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To Morrnah and Kai
Dr. Hew Len
To Mark Ryan and Nerissa
Dr.Vitale
Hooponopono is a profound gift that allows one to develop a working relationship with the Divinity within and learn to ask that in each moment, our errors in thought, word, deed, or action be cleansed. The process is essentially about freedom, complete freedom from the past.
Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona,
Hooponopono Master Teacher,
creator of Self I-Dentity Hooponopono,
named a Living Treasure
of the State of Hawaii in 1983
by the Hongwanji Mission of Honolulu
and the Hawaii State Legislature
Acknowledgments
Two key people deserve thanks for this book: Mark Ryan is the priceless friend who first told me the story of the unusual therapist youre about to read about, and Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len is that unusual therapist who has become my latest priceless friend. Nerissa, my love, is my main support person and domestic life partner. Matt Holt and my dear friends at John Wiley & Sons, Inc. are terrific people to know and work with. Suzanne Burns is my key assistant and publicist, and proofread an early draft of this manuscript. My master-mind group supported me in this project, including Jillian Coleman-Wheeler, Cindy Cashman, Craig Perrine, Pat OBryan, Bill Hibbler, and Nerissa Oden. Early readers of this book who helped me shape it and perfect it include Mark Weisser and Mark Ryan. I also want to thank the Divine for guiding me in the process of writing this book. I am grateful to all.
Preface
Where Peace Begins
Dear Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona, the creator and first master teacher of Self I-Dentity Hooponopono, had on her desk a placard that read, Peace begins with me.
I witnessed this peace beyond all understanding as I worked and traveled with her from December 1982 to that fateful day in Kirchheim, Germany, in February 1992. Even as she lay in death on her bed surrounded by chaos, she exuded that stillness beyond all understanding.
It was my great good fortune and honor to have received the training from Morrnah in November 1982 and to have been in her presence for a decade. I have been doing Self I-Dentity Hooponopono ever since. I am pleased that, with the help of my friend Dr. Joe Vitale, this message can now reach the world.
But the truth is it only has to reach you, through me, as we are all one and it all happens inside.
Peace of I,
Ihaleakala Hew Len, PhD
Chairman Emeritus
The Foundation of I, Inc. Freedom of the Cosmos
www.hooponopono.org www.businessbyyou.com
Introduction
The Secret of the Universe
In 2006 I wrote an article titled The Worlds Most Unusual Therapist. It was about a psychologist who helped heal an entire ward of mentally ill criminalswithout ever seeing any of them professionally. He used an unusual healing method from Hawaii. Until 2004, I had never heard of him or his method. I searched for two years before I found him. I then learned his method and wrote that now-famous article.
That article swept the Internet. It was posted on newsgroups and e-mailed to huge lists of people from all walks of life. My own list at www.mrfire.com loved it, and passed it on to tens of thousands of others. They in turn forwarded it to family and friends. I estimate about five million people saw that article.
Everyone who read it found it hard to believe. Some were inspired. Some were skeptical. All wanted more.This book is a result of their desire and my quest.
Even if youre a veteran of the five steps in my earlier book,
The Attractor Factor, you may not understand the incredible insights Im about to reveal to you here, at least not at first glance. The simple process Im going to share in this book will help explain why Ive been able to manifest some huge accomplishments without actually trying to make them happen. Here are a few of them:
My Nightingale-Conant audio program, The Power of Outrageous Marketing, happened after I quit pounding on their door for 10 years.
How did I go from homeless to poverty to struggling writer to published author to best-selling author to Internet marketing guru with no plan at all?
My desire to attract a BMW Z3 sports car led to me being inspired with an Internet marketing idea no one had ever thought of beforewhich made me $22,500 in one day and a quarter of a million dollars in a year or so.
My desire to buy and move into a Texas hill country estate when I was broke and going through a divorce led to me creating a new business that brought in $50,000 in one day.
My huge weight loss of 80 pounds occurred after I gave up and opened myself to a new way to achieve my desire.
My desire to be the author of a #1 best-selling book led to my writing a #1 best-selling book that I never planned to write at all and wasnt even my idea.
My appearance in a hit movie, The Secret, happened without my begging, pleading, intending, or orchestrating anything at all.
My appearance on Larry King Live in November 2006, and again in March 2007, happened without my ever intending it.
As I write these words, Hollywood hotshots are talking about turning my book, The Attractor Factor, into a movie, and still others are negotiating to get me my own television program.
The list could go on, but you get the idea. I have many miracles happening in my life.
But why are they happening?
I was once homeless. Today Im a best-selling author, Internet celebrity, and multimillionaire.
What happened to me to create all this success?
Yes, I followed my dreams.
Yes, I took action.
Yes, I was persistent.
Havent a lot of other people done those same things and yet not achieved success?
Whats different?
If you look at the accomplishments Ive listed with a critical eye, you might see that none of them were directly created by me. In fact, what they all have in common is a spirit of Divine planning, with me a sometimes unwilling participant.
Let me explain this another way: Toward the end of 2006 I taught a seminar called Beyond Manifestation (www.BeyondManifestation.com), which is heavily influenced by what I learned after I discovered the mysterious Hawaiian therapist and his method. In that event I asked everyone to list all the ways they knew to manifest or attract something in their life. They said things like affirmations, visualizations, intentions, body awareness methods, feeling the end result, scripting, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) or tapping, and many, many more. Once the group inventoried every single way they could come up with to create their own reality, I asked them if those ways worked all the time, without exception.
Everyone agreed they did not always work.
Well, why not? I asked them.
No one could say for sure.
I then hit the group with my observation:
All of those ways have limitations, I declared. They are toys your mind plays with to keep you thinking youre in charge. The truth is, you are not in charge, and the real miracles come when you let go of the toys and trust in a place inside yourself where there are zero limits.
I then told them that where you want to be in life is
