The Fifth Phrase by Joe Vitale

Author:Joe Vitale [Joe Vitale]
Language: eng
Format: epub

Let’s go through the four stages in more detail.

I would say the vast majority of people are born into stage one and stay there. We don’t come into life as a blank slate. Ho’oponopono philosophy and psychology, and the ancient cultural customs, teach that you come in with traits that you’re preprogrammed to have because of limitations inherited from your family. The science of epigenetics says that what your great grandparents may have had in their bodies may have skipped a generation or two and may show up in your body. That doesn’t mean you’re destined to have these traits and you can’t change them. It does mean that when you’re born, you don’t come in as a blank slate.

Once I had a litter of nine cats. They all came from the same father and the same mother, but every single one had a different personality. How was that possible? They had to come in with some sort of programming. They had to come in with some sort of wiring that took place before I ever got there.

We’re the same way. When we’re born, we are given life, but it’s given in a vessel that already has some programming. Most of that program is not abundance-oriented. It comes from what people went through beforehand, which was lack, scarcity, and survival: “How do I get my next meal?” “How do I get security?” “How do I get a loved one so I can keep my lifeline going?”

When we’re born, we’re downloading information from people who were not Mr. and Mrs. Buddha; they were Mr. and Mrs. Limitations. They had their own baggage. They didn’t know it, any more than anybody else before them knew it. Working on yourself was not as popular then as it is today. Today it’s more of an in thing to do self-work. Back then, not so much so.

It’s easy to see why people would be victims. They come in programmed for lack, limitation, and scarcity, and they think the world’s against them from the moment of birth. Then they’re raised by parents who instill in them the ideas of survival and how to make it in the world, but empowerment—that’s very rare.

Telltale signs of the first stage? You blame other people. If you say anybody else is responsible, you are raising your hand and saying, “I am a victim.” I don’t care if you say it’s the president, the economy, the political system, your neighbor. That’s your telltale sign right there.

You want to leave victimhood. If you’re reading this book, you probably either have or are in the process of doing so. It’s highly unlikely that a victim would invest in this book unless they’d already moved the needle a little bit towards empowerment.

Now we’re in empowerment. How do you know you’re in empowerment? You’re starting to state intentions; you’re starting to take actions; you’re starting to set goals; you’re starting to engage in more positive habits every day; you’re starting to use more positive psychology; you’re thinking good things about yourself and other people.

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