I’m reading this amazing book by Joe Vitale called Zero Limits. Joe is the guy from the movie The Secret who talked about being broke in Dallas for 15 years—and then, suddenly, everything changed and he became rich. Lots of other incredible things happened to him too. But this book isn’t about how he got rich.
I’ve just started reading it, but I’m already trying some of the ideas and experiments Vitale shares at the beginning in my own life. By the way, he tells the story of a doctor who treated mentally ill criminals without even talking to them—just by reading their medical histories. This is the same doctor mentioned in one of Luba Rykel’s audio trainings: when the doctor read their histories and asked for forgiveness from the patients for how they manifested in his life, in reality, and initially, in consciousness. In other words, he took responsibility for their shared space—the part of life they all shared when he learned about their histories.
Taking Responsibility Beyond Actions
To me, this is an extraordinary form of taking responsibility for your life—not only being accountable to others for your actions, but also to yourself—for your thoughts, your actions, and everything you do that affects not only you but everyone who manifests in your reality. This includes everything: sincere forgiveness, sending love, acceptance, prayer, healing, and Love itself as it is—magic, everything. I can’t even imagine a deeper foundation for an approach to life.
This idea astonished me because it created incredible freedom—a near-physical sensation that everything in my world—consciousness, awareness—is my creation, my projection. It becomes easier to forgive, ask for forgiveness, and love those who hurt me because I realize it was really me who hurt myself through their hands. I need to ask them for forgiveness because they had to appear exactly as they did, for me.
You Are the Source
Because I am the source of everything in my life. And all of you are projections in my consciousness, just as I am a projection in yours.
For three days, I’ve been literally immersed in memories of trials in my mind—pain, betrayal, cruelty, malice, meanness—everything. It overwhelms me that I can keep realizing again and again that no one but myself set up the projector so that others had to hurt me, betray me, be cruel or mean. This may sound strange, but this realization is incredibly liberating. I constantly ask for forgiveness from them and “cleanse” our shared space from what I did in my life.
The world seems amazing and simple after this. Everything becomes possible again. Just three days, just a few sincere “Forgive me, I love you” moments—and for the first time in six years living in the States, I feel at home in my heart. Everything here feels warm, familiar, comfortable—it’s cozy and soulful.
A New Relationship With My Body
The most amazing thing in this process is how differently I now perceive my body. I feel the need to make up for 38 years of humiliation. Whenever I catch my consciousness starting to judge or offend my body—those years of calling myself names no one should ever hear, blaming myself for not fitting beauty standards—I instantly notice it. Most importantly, I feel pain and hurt for my body and immediately ask for forgiveness for causing it suffering for 38 years. I will love, cherish, and nurture you, my dear body, for the next 38 years.
Alongside this transformation comes a stream of memories from the hardest life situations—and all of them stop weighing me down. They come together and shrink, becoming part of my consciousness, as they always were. When I thought they were bigger than me, they were actually just part of my whole. I endlessly ask for forgiveness and say “I love you.”
Gratitude as a Natural Response
The flip side of this process is an almost automatic gratitude that lives in me—for all the good. After all, this too is me. I created it. I am grateful to myself for it. And if others helped along the way, I am grateful to them, but also grateful from the perspective that I did it with their help—that through them, this creation of mine manifested. I am thankful they helped this creation come to life and that I was able to endure it. I am grateful.
Because they, like you, like everything I know in my life—are me.
