The Price of the Blame Game

While America's financial future has been clouded by a crisis in the credit markets as well as the financial and mortgage sectors, rather than coming up with a needed bill, Congress people played the blame game yesterday, and the cost could be staggering. Any time we blame instead of taking responsibility we are costing ourselves. Blame is a function of ego and when our egos are in our way we delay our desired results. Worry and blaming are the enemies here, not Wall Street, not banks and not one party or another. So, as we get through this, stay responsible and keep cleaning - don't worry and don't blame. We will get through this.

Peace of I,

Phil

Michael Phelps Cleans Up!

I was not at all surprised to discover that Michael Phelps cleans. Though I doubt he has ever heard of ho'oponopono, he practices a form of cleaning that encompasses the word "love" a lot and the results have spoken for themselves. Check out how what he repeats in his head when he's racing and some of the other little tricks he uses: http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1143980/index.htm It works for him and it can work for you.

Peace of I,

Phil

Comparisons

We all make comparisons. They are often our shortcuts to figure things out and they can be very helpful. But they can also lead us to misunderstandings and selling things short. Often comparisons reflect unwanted programs that creating inaccurate assesments for us in the present. How many times have we misjudged people or events because we insisted on comparing them to a memory they played no part in? Too many times. So be aware when you're making a comparison that your reference point isn't an unwanted one.

Peace of I,

Phil

Delays?

Does it ever seem the more you worry about something getting to you, whether it be a check, or a letter, or the delivery of anything in your life, the longer it takes? Well, the energy behind the delays is not the person who owes you whatever it is. It's you. And by that I mean it's me, too. I'm the one that doesn't trust, or have faith in others. And that's something I've got to clean. And you should too, if anything is taking longer than you would like.

Peace of I,

Phil

A Bit of a Miracle?

This is a 1996 Toyota Camry. The exact model of car that ran over my left foot, ankle and lower leg as it turned into me and knocked me down coming out of it's driveway at 9am on June 18th. I was actually repeating the phrases as I waited for this guy to merge into traffic. The pain was pretty severe and my lower leg received long cut up and down my shin. Why is it a bit of a miracle? The area that the car ran over never swelled up, and no part of my foot, ankle or leg was broken. In fact, within 7 days I was able to take my morning walks again. I still have some soreness, but I'm glad I cleaned my cut with blue solar water, and I'm thankful I was cleaning when I was hit, and knew to keep cleaning while it hurt. The people down at the concierge desk in my building, who saw me come in after the accident couldn't believe how soon I was walking.

As for who was driving the car, I got his information at the time of the accident, but was happy to call him two days later and let him know there would be no insurance consequences and no law suit. I was taking 100% responsibility and the good I could do was to let him off the hook, since something, somewhere inside all of us, had let me off the hook.

Peace of I,

Phil

In God's Image?

Historically we have been assured that we were made in God's image, but over the same time we have persisted in trying to make God in our image. For example, you've heard the expression, "sinners in the hands of an angry God." That sure sounds like one of us and not God who is Love who's got his hands around us just for having unwanted programs. God is perfect and he made us all that way, it is our programs that are not perfect, but with any of the cleaning phrases, God/Love is there restoring his creation to zero, which is perfection.

Peace of I,

Phil

Competition

A lot of America was spellbound this weekend as Tiger Woods came back against Rocco Mediate to win the US Open at Torrey Pines. So my question is, who or what was Tiger competing against? Rocco Mediate and the other golfers? No chance. The challenging course at Torrey Pines? Not even. He, like all of us, was constantly contending with negative and unwanted programming. He was able to get clear enough to get to zero and be the perfect golfer he is. But those programs were his competition, not Rocco, who was also competing against programs. Ho'oponopono tells us that even Tiger's knee injury was nothing more or less than an unwanted program that needed to be negated. So if you ever find yourself in competition, look within and clean like crazy.

Peace of I,

Phil