The Negotiators Secrets

Good Morning Negotiators!I say good morning because I haven’t been up this early since…

Today is the big Move for Suzanne and I and yesterday on the way home, spending our last night in our old house this is what we saw:

So, until I hook up my new internet connection (sometime this evening) I’ll see you Somewhere over the Rainbow!

Bruce Burns  the Negotiator!

Greetings Negotiators!

My great friends Dr. Joe Vitale and Dr. Ihaleakala Len have given me a wonderful birthday present this year!! They published me in their new book:

My wife, Suzanne is also published in this fine work. It’s amazing the difference between talking about a great idea and actually holding that idea in your hands. I’m not much of a new-faith idea person. In fact I never reach for what some of my more open minded new age friends playfully refer to as “woo-woo” material when I’m in a book store or ordering something through Amazon.

Dr. Joe Vitale had a dinner in honor of Dr. Ihaleakala in February of 2006. My wife, being Joe’s publicist put the affair on and thus I had the incidental opportunity to meet Ihaleakala at that time. Of course being the modern-day New Age Scrooge - I simply walked passed his table without even a wave. I sat before my fine meal and listened to the two Doctors discuss their understanding and experiences of Ho’oponopono. The steak was decent (Dr. Vitale is a steak connoisseur) and the 20 some odd guests had somehow turned into nearly 90 that night atop the Hyatt Regency hotel overlooking the south bank of the Colorado River in downtown Austin, Texas.

It was two words that caught my ear that night, which Ihaleakala uttered as he talked about “what” Ho’oponopono was. Zero State. I’ve not always been a rusty-dusty closed vault to new ideas. In my younger years I was fairly well read about most of the New Age material. I had remembered the concept of Zero State from those years and the feeling I attached to the idea - I was (back in the day) quite fascinated with it.

Nearly One Year Later…

Dr. Joe Vitale puts on seminars regularly. My wife sets up the logistics of all his events and attends all that she can possibly get to. He always invites me to attend and though I do show up for the first evening’s meal with my wife and her luggage - I’ve never stayed. When Suzanne offered me to attend The by-invitation-only Zero Limits Weekend seminar - I transported those two words through a year’s worth of memories and said emphatically “Yes, I’ll go!”.

The Experience!

As I stated in Zero Limits I am not a Ho’oponopono expert. I could easily write 100 pages on my experiences with Ho’oponopono - so lets skip that for now and let me just reveal a few highlights. First, most people who know me would say that I am NOT a touchy-feely type person. This is true even today. I cry once every 5 years whether I need to or not. I cried ever day sometimes for 20 minutes at a time at the Zero Limits seminar. I assisted Dr. Vitale and Dr. Len during the seminar and as a result I was able to get some one-on-one face time with my now friend, Ihaleakala (Dr. Len).

I don’t hunt UFOs, I don’t believe in a Reptilian Race, I don’t see Angels or hear voices or speak in tongues. As I stood quietly before Ihaleakala for the first time in my life, in a few minutes he told me that someone was sick to the point of choking with a lung problem in my family. My father had been suffering from fluid surrounding his lungs for some months when he told me this. This information was private and not known outside the family not even to my friend Dr. Joe Vitale. This is just one of thousands of experiences I’ve had since I began exploring the simply Hawaiian tradition of Ho’oponopono.

Some recent conclusions

I don’t really know how a TV works, or a cell phone but I use them and I’m better off for it. In fact I find I don’t need to be able to create my own TV or cell phone in order to enjoy their functions and the fruit of their existence. Well the same is true for me in regards to my own experiences with Ho’oponopono. I don’t know how it works, I don’t know why it works and I really don’t know what I’m doing when I practice the four thoughts. I do know that things change and transform in ways I could never have engineered myself. I can discuss that in furture posts if there is an interest.

So…

I’m sorry, please forgive me, I love you - thank you.

Bruce Burns the Negotiator!

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