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OK, I was in error – I misjudged. Thought I had nothing else to write about self-help.

But when you are going along in life, you hit some bumps. And of course, this also has to do with your spiritual training. The basics are much lower, though.

Look, the reasons you don’t have enough money in your life are due to 2 things:

1. You have a bad mental habit of lack
2. Your money desires are insatiable.

I can say that as a generality because I’ve not only been there, done that – but I’ve also studied all the authors who wrote about it, such as Napoleon Hill, Wallace Wattles, and Earl Prevette (among others – Troward, Behrend).

Lester Levenson was the capstone on this, though. He pointed out that all your personal programs you run on are simply a collection of memories and thoughts which are supposedly going to help you out. Unfortunately, they don’t.

While you can release to get rid of these (ever heard of the Abundance Course by Larry Crane?), you really have to do a daily action on this for about 28-40 days. This works over your subconscious mind and tells it that you are expecting only showers of money or cash coming into your life from here on out. (Or whatever other imagery you want – like a money magnet or something.)

But that’s the real trick.

Daily, probably best is 3 times a day, sit down (or sit up if you are in bed) and get into an alpha-level meditative state (Silva Method), then do a quick Ho’oponopono (Zero Limits style) and then get into either your mental video (Silva UltraMind) or just simply release on it.

While the Goals releasing is best (where you write it down as you cover it), you can also simply do this short-handed technique:

1. State your goal, out loud if you can. (“I allow my self to have routinely more than enough money to live on and support my family with ease” – for example.)
2. Discover any feelings you are having about this and identify them (Apathy, Grief, Fear, Lust, Anger, Pride – 0r even the Expanded Scientology Tone Scale) and
3. Then look below that to find out what desire is fueling that feeling (Control, Security/Safety, Approval).
4. And let that go.
5. Keep this up until you get very calm on the subject.

Then end off, feeling better than before, perfectly relaxed, and come out of your Silva Method alpha level.

The trick is to simply keep this up, three times a day, every single day for a good month or more.

It gets easier as you go along, but take a calendar and mark off the days as you do it. Don’t skip, even if it’s going really fast. There are layers to come up and be released, like peeling an onion. Just keep going until there is no more onion.

28 days was found by various studies. But 40 days is the standard by various religious and spiritual texts.

If you want showers of cash or checks into your life (and bank account), then do the above. Print this off and post it by your work desk, and your night stand – along with that calendar page to mark off.

(And this is so simple, you can even do it on your commute – as long as you aren’t driving.)

Once you’ve got routine abundance into your life, then pick out another goal. Maybe perfect health or beautiful  relationships. Anything else you want to attact or manifest into your life.

Piece of cake.

But you have to taste it to know how good it really is…

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Now this will be my last post on this blog about self-help techniques.

Simply because they have all begun to say the same things to me. They actually speak in one voice now.

So: Aloha.

The last point I really learned anything “new” was with Lester Levenson’s works on release technique. And of course I send people to Larry Crane as I can, simply because this is a relatively easy way to approach the subject. Of course, I also greatly respect Hale Dwoskin’s work along this line and also Stephen Seretan. There are many other teachers and coaches who are promoting Lester’s discoveries and these keep popping up to my awareness as well. Peace and Love be to all of you.

Now, the point that I have anything to say at all today is due to Joe Vitale and his “Zero Limits” book. Joe is an Internet marketer (as well as using conventional offline approaches) but I don’t hold it against him. Nor the fact, that like many people, I didn’t know he existed until “The Secret” DVD came out. There is a world of self-help seminars of which I am clueless. But then, I have a farm to run and can’t be trying to keep up with all these coaches and trainers and guru’s and whatnot. Cities bore me. (But that, perhaps, is just more to release.)

Back to our topic: Joe was fascinated with a story he heard about someone essentially cleaning out a psych ward for the criminally insane, only by using an ancient Huna healing technique – no visitations, consultations, or prescribing any treatment of any kind. And interestingly, he did all this work on less than a full-time schedule – just 20 hours a week.

While I still haven’t found any verification of this story, I did find a heckuva lot of other material which substantiated Dr. Len’s background. Most of these links for further data I’ve already posted on the Ho’oponopono page.

Today, I’ll talk the theory of how this works – and how Dr. Len is just saying the same thing as Levenson, which has for me been the missing link and theory which all other self-help, personal development, spiritual, and religious studies have been just shooting around. They each individually had parts of this, even overlapped, but Levenson compiled them into a whole study with workable techniques.

A key point is to actually hear Dr. Len describe his own work and why it works. Vitale is just, as he admits, telling you what he personally got out of it. The background theory and being able to put the intention into your technique is what makes this work. (Which lack is noted as far back as the 14th century when Al Ghazzali produced the “Alchemy of Happiness” – probably the historically-first self-help book.)

The intention is to take responsibility and to clear out of yourself any non-optimal thought which appeared.

The underlying part to this is that the Unihipili (or “Low Self” or subconscious mind) holds onto all the various incidents which have happened in our lives and presents these up as solutions for us to act on. Just as Levenson said the entirety of the mind is made up of memories and programs, none of which was actually happening in the present.

Dr. Len then uses a very shortened version of Morrnah Simeona’s modernized Ho’oponopono – which is essentially a prayer/affirmation/invocation/meditation/offering to the Amakua (or “High Self”, superconscious, Divinity, Higher Intelligence) that you would like to take responsibility for this thought and apologize for any bad effect it may have had.

The action of this then erases this thought completely, so that it quits recurring.

You’ll see this in Levenson’s work, where as you release, that exact thought is gone for good. However, you want to take this further and find the underlying feeling that caused it, plus the underlying desire which caused that feeling. This takes out thoughts by the thousands or so at a time, so that they won’t continue to bother you.

And this is the limit of Dr. Len’s actions. While the traditional Ho’oponopono healing technique may very well have approached that absolute, any person who is only using this simple technique to deal with individual thoughts or situations is missing the broader picture.

There are caveats with this technique.

You don’t go around trying to work miracles for others or for yourself. You only take responsibility for your own actions and thoughts. That some thought came in coincidental with another person’s actions or communication to you – that is regardless of what you must now do. Your concern is with the thought you had. Critical, damning, snarky – doesn’t matter. You want to regain your own peace,  and so you simply accept responsibility for that thought and let it go. Dr. Len’s technique also has you apologizing and asking forgiveness.

But you don’t use this technique to go around trying to “be” a miracle worker or get disappointed when major things don’t happen. Anyone trying to use mental tricks just to puff up their own approval, or get control over others, or ensure their own safety – they are simply putting themselves right back where they came from. Like a dog chasing it’s own tail in circles.

You want internal, personal peace. Others around you will probably become more peaceful as you do, but that is a side benefit. Your responsibility is to clear yourself. And as you can stay at peace within yourself, what you observe, how you interact with others – to this degree you will restore your own native Peace, Freedom, Joy, and “hootless” perfection that you’ve always been. What you are working to restore is your own “peace that passes all understanding.”

What’s Love Got to Do With It

Levenson went through a basic realization in this area  when he was looking at his own mortality at age 42. Here’s some sections from a short account of Lester’s epiphany, available at Larry Crane’s website (http://www.releasetechnique.com/rt/pdf/LesterLevensonStory.pdf):

His strength was returning, but not wanting to be distracted, he avoided getting involved in social activities and would sometimes even pass up the Sunday get-together with his family. He did his food shopping in the middle of the night, around two or three in the morning. There were very few people up and about at that hour, and he enjoyed the quiet of the city. He went on correcting his life, even while doing the necessaries. And he noticed that when someone in a store or on the street would annoy him, he was able to correct that response with love either immediately or shortly thereafter. This pleased him, and he found himself loving others with an intensity far beyond anything he had imagined possible. As he described it many years later,

“When I mixed with people, and again and again when they would do things that I didn’t like and within me was a feeling of non-love, I would immediately change that attitude to one of loving them even though they were opposing me. Eventually I got to a point where, no matter how much I was being opposed, I could maintain a feeling of love for them.”

Finally, he met up with something he couldn’t dissolve with love. It was an old romance he had, which he couldn’t commit to. When he looked it over, he found that it was all due to wanting to change the outcome from that incident years ago. When he did just toss over wanting to change it, the whole incident shifted and disappeared:

He began to look now in this new direction. He realized that the cause of his ulcers was that he had wanted to change everything, starting with his nearest and dearest and extending out to the rest of the world, including the United States, other countries, government heads, the weather, endings of movies he had seen, the way businesses were run, taxes, the army, the President; there was nothing he could think of that he had not wanted to change in one way or another.

What a revelation! He saw himself subject to and a victim of everything he wanted to change! He began dissolving all that. When he thought of something that caused him pain about a person or situation, he would now either correct it with love or dissolve wanting to change it.

The next point is almost too simple. He found that his thinking was what had gotten him into trouble, that all the subconscious figuring and urges was what had caused all his life problems up to that point.

Discovering that my happiness equated to my loving, and that my thinking was the cause of things happening to me in my life gave me more and more freedom; freedom from the subconscious compulsions that I had to work, I had to make money, I had to have girlfriends. Freedom in the feeling that I was now able to determine my destiny, I was now able to control my world, lightened my internal burden so strongly that I felt there was no need for me to have to do anything.

Plus, this happiness was so great. It was a new experience for me. I was experiencing a joy that I never knew existed, never dreamed could be.

. . . .

After several weeks, he began to wonder if there could be anything better beyond this joy. …He had the idle thought without expecting an answer, but the answer came.

What was beyond this incredible, joyous state that didn’t stop? He saw that it was peace, imperturbability… and he realized with certainty that if he accepted it, if he decided to move into that peace, it would never, ever go away… and he went… slipped into it so effortlessly… with just a decision to have it… he was there. Everything was still. He was in a quietness that he now knew had always been there but drowned out by incessant noise from his accumulated, uncorrected past. In fact, it was more than quiet; it was so far beyond anything imaginable that there were no words to describe the delectable deliciousness of the tranquility.

His earlier question about happiness was answered too. There were no limits to happiness, but when you have it all, every minute, it gets tiresome. Then this peace is just beyond … and all you have to do is step over the line into it.

“Is there anything beyond even this?” he wondered. But as he asked, he knew the answer.

This peace was eternal and forever, and it was the essence of every living thing. There was only one Beingness and everything was It; every person was It, but they were without awareness of the fact, blinded by the uncorrected past they hold on to. He saw this Beingness as something like a comb. He was at the spine of the comb and all the teeth fanned out from it, each one thinking it was separate and different from all the other teeth. And that was true, but only if you looked at it from the tooth end of the comb. Once you got back to the spine or source, you could see that it wasn’t true. It was all one comb. There was no real separation, except when you sat at the tooth end. It was all in one’s point of view.

And that, my friends, is the reason for this overlong essay.

We all share the same Beingness. What you do to another, you do to yourself. There are no limits.

This now explains how Dr. Len’s work produces apparent miracles with no effort (which is the only way miracles can occur, anyway…) By being responsible and erasing your own thoughts, you then produce a similar effect for all Beingness in this Universe. As each person clears his own mind or Self, they do something for the Universe as a whole.

This is, perhaps, why Presidents change after a campaign. They are subject now to prayers of people all across the nation. And so are subject to the effects of people erasing their own thoughts, feelings, and desires about that individual. (Obviously, the more we continue to work on fictions like Government, the better it will operate – we might even get less taxes and some real service out of the deal, if we all kept it up long enough… but funny enough, we have to do it from our own idea of being responsible, not from wanting change other than in our own thoughts.)

Final notes:

The Huna description of the Three Selves is workable. Most Western approaches combine the Low Self with the Middle (or conscious) Self and are just as effective, since most people have been on 95% automatic anyway. As we wake up and see ourselves separate from our thoughts, feelings, and desires (which is all the Low Self gives us besides our breathing, blood circulation, digestion, and all other autonomic responses) – then we start to set at good example for the Low Self. And this is all the Low Self wants, really – to learn how to be better.

What you are doing with all this is un-learning the lessons we’ve all absorbed up to this point. Taking responsibility for these and erasing them so that we can just let our basic perfection shine through. You know that stuff – we all have it as basic and natural qualities of life and living.

So you improve your own Beingness and these three Selves align. You wind up with the direct, always-on intuitional inspiration which other self-help authors can only get to occur transcendently (not all the time.) But with what we now know, you and I can have as perpetual.

Ho’oponopono’s purpose is to create or reestablish harmony. Another definition is “to make whole”. Which is the same point of Levenson, Silva, and New Thought. Alignment with the Universal, Higher Intelligence, Divine Will, or any name of any prophet, god or goddess who ever was or will be.

You’ll find that the world around you is truly Maya, a fiction, an illusion. There is truly no past or future, only Now. There is no distance, which is why you can be as telepathic or clairvoyant as you want – it’s only your own mind you are reading, after all. And this deal of being omniscient, and omnipresent and all that – well, it’s all really a great joke you play on your Self.

Don’t worry if this doesn’t make sense, or seems like talking to the spirit world and whatnot. Test it for yourself and see if it helps. If not, chuck it out. Make your own way, just like you have all along.

A Simple Prescription:

1. Silva Method is the best way I’ve found to quickly get into a high meditative state. Get a version of this and learn it. Start using this daily.

2. Study up on Dr. Len’s technique. Get some version of Vitale’s material, particularly with Dr. Len himself explaining how this works. Add this to what you are doing daily. Get this into regular use along with your Silva meditation.

3. Get a version of Lester Levenson’s release technique. Larry Crane’s is good, so is Hale Dwoskin’s – or get Levenson’s original books and tapes. Now incorporate this into all of the above. Really go for broke on clearing yourself.

4. Your basic importance at this time is to make your life into a “living prayer” or constant meditative state. Dr. Len’s simple technique allows you to get and stay at this state all the time. But all of the above are targeted in that direction, so it’s pretty much a piece of cake once you are familiar with all the theory and practice. You can listen to Alan Watts’ too-numerous lectures and books to keep yourself entertained if you feel the need for distraction meanwhile. You also have the plentitude of New Thought authors and various spiritual and religious works to consider. (Just don’t be terribly surprised when you find yourself looking back at you with the same perfect eyes and vision…)

5. And once you see how you can simply “step across that line” into endless and limitless personal Peace, Love, and Freedom – you’re there.

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And you now see why I never needed to write this to begin with and won’t anymore.

Cheers!

Thank you.

Aloha.

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For all the work I’ve been doing on goals lately, I thought to give you some fair use quotes about setting and working goals statements. The first is directly from the Abundance Course by Larry Crane. It’s on page 28 of his course manual – CD 10:

WORDING A GOAL STATEMENT

1. Phrase it in the NOW, as thought it is already achieved. Phrasing it as a future event tends to keep it always out of reach—in the future.

2. Phrase the goal positively, without any negatives. Put in what you want, not what you don’t want. Your goal statement should reflect the end result that you want to achieve. Therefore, be sure you do not include in your statement those things you want to get rid of. Keeping it in mind tends to create it.

3. It should feel real, realistic and right to you. In other words, it should feel “possible,” with a sense of “I can have it.”

4. Include yourself in the statement in relationship to the goal.

5. Be precise and concise. Use as few words as possible while being sure to make it a complete statement of what you want. Choose the exact words that convey a specific meaning to you.

6. Be specific, but not limiting. Don’t limit the results by including limiting specifics. Leave things open as much as possible to allow for results being upgraded from what you initially project.

7. Word it to facilitate your letting go.

8. Eliminate the word “want.”

9. State the goal or end result and not the means (how you’re planning to get it). These action possibilities would more appropriately go on your goal “to do” list.

10. Focus on one goal per statement. Don’t diffuse your energy by creating multiple goals in a goal statement.

OK, now that you have that under your belt, let’s look how you could screw it up. Not seriously, since you actually can’t live life wrong. But you can live it more perfectly.

This next section is from Stephan Seretan, another person who Lester Levenson taught directly. He’s got a book out, called “Lester and Me”, which is a neat read and gives personal anecdotes you don’t see through other books about Lester – plus a view of releasing which is truly KISS simple.

Are You Making These 7 Goals Mistakes?

1. Not making it realistic to you.

If it seems like a “pie in the sky” type of goal, you need to bring it down some, so it seems doable. If you are making $35,000 per year, avoid wording a goal for $100,000 per year for now. You can always build to that later.

2. Working on too many goals at the same time.

I suggest working on a maximum of three goals at a time. You can have many goals,
but to keep shuffling them around is not productive. Stay with the 3 until you create one. It will inspire you to go for more and release deeper.

3. Telling everyone about what you are working towards.

Lester told me often, “Show me”. He said talking about it expends energy uselessly, and will take the place of releasing on it. Talking and not doing is WA, and we know where that gets you. Ask, Can I let go of wanting to talk and not do?

4. Not taking action.

As those who have been in my classes before know, I teach action steps, and releasing on those as part of the process. Action stirs up what is in the way of MANIFESTING  the goal. Without action, you’ll never know where you are on the chart. Action and releasing clears away the self imposed limitations.

5. Persistence.

This is THE key to having the life you choose. Some goals take a while because you are too far away from C to have it. Persistence with KISS Releasing is vital to being happy and successful. If you give up, the goal will never be yours. If you keep going, even when doubt seems to bury you, you are getting freer (step #6).

6. Not keeping Step #1 in.

Remember why you are doing this in the 1st place: TO LET GO OF YOUR NON WINNING PROGRAMS. The having, being and doing is a by-product, not the end product.

7. Not writing gains.

Lester put this into the course, and people have let it die for some reason. Your mind will keep telling you you are not making progress, and this counters that.  Write 5 or more gains each day. At the end of the week, you will have 35+, and it will inspire you and make you keep releasing. Give yourself approval…It’s FREE!

Now the thing to do is to start making these goals right, left, and center. Interestingly, Hale Dwoskin has this point about taking action in his Effortless Creation seminar CD series. (It’s the 13th, called “Action Steps Brainstorm”) I hope to cover this tomorrow.

Until then, have fun with this…

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