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Huna & Me I first heard about huna through the introduction to NLP home study course of Jonathan's that I was given as a birthday/leaving present by my parents just before I moved to Canada. I was very interested in NLP and psychology but the one thing that seemed to jump out at me was when Jonathan started to talk about the shaman state, Hakalau. It was just like when Jonathan highlights something your unconscious mind wants you to be aware of by holding the mic closer to his mouth during one of his seminars. My unconscious was doing exactly that.... huna......Huna.....HUNA. "Hmmm, Huna" i thought "that is interesting".
I listened to the course several times during the next little while and started practicing Hakalau. I was really only using the state to try to train my sensory awareness but what i didn't realize at the time was every time I did it I was gaining the secondary benefit of serenity. Anyway i moved on with life, sometimes remembering to use it, sometimes not and eventually I got to the point where i did it spontaneously. i would be in Hakalau then i would suddenly be out of it and say "hey, I was just in hakalau; cool".
I had however pushed where it had come from, huna, out of my conscious awareness until i was watching a documentary on the ancient Maya when they had mentioned the ancient civilisation of Hawaii; cue the unconscious push HUNA. "I wonder if Jonathan has a website?" i thought; sure enough he did and that is when i bought a copy of his book Ignite & Unshackle because not only did HGE sound really good, it also it had a chapter on Huna, awesome.
So there I was doing Hakalau, cutting aka cords and feeling quite a bit less burdened than I has in previous years.
Now the real sign that this was working for me was one day coming home from work I got into a pretty minor traffic collision at a really busy intersection here in Dartmouth, admittedly this was my fault completely, I tried to squeeze through a gap that wasn't really there.
So here I am in a work truck that is only a year old, being pursued down the left turn lane by a very irate lady, and I start to freak out a bit; Am I going to get fired? How bad is the damage? Is the lady going to sue me? (this is North America after all) Are the police going to charge me?
A disproportional response to the actual event I grant you but none the less freaking. So as we waited at the traffic signal I managed to catch my self and started to get into Hakalau. I could see the lady shaking her fist out of her window and it was also obvious she was shouting something at me, but i had to ignore that ,initially. I now was in Hakalau, freaking abated, calmness appeared. i spent the rest of the time at the lights doing some Ha breathing and staying in Hakalau. When the lights changed i led the lady down a side street and pulled in where it was safe.
I got out of my vehicle a walked up to lady, who had jumped out as soon as we had stopped, stayed in hakalau and said "How are you doing? Listen I'm really sorry about that..." and before I had finished I could see an instant change in her attitude towards me. she smiled and said "Don't worry about it I don't think there is any damage. The funny thing is I'm just on my way to give a guy $250 as i hit his two week old, Ford F150. Anyway sorry to have bothered you."
and with that she got in her car and left.
PHEW!! was the first thing I thought. Then a little later I realised how calm i was, but not only that i realised that calmness also seemed to have enveloped her as well and she had actually apologized for bothering me, the guy who hit her car!
WOW!
It is not just the simplicity of Huna but its integrated nature that makes it work. It is the fact that it involves the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects that really resonates with me, unlike other approaches that emphasize one part of our make up usually to the detriment of the rest.
Keep on teaching Jonathan.
Be well.
Created by Colin
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