PARADISE HAWAIIAN STYLE

Posted: 23 Jul 2007 02:22 PM CDT       On Friday I spoke for an hour with Dr. Joe Vitale of THE SECRET fame...he is one of the stars in that popular DVD and was recently featured on Larry King because of that.       Joe wanted to talk to me for an hour and record our conversation because he had been reading my books recently and, in his words, "become a real fan." He even wrote some blogs about me that praised The Story of You and 100 Ways to Create Wealth. A lot of people must read his blogs because the sales of those books went WAY up on Amazon the weeks his blogs came out.       Joe is as sweet and gentle in person as he was in The Secret, and he's also very smart and wise. He is going to send the recorded conversation he had with me to all the members of his gold member mastermind group, and I truly appreciate that.       Joe's most recent book is beautiful and profound...I read it walking around the house without putting it down. It's called ZERO LIMITS and it's about...well, these are Joe's words: 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. The Hawaiian therapist who healed those mentally ill people would eventually 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 won't spoil the ending. But I loved the experience of reading this book and I recommend you go here: http://www.zerolimits.info/ to read about and then buy the book for yourself.       After I'd finished reading it I said to Joe, "I just finished Zero Limits, and I loved it that Hew Len got to 'kill the Divine' near the end.....as you know (and I love your persona in the book...the enlightened skeptic! everyman!) even 'the Divine' in this book's case is a human CONCEPT, a story, in other words, and therefore it is interfering with ZERO. BUT, as your master told you, just like your earlier books, it is a STEPPING STONE to ZERO.....you have to evolve up the spiral of spiritual evolution (itself a concept: awakeness on the way to zero) through such levels and your books boost and boost people up and up and you have to master INTENTION before you master NO INTENTION/just Inspiration, and then there's something even better after that. Zero Limits is a huge gift to the world, and you have 'translated' Hew Len through hard writer's work (I know) so that the average seeker can experience him through the eyes of a lovable skeptic and therefore GET HIM!"       This wonderful book confirmed for me once again that the only thing that ever stands between me and my pure, total happiness is a story. And the story is never true. The same can be said about the ways to create wealth. People fail at wealth because of the worried stories that distract them all day long.       Once the stories are gone, pure creation, pure joy and whatever level of wealth you are ready to create is yours. At least that's my experience. You can challenge that. And you can challenge it LIVE on August 4 in Arizona (and buy a ticket and bring a guest for free if you sign up quickly at the top of http://www.stevechandler.com/) when I'll be doing the first LIVE 100 Ways to Create Wealth seminar.       In the meantime, get Joe Vitale's book Zero Limits. Joe was once homeless. Now, he's the millionaire author of numerous bestselling books, an Internet celebrity, and an in-demand online marketing guru. He's obviously got "the secret" to creating wealth.       The Secret isn't the whole answer, but it did a beautiful job of waking people up to the difference between creating and worrying. It was the best dramatization I've ever seen of what happens to my life when I worry about things all day long---I become a chicken-hearted, pathetic victim of circumstance who never achieves anything.       So let's end this with a passage from Shakespeare as quoted by Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len in his appendix to ZERO LIMITS:                   Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass                   Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,                   Can be retentive to the strength of spirit.