Huna: Gateway to the godforce within

Huna - recorded conversation with Louise

2010-11-19T08:43:00.002-05:00

Aloha! Where does the time go....

Although I seem to have left this place, Huna has never left me. I share with you a recent conversation with my friend and colleague - Sheila Winter Wallace - as we explore Huna and the deeply intimate meaning that it carries for each of us. With RIG (Respect, Integrity and Generosity of Spirit); and in honor of 'Think not that all wisdom is in your school.", I offer this as food for thought, as you consider your life in that place, beyond the veil, that is Huna.

May you always be true to that which flows through you... and gives you life!

http://www.wel-systems.com/engage/?p=1858

2010: Awakening Consciousness

2010-01-15T10:31:00.002-05:00

I have become mindful of the degree to which Huna permeates my life; the degree to which how I live is one breath at a time... and how deeply meaningful that is for me. So much of how I got to be who I AM has come from my explorations of Huna.

I share with you this recent recording that you might also discover something meaningful for yourself. That I am not here frequently, does not mean I AM is not here.

Please share with those you love.

Aloha!

PS You can also find other recordings at: http://www.wel-systems.com/engage/?cat=7

Recall

2007-10-28T22:11:00.000-05:00

It has been a week since the Huna Retreat at Oceanstone. I am mindful of feeling fuller...more vibrant...and yet, at the same time, experience a sense of longing.

My time at Oceanstone with ohana during the retreat has left me eager to finish my next book. As much as it is not about Huna, Huna is essential to the book. The essentials of mana, Aloha and the Three Selves have created a gateway to what science can explain and yet could never have created.

January will see a focused and uninterrupted journey into my own thoughts, experiences and discoveries from Huna and its connection to the 21st Century. Even as I write this, I now there is so much more to be discovered in the next few months.

I am ready to discover.

Aloha!

Ohana gathers

2007-10-24T08:12:00.000-05:00

The 4th Annual Huna Retreat at Oceanstone is completing itself. As much as my physical body is no longer by the Atlantic in Nova Scotia, waves of insight and discovery continue to flow. This is indeed, for me, 'ohana'...my family of choice.

Like the flow of water in the ocean, this wave has already begun to source the next. Momentum building. I know that April in Hawaii will be a flashpoint for the creation of something that has been calling to me for a long time. Kona will be the place where I meet, face-to-face, a part of my own Self-expressed 'destiny'.

Ohana...family of choice. All on a journey of Self-discovery, choosing to rest in the same place, at the same time, and explore what doing so awakens in each of us. We come together for three days; we engage in the Spirit of Aloha; and when it's time, we move out into our unique world's, an expression of the 'more' that we have become. Like the flow of energy through the body, we criss-cross at points of intersection and flow alone in the vast spaces of our own thoughts. It is all perfection, and we need but allow ourselves to be carried by its momentum.

Mana. Energy. It is not what I have, it is who I am. Mana in flow. The essence of energy is expression and the void of potential from which it comes. Are they really separate? Or is each expression but a sliver of the greater self? This time, at Oceanstone, the Higher Self Connection invited the collective Aumakua to be present with intention and engaged. In that moment, the 'pattern ehnancer' of this invitation left a deeper impression of potential. I can't think of any other way to say it. Perhaps it is not intended to be said at all, but only known in tissue. Hmmm....

Through it all, I was profoundly aware of the gift of the Hawaiian people of the Aloha Spirit to the world. In my words, the Aloha Spirit has become the notion of
"invite and allow'. An invitation as opposed to a command performance; an invitation rather than dogma or rules or expectations and the grace of allowing...of being without judgement and with the capacity to just 'be'. This simple notion has changed my life, profoundly and irrevocably. It saddens me deeply that so many of the Hawaiian people had to die that we might have this notion enter into our collective consciousness. They have not died in vain.

In reading the biography of the last Queen of Hawaii (Queen Liliuokalani), I was struck by this way of being that was free of currency and what it represents. The notion that we can live in a world view of abundance and trust that our lives will work. Perhaps the most poitnant moment for me was reading of Queen Liliuokalani's moment of insight that came too late: that as much as aloha was the essence of who she was, it was not so for these new beings in her Kingdom. Could it be that aloha has edges?

Emerging Futures is a way of living that has been inspired by The Three Selves of Huna. Combined with all that I've learned from the quantum sciences, this simple expression of 3 'islands' coming together in the flow of something greater has made magic and manifestation a possibility for us all. Such power in such simplicity. Not the power to do to, or power over anyone or anything...but power that allows us to access the full measure of the Life Force that we, all, already are. In that simple breath, we manifest our lives.

Mahalo to all who chose to be part of this ohana experience. As much as I have left Oceanstone, I know that you are all still with me. I welcome the thread of your life as it weaves with mine in the design of the life we share. And we all know - there is always more!

Aloha!

Upcoming Huna retreat

2007-10-08T14:13:00.000-05:00

As the time draws closer to the Huna Retreat at Oceanstone, I am aware of an increasing intensity in my life. This seems to be a theme that repeats in many areas of my life, in many ways.

What is this 'intensity'? I experience is as a 'moving faster'...as 'density'...kind of like the difference between looking at a still picture in a frame, and watching as it turns into a full-color, panoramic moving picture! And all I was doing was looking...

"Think not that all wisdom is in your school." Ancient Hawaiian saying that keeps playing itself over and over again, in my thoughts. At this next Huna retreat, there will be others with their own 'truth' of Huna. People like Paul and Sheila...others who have wired into their body the experience of THEIR Huna and what it has called to them to discover about themeselves. I know that this time, the Higher Self Connection will have greater intensity than ever before.

I'm also aware of the theme of 'connection' - to Self, to the elements/world we create and to others in that world - and am curious about 'why this, why now'. Connection to Self...connection to Oceanstone and the Atlantic and the winds...and connection to all those who choose to manifest themselves into this experience.

There is a gathering taking shape. It will not be a soft one or a hard one; a safe one or a dangerous one. It will be an intense one, with density of pixelation that makes it impossible to NOT see what we have created. Perhaps in this soon-to-be moment in time, time itself will somehow shift and with it, so will my world.

Aloha!

21st Century Huna

2007-07-30T18:54:00.001-05:00

I keep thinking of the poster on the wall of the Program Room. The one of the Three Selves and the correlations to other things that we speak so loosely about in our vocabulary of the day - things like conscious/unconsciousness/higher conscious mind; like past, present and future; like body, mind, spirit. These are but a few.

As I move through this week, with so many challenges that touch the people that I love the most, I keep thinking about that image.

It is not about the image - it is about the context within which that image sits. It is about the 'aloha spirit'. It is about 'ohana'.

It is a reminder to me that I do not have to do it alone. Sometimes I forget that and need to be spoken to softly; and sometimes I need to be screamed at to awaken me to remember.

This week, I am feeling the impact of being screamed at! I hear. I listen. I ask. And I trust - that it is all unfolding exactly as it should.

Aloha! I speak it and I hear it for myself. In that 'invite and allow', I am surrounded by what I need to be whole.

'Ohana' of choice

2007-07-22T21:10:00.000-05:00

'Ohana' holds meaning for me at many levels.

My physical 'ohana' is my family of origin - Mom and Dad, my brother, perhaps going so far as to include aunts and uncles and cousins that I spent time with on a regular and frequent basis.

My 'ohana' includes people who come into my life through the program experiences that I create on the holodeck of my experience and into which I invite others to play with me.

My 'ohana' of choice includes all those to whom and with whom I am connected, at levels that defy explanation in the domain of the physical.

The 'aumakua' that I am, engages with the 'aumakua' that you are and in that moment, the level at which I choose to play in the great and majestic game of living becomes breathtaking in its magnificence, its potential and its joy!

A simple word - 'ohana' - means what I experience it to be to me, for me, at multiple levels of expression through 7 Logical Levels of Thinking. And through it all, I choose. Through it all, I AM at cause in the creation of my own Universe.

Imagine if we were all to choose 'ohana' and its expression. My 'ohana' is one of godforces engaged in the game of living! However did I get to be so lucky???!?!?!?

Aloha!

Redesigning the architects

2007-07-16T20:53:00.000-05:00

It's been a powerful conversation (the one that introduces what I'm calling 21st Century Huna) that startles people into a different awareness.

I wonder : what would our world be like if we all knew that we ARE the godforce we fight over? Does a godforce need to be right? Does a godforce want what other godforces have? Why would s/he...when as a godfoce s/he can create at will.

I wonder what the world would be like if we did not have religion to fight over? If we did not have a frightening, punitive 'god' watching our every move?

I've read the books on Huna I've experienced with some of the 'best and brightest' teachers of Huna. And I know taht what has changed my life is the Huna that seeps from my cells. I wonder how that happened.....

I'm discovering that the new Huna book is not about Huna as I learned it. It is not about practice and technique and ritual. It is about context. It is about offering a framework for consideration that when examined next to today's quantum science, a door opens to a way of profoundly knowing ourSelves in a different way.

The world will not redesign itself. As the architects of what we have, it is we as architects who must awaken to a new design for ourselves and THAT will be the light that shows us the way home.

Aloha!

April in the Kingdom of Hawaii

2007-07-02T15:27:00.000-05:00

It has been a Huna kind of day for me.

I realized that what I want for myself in April 2008 is to create the Space within which people who have long been in my world will be able to 'know' the Hawaii that I know. What I am now thinking of as 'The Mauna Lani Experience' is my way of creating a play-date with all those I draw to me! I had never thought about it that way before - and today, it just popped into my awareness.

Not an hour later, I get the comment from Anne of her experience in reading my earlier blog entry on 'Huna: Calling me Home". In the moment of reading her note, I knew what I both want and need to do for April 2008.

It is not about Huna as a retreat, since it has never been about Huna as a thing. It is about an experience of the Kingdom of Hawaii that lights up my soul and welcomes me home. And Huna will indeed, be part of this.

I know that the Space that is the Mauna Lani - with its grace and beauty; with its raw and elegant power; with its sweeping winds, ocean's roar and breakers crashing along the shoreline; with its views of sunrises over the mountains and sunsets over the ocean, all visible from my balcony - these are what let me know that I'm home. I want to share this with others. I want to create the opportunity - the invitation - for them to know 'home', deep in the cells of their being.

To create this, I know that I must be both the attractor for it and be willing to be the one who shapes 'matter' for it to happen. It needs to matter more to me and from there, beckon to others.

Once there...once in that magical place...the rest will flow easily. Huna will 'be' as it is intended : a Space within which Invite and Allow comes to life; within which easy and effortless is the key; and an experience of the flow moving through each of us, awakened to the smells and the sounds and the sensations, both outside and inside. And in truth, they are all the same.

Aloha!

Dreaming: The future shapes the 'now'

2007-06-09T09:14:00.000-05:00

I am beginning to feel a quickening associated with being in Hawaii in April 2008. The images of that future are brighter than others; the sounds more intense and the sensations in my body becoming more visceral and less ethereal. What I am feeling is the excitement of being home again!

‘Home’ in so many ways. Home in the physical space that is the Big Island. Home in the energy that comes with being in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, 2500 miles from the nearest coast. Home in the elements of Hawaii – its winds and water, the smells of the land and the ocean, the visual feast of its grasses and flowers and birds; the black lava rock that is the foundation of the Island; and the heavenly aroma of Kona coffee, whether in beans roasting or vapors wafting from my morning brew. Home with the people of Hawaii, in the Aloha spirit, in this place without edges. Feeling that I am home – in body, mind and soul.

April 2008 and the ‘Emerging Futures and Huna’ retreat at the Mauna Lani has already begun to inject new potential into my life, every single day. Flashes of sipping Kona Mountain Roast at Java on the Rocks, toes digging into the soft sand as the gentle morning waves roll up against the lava rock wall that separates me from the Pacific. Surrounded by easy conversation as I sit among the locals who begin each day with a visit to the water and their morning newspaper. Quietly considering my day, wondering if today I will sit by the pool and work on my next book, or if I’ll take a drive along the coast at the northern tip of the Big Island and be humbled by the magnificence of Gaia and her majesty.

For me, Huna has never been about rituals or techniques. It has always been about awakening to the godforce that I am and discovering how to bear witness to it in all that surrounds me. It is about people and connecting to them in ways that enliven us all. It is about the smell of the air, the warmth of the sun and the feel of the wind coming in off the sea. It is about wonder and exploration and discovery. It is about trusting – even when everything around me tells me that I should not, particularly that I should not trust myself. It’s about recognizing that life and its full expression IS the very thing we seek! For me, Huna has taught me how to get out of my own way.

Breathing. Stopping. Listening. Feeling. Engaging! That pretty much says it all.

I am eager to step into ‘Emerging Futures and Huna’. As in all things, I have no idea what will be discovered and yet, my body tells me that something huge awaits. It is as if from here to there, the space exists for me to prepare. Not in a ‘study’ kind of way, or even a ‘get ready’ kind of way but more in a ‘become welcoming of the experience’ kind of way. Staying in the ‘now’. Paying attention to myself – to my inner world, watching and listening for the Signal from Self that I already am – and trusting that same Self to be my guide. Looking inside and not outside. Letting go of knowing and making way for being delightfully surprised by what has not yet entered my awareness.

For me, Huna is not a set of techniques or rituals (although they can be comforting and entertaining) but a context within which to unfold. I know of no greater space that allows for my own acceleration. The Space of Huna is immense. Experiencing Huna in the Space of Hawaii is an experience long remembered and never lost.

Already, I am dreaming of being there. Already, my dreams of what is to be are breathing life into what is. In this moment, my future is shaping my present…laying the platform for my future to become even more. Time is not linear. Life is not linear. Each expression of life either expands or compresses the next – until the next time.

Aloha!

Huna: Calling me home

2007-05-29T13:39:00.000-05:00

I woke up this morning and for split second, I knew I was opening my eyes in my room at the Mauna Lani; trusting that as I put my feet on the floor and looked up, I would see the sun on the ocean and the pools in the garden below. As quickly as it came, it went.

But did it really leave me? Even as I write this, I am aware of myself in two places – here and there. It occurs to me: how is that a metaphor for my life? How often do I experience myself as being both here and there, at the same time? Just how many ‘me’s’ are there? Imagine a world with a Mini Me….. yikes!

Huna calls to me, even though I know it is not the Huna of my friend Sheila, or perhaps even the Huna of Laura or Serge or others. What calls to me is an expression that is not of my body, nor of the dogma that often attaches itself to our search for the Self that we are beyond the physical.

As clear as I am that 2007 is not a time for me to be on the Big Island – or in Hawaii at all! – I am equally clear of its call. So I wonder…where am I being called to?????

To breathe and let go.

To allow and do nothing.

To watch….and listen…and wait.

To trust.

To know that not knowing is its own genius.

Today, I felt the pull to allow the April 2008 experience to continue to form itself. Being mindful of the need for others to know – to have content and details and sufficient material to justify a choice with significant financial costs, etc. – I was working at creating the web materials for Emerging Futures and Huna. And yet, even as I wrote the words, my body was screaming at me to STOP!

What really mattered to me was to say, “I will be there. If you want to be there with me, we will honor ourselves, each other and the space we find ourselves in. We’ll explore and discover. We’ll laugh together and we’ll cry together in Paradise. And in the end, we all will have become more. Let me know if you want to be there, too. ”

And that’s about it. Whatever else happens will happen. And is that not what an Emerging Future is all about? I believe that when the Higher Self flows to the Lower Self, the curve of that signal is where my Emerging Future lies. Am I going to pay attention to it – or not?

That choice cannot be made from the intellect or from reason. It must be experienced and welcomed in the body, first; digested and offered up for the taking.

I miss Kona. I miss what I know Huna to be for me. Huna inside me in Ottawa feels different for me than Huna inside me in Kona. Perhaps it is that in Kona, it has more space to flow into and empties itself into boundlessness.

Aloha!

Conversion

2007-04-30T14:52:00.000-05:00

Huna sits at the back of my mind, every day. When I catch myself in the act of a long, slow exhale, I become aware of the deep inhalation that is to follow. Like night follows day, there is a rhythm that I can pay attention to and know that I am not that rhythm... that rhythm is how I stay present in this 'reality'.

'Emerging Futures' is the child of Huna as a gateway to connecting body, thought and spirit. It is the connection that holds matter and energy together. It is the point at which energy converts to matter - or not. It all depends on what 'channel' I choose... I permit... my body to engage. My choice determines my channel; my channel determines my experience.

I have long known that the body is a quantum biological device (receiver, processor, transmitter) that calls to itself 'energy'. What I am still wondering about is : where is the point of conversion of energy to the experience of/in matter? Just like my tv: where is the point of conversion that takes the 'signal' from the ether and makes pictures and sounds out of it? Without that conversion, there is only static on my screen.

Perhaps Intention is the point of conversion......

Aloha!

Getting ready...

2007-04-06T12:31:00.000-05:00

Getting ready for more….

I’m almost finished the 3rd edition of ‘Fully Alive – Awakening Health, Humor, Compassion and Truth’. In the next two weeks, it will be complete for me and time to move on.

The Huna book awaits. About 80% complete, I know that my own recent growth and evolution are an essential part of this unfolding conversation. The last two years – through which the Huna book has been written – have been somewhat strange and yet clearly essential to bringing closure to my writing of Huna as a gateway to the godforce within. It is a birth that feels, inside me, like it is taking its own sweet time – and more than the usual 9 months! I’m starting to feel bloated with my own potential, ready to burst if I don’t soon let it all go.

I love Hawaii. For me, it has always been the Kingdom of Hawaii. From my first step onto the hot, black lava rock of the Kona airport, I was moved by being there. In the last 15 years, I have been to Hawaii many, many times and yet never enough.

I know there is a connection between finishing my Huna book and my experiences of being in Hawaii over the last three years. Strange things: heavy turbulence, stormy weather and harrowing landings, the feel and sounds of earth rumbling and vibrating. Absent from my original visits, my trips over the last three years have left me wondering: am I to be here? In some ways, the Big Island has been saying to me – initially gently and becoming more insistent – ‘Do not be here, now’. It is not that I am unwelcome – it is that it is not my time.

I know that I’ll not be in Hawaii in 2007 and that I’ll be there January 2008. Why? I have no idea. I only know that it is not my time to be there. Perhaps it is my time to be here and to write. To complete the thoughts that are in flow before the new ones will have space within which to move, unfold and take shape.

And so, as in all things, I allow mySelf to guide and lead. Sometimes quiet, sometimes pressing. And always, wherever I stand is where I am meant to be.

I am feeling the need to be here – in this writing space. Something is calling.

Aloha!

Ever-present

2007-02-20T23:12:00.000-05:00

I am mindful of how I have not written here for a while. It is not that I do not come here - it is that when I do, I stare at the page and choose to leave. Words escape me, as I seek to find ways to share with you that which is so immense within my being. When the words do not come, I go.

There is not a day that goes by that I do not consciously think about and that I am not mindfully aware of the presence of the 'Higher Self'. I put it in quotes because I know that I am it. That means, I am mindfully aware of the presence of the 'Much More' that I already am.

My challenge here is to find a way to invite you to have a mindful awareness of the presence of the 'Much More' that you already are. That will not come from anything that I can tell you about Huna. For that, I am not required. You can read any of the gazillion books on the market on Huna and find what appeals to you. What you cannot find in any of those books is what I've discovered.

I wrote today in my Emerging Futures blog about being pregnant with potential. I am. You are. And so is everyone else. What comes to mind is that picture, again, that was taken by an old friend of cherry blossoms struggling for space within which to unfold, on this tree branch incredibly congested with life! Just like we are struggling for space within which to unfold....in a world incredibly congested with life... and yet no sense of how to welcome it, embrace it and make room for it in our 'being-ness' in our day.

Huna, with its Aloha Spirit and its most beautiful and elegant expression of the Three Selves....grace and power in simplicity...helped me to create the space so that I could breathe. No...much more than that!...so that I would allow myself to breathe. We are all able. It is permission that we lack.

With the Space that is Huna; with the permission that is Huna and with the incredible, gentle force that I discovered mySelf to be through Huna, I found breath. And in that single moment, I unfolded. It has yet to stop....or to even slow.

I have no idea where this blog will go. I know that I will follow my breath and discover what rides on its exhalation. In that exhalation, my future will emerge and I can choose to live it or not.

My desire is to call to and welcome another into this space to share with you the power of her journey. I will keep you posted. My trust is in the space that her breath will create.

For now, I am done. At least, for this breath.

Breathing is good....

All meaning is context dependent

2007-02-14T00:07:00.000-05:00

When it became clear to me that my next book would be about Huna, I was equally clear that I had no desire to write about the practices and techniques. So much has already been written on this topic by so many great souls, including all those whom I’ve already mentioned. What was important to me was to find a way to share with others how Huna had become that gateway.

The Hawaiian language has only 7 consonants. The genius of their language is that a word will change its meaning as its context changes – not only the context within which it is used but the context that the person is who is doing the listening. The same word will have multiple meanings depending on the context within which it is positioned. For those of you who are familiar with the Logical Levels of Thinking (and remember, we use 7 levels and not 6), consider how the same conversation (say, religion) will have different meanings at all 7 levels of thinking.

Consider for a moment that this situation with the language is also true with regard to Huna as a context for accelerated awakening. When we consider Huna through the 7 Logical Levels, we become aware of and gain access to different expressions of our own spirit nature.

I believe that without Huna, I would not have made the connections that have made it possible for me to experience….to feel and know in my tissue and not just in my intellect; to know as a truth of my experience and not just an intellectual truth as an opinion….what it is to be that spiritual being having a physical experience. To talk about it is one thing – to experience it is quite another.

When I first saw the framework of the Three Selves of Huna, it just felt right. Like discovering after 30 years that you’re adopted – and suddenly, so many things just make sense to you. You’ve known all along but until that moment, were not quite sure what you knew. For me, the Three Selves was that moment.

When I ventured into Huna, I chose to bring with me all the other things that I also knew. All those things that have come to me over the years from my interest in the quantum perspective, for example. My experience with and of NLP. My years of face-to-face engaging with other human beings at the deep end of the pool. My capacity to trust the truth of my experience, even when it did not match expectations or the status quo. My knowledge of quantum biology and autopoiesis and their implication for what we are as the creatures of flesh, bone and energy that we are. When I stepped into Huna, I left nothing else behind and so there was an integration that took place. And as the Hawaiians would say, I discovered that it was all ‘the same but different’.

The Three Selves of the Huna tradition allowed me to connect the notions of contexts of Self with flow of energy/information amongst those contexts. It is never about any one thing but about how things connect to each other. So with Huna, it never occurred to me to engage it in any other way. The whole has become much greater than the sum of the parts.

When I wrote and first published ‘Fully Alive’ in 1999, little did I know that I was opening a door that would make it possible for other people to discover the ‘click’ inside themselves. When I first entered Huna, little did I know that it would allow me to discover the ‘click’ inside mySelf – the Self that flows from the essence of who I am, or that Essential Being – and how the relationship exists that allows me to be all things and not necessarily any single one of them.

My Huna book is about 80% complete and will be out before the fall. As I go, I’ll include excerpts here that are relevant to an idea or a notion. For now, there are many other places that you can read about the Three Selves of Huna. Try Google and see what you can find. Explore. Consider different versions of the same story and discover which one comes alive in your body. That’s the one to pay attention to! When you find that one, stay with it and see where it takes you.

And remember: like I did not choose Huna but Huna chose me, don’t be surprised if you find yourself to be chosen for more of your own evolution. We live at a time in history when we must wake up – soon! – or risk a very long sleep until the next cycle opens up to new possibility. When Huna calls to you to awaken, remember that there is nothing to fear. No matter how strange you may find the conversation inside yourself that you are engaging, stay with it. Trust it. Allow yourself to be led.

Aloha!

The Aloha Spirit: Invite and Allow

2007-02-13T15:48:00.000-05:00

For me, Huna has never been about its techniques or rituals. From a Logical Levels perspective, these exist at the Environment/Behaviour/Capability levels of thinking. They are intended to help us remember who we are. They are behavioral anchors that are designed to remind us of who we are when we might forget; and how to access what the ritual presupposes we cannot, without its assistance.

In my early days of discovery of Huna, I was not quite sure what I had found. I read all that I could get my hands on – people like:

* Max Freedom Long – one of the first non-Hawaiians to write about his discoveries.

* Laura Kealoha Yardley – author of ‘Heart of Huna’ – a warm, caring and insightful woman who has been teaching Huna for a very long time. Long after having read her book and having heard of her work with others, I had the great pleasure of meeting and working with Laura at Oceanstone. You can find info on Laura at: http://heartofhuna.com

* Serge Kahili King – author of many books and audio products. My first experience with him was on the Island of Kauai where I spent a week with him in a Huna Teacher training. You can find out more about his work at www.huna.org.

My first introduction to Huna was through Tad and Ardie James. I am grateful for that experience as it set me on a path that I have enjoyed more and more from one discovery to the next. To this day, I am mindful every time I return to Hawaii, that I never think of this genuine Paradise as other than the Kingdom of Hawaii. I see its people and experience its energy as anything but ‘touristy’.

My intention with this blog is making itself known to me from one day to the next. I have no desire to write what I know about Huna - that you can get from any number of books on the subject. What I do have the desire to do is to share with you how Huna has helped me to come to know more about myself. Are not all such gateways about reclaiming what we have always known about ourselves and long forgotten? Huna is not the thing itself – Huna is the gateway that has allowed the essence of who I am to be found. It is a gateway that will allow you to find yourself. Effortlessly. Respectfully. With grace and elegance.

From the beginning, what drew me to Huna was not of the intellect but very much a pressure in my body. I was being ‘spoken to’ in a way that was new to me and yet felt very old. During my fist experience in a Huna program, what called to me – quite literally, in a state of deep relaxation/meditation – was a voice that I had never heard before and yet knew intimately. It was a voice that was my own and long forgotten. An experience completely without logic or reason left me feeing instantly awake and aware; a deep sense that I – the real me that I AM – had just introduced itself into my daily existence in a physical world. That sense of being awake has never left me, and that was more than 15 years ago.

Was that about Huna or was that about my willingness and ability to hear? Was it about Huna or was it about what had already begun to stir inside me, with Huna becoming the conduit that made it safe for me to allow it to enter into my life? Even in this writing, the resonance is in knowing instinctively - even then when I knew nothing about Huna - that something about Huna would keep me safe within myself; and would make it possible for me to give myself permission to know.

For me, the magic of Huna lies in its contexts. All meaning is context dependent, so these contexts of that which is held as mystical in their essence would, by extension, invite me to discover that of myself which is mystical in its essence. To date, the most powerful of its contexts is what I now know as the Aloha Spirit, as it makes all other contexts accessible. In my experience of it, in its simplest form I would use the words “invite and allow’ to translate the experience into words. The capacity to create enormous Space – without judgment, without rules, without the need to reward or punish – within which discovery can occur.

The Aloha Spirit is the gift of the Hawaiian people to the world. As a metaphor, it reflects what James Cook long ago spoke to when he wrote of his arrival in the Hawaiian Islands. “These are a child-like people.” In their innocence lived the willingness to just ‘be’ without the need to hide or protect in any way. For me, the Aloha Spirit kept me safe from my judgements of myself, making it possible for me to allow the discovery of the godforce that I am.

I began to live my life from this notion of ‘invite and allow’. Invite myself and others to consider things, and allow myself and those others whatever responses were meaningful to me/them. No right/wrong; no good/bad – just that which ‘is’.

Consider for a moment what your life might be like were you to begin to live from ‘invite and allow’. From one breath to the next….one moment of engaging to the next….giving yourself full permission to change your mind as you grow and discover. Given that we cannot give what we do not have, as we give ourselves the gift of ‘invite and allow’, we become both willing and able to offer it to others.

Just for today, consider the Aloha Spirit in your next conversation with your spouse; or as you step into an exchange with one of your children. Invite and allow….and see where it takes you.

Aloha!

Signals from the Higher Self

2007-02-03T23:59:00.000-05:00

I had a great conversation today with a colleague, about leadership (see my other blog). As we spoke, I was acutely aware that although the topic of our conversation was leadership, the flow for me was not from the intellect but from somewhere else.

When I spoke, the words just fell out of my mouth. My body formed the words, gave them sound and propelled them from my lips. My intellect observed, listened and discovered. I had no idea what I was going to say until the words had been said.

I’ve learned to trust this process – this process of expressions emerging – since they have filled my life with great discoveries and joy. It is greatly entertaining to me to have my own words catch me by surprise and delight me in their originality and expansiveness. And yet, although I have no sense of having created any of it, I am also keenly aware that it is all me. But what ‘me’ is it?

When the flow is there, life is effortless. When the signal from the Higher Self flows directly and effortlessly to the Lower Self to be engaged and processed, the Middle Self eventually benefits greatly from learning how to choose intelligently for MORE.

Today, in trusting the flow of this Signal from Self once again, new ideas emerged. New possibilities. New potential. And we are indeed, a global collective in great need of potential.

All of these thoughts will find their way into my next book. I have been playing with it now, for almost a year. Watching. Waiting. Listening. Letting the words flow from my fingers onto the screen when the flow is there, and letting go and relaxing when it is not. I do not determine that flow; I simply embrace it when it moves. Emerging futures unfold.

Huna, the Three Selves, flow of energy/information, trusting my body, letting go….all of these are aspects of the gateway that Huna has become for me. When I am awake to it, my life explodes with potential. When I fall asleep, it is as if my life becomes frozen in time and all I can see is the past.

Enough for now. There is always tomorrow.

Aloha!

First steps

2007-02-03T12:13:00.000-05:00

I can't think of a single thing that has had a more powerful impact on my life than my experience of Huna.

From the beginning (which is now more than 17 years ago), my curiosity has been my guide; and my personal experience has been my evidence of something truly potent in my life. In all that I do, breath has become an essential element not just for my physical survival as a being of tissue/matter but as a spiritual being having a physical experience. Breath keeps me linked to the Force that flows through me, always reminding me that I AM that force.

Do I forget? From time to time....and then, breath once again awakens me to the godforce that I am and my life redirects to a meaninful place.

THIS place...this blog....is a meaningful place to me. In this space, I can express, explore and speak to what I am discovering about myself as I go. This is not a space for me to tell myself or anyone else what I 'know' about Huna but is a space where I can speak to what/who Huna has guided me to know of mySelf.

There is such powerful 'magic' here! Those notions of Emerging Future are directly tied to the flow of 'mana' or energy/informaton from the Higher Self to the Lower Self, with the body being the receiver/converter/transmitter for the genius that is carried. That I do or do not pay attention is entirely up to me. I hold myself as truly blessed when I say that it has now become more difficult for me to NOT listen than it has for me to do so.

I am excited! Excited about this place where I am free to share whatever is true and real for me and to trust that any of those others who are drawn here will come with an open mind, an open heart and the willingness to become the MORE that they already are.

In my 30 years of searching, I am clear: for me, Huna is a gateway to the discovery of the godforce that I am in a physical world. Not a discovery of theory or philosophy but a discovery in tissue/matter.

I breathe....I engage...and I know that I AM god. You breathe....you engage....and have you noticed yet?

Every cell of my being IS that godforce. Not a vessel for it...not a conduit for it....but the thing itself. And I ask myself: how does the godforce choose to live?

Aloha!