"I prefer to inspire myself and others.
In fact, my
next book, Zero
Limits, explains that what you have to do to change the
entire planet is change yourself."
-- as written by Joe Vitale in his blog.--
-- as written by Joe Vitale in his blog.--
The first time I saw the excerpt below was, I thought, by
accident. Since there are no accidents really... it was on
purpose, completely in line with the path down which I was
proceeding. Needless to say, I was blown away. Speechless, I
was moved beyond moving - frozen. I had been hit! This was
everything I intuitively knew and all that my deepest experiences had ever told
me. This was it! This is it!
Actually... it is the ONLY thing that anyone really needs
to truly get to make their lives work in miraculous ways. Deep down. I have saved
this excerpt ever since I first saw it at which time 'Joe Vitale' was nothing more to me than a name. I've since learned a bit more about the human being behind
the name.
Dr. Joe Vitale is an extraordinary individual. He has gone from the depths of long term poverty (15 years+) and a less than healthy mental and physical state to a state of brilliantly clear mind, superb health and great wealth. Joe has written tons of books (way too many mention as he loves to say!) a few of which are pictured in various places on this blog. Along the way Joe has taught, healed and inspired countless people leading them to find their health, wealth, brilliant minds and lives. Joe stars as a teacher in The Secret movie, is featured in upcoming aritcles in Newsweek and Time, and has appeared as a guest on many shows including Larry King Live. Joe tirelessly acquires knowledge and masters new techniques on a continual basis propelling him forward on his life path. Joe Vitale burns through life with a passion befitting the "Mr. Fire" nickname he carries. He lives a life of true enlightened freedom and along with health, happiness and wealth he has collected a few gorgeous toys along the way! There isn't a moment that I don't find myself incredibly inspired by this man. So superbly successful and he is doing exactly what he states his preference in life is to do - inspire others and himself along the way. Thank you Dr. Joe!
Dr. Joe Vitale is an extraordinary individual. He has gone from the depths of long term poverty (15 years+) and a less than healthy mental and physical state to a state of brilliantly clear mind, superb health and great wealth. Joe has written tons of books (way too many mention as he loves to say!) a few of which are pictured in various places on this blog. Along the way Joe has taught, healed and inspired countless people leading them to find their health, wealth, brilliant minds and lives. Joe stars as a teacher in The Secret movie, is featured in upcoming aritcles in Newsweek and Time, and has appeared as a guest on many shows including Larry King Live. Joe tirelessly acquires knowledge and masters new techniques on a continual basis propelling him forward on his life path. Joe Vitale burns through life with a passion befitting the "Mr. Fire" nickname he carries. He lives a life of true enlightened freedom and along with health, happiness and wealth he has collected a few gorgeous toys along the way! There isn't a moment that I don't find myself incredibly inspired by this man. So superbly successful and he is doing exactly what he states his preference in life is to do - inspire others and himself along the way. Thank you Dr. Joe!
Joe's latest project is a book written with Dr. Ihaleakala
Hew Len and is entitled Zero
Limits: The Secret Hawaiian System for Wealth, Health, Peace, and More
. It is due out in July of 2007 but can be pre-ordered at
Amazon.com NOW! Below is an excerpt from the book. It so
happens it is the very same excerpt I saw in a blog in passing
months ago. Co-incidence? No, I don't think
so! Please read it and let it soak in deeply and slowly.
Like a good drenching.
. It is due out in July of 2007 but can be pre-ordered at
Amazon.com NOW! Below is an excerpt from the book. It so
happens it is the very same excerpt I saw in a blog in passing
months ago. Co-incidence? No, I don't think
so! Please read it and let it soak in deeply and slowly.
Like a good drenching. And those questions I posed yesterday? How
responsible for the totality of what you experience are you?
And just how much can you, yourself, heal? Yourself? Your
family and friends? Your acquaintances? The whole
World? I think you'll have a new answer or two after
reading the below. Order the book too while you are here....
From the Book, "Zero Limits" :
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. 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."
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--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, 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. "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."
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."
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--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, 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. "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."
The official "Zero Limits" website is the ONLY website that "cleans" you of negative thinking,
feelings and beliefs as you view it. Go ahead try it... I dare you
- GET CLEANED!
Click
'n' Clean right HERE!
"There are over 6 billion different manifestations of human existence on the planet... and only one of us here. In Zero Limits, Joe Vitale has captured the truth that all great spiritual, scientific, and psychological principles teach at the most fundamental level. Boil it all down to the basics... and the keys are quite simple--the answer to all life's challenges is profound love and gratitude. Read this book, it's a great reminder of the truth and ability you already possess." James Arthur Ray Philosopher and best-selling author of "Practical Spirituality" and "The Science of Success"
Ho'oponopono and "Zero Limits" will leave you breathless!
"There are over 6 billion different manifestations of human existence on the planet... and only one of us here. In Zero Limits, Joe Vitale has captured the truth that all great spiritual, scientific, and psychological principles teach at the most fundamental level. Boil it all down to the basics... and the keys are quite simple--the answer to all life's challenges is profound love and gratitude. Read this book, it's a great reminder of the truth and ability you already possess." James Arthur Ray Philosopher and best-selling author of "Practical Spirituality" and "The Science of Success"
Ho'oponopono and "Zero Limits" will leave you breathless!
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