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Article #289: There's Nobody Out There

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






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