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**popillio** · 08-17-2007, 10:01 PM

as a therapist i found this really facinating, i do a lot of teaching you must first love yourself before you can lover others, but this takes it to anothert level. donald

http://www.davidicke.com/content/view/8016/48/

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--but that's wrong.

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08-17-2007, 10:01 PM	#1
popillio Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 497 Senior Member	Healing within to heal 'without' as a therapist i found this really facinating, i do a lot of teaching you must first love yourself before you can lover others, but this takes it to anothert level. donald http://www.davidicke.com/content/view/8016/48/ 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--but that's wrong. [note from moderator: when you have a url, please limit your quote of the article to a few paragraphs]
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