My time in Hawaii is almost complete. Tomorrow, I leave the Big Island until the spring of 2009 when I return for a four-day retreat for women. Emerging Futures: Power, Passion and Purpose will change lives… including my own! (More information will follow on this ‘Emerging Futures’ retreat re dates, etc.)
I am already a changed woman. During my time here (as it is on every visit) the flow of Fire transforms who I believe myself to be, making way for discovery and new ways of moving through my world. This trip has been no exception. If anything, it has happened faster than ever before. With Kiluea more active than it has been for 25 years, I am mindful of my body engaging more quickly in ways that invite insight into my own intentions, interests and personal evolution.
In these last 10 days, I have awakened to a couple of truths that I carry deep within my cells: my body knows things that cannot be rationalized outside of me (and thank you, Danny, for helping me relax more easily into that about ‘being’ Hawaiian!); and almost 40 years in the ‘human evolution’/personal growth movement means that I have seen more things come and go than most people will ever discover, from the ‘pet rock’ of human potential to the ‘everything old is new again’ song that can be sung about so much that exists today. The good news is that I know what I know AND I know it profoundly changes lives! I now trust that like never before. In this domain of human evolution, I am claiming my place at the table as a Tribal Elder.
For some time now, I have been aware of a desire to move forward in the company of 10 other women who are also feeling the ‘pull’ to accelerate their own evolution. It is not just about creation or co-creation – it is about co-creation for (as Paul has awakened me to) mutual evolution. That last part – the ‘mutual evolution’ part – is extremely important to me.
Creating things for their own sake does not light me up like creating things that will press the edges – FAST! – of my own evolution. Co-creating with others carries the same interest; will our manifesting X result in us each becoming ‘more’ as a result of engaging? If not, I have to ask myself: why would we invest our energy/time/effort in this way? If I am not pressing myself to discover more, I am being who I have already been. That’s not good/bad, right/wrong – it’s just way too familiar to capture imagination for very long.
Some time ago, we became aware that a ‘critical mass’ for the creation of Intention 2009 would be for 200 unique women to engage in ‘Decloaking… and living authentically’ in one 12-month period. Why 200? Because when we consider the notion of ‘contagion of an awakened collective’ and the number of people that are touched by 200 women, the potential impact goes beyond linear, sequential impact. To me, it’s about creating a new way of moving through a new world.
We already know the impact of contagion of a collective in a coma: it is what has produced the world we know. Imagine the impact of contagion of an awakened collective; a collective whose greatest force lies in the awakened genius of each individual choosing to move mindfully forward and engaging with mindful intention to shape the world they desire, rather than learn to adjust to the one they think they’re stuck with.
It’s also about acceleration… finding ways to speed up the process; to move beyond the capacity of the intellect to manage 7 plus or minus 2 items in conscious awareness and to move instead, to using the intellect to engage the body directly to process at the speed of 3 trillion cellular interactions per minute! The intellect does have a role and processing isn’t it! The body (as a quantum biological processor) is the most powerful processor we have – what’s missing is that we don’t know how to get out of the way!
And so, I prepare to leave the Big Island with plans already in place to return. I also leave knowing that the next 3 months will find me connecting to those 10 women who are also seeking to co-create for accelerated mutual evolution and the global change that will come with it. I welcome contact from women who are called to this same consideration. Already, three have come into my awareness since being here that I did not know 10 days ago. Be careful what you ask for!
Aloha goes with me as I prepare to re-enter my ‘regular’ life. I leave with a great desire to once again be ‘home’ with my family; and I also leave the Big Island knowing that I belong here and will be back, time and again, to reconnect with the Earth and Water that ground and soothe me, and the Fire and Air that propel me in ways and into expressions that I cannot find anywhere else. In these moments, I know what it is to be whole.
Breathing is good…
Thank-you again Louise for putting such an incredible experience together. I don’t really believe that I knew what it was to feel whole until this Huna gathering took place and I returned to N.S.
As I settle into the person that I’ve become, I know that there are no words for the transformation that I experienced and continue to experience.
As I choose to ‘engage with my fire within,’ transformation will be welcomed where I didn’t allow it to be welcomed before.
I am glad to hear that you are claiming your place at the table as a Tribal Elder.
I think back to July when you shared your experience of the last queen of Hawaii and what I knew to me truth in my body is that you are ‘Hawaiian.’
Mahalo,
Amy
So much awakened inside my body since I have been to Hawaii and returned home. Being at the Huna retreat in Hawaii was really a metaphor for allowing myself to connect to the truth of my own exerience, as it resides beyond the structures of my past that live inside my body. Giving myself permission to invite the signal that I am to come alive inside my body where it is transformed into new information that comes from ME and not form the outside, on which I can base myself to make choices that will result in a life that is uniquely of my own creation rather than one that fits into exixtsing structures, whether they are perceived to be outside of myself, or within myself (no difference !). It became clear for me at one point in Hawaii that there is no out there, I really do create it all and the reason I create is for my own evolution, so that it calls up inside of me information to be metabolized to create more space for my authentic SELF to move and express inside my body and into this world. Invite your signal, allow it to be processed, translated through the body and choose ME ! That is the only way I will know what ME is, through my body.
As an example, I always complained about, hated winter…and yet did not even consider the possibility of being somewhere else for the winter months. Going to Hawaii for me was a metaphor for stepping into the paradigm of the signal that I am, manifesting in this world, and if I am the signal, I am the Godforce, all there is and all that there ever was and so boundaries and limits are simply an illusion of energetic structures in the body that we take as being real and so therefore show up physically to reflect thAT.
So until I allow myself to fully embrace and acknowledge the truth of my own experience, I am a prisonner to old beliefs that live in my body and that create an illusion of Self that is fixed and rigid, and quite limited.
I am ready to co-create and to SHOW UP FULLY as ME and rock the house !
Thanks Louise.
hey there Annick,
My experience of you is that you “rock the house” all the time. 🙂
I can relate when you said that you don’t like the winter yet never considered being somewhere else. I on the other hand say that I enjoy the 4 season which I do but also get tired of them quite quickly. so Hawaii was also a huge metaphor for me and what else I can create.
Maybe we’ll see each other in Hawaii again and do the “Flip-flop dance?”
Mahalo for being in my life.
AND Mahalo Louise for creating this opportunity.
Amy