never be achieved by trying to control the behavior or desires of others. Your freedom can only be allowed by adjusting your own vibrational point of attraction.

Abraham-Hicks

New Conclusions

Most of you are creating your own reality by observing anything and everything that comes along, because most of you are not keenly aware that everything is about attraction.

There is no assertion.


Everything is about Law of Attraction, which means,
“Whatever I, as a perceiver, perceive, by my attention to it,
I am including it in my vibration.”














Everything is vibrating.
So when you observe it or remember it or ponder it or imagine it,
whenever you focus upon it, by your focused attention,
whatever its vibration is, becomes a part of your vibration.
And so, the more often you visit it,
the more a part of your habit of vibration it is.



Everything is vibrating and so, whenever you give attention to anything—it then becomes a part of your Vibration.

When you see something you want, by your attention to it, you are including it and inviting it.
When you see something you don’t want, by your attention to it, you are including it and inviting it.
So the key is to examine with an eye to choosing what you do want.


Little by little, be one who consistently finds what is most pleasing,
to be most familiar, to you.
Make a decision that nothing is more important than the way you feel,
since the way you feel is the indicator of what you are including in your vibration.



You have creative control.
When you begin to notice the correlation between what you’re thinking and what you are feeling,
and then what the consequential corresponding absolute matching manifestation is, then you finally get it that you do have control over your own experience.


There is nothing that we are wanting to guide you toward or away from.
It is not our job or anyone else’s to choose for you.
Our work, as we see it, is to assist you in understanding that you are Creators
and to help you in aligning your Energy
so that you may attract unto you anything that you choose,
and that it is not possible for you to choose outside of the realm
of that which is intended as you come forth.
You said, “Let’s go forth into this balanced environment,
bang around together,
come to eternally new conclusions,
and have a very good time in the process.

-Abraham-Hicks-

Nature's Price

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated.

She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

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(Napoleon Hill)

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painting by
Marc Moss
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Reacting to You

If you change the way
you look at things,
...
the things you look at change.

-Wayne W. Dyer-