Forgiving – Forgiveness work

Report on a highly effective Shamanic healing / Prayer method

In the year 2003 Joe Vitale, author, internet hypnotic marketeer on personal improvement and one of the experts in the popular movie The Secret, heard from Mark Ryan about an unusual success story of the therapist and psychologist Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len from Hawaii. He was told that

Hew Len had literally healed a whole ward of criminally insane inmates – without ever having seen anyone of them. The cure of these criminals was effected by simply studying their files, writing down their names, taking full responsibility for each one of them while exercising intense inner forgiveness work thereby rendering all his own judgments, beliefs, attitudes to the Divine petitioning it to erase the shared program with the other person. With each patient Len took a deeper look inside to address the very aspect within himself that had created the illness in the person in front of him.
As he was "improving" himself, i.e. cleaning within himself, the state of the inmates and the staff did improve correspondingly.

When Vitale heard this story for the first time, he doubted it wondering:

• How can a human being heal another one by healing themselves?
• How does the best self-improved master heal criminally insane?

These ideas seemed utterly illogical to him. So he dismissed the message as an urban legend and forgot about it.

To take total responsibility meant for Vitale that one is responsible for what one feels, thinks and does, not for that what others might feel, think, or do. Beyond that, he thought, one cannot take charge. His attitude was in sync with that what most people incorporate. This, however, does not coincide with the bigger reality.

A year later Vitale came across Len's story again. He was told that the psychologist had applied a Hawaiian healing method called ho'oponopono. Unfamiliar with this kind of healing and unable to forget its effect a second time he decided to find out more about it. He dialed the Hawaiian therapist's phone number. And – following an impulse – Dr. Hew Len answered the call, which he rarely does. Their first phone call on the advanced perspectives of life lasted about an hour. It turned out that Vitale had met his teacher on taking full responsibility for what is.

Dr. Len told Vitale that he was employed at Hawaii State Hospital Kaneohe for four years. The psychologists in charge at the ward with the criminally insane inmates gave up and quit on a monthly basis. Afraid of being attacked by those dangerous patients they passed through the ward the staff walked with their backs against the wall. They called in sick oftentimes or simply left. The ward was a dire location.

Maiskolben

The therapist Len did not meet any of the patients one on one. He had an office where he reviewed their charts and then worked on himself. The result of which was: the patients began to heal.

Len reported, After a few months, patients that had to be shackled were being allowed to walk freely.
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, he went on. 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.

Listening to this Vitale was in awe. He burnt to ask the million dollar question: What were you doing within yourself that had those people change?

Len replied: I was simply healing the part of me that created them.

Vitale was perplexed and asked Len to explain what total responsibility for one's life means. In a literal sense the entire world is your creation. That is why everything which is in your life is your responsibility.

Being responsible for what everyone in his life says or does was a tough load to swallow for Vitale. This was not part of his worldview.
Yet, taking complete responsibility for one's life, concerns everything that one perceives and takes in, including terrorism, the government, the economy.
All the unliked topics are in fact projections from inside oneself and therefore one's responsibility to heal.
The "outside" problems are indeed "inside". To change them means to change internally.

Vitale felt this was hard to grasp, and harder to accept or to actually practice it. He found blame far easier than taking full responsibility.
Dr. Len explained to him that in Ho'oponopono healing means loving oneself. Improving your life means to cleanse and heal your life. Curing an ill person, a criminal even, means to heal yourself.

How did Dr. Len manage to heal himself? What exactly did he do, while he studied the patients' files?

He replied: I just kept saying repeatedly

1. I'm sorry for that – within me.
2. I forgive you – within me.
3. I love you – within me.

Loving oneself is the essential way to grow.
Improving one's inner self is improving one's world.

Inspirational source: Joe Vitale's blog (Mr. Fire, USA) on his first contact with Dr. Len (HI) in MrFire.blogspot.com, 2004
distributed by the Internet and read by 5 million people worldwide within 3 years
also published as an excerpt in Zero Limits

Caveat for readers:
Vitale's blog is an incomplete representation of Dr. Len's forgiveness work. See following box.