Poisoning from Negative Energy Question

HO’OPONOPONO
> by Joe Vitale
>
> “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.
>
> “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 or 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, you 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.”
>
> http://hooponopono.org/lectures.html

Gentleness flows everywhere where it finds a passage. Your nearness with your own sadness gives you the possibility to be close with the sadness of another person.
The nearness with your own anger gives you the courage to encounter the anger of another person without being caught by it. Mild open attention gives you space and warmth.

My tip to you, be as aware as possible in your encounters with ‘others’, instead of living in your own head and thoughts as you say you do, try to meet, be open and alert to what is happening around you, always.

Try this and see if it works for you (it has for me).

First make sure your energy is up and inwardly radiant.

Then go into a very polluted environment, say a smoggy city, noise, a bad party, everything or almost anything.
In a grounded way, let go of the breath, no thoughts, let go of trying to buffer yourself, and feel a kind of inner poetry with it. Bad smells become just energy, noise becomes many voices singing, and inwardly feel that divinity. Be sure you are outside (not in a building, your energy msut be larger than the confines of a room). Do this while moving (keep the poetry), not sitting still with eyes closed. Keep the core deep in the body (stay present and a pressence inside of you).

Do not overdue it, but see if you can carry that breathless-kind-of-state through such a situation. Even if you end up not feeling so well, you will be able to throw if off quicker with your practices, and you might gain some practical experience with something inside that is beyond all this.

While this is a much different and perhaps more impersonal scenario than you mentioned (about absorbing peoples negativity), their is a carry over.

Virochana