Huna Principle Seven

“When love comes to the well and asks what do you know

It says

I know thirst, I know abundance, I know depth, I know darkness

When love comes to the ashes and asks

what do you know

the ash says

I know the secrets between the the volcano and the sky, It says, I know wandering and I know the language of fire

When love comes to courage it asks

What do you know

courage says I know speaking, even though I am afraid and I know the daily walk of keeping on”

Aracelis Grimay

Huna Principle Seven

Effectiveness Is The Measure Of Truth

How are you being your most effective self?

How are your thoughts and self talk effecting you?

And how does that affect the people and outcomes in your life?

What are the changes you are wanting to make and why?

Effectiveness is the Measure of Truth

In Serge Kings book : Mastering Your Hidden Self, a guide to the Huna way.

Serge King writes about this principle so clearly.

He writes

“In an infinite universe, which Huna postulates, there cannot be an absolute truth. Instead there must be an effective truth at an individual level of consciousness.”

Every persons journey, every persons path, is their own. There is no one way to do anything in this life, and that is what makes us such creative innovative beings. In each of our individual lived experiences, we live, we learn, we grow.

And in that living and learning we cultivate self knowledge, and wisdom. We bring something new to the table, sharing our gifts, we break down the walls of familiar known beliefs, opening the way to a limitless world of creation.

"Do not let facts get in the way of effectiveness"

From Serge Kings book Huna: Ancient Hawaiian Secrets for Modern Living pg,164.)

He wrote:

“Naturally, there are things and events that we can’t control, but we can always control our response to them. And, the more skill we can use in our response, the more influence we have on those things and events even if we cannot control them... if you are the captain of a sailboat, you can’t force the wind and the currents to do what you want. But if you are a skillful captain, you can adjust your sail and your rudder to the wind and the current in order to get where you want to go”.

This is a wonderful metaphor that brings us back into our power, reminding us that we can move our way out of those believed stuck places of unsolvable problems that seem to stop us in our tracks, to instead hearing these problems ask us to grow, to go beyond, they remind us that its time to re- adjust our focus, and to open the way to effective solutions, knowing they are there. We really can create great change in our lives and in the world we live in, when we become aware of how our thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and the principles we live by, play a role in that creating.

Bless the Present

Trust Yourself

Expect the Best

Effectiveness Is The Measure Of Truth

Here is another short story that I came across, that invites us into the idea that in changing our focus we can change our world.

Life is Like a Cup of Coffee Motivational Short Story

The story goes like this:

A group of people were sitting in a coffee house, discussing life. As they talked, the conversation turned to the subject of life being like a cup of coffee.

One person said, “Life is like a cup of coffee. It all depends on how you make it.”

Another person said, “Yes, but you can’t control the water temperature, or the quality of the coffee beans.”

A third person added, “But you can control the amount of coffee and the strength of the brew.”

Then an older man, who had been listening quietly to the conversation, spoke up. He said, “Life is not like a cup of coffee, it’s the coffee cup that matters.

The cup is what holds the coffee and shapes its experience. And just like the cup, we need to focus on what’s around us, on what we have, and appreciate it.”

The group fell silent, pondering the old man’s words. The lesson of the story is that, like a cup of coffee, life is what we make of it.

We can choose to focus on what we have and appreciate it, or we can focus on what we lack and be discontent.

Ultimately, the cup that holds our life experiences is what matters, not the coffee inside.

Reconnecting with your inner self