Huna Principle Six

“If exposure is essential, still more so is the reflection. Insight doesn’t happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within."

Eudora Welty

All Power Comes From Within

Who in your life is responsible for the person you will to be ?

Is Your own true Power, your will, given away to stories, and experiences, from the past, or fears for the future?

Are you looking to others to lead the way?

"In all the activities of life, from the simplest physical activities to the highest intellectual and spiritual activities, our whole effort must be to get out of our own light.”

Aldous huxley

Now Is The Moment Of Power

I love this Huna Principle it leads to the sharpest truths within ourselves.

You are the Powers that BE.

It is up to you to go on that journey inward, to go beyond the fears and doubts to fully embody that light within.

I know for myself this has been a difficult one, growing up in a world of aggression, judgement, and criticism, it has not been an easy journey to be able to stand in my own power.

There can be for some people, myself included, quite allot of work that needs to be done to get to that place, and it is in acknowledging our power within that will get us there.

Stepping into our power, we are able go beyond those parts within us that come flooding in with judgements, fears, insecurities, and anxieties, as warning signs wanting us to be safe. And part of that going beyond, is being able to recognize these moments within ourselves. When we begin to step back, take a deep breath, and come back into the present moment, we can move more easily into a new relationship with these experiences. We can finally begin to see how we have been over ridden by these emotions, and redirected away from our Power. And in that new awareness we can choose to come back into control and take the wheel again.

Through this process our dreams, desires, and goals begin to awaken into an empowered state of being, and we begin to really create. with clarity , strength, and purpose. We can begin to embody the courage, love, and recognition, in who we really are, and in those truths we awaken the fire within.

We will never escape the hill and valleys of fluctuating thoughts feelings and emotions, it is a part of our nature, but we can learn to navigate through any turbulence in our lives and in this world, when we affirm our Power within.

It is truly interesting as well, reflecting on all the different experiences we can encounter through out our day, just how often we are given the gift of opportunity to come into our own teaching, our own relationship with experiencing, those thoughts feeling and emotions that draw us away from our own Power within.

One example I can think of is being caught in a traffic jam. I know from experience, even something like that can bring up emotions that can completely over ride me. And over time being aware of meeting these moments in a new way, a gift of awareness comes forward offering me an invitation, to come into relationship with those emotions and thoughts, that in that moment are jolting in like the stop and go of the traffic, and flashing red lights blaring as I role slowly along. In that moment I have an opportunity, to be creative, to take a breath, to come back to this present moment, and be aware, just really be aware. To chose to be compassionate and loving to what ever comes through at that time, it is a moment to apply those brakes on the unconscious cycles of my reactions to thoughts, feelings emotions, and old stories, that become so active in a moment of negative experiencing. These too familiar moments that have held me in old outdated patterns in my own life.

I takes me to this story I had read not too long ago about a potato, an egg and a coffee bean

The story goes like this:

A young woman went to her mother and told her about the problems she was facing in life. She said she was tired of fighting and struggling and didn’t know how to keep going.

The mother took her to the kitchen and filled three pots with water. She placed each pot on a burner, turned on the heat, and put a potato in one pot, an egg in the second, and coffee beans in the third.

After a while, she turned off the burners and fished out the potato, egg, and coffee beans, and asked her daughter to observe them carefully.

The potato was soft and had become very weak. The egg, which had been fragile, now had a hardened shell inside. But the coffee beans had transformed the water into a rich and aromatic coffee.

The mother then explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity – boiling water. However, each of them had reacted differently.

The potato went in strong, firm, and hard, but in boiling water, it became soft and weak. The egg had been fragile and had a thin outer shell, but in boiling water, it had become hard inside.

The coffee beans, on the other hand, had changed the water and created something new.

The mother explained that we all face adversity, and how we react to it depends on us. We can either become weak, hard, or transform the situation into something positive.

The young woman realized that she had a choice – to be like a potato, an egg, or a coffee bean.

“The day, the living day, the actual moment, the pang of real life, — to be faithful to this, one must always pay attention, one must never dismiss anything a priori as too trivial.”

Alfred Kazin

ALL POWER COMES FROM WITHIN

who or what is navigating you?