A few years ago I invited Serge over to the UK to deliver some huna workshops.  For many years I have meditated regularly drawing on a number of styles and traditions. As a result, one of the workshops I asked Serge to deliver was on shamanic creative meditation. I felt that it would be good for a UK audience to find out more about huna meditation.  This workshop focussed on nalu and hua forms of meditation which loosely can be considered as passive and active forms.  Serge’s article reinforces what I consider to be some fundamentally important points about meditation, namely:

• there is confusion about what meditation is.  In practice however the common thread is reducing your scope of focus.  With this in mind it is useful to remember the huna principle ‘pono’ and use a technique that you personally find effective.
• meditation should be used to change something.  Even if it is as simple as changing your state through achieving relaxation
• although there are many different forms of meditation a common characteristic of a ‘good’ meditation is that you feel better for doing it

Meditating is one of the most consistently effective and beneficial things I have done in my life and I believe that over time I have experienced most if not all of the possible benefits that meditation can bring.  I would strongly encourage anyone reading this who is not in the habit of meditating to give it a go to realise the benefits it can bring.  I think that sometimes there can be a misconception that to be effective you must be able to meditate at the same time each day for example or for prolonged periods of time.  In practice this is not the case – even shifting your focus in meditation for a minute at a time can bring discernable benefits. 

The bottom line is not to get too hung up on tradition and technique.  When starting out it is worth trying a number of techniques to discover what suits you personally.  One could of course do worse than starting with the Hawaiian approach….

To read the article Learning from the Nature of Waves  visit http://www.huna.org/html/wavenature.html

Aloha

Pete

I would like to wish everyone a wonderful Hau’oli Makahiki Hou! 

Whilst it makes sense to use the seven huna principles at all times, symbolic dates such as the start of a new year are commonly times when people make resolutions and take time to focus on the year ahead.   

The seven huna principles are a great framework to use to for such an activity.  For example makia is about focus, so are you clear about what you want to to focus on achieving in the coming year?   Aloha is about blessing and connection, so what have you been grateful for over the previous year and what qualities or features would you most admire in your environment and others in 2012? What connections would you like to make?  Ike is about awareness, so what do you believe your life can be like this year?  

The principles can help you focus and develop a course through 2012.  If you are stuck for resolutions, one I could recommend is to take some time daily to reflect on the seven huna principles and establish the habit of using them throughout the year.

I wish you all the best for 2012.

Pete

It’s been a long time since there has been much activity on the site.   In fact there is an apt Hawaiian phrase at this point  Aia i ka mole o Lehua referring to someone who has not been heard of for some time!  However there will be more going on in 2012 for sure so stay in touch and if you have not already done so sign up for the newsletter and blog posts sent directly to your email.  

At this stage I want to wish you all a wonderful festive period and as they say in  Hawaii:

 Mele Kalikimaka (Merry Christmas)

And to share with you a festive image from Serge:

Aloha from  Pete