Who's Helping Who?
Throughout training, physicians and other health practitioners are taught that patients come to us for help. They are 'sick', and in need of a cure. Medical interventions might come through surgery or other procedures, medication, or more rarely through focused talk. Still, the patient is always seen as the one with the "problem". At times, my patients' situations have uncannily resembled my own. Before Ho'oponopono, I would note the seeming similarity but not investigate further. Imagine my shock at hearing Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len , a psychologist who teaches ho'oponopono, tell me that patients don't come to me to be healed. Instead, they come to give me another opportunity to "clean", to make things right. Basic to Self-Identity through Ho'oponopono is the idea that what we think are "problems" in others is actually skewed vision on our part. Our vision is skewed because of unconscious memories or data in us distorting our view...