As 2008 falls away, and 2009 opens up before us, I am thinking about the examples of personal responsibility (or lack thereof) that manifested these past few months. As we become more aware of the power of our consciousness to create everything we experience, it is clear to me that the days of pointing fingers and laying blame are dwindling.
Conscious creators know that they created everything that is showing up in their life, good or otherwise. If what shows up is not to their liking, they realize it is up to them to choose something different to create. Choose different thoughts. Choose different feelings. In that way, then, each of us is responsible for what is showing up, and it only takes minutes to correct your course. No amount of blaming or demanding restitution or expecting other people to change will alter what we are experiencing. Positive change only comes when WE consciously decide that WE are going to choose thoughts and feelings that align with our preferences. It sounds easy, and with some conscious practice, it does become easier. Not only easier, but well worth the effort!!!
Dr. Joe Vitale wrote an article explaining Ho’oponopono, an ancient Hawaiian healing process that also points to this concept of total responsibility. Ancients knew of this. Buddha taught it. Jesus taught it. The idea of total responsibility means that any experience that shows up in your life—the life you created yourself—is your responsibility to heal. In fact, it may never heal until you take responsibility.
But wait…if you think this sounds hard, or impossible, to take full responsibility for healing everything that shows up in your life, I invite you to employ Ho’oponopono for a week. Try it for 7 days. Set aside your left-brain arguments, and just TRY it. Chances are, by the end of Day One you will be amazed how something so simple can make your life so much more enjoyable! The effort, while it exists, feels negligible compared to the results. At the end of 7 days, you’ll likely also be a convert who is happy to do this for the rest of your life!
As you take responsibility to change and heal your own consciousness, the world around you will morph in response. Sounds crazy…until you try it, and awaken to the amazing power of consciousness.
Today, I was chatting with Melissa Quiter as we planned for our next Co=Creation Cafe call this Saturday, January 3, 2009. Melissa’s favorite flower is the sunflower. It’s her favorite not only because it stands tall, but in the bud stage it exhibits heliotropism (the flower head tracks the suns movement across the sky). As she explained this with sheer joy, she said, “It doesn’t just sit there waiting and hoping and wondering if the sun will cross it’s path, it actually keeps turning it’s head to face the sun!”
I smiled, and said, “Wow…another great example of total responsibility!!!”
May we all stand tall and joyously take responsibility for the life we are living!
I wish you the most wonderful New Years Eve followed by an incredibly joyous, abundant, and successful 2009!
Many blessings for 2009 from AffirmingSpirit.com!
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Love the challenge; love the sunflower. Been reading about ho’oponopono. I do it here and there, plan to do it more. (via Twitter)
Awesome post. I completely agree. Wrote about this myself a couple of years ago. Am STILL trying to embody it.. hehe.. (via Twirl)
Ooh, I love the sunflower story too!
I’m up for the challenge of taking total responsibility. Indeed, lately I’ve been monitoring my thoughts (hmmm, better than aliens monitoring my thoughts, right?
. Like the other day, I found myself thinking, “gee, I kind of feel like crap today.”
Well, thoughts like that don’t exactly help the matter, do they?
So I chased that thought away and instead focused on what I was grateful for at that moment… and wouldn’t ya know, I felt a whole lot better.
Total responsibility.
Cheers,
Rebecca
Great post and I love sunflowers… while I knew they followed the sun – I didn’t know it was called heliotropism.
I agree total responsibility is a must if you ever want to fully embrace and know the power with you.
Many people don’t like that word responsibility as they have old stories attached to it. Same with the word creation. Well they like that word if they like the creation and they don’t like the word if the creation is not something they were wanting…
I understand all the old stories we have attached to words… So when something unpleasant happens I tell people to take the responsibility that their vibration in some way matched this situation. Their vibration matched the rendezvous they had with this situation.
I find people deal with those words a little more easily.
I’ve read about ho’oponopono and read some Joe’s info on it…. While Buddha & Jesus certainly believed in “I love you” Did they ever say “I’m sorry”?