Welcome to my weekly blog, Friday Feelings!

Here's a little story to follow up on last week's Friday Feelings...

You are not your reflection, but your reflection is clearly you.

Some years ago in Hawaii, a psychiatric hospital on the island also served as a kind of a prison for the criminally insane. Doctors and nurses were unable to work on that ward for very long because it was so disturbing and the patients were apparently beyond recovery.

Eventually, in desperation, the hospital employed a local therapist who decided to use his own treatment: no electric shock therapy, no drug therapy and most surprisingly of all, no psychotherapy of any kind;  no 1:1 sessions with the patients.

So what was he doing there?

He simply studied the file of each individual patient.

Gradually, their mental and emotional health began to improve. In fact, in less than four years, each and every patient was well enough to be released and the ward was closed!

What was the secret?

'Everything in your life is a program,' said the healer. 'I erase the program.'

He could feel the problems from their files. He noted what he felt and 'cleaned' what he felt and as he did, the patient in question got better.

It's called Ho'oponopono.

How was this possible? we may ask. The healer is the healer is the healer! He is not the patient!  Of course he isn't. That's true.  He is not the patient. 

After all, you are not your reflection.

But your reflection is clearly you.

This, I believe, is what Gandhi meant when he said, Be the change...

All healing is spiritual. And you and your reflection are one.

Well, that's my feeling anyway.

What do YOU think?