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not realize their power. So this is the perfect lead in to ask you about Ho'oponopono.
JV: Up until about 12 years ago, not that many people knew about it because it was more underground, or
more secretive. And it was a Hawaiian way of healing which was pretty much kept close to their vests. I had
heard, as you know, of this amazing story about a therapist who helped heal an entire ward of mentally ill
criminals, not by working on them, but by working on himself. When I first heard it, I thought this has to be
an urban legend. I know magic and miracles. I know amazing techniques, but this therapist worked on
himself instead of the real criminals that were killers and rapists! The inmates were so violent they had to
be shackled and sedated. Doctors were quitting the hospital because it was so hellish for anybody to be
there. And yet, this unusual therapist went there and used a really weird technique. It was so weird that I
pretty much dismissed it for a about year. And then I heard about it again.
This time I went looking for the therapist, and I thought,
if this is at all true then somebody has to tell the world.
Well, I met the therapist Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len. I did a
seminar with him and we became best friends. We
have had several seminars together since then.
Together, we wrote the now very famous book, called
"Zero Limits." I followed up ten years later with another
book called "At Zero" which was the follow up to the
first book. Now to simplify all of this, you must realize
that it's a true story. What Hew Len did is the most
mind stretching quantum leap by understanding
responsibility and healing that I ever came across. And
I'm so fortunate that I got to be the author to tell the
story and still tell the story today.
Hew Len basically said he was working on himself. He understood that you create your own reality. Now we
hear that statement all the time but in his view, if you create your own reality and he's in a hospital with a
prisoner who had killed somebody, on some level Hew Len helped create that person and his experience.
Len didn't draw a line and say, "Oh I created my own reality, but you created yours." No. He looked inside of
himself and said that if I created all of my reality and if that person is in my reality, I created it too! This is
mindblowing because this is that leap in taking responsibility that most people never could even
comprehend. Our minds don't go there because it's so easy for us to say "I know what I did. But it's your
fault. You did that." Not in Ho'oponopono. In Ho'oponopono you take responsibility for all of it. So whatever
your life experience is, you've got to look inside of yourself to remedy it. In his case he used
Ho'opononpono.
The basic four phrases are ridiculously easy: I love you. I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. That's it. I
love you. I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. You can say them in any order and you typically don't say
them out loud. And you are saying this inside of yourself to facilitate a connection to the Higher Power, or
to the Universe or to God or to the Divine.
You're saying t hese phrases t o t he "Great Somet hing" as a kind of pet it ion or kind of prayer. In essence,
you are saying I'm sorry f or what ever bel ief s are in me or my ancest ors t hat creat ed t his sit uat ion. Pl ease
f orgive me f or being unconscious. Pl ease f orgive my ancest ors if t hey had a rol e in t his. Thank you f or
heal ing me. Thank you f or cl earing t hese bel ief s. Thank you. Thank you f or cl earing my herit age t hat
downl oaded al l of t his inf ormat ion t o me. I l ove you f or t his f eel ing. I l ove you f or my l if e. I l ove you
As Dr. Hew Len was in these offices, he'd look at their charts and he's feeling his own emotions. He begins
to work to clear HIS feelings. He's NOT working to clear the other person. He's working to clear what's in
him that is in the way of peace. And as he clears himself... This is the miracle... Those other people got
better. Every time I tell this story, I want to cry, because this is the doorway to our healing and our
salvation. It's an inner door and there's four statements that we use to knock on that door.
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