Huna Principle Six

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

All Power Comes From Within

Who in your life is responsible for the person you are becoming?

Is your true power — your will — being given away to stories and experiences from the past, or to fears projected into 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 us to some of the sharpest truths within ourselves.

You are the powers that be.

It is up to you to take the inward journey — to move beyond fear and doubt and fully embody the light that already exists within you.

For me, this has not been an easy path. Growing up in a world shaped by aggression, judgement, and criticism, learning to stand in my own power has taken time. For some people — myself included — there is a great deal of inner work required to arrive at this place. And it is in acknowledging our power within that the journey truly begins.

As we step into our power, we learn to move beyond the parts of ourselves that arise as judgement, fear, insecurity, and anxiety — often as protective signals trying to keep us safe. Part of this process is learning to recognise these moments when they arise.

When we pause, take a deep breath, and return to the present moment, we begin to form a new relationship with these inner experiences. We start to see how they may have overridden our clarity and redirected us away from our own power. From this new awareness, we can consciously choose to return to ourselves — to take the wheel again.

Through this process, our dreams, desires, and goals begin to awaken into an empowered state of being. We start to create with greater clarity, strength, and purpose. We begin to embody courage, love, and self-recognition — and in doing so, we ignite the fire within.

We will never escape the hills and valleys of fluctuating thoughts, feelings, and emotions. This is part of our human nature. But we can learn to navigate the turbulence of life — both within ourselves and in the world — when we affirm and return to the power that lives inside us.

It is interesting to reflect on how often, throughout an ordinary day, we are offered opportunities to step into our own awareness — to notice the thoughts, feelings, and emotions that draw us away from our inner power, and to choose differently.

The Story of the Potato, the Egg, and the Coffee Bean

This reflection brings to mind a story I read not too long ago.

A young woman went to her mother and shared how overwhelmed she felt by life. She was tired of struggling and didn’t know how to keep going.

Her mother took her into the kitchen and filled three pots with water. She placed each pot on the stove, turned on the heat, and added a potato to one pot, an egg to the second, and coffee beans to the third.

After some time, she turned off the burners and removed the items, asking her daughter to observe them closely.

The potato, once firm, had become soft and weak.
The egg, once fragile, had hardened inside its shell.
The coffee beans, however, had transformed the water into rich, aromatic coffee.

The mother explained that all three had faced the same adversity — boiling water — yet each had responded differently.

The potato became weak.
The egg became hard.
The coffee beans transformed their environment and created something new.

She reminded her daughter that adversity is unavoidable, but how we respond is always a choice. We can soften, harden, or transform.

The young woman realised that she could choose how she would meet her challenges — like the potato, the egg, or the 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 and never dismiss anything as too trivial.”
— Alfred Kazin

All Power Comes From Within

Who — or what — is navigating you?

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