| Is there someone in your life who gets on your | | | | a complete ward of criminally insane patients by |
| nerves? | | | | looking within himself and taking responsibility for their |
| In your search for inner peace, as well as for world | | | | illness (from 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life.) |
| peace, you may find yourself feeling obstructed by | | | | Instead of trying to change them, he changed |
| the actions and intentions of others. We tend to | | | | himself. And the concrete result was that the |
| idealize peace as a pastel vision of children skipping in | | | | previously dangerous, high security ward was closed |
| a slow motion circle, holding hands and laughing... until | | | | because, one by one, all the patients were released. |
| the phone rings and the person on the other end | | | | Stepping Forward |
| tries to sell you something you don't want and you | | | | If you've been on a parallel journey with me, you |
| snap at them. | | | | know that we have been ever more deeply |
| Suddenly something occurs to you. | | | | embracing the notion that we create our own reality. |
| There are other people out there who seem to be | | | | Cautiously, we have tiptoed onto this terrain of vast |
| messing up your creation. | | | | responsibility. Gratefully, we have accepted the |
| We often encounter these personal stumbling blocks | | | | empowerment that comes with it. In amazement, we |
| that remind us that we may not be as resonant with | | | | have watched our lives flourish as we receive and |
| peace as we'd like to believe. We start to see that | | | | apply this understanding. |
| war and crime, which we'd like to blame on others, | | | | Now we can go farther. Recognizing that the people |
| have their seeds in our very own consciousness. We | | | | who we see "out there" really live "in here" within the |
| see their embryos in our reactions to the most | | | | space of our consciousness, we can make |
| mundane intrusions in our daily lives. | | | | corrections within ourselves and see transformations |
| As long as we hold ourselves in the stance of victim, | | | | in our world. |
| we hold ourselves in the stance of powerless. As | | | | Step 1 |
| soon as we step into the groove of responsibility, | | | | It can begin with the simplest step of loving and |
| we step into the rhythm of happiness. | | | | appreciating the mystery that you are. You can start |
| It's All You | | | | by considering the incomprehensible expanse of your |
| When I first heard about Ho'Oponopono, it rang true | | | | consciousness itself. Feel the richness of the ground |
| for me at a deep level. Ho'Oponopono means to | | | | of your being. |
| make right; to rectify, to correct. Ihaleakala Hew Len, | | | | Step 2 |
| Ph.D., tells us, "If you want to solve a problem, work | | | | As you sense the broad expanse of your |
| on yourself. If the problem is with another person, | | | | consciousness, notice where you encounter discord, |
| for example, just ask yourself, 'What's going on in | | | | judgment, pain, or distortion, and release it |
| me that's causing this person to bug me?'" (from | | | | completely. Offer apology to the ground of your |
| 100% Responsibility and the Possibility of a Hot | | | | being for creating this tangle and let the resistance |
| Fudge | | | | be erased. Feel the relief of the open space that |
| Sundae: Cat Saunders gets the scoop on Haleakala | | | | replaces the pain. |
| Hew Len This method echoes the message of the | | | | By honoring the ground of our being, even though |
| Upanishads. It gives us an opening for seeing "all | | | | we may not understand it in the least, we soften the |
| beings in the Self and the Self in all beings" as Verse | | | | harsh weapons we have been unwittingly using |
| 6 of the Isopanishad advises. | | | | against ourselves, and therefore against each other. |
| Joe Vitale recounts the story of how Dr. Len healed | | | | By clearing ourselves we harmonize our world. |