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of wayne kealohi powell

Catching the Kahuna Wave ~~~~~~~~NEW ARTICLE!
An introduction to the ancient shamanic concepts of kahuna and lomilomi,
kept by the original people of Polynesian Hawaii.

For centuries, Hawaiian shamanism, or huna, has been cloaked in secrecy because the
Western occupiers of the islands sought to eliminate it and outlawed its practice. The one remaining master kahuna of ‘Temple Lomilomi’, a traditional form of shamanically inspired, energetic massage and empowering bodywork, is kahuna Harry Uhane Jim, co-author of a new book called, Wise Secrets of Aloha. Jim and other kahunas have recently consented and become bold enough to make these sacred traditions available to students before they die out entirely and the practices disappear forever.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STARS
On the origin of this Hawaiian secret knowledge, I have heard the legend of the ‘Mu’ people many times from different sources. The most recent telling is in the book Wise Secrets of Aloha: ‘Our stories tell us by oral tradition that Hawaiians came from the star cluster Honu, which you call the Dog Star, in the Pleiades. They came to live in the land we call Mu, which evolved into a nation we know of as Hawaii. They lived gracefully there with aloha (the living breath of God in and around us) that permeated all life. For eons, kahunas have travelled the seas, navigated by the stars, irrigated the fields with water, and lived by the oral tradition. Eventually, for some people the connection was lost; others however - the kahunas - remember because of the secret teachings passed from healer to healer.

EMPOWERING THE GOD WITHIN
Lomilomi comes from the aina, (land), and there are many meanings and styles of Hawaiian
healing called lomilomi. All of them are a form of prayer, connecting to a higher source for healing. Uncle Harry taught that ‘Temple Lomilomi’ is traditional Hawaiian medicine or bodywork, raised to the level of spiritual healing, whereas, what is known today as ‘Temple-style Lomilomi’ originates from another great kahuna named Abraham Kawai’i. The form of bodywork Kahu Abraham brought into the mainstream in the 1980’s was a massage-dance ritual, initiating a soul’s sexual and spiritual union in the body, practiced in ancient Hawaiian temples as a rite-ofpassage.

In today’s world, lomilomi from all lineages and traditions is a fundamental tool for serving the spirit of aloha. Temple Lomilomi offers the receiver the empowerment of being a temple, and taking on the responsibility of committing to the spiritual practice of loving one’s self as a path to enlightenment. In practice, it has little to do with massage, and everything to do with embarking on a journey that regenerates your wholeness from within. Assisted by guardian spirits, we uncover your innate innocence that arises from the memory and experience of being one with God.

BECOMING A KAHUNA
Kahunas were trained in nature, there was no paper and pencil. Their training involved many
rigorous exercises. Kahu Abraham, who was trained by nine different kahuna instructors (one after another), said “You never knew what was a test, because everything was a test!” Uncle Harry says, “There will be no tests, nobody fails!” Abraham was trained in a ‘warrior’ style, Harry in more of an aloha ohana (family setting), and yet they were both taught how to carefully observe nature, watching the wind dance with the waving palms, watching the sun and the ocean interacting with the wind to form waves, surf and clouds, watching the hawk fly high above the volcanoes.

The young kahunas learned the principles governing physical reality and the mystical ways of nature through kayaking and surfing, and just being attentive, watching and listening carefully. “Be quiet and watch” was the Hawaiian way of teaching. They had a profound respect for, and love affair with, nature; it was their teacher, their friend and their sustainer. Kahu Abraham told us that there
were very few words in the training of a kahuna, and that keen observation and awareness of one’s
self, one’s feelings, one’s beliefs, and one’s patterns was the entire focus of the instruction. A kahuna was trained solely in how to handle their self in their own universe, at all times, under all circumstances.

Today, in the way I was shown, I teach the practice of the awareness of deep listening, keen observance and attentiveness, for co-creating a desired reality with Akua (God). We merge with the kahuna wave and the elements: ahi (fire), makani (wind), wai (water) and pohaku (stone), and the kingdoms of: la’au (plants), holoholona (animals) and kanaka (humans). We also work closely with the guardians of the halau (helper spirits), all forces for good, gathering to assist us in our healing and awakening

ONE WITH GOD IN PARADISE
Max Freedom Long coined the term huna early in the 1900’s, while studying the kahunas and their magical powers. He observed that ritual and pule (prayer) were the cornerstones for the miracles
witnessed and recorded by many. He also found that these magical ceremonies were activated by
verbal codes embedded in the Polynesian language and expressed through the oli, the traditional chants.

It was through chants such as the kumulipu (genesis, or creation chant), which takes three full days and nights to chant, that this sacred knowledge was verbally handed down over eons of time. Long goes on to say that, in the form of stories and legends, the Hawaiians brought with them
accounts very similar to those of the Garden of Eden and other Old Testament stories found in the Bible. Whereas Uncle Harry taught that the Hawaiian ancestors were the ones that did not leave
paradise: “they brought it - their home - with them to the islands from interstellar space”.

This makes a huge difference in the basic belief system. This knowing of Paradise differs from that of the Christian missionaries who came to the islands soon after the British explorer Captain Cook
arrived in Hawaii in 1778. Primed with their teachings of exile, longing, guilt and fear, the missionaries’ ideas actually were the opposite of the Hawaiian knowledge that home was where
they were. Therein lies the kahunas’ power for healing. The missionaries saw God as a force
outside of us and the Hawaiians still see God as a force that resides within.

However, regardless of what the Hawaiians thought of the condemning nature of the missionaries, when they heard them speak of Jesus’ message they understood it, because they could sense that his heart was filled with warm aloha, the living breath of God. The Hawaiians had the same relationship to au’makua (spirit) that Jesus spoke about in his connection with his Heavenly Father. They knew well how this divine Light ‘within’ produces health, wealth and happiness ‘without’.

Our Mother, the Earth, is called Moana in the Hawaiian language. The Hawaiian culture is dying, as will Mother Earth eventually. But Moana not only dies, she also comes to completion and reaches a stage of resolution, which gives us freedom to move to higher or parallel fields of consciousness. The Hawaiian culture, like all circle-based cultures, is lovingly leaving us jewels of everexpanding knowledge.’ In my studies with kahunas and masters, I have found the same ike or awareness shining in them all. The source of their mana (power) comes through their desire and ability to be fully present in pa’a (the now), intimately connected with nature and Akua, (God). Huna is merely a science of life that offers the practitioner effective ways to cultivate mana through desire and intention to cocreate reality.

GOD AND THE THREE ASPECTS
A fundamental principle underlying all Hawaiian healing practices is the esoteric spirit of aloha (sharing the living breath of God). This is known in Christian cultures as the Holy Spirit (Sacred Breath). Through aloha, the Hawaiians recognise all of life, every seed and vine, every leaf and every rain drop, every mountain and every waterfall, every person and every thing as sacred because all is permeated with aloha. Kahu Abraham would say over and over to us, “Be attentive every moment of your life, such is the principle of worship.” In addition to the spirit of aloha,
each one of us is seen as having three aspects, we are one ‘trinebeing’. These three are known as
au’makua, uhane, and unihipili, and these aspects interact and interrelate to create our perception
and therefore our experience of the world in this dimension.

Au’makua is the God flame within each person, the ‘I Am’ presence, the pure light of being. Uhane is the conscious spirit of divine Will and a person’s individuality (not the Freudian concept of ego). The unihipili is the domain of emotions living in the present moment. It is also responsible for all memory and maintaining the body’s physical integrity and functions. These three aspects roughly correspond in Western psychological thought to the ‘wise parent - mature adult - spontaneous child’, or the ‘high self - middle self - lower self’, or the ‘super conscious - conscious - unconscious’. When the three-part being is operating as a united ohana (family) working in harmony, there is a flow of synchronicities and serendipities in one’s life, fuelled by au’makua, directed by uhane and expressed by unihipili.

In healing in the Temple Lomilomi tradition, the trine-being in the giver merges with the trinebeing
of the receiver and transforms them into a temple in which the forces of nature converge for the purpose of deep recovery of the whole or integrated person; a person living the intention of the Creator: living in joy, abundance and laughter. Although healing touch therapy is commonly used and also deep tissue lomilomi, it is my experience that quite often, just the giver directing the receiver’s breathing can heal a cherished wound, as the giver holds the space with the guardians of the halau and facilitating the spirit of aloha.

ALIGNING WITH GRACE
Uncle Harry says, ‘To Hawaiians, God is a verb, an action - not a noun or a name. Emotions too, are
actions. God’s motive for creation was so that we can experience life more fully and get to know
ourselves better. God was motivated to create so that we might find and achieve the ultimate
expression of emotional maturity.’ For a Hawaiian, God is pure non-dualism, [i.e. outside the
thought categories of good-bad, right-wrong, and heaven-hell], in fact, the Hawaiian language
recognises no opposites or dualism of any kind. There was no word for illness or sickness. They knew that the experience of revelation, truth, or inner knowing could only be accessed with the emotional body, the body of feeling and desire, through alignment using aloha, sharing the breath of Akua (God).

As human emotions evolve and mature, a person becomes a witness to ‘grace receiving gratitude’. Uncle Harry says, ‘Grace is the inalienable right of all beings to receive the light of God, the inalienable source of all healing. From the power of God comes this completely unconditional love, which heals and propels support. Grace is absolutely free, you don’t have to do anything to get it. Grace is not something that can be taken away from you in the Hawaiian point of view. You do have to acknowledge you are human and humans have grace inalienable. It’s really a re-membering you have grace and thus going back to your authenticity of who you are.

When grace appears in the consciousness, the natural response is gratitude.’ When feeling through the pa’a (the now), a person taps into the source of their being. In the open space of ‘vertical time’, or ‘notime’, they are connected with the ‘cause’ or ‘origin of life’, and are able to merge and direct the very energy that holds reality in place. Through attentive study and lomilomi practitioner acquires the skills of physically shape shifting energy in the body, and moving it out of the body; the giver’s comfort zone of everyday reality expands considerably and begins to radiate healing. All of creation rejoices as the kahuna waves of aloha and malu love and peace), spill over into their community.

Huna, lomilomi and the Hawaiian secrets of aloha are potent seeds of love, enlightenment and peace for a world gone mad. A path of acceptance, forgiveness and joy can eliminate much suffering from the world and our lives. You are welcome to come to one of our Events and experience yourself in ways that you may have only dreamed are possible. Calendar of Events


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~ The Power of Blessing ~
(source material from Serge Kahili King)
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Long before the rise of Atlantis (the legend goes) a race of people came to our solar system from a group of stars now known as the Pleiades. They called themselves the People of Mu, but were also know as Manahuna or Menehune, the "people of secret power" because of their advanced technology and psychic powers. They were a small pygmy-like people, with their own unique philosophy for successful living.

Once firmly established on Earth, they began to extend their knowledge to all humankind so that it would survive throughout time. Their language was Polynesian, traces of which are still found all over the world today, and their knowledge was Huna.

Huna is a philosophy of life that is at the root of all ancient cultures and spiritual paths. Free of dogma, it is simply the "'secret science behind miracles" or the hidden knowledge, deep within our souls, of who we are and how our lives can really work. Within the Huna philosophy, there are seven spiritual principles of life which explain the way the world works. These principles, which are universal and all-encompassing, go beyond our perceptions of reality, with a meaning much deeper than meets the eye. The seven principles of Huna (meaning secret, or hidden knowledge) are refreshingly simple yet very powerful, and can serve as meditations or chants for enhancing everyday life. The vowels are pronounced as in the Spanish language--a as in father, e as in prey, i as in pita, o as in mote, u as in duty.

IKE--the world is what you think it is
KALA--there are no limits
MAKIA--energy flows where attentions goes
MANAWA--now is the moment of power
ALOHA--to love is to be happy with
MANA--all power comes from within
PONO--effectiveness is the measure of truth

A brief introduction to the principles and how they can be applied to everyday life

1. IKE: THE WORLD IS WHAT YOU THINK IT IS. When we criticize another, we are implying that they are not acting in accordance with our personal framework of reality. However, everyone has their own individual perception of what reality is, according to their own beliefs and assumptions about life. Our personal view is only what's true for us, so we tend to invalidate what we do not understand. If we truly love another, then we will strive to understand their point of view. It is every bit as valid to them as ours is to us, and provides the balancing polarity to our point of view. According to the principle of IKE, you must bless another's contrasting viewpoint if you want yours to be accepted at all, or blessed in return.

2. KALA: THERE ARE NO LIMITS, and in a universe of no limits, we have an all-encompassing lokahi--unity--of all things and all beings. We are intimately connected to each other and to everything in existence. Every thought produces an effect at some level. Therefore, when we criticize someone, we are asking to be criticized. But when you find yourself hating another for the way they act towards you, you may find--if you look closely at yourself--that you too, are guilty of acting the same way at some time. The beauty of this principle is that when you bless another, you are blessing yourself as well, and you will be blessed by others. When you bless anything, you are being blessed! We are truly one Being, sharing one mind and growing through all matter and many faces. This concept of oneness explains why telepathy works and why the collective thought forms of the masses create our reality here on Earth. In relationships you are relating to yourself through your partner. Therefore every curse or blessing you give returns to you, because we are One. We are the giver, receiver and that which is given, all in the same Holy Instant.

3. MAKIA: ENERGY FLOWS WHERE YOUR ATTENTION GOES. We get what we focus on, so it is wise to look closely at the object of our focus. If we pay close attention to what we don't like about an individual, then it grows in our awareness and experience with them. By focusing on the good in them, we can experience and bless that instead. According to this third principle, you are where your attention is, because you are your attention. A great master from India once said, "If your attention is diffused, then you are diffused. If your attention is in the past, then you are in the past. If your attention is in the present moment, then you are in God and God is in you."

4. MANAWA: NOW IS THE MOMENT OF POWER. The third principle leads into the fourth. How many of us live in the moment and appreciate its beauty and grace? When we can approach each moment without judgment, it reveals itself as a Holy Instant waiting to be born into our awareness. Every moment is a miracle of life propelled forth by the previous moment. If you trace your thoughts back in time you will find that your current situations and relationships are truly designed by your thinking and your beliefs about life. Only decisions that you make right now can have any effect on your future.

Therefore, changing anything in our experience requires changing the way we think, and carrying that thinking forth in each progressive "now". As kupua--shamans, healers--we can learn to change the memory of our past, so that, in turn, this will change our thoughts in the present and our experience in the future. It has been said by a wise man that "life is what is happening while you are busy making other plans." Since "now is the moment of power" let us strive to enjoy each moment as an opportunity to refine our skills, grow our talents and glean whatever blessings come to us in overcoming our limited perceptions of life and Reality.

5. ALOHA: TO LOVE, IS TO BE HAPPY WITH. In Huna, this idea encompasses the power of blessing, and the practice of true acceptance. The more you can remove judgment from your thinking, the more love will flow in your life. By making this a daily practice and by blessing everyone and everything that represents what you want, you can fulfill your heart's desires. Love is the greatest power! This we know. The more we share this power, the more we become attuned to its divine nature--what the Hawaiians call ALOHA. The loving use of this limitless energy is the key to having everything that's worth having in this world, and it is the reason we are here on Earth.

Serge King states in his book Urban Shaman, "Criticism kills relationships". He has also said many times, "compliments build relationships". When we can teach ourselves to admire instead of criticize, affirm instead of doubt, appreciate instead of blame, and trust instead of worry, then we will have the experience of being ALOHA. And only then will we feel the awesome and limitless power of our life's simple blessings. Bless the beauty in all people and in nature around you--the mountains, the trees, the sun, the moon, the sea, the smiles, the laughter, the cry of a seagull, the love of a mother, the innocence of a child, the companionship of a friend, and the inspiration of a teacher. Bless the food you eat and the health of yourself and your family. Bless constantly and be thankful for everyone and everything in your life, and you will feel more joy and happiness than you could ever have imagined possible. Since "everything is alive, aware and responsive", the corollary of this principle, in blessing everything, you will be blessed by everything.

6. MANA: The sixth principle, ALL POWER COMES FROM WITHIN, reminds us that things only have power over us to the degree that we give them our power. We sometimes give our power away by letting others make decisions for us. And when we focus on something we don't like, we give it the power to make us unhappy. And the more we think about it, the more unhappy we become, since everything is responsive to our attention. Unless we approach life's challenges as a means of refining our skills as a peacemaker and a loving human being, we give our power away. If our purpose for living here on Earth is to remember our divinity and to overcome our fear to love unconditionally, then we will pursue that purpose and find that we are powerful beyond measure. If you acknowledge this and begin to live it, then everyone you encounter will feel God in you, just as you will feel God in them. Claim your power; own it! May the Source be with you.

The following exercise can help you connect to your MANA--life force--with your Aumakua--High Self:

Sit comfortably and close your eyes for at least one full minute as you do some abdominal breathing. While you breath deeply, think of something really beautiful. See it clearly in your mind's eye and hold it there. See all the details of its beauty--colour, size, shape, smell, sound, texture, etc. As you hold this image of great beauty in your mind and begin to bless it with your breathing, your energy field will change. When you finish this meditation, you will feel quite peaceful. Bless and be thankful for this connection with your Aumakua. It is easy to connect with God, because His light shines in all people and in all things. This energy of alohamana--loving power--is what binds the whole universe together. We only have to turn our attention inwards to find an unlimited abundance of it hidden in our souls. All power comes from within.

Long ago, the term given to the missionaries by the Hawaiians was haole, meaning, without breath. The Hawaiian kahunas--masters-- and priests--couldn't understand how anyone could perform sacred rituals without pumping mana--divine power--using their breathing to increase and direct the movement of the life force. The Hawaiian kahuna used the HA--breath of life--as their main tool for instant healing and rituals. There is a form of breathing called piko-piko--center to center--which greatly expands your aura or energy field. It involves focusing your attention on the crown of your head as you breathe in deeply, and on your navel as your exhale fully. In practicing this breath, we are reminded of our profound connections to Heaven and Earth. Do this for three full minutes and you will be amazed at how connected to life you will feel.

7. PONO: The seventh principle, EFFECTIVENESS IS THE MEASURE OF TRUTH, begs for a closer look at what is or isn't working for you in your life. If something is not giving you the results you want, then change your approach. The corollary to this idea is that "there is always another way to do anything". As human beings, we have great creative abilities to explore different approaches to our problems. However, we often become fixated on getting something a certain way, or through a certain person, within a certain time frame. We can be stubborn and try to kill the relationship in order to get our way, or we can take a deep breath and back off. Often when we force something it breaks. Learning to "let go and let God" is a very powerful way to get help from your Higher Source. If you truly surrender, remembering that all power comes from within, you will find a new idea, person or approach to your problem. A synchronicity will take place once the universe has had time to align with your prayerful request. In giving up your frustration and allowing the miracle of life to take over, you will experience a release of great pressure knowing that your problem is being processed at the very highest level. Now more energy can flow into other areas of your life that need your love and attention.

Sometimes our fixation in getting what we want, when we want it, is so deep that it seems impossible to find our way. Relax, piko- piko breathe, and give it up. We want our relationships to be harmonious and flowing, but we don't act as if we want to learn how to make this happen. Instead, we tend to cling to old habits of reacting even if they don't work. The opportunity to have the miracle happen is always waiting for you, and you can start to access it by changing the first thought you have every day.

Do you wake up dreading the coming day, rather than bouncing out of bed filled with joyous expectation? By changing this one small pattern, you may change the rest of your life. You might simply have to change what it is that you are getting our of bed for. Try greeting each new day aloud, bless it and breathe it in deeply. Say "good morning" to life, your angels, or your spiritual master, with joyous enthusiasm. Or read your favorite spiritual book before you start your day, allowing your early morning thoughts to be guided toward the light in you. To get even better results with waking, you can influence your patterns before going to sleep at night. Give thanks for the day's achievements, however small, and bless them. Simply saying "Thank you God, thank you God," over and over again until you fall asleep, can positively transform your wake-up mood as well as your dream state. This "attitude of gratitude" is very powerful and can be used any time during the day. It is an extremely effective way to enlighten your mood.

Chanting the seven principles in Hawaiian will generate a very powerful frequency that will change any mood or situation and connect you with your inner Source. Remember the vowels are pronounced as in Spanish--a as in father, e as in prey, i as in pita, o as in mote, u as in duty

IKE--KALA--MAKIA--MANAWA--ALOHA--MANA--PONO

The following is a very effective blessing chant you can repeat and use to empower yourself.

Each three-word phrase represents one of the seven principles:

I AM AWARE, I AM FREE, I AM FOCUSED, I AM HERE, I AM LOVED, I AM STRONG, I AM HEALED.

(repeat again & again)

Blessing seems like such a simple thing, but its awesome power should not be underestimated. A kahuna--Hawaiian master--once said, "It's so easy to overlook the most simple perfection in all things, in search of the complexity of Truth." Abraham Kawai'i.

May you always be blessed!

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~ The Way of Aloha ~
(sourse material from Serge King)
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The word Hawaii is not only the name of an extraordinarily beautiful group of islands in the Pacific Ocean, but it is also the name of the people who settled there long ago. The spoken language of the ancient Hawaiians was Polynesian, and developed from their relationship with the beauty and natural diversity that surrounded them. Tied so closely to nature, the Hawaiian language literally vibrates with deep and spiritual meaning rooted in the natural elements that surround us.

Hawaiian words are born of natural concepts and have many meanings, each of which is determine by the context in which they are used. The world 'HA-WAI-I' expresses several root meanings:

HA: the Sacred Breath of the Creation of Life

WAI: the Sacred Water that Sustains Life, a symbol of great abundance

I: emphasizes what comes before it

HA-WAI-I can therefore be interpreted as "the people and the place gifted with an abundance of the forces that create and sustain life". The people and the islands are called Hawaii and Aloha is their way of life.

Ancient Hawaiian life was enamored of Nature as divine energy. Songs and chants praised the moon and the stars, the rivers and the flowers, the wind, the creatures of the sea, and the beautiful island paradise of Hawaii. Hawaiian songs related to the rhythm and movements of nature. Believing that the center of the universe exists in all beings and things, the ancient Hawaiians knew compassion, patience and joy, developing a deep respect for nature and the Akua (Spirit-in-all-things).

As a tourist in Hawaii, you might be given an aloha from the locals at the luau, but you'll have to look much deeper to find the roots of the word Aloha which extend to the ancient spiritual philosophy of Huna (secret knowledge). Commonly, Aloha is used both in greeting and in parting. It is also said to mean "love surrounds you" offering friendliness, acceptance and kindly blessings. Aloha is an all-encompassing concept that can be translated as "a way of being with and in the presence of Spirit". Huna master, Serge Kahili King, calls it "the joyful sharing of life energy in the present".

'The Way of Aloha' addresses a prevalent modern complaint--most of us in the world today have been trained to respond to life as warriors. We've been taught that the world is a dangerous place--the root belief of the warrior. "The world is a loving place" is the root belief of Aloha. Reacting to life as a warrior is sometimes easier for us, simply because it is what we are taught from our cultural heritage. And, in our history, it is a path which has proven to be effective at least for the short term. Serge King says that, as warriors, we will emphasize danger, the destruction of enemies, and the cultivation of allies. As a group, we've been taught that to succeed, we must 'conquer or be conquered.'

In contrast, 'The Way of Aloha' is a practice that emphasizes acceptance, forgiveness and cooperation through the development of spiritual awareness. It is the cultivation of Mana (divine inner-power), friendship and unity, a very real and easily integrated practice of skills that allows the individual to explore existing personal realities while simultaneously immersing oneself in the ethic of true acceptance. "Love and be loved" the ideal of Aloha, is a very active yet nonviolent path, a practice of non-judgment. In Aloha, one asks, "What can I give?" rather than, "What can I get?"

'The Way of Aloha' perceives life as a series of circumstances that we attract to ourselves, gleaning from them opportunities that allow us to act more consciously and effectively, monitoring our growth by perceiving and evaluating our choices. Aloha will bring you a new response to your life, creating Pono harmony and balance in your relationships. Pono is being open and flexible in your thinking of how you will receive the answer to a prayer or a desired outcome. Sometimes it requires that you don't think, and you just hold the focus lovingly, pray about it, or simply give it up to God.

Mana is the principle of divine inner power that is essential to the Aloha philosophy. It encompasses the idea that each one of us has the authority to think for ourselves and live our own truth. As Serge King has stated, "all power comes from within". There is no need for protection when one's root belief about life is that 'the world is a loving place'. Each of us can choose to refuse into our personal space anything or anyone with which we do not resonate. Within us is the center of the universe where we find the living God, Aumakua. When we truly attune ourselves to this divine Source, we find it to be infinite in both scope and power. It is we who have the choice of how to use this awesome power. The warrior will use it to destroy enemies, within and without. 'The Way of Aloha' teaches us to find or create ways to use it for the benefit of society, and to heal ourselves and others. Interestingly, the way of the warrior and 'The Way of Aloha' can accomplish the same goals using entirely different approaches. If you were to meet the highest masters of either path, chances are you could not tell them apart!

In the ancient Hawaiian tradition, this Mana was used very wisely. When a boy became a man or a girl became a woman, the Kupuna (elders) would send them to a sacred temple to be transformed by a deep-tissue-massage/dance-turned-spiritual-awakening called Lomilomi. Each individual would immerse themselves into this awakening process until their spiritual, sexual and creative energies were fully integrated and aligned. This powerful ritual initiation assisted each youth in adjusting to and accepting the joining of heaven and earth in their body. When the Kahuna (Master) determined that the youth was ready to become an adult, he would send them back to the village a more fully integrated human being.

This sacred Lomilomi Temple-style massage ritual is helping many people today all over the world move gracefully through profound changes by allowing them to access the deep Aloha (wholeness) in their being. In 1986, a Kahuna named Abraham Kawai'i brought this sacred knowledge out of the Hawaiian temples and into the global mainstream. It is now possible to study this beautiful and powerful art form of transformational healing.

Essential to creating a life of community living is the idea of Kahi, oneness, and Lokahi, unity. To practice Aloha, we need to give up our deeply rooted assumption that we are all separate--to feel our inner connections with all people, places, and things. It's the belief that we are all separate that enables us to dump raw sewage into our beloved Kai (oceans) and spill each other's blood in war, (our ultimate miscreation!) which contradicts our most basic human need: to love and to be loved, the spiritual law of Aloha.

Aloha is pure joy. It's also the fragrance and color of a beautiful flower, the sound of children laughing, and the taste of ripe tropical fruit dripping with nectar. Aloha is the wondrous rhythm of Life, as well as the Spirit in and behind all Creation. 'The Way of Aloha' can be practiced and experienced anywhere, any time and with anyone. It is a path of love, harmony and appreciation for the beauty in all things and it is only available in the eternal moment of manawa (now). There is a saying in the book Conversations with God that helps me to remember where to find Paradise: "When I don't go within, I go without!"

Please take a moment now and just say the word slowly: A-l-o-h-a. Say it again even more slowly: A-L-O-H-A. Taste it in your heart, and feel it in your body! Close your eyes and feel your energy change as you say it a few more times, letting it in while breathing deeply for one full minute can change your day, your mood and your life. Feel the warm loving feeling this generates--the sun is shining in your heart! This is the great gift of Aloha. Enjoy!

E ho'omaika'i O la'a kea me ke aloha pau ole

Blessings of sacred light and everlasting love.

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~ Ano Ano - The Seed ~
"The fruit is already in the seed"
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Grandfather worked in the garden every day, digging, planting, trimming and watering in the Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter. Late in October he would stick these big brown bulbs in the ground--they were like huge seeds. Nothing would come up till the snow had all melted, then in Spring, beautiful flowers would burst out of the ground. It's been many years since grandpa passed and I've often wondered about how that garden resembles my life now.
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Ano Ano - "the seed" is a Hawaiian metaphor for how life works. Every thought I have is a seed that will grow in accord with my beliefs. If a thought is a healthy one, it will bear healthy fruits and flowers. If it is not, it will grow weeds that choke the flowers. So if my beliefs are healthy, then my thoughts, actions and deeds will show this and bear good fruit.

Every morning as I'm waking I plant my first seeds for the day. My journey through the day grows from my first thoughts. So I choose to think "Welcome to a brand new day of infinite possibilities, Wayne," or "Good morning, God, it's so awesome to be in a body. Thanks!" Then I sit up in bed in a loose lotus, lean on the wall and clear my mind and drop
into my heart for a few sweet breaths of sacred stillness. Space is a clearing house for static in my mind and body circuits. This 'drop-in' nourishes my seeds with mana--divine power. Then my heart gets involved and as it opens gracefully, joy begins to spring forth from my very being, as clear waves of aloha mana--divine love--eminate through my life.

I allow being in my sacred heart chamber to cleanse my body, mind and feelings and my whole day grows from this sweet communion with the divine within.

We are all planting seeds in every moment with every thought, gesture and glance. To be aware of what creations we are watering each moment, is self mastery. Huna--the secret knowledge of Hawaii--would say, "focus on what is working in any given circumstance and it will grow." Because whatever we place our attention on becomes our life experience. Just like in the garden with grandpa, everywhere he placed his love, things would grow very well. My life is the same way. So many times when I'm separated from my loved ones, I feel alone and disconnected, just like the bulbs waiting for the cold snow to thaw. But then while in my sacred heart chamber I can feel so connected to others and one in spirit through the coldest, most painful circumstances.

In ancient times the Hawaiians knew how to manifest or create things to happen using their ability to merge with the spirit in all things. Using their breath and imagination was very powerful to bring about change. They knew that belief was the key to receiving. If they believed deeply enough anything could be received. This is aloha mana, the divine power of love, God's gift to us.

We can actually have anything we truly believe in, so be aware of each seed that you plant and nurture the ones that warm your heart and set you free. Nourish the ones that heal everyone they touch and bring joy to the world.

Is there someone who needs your love right now? Is there a seed within you that has seen a long winter that's ready to come up. Breathe deep and connect with the waters of life to bring forth a healing, or a new vision. It's so easy if you believe. The world is our laboratory to experience our beliefs.

Hawaiian Lomilomi is an ancient art, healing separation through the touch of Aloha Mana-Divine Love. It is a dance, an intimate loving massage and a right-of-passage to the stars. Many have truly transformed themselves, just as you could. Are you ready to create a new life of healing and intimate Joy with the Divine in you and others?

Wayne Powell teaches Aloha Mana Lomilomi Training where you can experience this divine power of love move through your body and transform your life. Experience your seeds and beliefs growing and revealing whom you've chosen to be in this world.

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~ Building Bridges ~
(with forgiveness)
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"Broken dreams fall hard it seems, on the one's who can't let go. Crashing glass many crystals cast, a future white as snow. When the pain turns into rain, through Spirit we will grow."
(from a song entitled Broken Dreams by Wayne Powell)

When it's time to move on from a long term marriage or relationship of deep intimacy and love, the signs will be unbearably present. When the pain of staying in patterns that really don't work any longer seems to be greater than the delicate process of separating our lives, then it's simply time to make a move!

Pain seems to be a very important part of life. How we deal with pain shows us who we think we are, and how we think life works. John deRuiter said, "pain is the instrument of awakening."

When you were born, there was pain. When you die, there's the pain of leaving your loved ones behind. Between birth and death there are enumerable painful circumstances. It's no wonder why our subconscious minds gravitate solely towards pleasure, creating it and sustaining it, as long as possible! This is a big part of the problem.

If pain is the instrument of awakening and we gravitate only toward pleasure, I guess we are in for a long sleep!

There are many beliefs and an infinite number of systems that can assist us in building bridges from pain to Peace. First lets analyze what causes our pain. Usually it is not getting what we want or expect from someone or from a circumstance. Someone is acting in a way that hurts us, and we feel dishonored, abandoned or betrayed.

When we look at this hurt as something we co-create, we realize we can change how we feel about it. When someone gets angry with me, I look at what behavior in me caused that reaction in them, and I take full responsibility for my part. That's the part I can apologize for, and change my behavior if it feels appropriate to restore harmony and balance. In this way I am growing and building bridges in myself and with others.

A bridge connects two bodies of land (or people) over water. Water is a symbol for emotions. Emotions can have very strong currents that pull us one way or another, just like water. A bridge then, is a communication device constructed with the willingness to re-connect two people with sometimes treacherous currents (patterns) flowing between them. A bridge can create a greater ease and efficiency for love to flow over these strong currents.

Every relationship has a great potential to teach us about ourselves and how to actually get the love we think we need.

We can honestly ask others to treat us in a way that we know nurtures our being and our growth. This requires absolute honesty with ourselves about what we need, and an absolute honest expression of this to others. This responsibility will produce bridges over troubled waters and a clean connection between all involved.

If someone is not willing to respond to you in the way you are asking, then check out your needs and see if being a little flexible will assist to create the desired result. "Effectiveness is the measure of truth" Serge King. It is easier to build a bridge if you have help from the people involved, but you can build it yourself if need be. Just get totally honest with your needs and co-create a win-win for everyone.

In my work, I assist people to build what they want from life and to repair broken aspects of their dream. I work very deeply with the sub-conscious mind and through deep tissue Hawaiian massage called Lomilomi. The " temple style" Lomilomi that I teach and perform in my private sessions is a 'rite of passage' or initiation of the soul. This ritual was performed in the ancient temples of Old Hawaii to bridge Heaven and Earth energies in the body. Our sexual and spiritual natures are not separate in reality. They dance together in a fully integrated human Being.

I have been called " a midwife of the Soul" by Dr. David Schweitzer. I have a gift to touch people in such ways as to activate their Soul's remembrance of who they really are and why they have come to earth. The massage I do is a dance that awakens flow in the body and builds bridges from old worn out choices to new ones. I love my work and I love teaching it. Anyone who has the desire to learn it and the ability to show up in full presence can learn this work. I attract people who have this knowledge latent in their being. I've trained dozens of people in Hawaiian Lomilomi massage and various shamanic philosophies of healing. It is my life's purpose to honor and serve the one Heart and Spirit that resides in us all and in all things.

Healing is a matter of will and intention joined in a loving embrace with Truth. The miracle is at hand! Lets join in Love to create rainbow bridges everywhere healing and Peace is needed.

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Harmony Vs Balance ~
"Creating Pono"
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Pono is the seventh principle of Huna, and ancient philosophy of successful living found in Polynesia and Hawaii. This knowledge has been handed down through the generations for thousands of years and assisted many to heal and understand the laws of manifesting. Pono says that "Effectiveness is the measure of truth." Which simply states that the means we choose will determine the end result. For example: If we want to create peace, then we must use a peaceful means to accomplish it. So, if we are not getting the results that we want from trying to manifest something a certain way, than we need to relax, take a few deep breaths and allow a new idea to come in and show us how to achieve the results that we desire. This principle also says, "There is always another way to do anything!"

Pono also represents harmony and goodness. The concept of balance is often misunderstood. We often think that we can create balance yet because of a natural law that says "there is an equal and opposite reaction to every action" Balance is impossible for us to have without absolute stillness. Balance is actually something that is built into our Earth based system to happen automatically. Nature's job is a balancing act. The seasons and the weather are an act of natural forces balancing themselves. As human beamings we have very little control over balance. In fact it is a point of great stress for most of us. Because we think it's something we can have, yet every time we make an action, nature will counter it for balance. On the other hand, harmony is something we can intend and create in every moment of our life. Often times when we create harmony, balance will naturally occur. Because to create harmony brings peace and in peace there is always a sense of balance.

Pono is also about being flexible so that Harmony and Unity will usurp discord. Goodness is composed of these two qualities. Where there is harmony and Unity, love is flowing in the fullness of itself. In our workshops we observe the balance and imbalances in the body and the mind and study how this plays havoc with our health. We then restore health through harmonizing all the bodies and the mind through Unity--Lokahi, then balance becomes the fruit of harmony's presence. We work very deeply at a cellular level of the bone marrow and the blood to restore harmony to all the bodies, the mind and the soul.








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