Joe Vitale

Joe Vitale’s books are generally simply written and easily comprehensible but this one was not completely – not easily comprehensible, at least.

He tells us about the four stages of awakening and how to move from the law of attraction to the law of creation.

We’re told that a paradigm is a collection of beliefs, our way of looking at the world.

The first state of awakening is victimhood, though it’s not really a stage of awakening but the stage into which most of us are born. When you’re a victim you blame everybody for the state of your life.

The second stage is empowerment. This is where you take control of your life and start to manifest more of what you want. We learn about the power of visualization and the power of intention.

He calls the third stage of awakening surrender. You realize you don’t have complete power. You’re not in control of the planet, you’re not God. (Though in fact we are a part of God, and God is within us – my comment.)

“At this point, you surrender to a higher power, and you end up with more power than you ever thought you had.”

I’m afraid I’m only at the second stage as yet – it's hard to surrender. However, the other day I heard the gifted walk-in William Linville admit on a radio show that he himself could not surrender, so I’m not alone.

For the first time, Vitale tells us about the fourth stage of awakening. This is when you become the Divine. “Your ego dissolves and the Divine, or God, lives and breathes through you.”

You realize that the world itself is abundant and you are part of the abundance: there is no scarcity, lack or limitation. (Though of course many do experience these things,)

“”You can have, do, or be anything you want, because you are the very thing you want to attract”

I have to say I found this hard to comprehend.

In this fourth stage of awakening you are now living the abundance paradigm.

He informs us that the theme of the whole book is moving from the law of attraction to the law of creation.

We all know about the law of attraction, of course.

Vitale defines it as the law saying that everything we have coming into our life is there because of our thoughts, feelings and beliefs.

Everything in our life is there because we have on some level attracted it.

He says we don’t necessarily get what we consciously want: we get what we unconsciously expect or believe.

If we have unconscious intentions that run counter to what we say we want to attract, we will attract the counterintentions.

When we get clear of the counterintentions, we can get what we want. It’s all about clearing, he says.

He will give us new, advanced, clearing processes never before offered.

We have to take action for the law of attraction to work. The law of creation is all about taking action. As long as we do this, we will get results.

When we get an idea we should write it down and take action on it.

When we get clear of all our negative thoughts and programmes, we are free to be here now. When we are in this moment, all is well. (Sadly, that is not my experience.) When we are in this moment, the law of attraction and the law of creation happen naturally. When we are in this moment, we live the abundance paradigm. (Again, that can’t be right. Has Joe Vitale never had pain?)

He refers to David Hawkins and his map of consciousness with the various emotions we can feel.

In the abundance paradigm we want to come from love, bliss and serenity.

He advises us to feel gratitude since it is the number one way to change our life. We should also smile, raise our vibration and laugh.

The first clearing exercise is called “The whiteboard meditation”.

He claims this is a powerful cleansing tool which takes us to the essence of the abundance paradigm – to Source, where abundance actually comes into being”.

Firstly, I have no idea what a whiteboard is, though I assume it’s a blackboard that is white, (But then, you will need to have black chalk,)

He tells us we should note that we are separate from our thoughts and feelings. A part of us is observing all these; some traditions call it the witness.

This is what Joe calls the whiteboard. Unfortunately, I feel this is highly inappropriate; every time he mentions the word “whiteboard” I think of a white blackboard and lose track of what he’s talking about.

I won’t even try to explain this so-called clearing process because I don’t understand it.

It has something to do with writing all sorts of things/words on a blackboard/whiteboard and then erasing them.

If you want to learn this process, you will have to get hold of the book and read what Joe writes.

He states that this whiteboard meditation is probably far more powerful, dramatic and advanced than any other technique you’ve ever come across.

There are further instructions in the chapter but I don’t know if they are part of the same meditation or something else.

The next chapter deals with Ho’oponopono which is a different matter altogether and easy to understand.

It is a Hawaiian healing technique which Joe has written a whole book about (Zero limits). I already use this technique and have found it useful.

We’re told about Dr Hew Len who used this technique to heal a whole ward of patients in a hospital for the criminally insane, As far as I recall, Joe has recounted this story several times in his various books.

The basics of the technique are simply to repeat the phrases Please forgive me, I’m sorry, Thank you, I love you many times while focusing on what is to be healed.

The purpose of the technique is to clean and clear yourself.

In one of Joe’s books I learnt that we no longer need to repeat all four phrases but can make do with saying Thank you and I love you, and that is what I do. Actually, all we need to say is I love you.

We are 100% responsible for everything that shows up in our lives, so if we want to clear anything we can use this technique and heal whatever the problem is by clearing ourselves.

We say the phrases to the Divine.

In order to shift into the abundance paradigm we need to take 100% responsibility for our lives.

In this book Joe gives us for the first time an advanced Ho’oponopono clearing technique.

Think of a problem you want to solve and imagine a ball of energy in front of you. Say the phrases and take a business card and slice the ball of energy in half. You can slice it again several times while you keep saying the phrases.

The ball of energy disappears and the problem is gone.

What remains is a sense of peace, well-being, happiness and love. This place where there are no problems is the abundance paradigm.

He says the whiteboard is not only clean and clear and represents love but it is God or Spirit or the Divine, and it is you.

“From that place, you can live as Divinity, which is the fourth stage of awakening, where the abundance paradigm is now your new way of being.”

We attract everything into our lives because of our unconscious beliefs. We need to do clearing and cleansing work to change our unconscious mind, so we get more of the results we want.

That’s from the law of attraction standpoint.

From the standpoint of the law of creation, everything that we have happening in our life right now we have not only attracted but co-created on an unconscious level.

The two laws work hand in hand. To experience the abundance paradigm you need to work with both of them.

Joe says that all we need to do is read the book and follow the directions and the transformation will take place in us. Ha, ha, I'm not sure about that, but then I haven’t been able to do the whiteboard meditation.

He then gives us what he calls the Vitale Clearing Method; he says it is the most powerful cleaning and clearing technique he has ever come up with.

It will clear up how we are attracting people we’re not getting along with.

The clearer we get in relationships with other people, in our relationship with ourselves and with the Divine, the closer we will get to the Abundance Paradigm.

I did this clearing method and found it satisfying though rather strange.

Then he gives us an ancient Indian mantra to clear us of negativity and strengthen our energy system. It works on both the law of attraction and the law of creation.

We can find recordings of it on You Tube showing its pronunciation.

OM MANUMATE NAMAHA

It will help you cleanse and protect yourself and, again, lead you to the abundance paradigm.

You may need to read the book a couple of times to make sure you can do the clearing exercises properly.

I didn’t feel I could integrate everything in the book or shift into the abundance paradigm. But it is certainly worth reading as are the author’s other books.… (más)