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