what Larry King was like. I told him. King is direct, friendly, street-
smart. I liked him.
I went on and told Dr. Hew Len about the success of my books,
such as The Attractor Factorand Life’s Missing Instruction Manual. After a
few minutes he could see that I was just bubbling over with energy.
“What do you think is different now from you taking the first
ho’oponopono training?”
I thought for a moment and said, “I quit controlling it all. I let
go. All I do is clean, erase, and have the intention to get to zero.”
He patted my shoulder and smiled, in a way anchoring the mo-
ment by acknowledging what he felt was right for me.
We started walking to my car, and after a few feet he stopped and
stared at me.
“You have a bounce in your step,” he said, almost in awe. “You
walk with springs.”
“Well, I amhappy to see you,” I said.
We went to dinner and I told him I was disappointed that my
book on P. T. Barnum,There’s a Customer Born Every Minute, wasn’t
doing well.
“Joseph, you have to love it.”
I wanted my book to sell, so I didn’t understand what love had to
do with it.
“Joseph, if you had three children and one of them was slow in
school, would you tell it that you were disappointed in it?”
“No,” I replied. And suddenly an insight hit me hard. My book is
a child of me, and I was saying it wasn’t as good as my other children.
I felt this to such a real degree that I almost began to cry in the
restaurant.
“You got it, Joseph,” Dr. Hew Len said. “You must love all your
children.”
I began to feel terrible that I had alienated my “child” for not
performing well in the school of life. I felt genuinely sorry. I began to
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