| Earth is currently in the midst of a massive | | | | there is simply a reflection of what is inside you, |
| change cycle that will affect every form of life on | | | | and therefore it is your creation. There is no "out |
| the planet by the end of 2012. This period, which | | | | there" there - what you perceive as out there is |
| is also known as the ending of a 25,920-year | | | | simply a reflection of what is in your heart and in |
| cosmic cycle (or Cosmic Year in astrology), is a | | | | your consciousness. |
| time when polarities merge, dimensions shift, | | | | This concept can be hard to swallow. Being |
| humans evolve in remarkable ways, and earth | | | | responsible for what I say or do is one thing. |
| rearranges boundaries once thought to be solid. It | | | | Being responsible for what everyone in my life |
| is a time of great karmic opportunity and | | | | says or does is quite another, right! Yet you can |
| unprecedented growth for everyone. | | | | only heal that which you take responsibility for. If |
| Across the globe, deep wounds in the collective | | | | you take complete responsibility for your life, then |
| psyche of mankind are surfacing to be healed. | | | | everything you see, hear, taste, touch or |
| Societies hunger not for war or peace, but for | | | | experience is your responsibility because it is in |
| Truth to cut through the illusions of polarity and to | | | | your life. |
| bring about healing at the deepest levels of being. | | | | This means terrorist activity, the government, the |
| The clarion call is sounding, calling us to action. If | | | | crime rate, the economy - everything you |
| we wish to have a future on this planet, the time | | | | experience and don't like - is up to you to heal. |
| to heal our world is now. | | | | Seen from the world of consciousness, they only |
| How do we do that? | | | | exist as projections from inside of you. The |
| Dr. David R. Hawkins, perhaps the most profound | | | | problem isn't with them, it's with you, and to |
| teacher on the evolution of human consciousness | | | | change them, you have to change you! |
| today, says that everything we see happening | | | | This concept is central to understanding the field |
| around us, is the consequence of that which we | | | | of human consciousness. We change the world |
| are. "Every thought, action, decision or feeling | | | | not by what we say or do, but as a consequence |
| creates an eddy in the interlocking, inter-balancing, | | | | of what we have become. |
| ever-moving energy fields of life, leaving a | | | | The Course In Miracles teaches the same principle |
| permanent record for all time," he says. | | | | when it says, "Seek not to change the world, but |
| We therefore change the world not by what we | | | | choose to change your mind about the world. |
| say or do, but as a consequence of what we | | | | What you see reflects your thinking. And your |
| become. | | | | thinking but reflects your choice of what you |
| This realization, when fully grasped, offers a | | | | want to see." Why is it difficult for us to grasp |
| springboard for rapid evolution in consciousness. | | | | this truth, let alone accept or actually live it? |
| As did Gandhi and other evolved bings, Hawkins | | | | Because blaming another is far easier than taking |
| teaches that the most effective way of bringing | | | | total responsibility. To change the world, we need |
| about change in the world around us, is by living | | | | to first stop blaming others! |
| our lives like a prayer and becoming the very | | | | In his work with the criminally insane, Dr. Len |
| change we wish to see. | | | | never focused on blame. Instead, his radical |
| To illustrate the power of becoming, I'd like to tell | | | | practice of total responsibility was rooted in a |
| you about one man in Hawaii who changed his | | | | deep sense of compassionate self-love. Dr. Len |
| world simply by living his life like a prayer, | | | | believed that if you want to improve your life, |
| becoming the highest expression of being that he | | | | you have to first heal your life. If you want to |
| was capable of. | | | | heal anyone - even a mentally ill criminal - you do |
| This man, Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len, cured a | | | | it by healing yourself. |
| complete ward of criminally insane patients - | | | | He recognized the Divinity within himself as well as |
| without ever seeing any of them! He simply | | | | within every other person that crossed his path. |
| studied each inmate's chart and then looked within | | | | And just as the Course in Miracles teaches, Dr. |
| himself to see how he created that person's | | | | Len recognized that every situation, properly |
| illness. As he improved himself, the patient | | | | perceived, becomes an opportunity to heal. By |
| improved. | | | | recognizing the Divine nature of each being, he |
| When I first heard this story, I thought it was an | | | | responded in compassion by taking responsibility |
| urban legend. How could anyone heal anyone else | | | | for whatever did not reflect the purity of Divine |
| by healing himself? How could even the best | | | | consciousness in himself. |
| therapist cure the criminally insane? | | | | This is what Gandhi implied when he said, "The |
| I had always understood "total responsibility" to | | | | only devils in this world are those running around |
| mean that I am responsible for what I think and | | | | inside our own hearts, and that is where all our |
| do. Beyond that, it's out of my hands. Most | | | | battles should be fought." |
| people think of total responsibility that way. We're | | | | How did Dr. Len do this radical work? Simply by |
| responsible for what we do, not for what anyone | | | | looking at each patient's file with deep |
| else does. Dr. Len practiced radical responsibility | | | | compassion, accepting responsibility for their |
| and the miracles that followed, were ample proof | | | | condition and saying, 'I'm sorry' and 'I love you' |
| of the power in this perspective. | | | | over and over again. |
| When Dr. Len joined the staff at the ward for | | | | That's it! |
| criminally insane at Hawaii State Hospital, it was | | | | This simple response embodies the core of all |
| well-known as a dangerous place. Psychologists | | | | healing and evolution in consciousness. It starts |
| quit on a monthly basis. Staff called in sick a lot or | | | | from a place of deep compassion for self, |
| simply quit. Workers would scurry through that | | | | progresses to radical self-responsibility for |
| ward with their backs against the wall, afraid of | | | | everything in one's life, moves into forgiveness to |
| being attacked by patients. It was a nightmarish | | | | dissolve false perceptions, and ends with the |
| place to live in, work at, or visit. | | | | healing power of love to restore all to Divine |
| During his four-year tenure at the hospital, Dr. Len | | | | perfection. |
| never saw patients. He simply agreed to have an | | | | As we heal the wounds within ourselves that |
| office and to review their files. While he looked at | | | | cause illusions of lack, duality, opposition and fear, |
| those files, he would work on himself. As he | | | | our consciousness evolves to becoming a purer |
| worked on himself, patients began to heal. | | | | reflection of the indwelling Divinity. This work also |
| "After a few months, patients that had to be | | | | raises the level of consciousness in the world |
| shackled were being allowed to walk freely," he | | | | around us. It is indeed through healing and |
| says. "Others who had to be heavily medicated | | | | transforming ourselves, that we transform the |
| were getting off their medications. And those | | | | world! |
| who had no chance of ever being released, were | | | | When you start living from this place of radical |
| being freed." | | | | responsibility as Dr. Len did, your life becomes a |
| Not only that, but the staff began to enjoy going | | | | prayer. Polarities dissolve, archetypal shadows can |
| to work. Absenteeism and turnover dropped. | | | | be integrated, and the illusions of the mind yield to |
| Eventually, there was no longer a need for the | | | | the freedom of your true, Divine nature. |
| ward and it was closed. | | | | This is the opportunity calling to every soul on the |
| What work did Dr. Len do within himself that | | | | planet today. We are asked to become the very |
| caused those people to change? | | | | change we wish to see. To heal our world and |
| He was simply healing the part of himself that | | | | safely navigate through coming changes, we are |
| created them. | | | | challenged to take full responsibility for everything |
| To make sense of this radical concept, you need | | | | in our lives and to align with Higher Truth. |
| to understand that total responsibility for your life | | | | It is this inner work of transformation that brings |
| means that everything in your life is your | | | | about higher levels of consciousness to end war, |
| responsibility simply because it is in your life. In a | | | | greed, inequality and lack. In a world crying for |
| literal sense, the entire world you perceive out | | | | healing, there is no greater service you can offer! |