First Principle in Huna

Lets take a journey through the principles of Huna

The first Principle : The world is what you think it is .

How do you look at the Word?

And who are you in that looking ?

These are powerful questions to ask.

Huna takes us back into our own power.

When we come to those places in our lives where fear, uncertainty and self doubt seem to be taking centre stage and we begin turning to others for answers.

Huna says breath, take a moment and breath, you are the maker of your world.

Lets go inward.

Let’s see what is taking place in your reality at this time. Let’s see how you are interpreting this reality , what are your thoughts? What are your feelings? Where is this story line coming from? Is this familiar? Who are you in this looking ? And how has it been benefitting you?

When we take the time to begin asking ourselves these questions we start moving into a place of

self awareness.

A place where we can be compassionate, understanding and curious with ourselves.

And in that curious, compassionate, understanding, we can begin to create

m o r e s p a c e.

Who you are in that moment begins to relax, begins to soften, begins to open up more, and in that change of frequency, that change in attention everything opens, softens, and opens. We become more connected with our breath, which brings us back into the present, into the moment, into our

power.

When we become aware of our own seeing, experiencing and interpreting, we can breath, move out of the old story and take a step back and ask,

what is this experience wanting to teach me?

How might I see things differently?

And all of a sudden we are meeting this experience in a new way. We begin to explore with the resources within us, what is wanting to be drawn out, seen in a new light, awakened, witnessed, and released. One of the things that takes up allot of energy are those shadowy dark places we have chosen to shut ourselves off from that live in our past. It is not easy to begin to cast light on these places, but it is important that we do. It’s not always easy to come into this place of awareness, into the intensity of the moment, into the intensity of what the past memory reveals. But who we are today can shine that light, and in shining that light, can begin revealing those old past memories that often contain misunderstandings, towards how we see ourselves, that can really affect who we are today and how we meet the world.

It is so important that we embrace our imperfections to acknowledge who we are today, and to know that we are so much more than our past.

When we come into this new way of seeing, of exploring, we can begin to see some patterns in our lives where the characters change, but that energy, the conflict remains the same, and when these patterns continue to repeat in our lives we know something is up, we know there is a some exploring to take place, some questions to reflect on and some new truths to be revealed. We can look to that more forward moving question,

what is this wanting to teach you,

and how will you apply that teaching now. And with that question our frequency changes, we move from resistant to receptive, new understandings are revealed, an in this process we begin to connect with new resources within ourselves and our experiences begin to change.

When we turn that energy around and move into a more curious state within our experience, and choose to release the attachment to that once very intense familiar energy, it begins to dissipate and that negative charge can then begin to transform into a more positive frequency.

And in this active awareness we begin to cultivate, and awaken, the Power within, to create change in our lives and our experiences.

When we take the time with ourselves to checkin we come back into full empowerment with one of the biggest gifts we were given, the will to choose, to choose to create positive change through our awareness and experiencing .

We are so powerful when we begin to really come in to relationship with ourselves, with our thoughts, our stories, our emotions, and how we are choosing to see the world around us.

This is not easy it’s a hills and valley process. That’s why compassion, patiences, understanding and having the right people in our lives are so important. When we can create the space to be a witness , we change the energy the frequency, the vibration, which in turn over time creates a new reality.

One of the ways I began to really notice how important it was for me to be clear on what I was attending to in my life, was this one simple but effective exercise I did when I took a Huna teacher training course by Serge King.

He had us all look around the room and asked us to experience it as though we were architects.

Instantly my awareness changed, the room changed, I was looking for beams, ceilings, doorways, windows, floors, space, flow, shapes.

Then he said look at it as a decorator, again instant change, my attention went to the paint colour on the walls the curtains the furniture, texture and colour, lighting, and the head table with all of his Hawaiian statues and other objects and examining how they were all laid out.

Then he asked us to look at the space as a new Mother with a crawling infant. I started looking at the floor to see how clean it was, I started to look for sharp objects, sockets, cords, glass and breakable items that might be in reach.

Each time the space completely transformed, nothing was moved, nothing was taken away, the only changing factor was how I drew my attention to the space around me. It's interesting how just a simple exercise like that can show you so much.

And as I was writing this I was thinking about my morning. I had gone for a walk along a nature trail not too far from my house. While I was walking I noticed a plant, a plant that I had wanted to harvest a while back and remembering when I had harvested it the first time I ended up with the wrong one I realized in this case I had her evil dolppel ganger, one that looked allot like but was not. I had been a bit disappointed at the time so I let go of the idea of harvesting it, it wasn't really on my radar, truly mainly because of the first disappointing experience.

And as I was walking back I thought wait I just saw two verrsions of that same plant one of them must be Boneset. I pulled out my phone and searched through google one of the first things you look for is how the leaves form on the stem of the plant, and there she was!

I headed straight back to harvest some. While I was harvesting in the long grass off the trail I bent over and there right in front of me was a monarch caterpillar. It totally caught me by surprise. The first thing that came to my thoughts was why isn't he on milkweed? Oh no he should be on milkweed I looked around couldn't see any milkweed, I was on a roll now, well I can't just leave him here he needs milkweed how did he get here? Dear lord I should save him. So I picked the grass he was clinging to and decided to bring him home to my garden that I must admit has quite a bit of milkweed for two reasons one for the caterpillars and butterfly's, and two to harvest the milkweed pods in the fall, to make paper .

As I was walking something stopped me, I had a thought wait caterpillars don't always stay around milkweed when they go into chrysalis. So again I pulled out my phone and trusty google, did a little searching and found out that they can travel pretty far from milk weed to go into chrysalis. I looked at him and I could see he was a pretty good size, so I took him back and placed him on another piece of grass. I thought he was just fine, he new exactly what he was doing, he didn't need me to save him.

Looking back even that experience left me stepping back a bit and thinking where were my thoughts at that time, that my first response to my experience was that something was wrong.

It was another one of those moments where I could take a step back and ask what is this experience wanting to teach me .

So the question again in regards to the first Principle in Huna:

The World Is What you think It Is

is

How do you look at the world?

And

Who are you in the looking