Margaret Wheatly: “We’re old enough to know that life will keep interrupting our plans and surprise us at every turn of the way. It helps to notice this wisdom that we’ve been forced to acquire. Surprise is less traumatic once we accept it as a fact of life.”

At this stage of my life, I find the above rather cynical. I believe that I made a contract with God before I entered into this life. I believe I received everything needed to explore what it is to be made to the image and likeness of God.

Perhaps Wheatly was referring to humans relying only on their five senses. I prefer what Gary Zukov wrote about multisensory humans

Or what Martha Beck wrote about attachment: “As you drop your mental stories and watch your own feelings, you’ll notice that the gripping desperation of attachment is something you can release.”

For me the best comes from “Zero Limits”: “Dr Han Lew’s work teaches us to let go and trust the divine while consistently cleaning all thoughts and experiences that surface in the way of hearing the divine. By this continuous work, we can clear the weeds of programs so we can better handle life with ease and grace.”

Indeed with Ho’oponopono my life recently has been lived with less struggle and more ease and grace. But I have had to be very patient. So hard to wait to be inspired by God; I would have preferred to react and fix things ASAP.

“Too many people, myself included, were visualizing and affirming in order to manipulate the world.” (Joe Vitale)

“I now know that isn’t necessary. You’re better off going with the flow while continually clearing whatever comes up.” (Joe Vitale)

Zero Limits: “There’s nothing out there. It’s all in you. Whatever you experience, you experience inside yourself.”

How scary! I am responsible for all the scandals that shock me. All the inefficiencies that get impatient with. All the lack that I see. All the threats to world peace. All that I complain about the church.

The solution: “All you can do is clean to clear out the warehouse of programs in your mind.”
(Joe Vitale, “Zero Limits”)

But the clearing business can be tedious. What’s the difference between repeating formula prayers which I dread and this clearing business?

For one, the clearing business is based on loving trust in the Divine unlike the formula prayers which too often spring from hopelessness and helplessness.

“Most people who pray don’t believe they will be heard or will be helped. Most people pray from a place of desperation which means they will attract more of what the are feeling: more desperation.”

Martha Beck: “It’s the emotional quality of grasping, clutching and needing that bespeaks an underlying expectation of loss and deprivation and causes us to create nightmares in the world of form.”

“Desire without grasping is joyful and playful. Hunger makes food more satisfying; its forcing ourselves to deny our hunger that will eventually make us ravenous and insatiable.”

“As you drop your mental stories and watch your feelings, you’ll notice that the gripping desperation of attachment is something you can release.”

“As you gain skill, you’ll be able to want things very intensely, or abhor atrocities, or feel extreme signals to get the hell out of danger, without being graspingly attached to any of those emotions.”

Lately, I have had to use Ho’oponopono intensely plus Shamanism and tapping exercises to deal with irritating noise from the residents of the unit above ours – usually after midnight.

As in the video about an eagle fighting with a snake, I have had to go deep inside me. Solutions will have to come from me: not from the residents upstairs (as if they care at all!), not from the condo management, not from the security guards.

As Michael Tamura said: “You are the answer”.
Somebody using the Tapping exercises wrote: change will come from herself.