Coloring Your Selves

Colors have an effect on the Lower self whether one knows this or not. Learning to use color consciously can enhance your Lower self's functioning and build a bridge between the Middle and Lower Selves. When getting dressed ask your Lower Self what colors would be beneficial to wear that day. Which metals or gemstones would be best? Many decisions you make are intuitive at the Lower Self level, but it will work better if you do it with both intuition and consciousness. Color can be individual, but here are some ideas.

Blue promotes deep thinking and meditative states. Light blue is soothing. Navy blue and lapis promote attention to your job and discipline. Indigo links the soul with the God realm.

Gold raises the overall vibration and energy and increases abundance consciousness.

Green assists in healing the body and dispels a poverty mentality. A true emerald green is best for this purpose. Forest green help you rest mentally. Light green or lime promotes optimism and helps you look forward to a bright future. Avocado green help you speak your truth and be outgoing and assertive.

Amer infuses the aura with radiance and warmth.

Orange is a stimulating, clarifying color to the Lower Self.

Pink is the vibration of love. It strengthens your willingness to love and be loved. Pink coral is balancing.

Purple raises the spiritual vibration. Deep purple give you spiritual strength. Lilac connects you with higher power and unseen forces. Magenta encourages deep spiritual healing.

Red stimulates the Lower Self and enhances energy and sexuality. Red can be intensely positive or intensely negative. Ruby red raises physical energy. Light red clarifies the emotions.

Silver transforms negativity and keep the mind elevated

Turquoise is a universally uplifting color that neutralizes negative energy while it provides grounding on the physical level.

Yellow gathers together disparate energy and scattered thought patterns.

Blank and White are subject to the intention of the individual. In general, wearing black protects the Lower Self from over stimulation from the outside ( which is why its' worn a lot in cities) and white expands the sense of self.

Blue and Red aids in accomplishment on the physical plane (work-related, material, financial). These are good colors to wear when starting a new business or enterprise.

Gold and silver combines spirituality with physical grounding and is a powerful combination in both colors and metals.

Green and Gold promotes loving in a responsible way.

Purple and green encourages feelings of happiness and sensuality.

Red and green is a statement of individuality and brings balance to the physical body.

Red and Yellow indicate boldness and power. These were the color of the Hawaiian royalty.

It is best to avoid muddy colors, those in which different colors have been mixed to excess and to have a repertoire of colors that you love in your closet for different needs.

Color can also provide a key to your energy level and your mental state. If you find yourself choosing black a lot, you may be overstimulated by the outside world. Pay attention to your Lower Self's need to spend time alone and rest. If you choose red often, your physical energy many be low because you are trying to do too many things. Work at simplifying your schedule and building you mana.

When choosing colors for your clothes or your home, ignore what is in fashion and select what pleases you. Involve your Lower Self in the decision. When decorating your home, avoid wall colors that are too stimulating to the Lower Self, and rather choose gentle colors that promote a sense of comfort and rest. To add excitement to a room where social activities take place, display colorful art works. Always be aware that your Lower Self is affected by what it sees on a daily basis. Surround yourself with positive visions that speak to your soul.

Most of all, enjoy the colors. Enjoy the rainbow!

Fundamentals of Hawaiian Mysticism. Charlotte Berney.

The Bridge

In the past I have had many lucid dreams of crossing a bridge. It was always scary. I was always a passenger in a car, observing and as we would approach the middle of the bridge there was always a huge body of water that the vehicle had to go through. Part of the road was submersed under water, but as you looked forward you could see the other end rising up. Not being the driver, I would have to brace myself as whomever in the dream would bolt on through. I would always awaken at the point of hitting the water, and never seeing whether we made it through to the other side. This dream was one of the most fearful dreams I have ever had and recurring as well. Each time I would intend to experience this dream differently with less fear, but each time it was just as terrifying as the first. It seemed as if the dream were telling me, you must cross, you must have faith, and you must trust, all things we think we already have.

In the present, we are crossing a bridge, a bridge to a new world. Some are anyway, and a bridging into a very wonderful world, the one we remember, yet we aren't sure who will make it across, and in our darkest times, whether we will make it across. I wondered if this is how we felt going through our own birthing process and our bridging into this reality.

The consciousness shift feels like a death of sorts, a dying to our own doubt which has hidden our magnificence for so many eons. I don't think death is really what one fears, its the in between, the unknown, the space where there is still consciousness and the space where the light has not shown through. It is the silence and darkness within the wave, which can be peaceful but without sight.

We hear these days about staying out of fear, yet, fear has brought me to some of my clearest awareness's. It's okay to be afraid. It can be a catalyst for moving through to the other side. I don't think many are being real when they say they are not afraid. It's okay to be afraid, for in fear we sit still and listen to our inner most wisdom of our heart and our expanded communications. I know some would not agree with me.

I feel myself to be a very aware being, and my connection with source strong and my communication have led me strongly, yet I still have my spreads of doubt on different days surface even though I know this is an illusion, a very real illusion.

The bridge in its beauty carries and connects our beginnings and our ends and yet we hold tightly to the rail, others are prompted to look over the edge, or hold their breath when crossing until their feet are planted safely on firm grounding. We may have the need to look back after crossing to take in the awe and our experience, but one thing is known in all consciousnesses we all must cross, we all must cross.

Huna praying

When you begin praying in the Huna way, it is necesary to design your prayer with care. You want the words to connect to your Lower Self (child), in an effective way. Take time to think about what you really want to come into your life and write it down.

Many ask, what should they pray for? Huna emphasizes balance. Huna prayer is effective in many aspects of your life, and once you learn how to gather mana and direct a prayer, you can put this to work for you in any area. Knowing what to pray for, however, is a product of wisdom that may take many years to learn and that utimately has to do with who and what you are. You know by now that it is against Huna ethics o pray for anything that might affect another person, either directly or indirectly. You know the cardinal rule that Huna pracitioners never hurt any form of life with intent or hatred. Combine these two with the concept of balance inall things, and you have the basic guidance for Huna prayer.

Most people naturally want things to manifest in their lives. As long as you follow the basic guideline of hurting no one or nothings, of non-interference, and of always working for the highest good, and you keep the Higer Self involved, you can pray for anything. Let your higher wisdom guide you, your Higher Self and help you to determine what to ask for and how it will mainfest. Be aware when you pray that you are likely to recieve what you ask for, but it must be suitable for you, and you must be able to handle it for it to do you any good.

Charlotte Berney suggests making two sets of goals for yourself: immediate and long range. Ask yourself what you want to come into your life now and where you would like to be in five or ten years. Spend a great deal of a time thinking about your goals. Write your goals down. Begin visualizing them and setting prayer in motion. Material goals require mana to be gathered; personal spiritual goals simply need to be expressed.

The best prayer-requests are very simple and straightforward. You can ask for optimum health for your body, a life of great abundance, a loving companion, a harmonious relationship, confidence in yourself, or spiritual insight. Emphasize the positive aspects of your request.

The more you can visualize what you want, the better, though when it comes to wanting people to come into your life, do not be specific. Picture yourself already having whatever you want to come into your life.

Once you have visualized yourself as already having something, hold it in your mind, and do not change it. Feel that you already have it in your life. Do not question how or where it will come to you, and never doubt that you will have it. Pray for the highest good of all.

If praying for another, always ask their permission to help in the healing process, send mana to your own Higher Self and ask that the mana be shared with the person's Higher Self to effect healing. Pray regularly and send an abundance of mana. Never visualize disease or disability and ask that it be healed. Always visualize the body or body part as healthy and normal and picture the person healed and happy.

Though Kahuna's in old Hawaii did do chants and ritual to affect the weather, this is not advisable in our day and time. Our world is too interdependent, and a change in one place might cause problems in another. Also, there are natural patterns beyond the understanding of individual minds and their agendas, and it is not wise to interfere with these. In times of stressful weather, when storm, floods, fores. or earthquakes threaten, pray to your guides and Higher Self and ask that the highest good be done for the area affected. Better still , ask that the entire planet's weather and geology be balanced for the highest good of the earth and the beings who live here.

When I am in prayer and praying for the planet, I pour my light out like a wave, and wrap it around the planet. I do not focus on a particular incident happening. I am always greeted with thanks form this light being which is a guardian of the earth, though she appears very young.

(honor to Charlotte Berney)

Sharing Wisdom

See that Man is like the fool in the Tarot card

wandering along...

A vagabond going his own way

And he carries a bag containing universal

knowledge

But he doesn't open it

And he walks towards a precipice

For he can so easily fall into the bondage of

material desires

And the sun, like his spirit, rises behind him

But it never reaches its zenith

For if it does, it will descend and decrease its

power...

Give yourself powerful keys to ponder...

Regeneration

Reincarnation

Revival

Renewal

Resurrection

Surround yourself with the yellow light of sun

For you need not leave your own space to fly and expand

Reach out and touch the universe

And look down on small troubles...for they

will melt in your heart-fire

For the sun of pure consciousness shines in the

chambers of your heart like a self-luminous

spirit, a sun of suns

It is the inner self that transcends words and thoughts

And once you realize its presence, you will no

more return to this world of birth and death

And the truth will ring inside you, nobody

comes and nobody goes

The soul exists forever

Burn through your fears and delusions with the

power of enquiry

Have the courage to always climb upwards

Aspire to the higher world

And know that courage itself is power

(KZ)

Your Personal Link

Your Higher Self is your personal link to your Source, or your God or Goddess and to the more expanded realms which are always available to you. There are many other cosmic beings who also assist. Your guides are those beings in spirit form who assist you and their wisdom can be accessed on a personal level. During a space of silence, you can make contact with your guides, learn their names if they choose to be known by a name. There are also beings that you are connected to that are more guardians that are also in spirit and they look after your welfare and help with protection if need be. In old Hawaii, guides and guardians often took the form of deceased relatives, totem animals and elements of nature. Gods and goddesses may also function as guides or guardians to you.

Angels are highly evolved beings who perform nurturing roles on a cosmic level. They often appear spontaneously when needed but their help can also be requested. Archangel Michael, a universal being, is a special helper to students of Huna and can be called on for help in difficult situations.

As you begin o spend more time in the silence and to work with your own Higher Self, you make yourself open to the benevolent effects of your guides, guardians, and angels on a daily basis. The Po'e Aumakua, or higher Selves, can be called on for assistance when the request is for larger societal or global chances.

The obstacles one is likely to encounter in this process of dialoguing with the Higher Self in the silence are fears and harmful basic assumptions. The Kahuna compared these to knots in a cord that prevented the free flow of energy along the cord. These knotty problems can originate from a variety of sources: from childhood, from a past trauma, from your training or education, and even from past lives. They encompass everything from embarrassing incidences to mindless terrors. They often take the form of faulty basic assumptions and severely limiting beliefs. Everyone has been exposed to these obstacle-creating experiences in their lives. Huna offers techniques to begin to undo the knots and release them.

As with every Huna practice, you start off simply and advance to the more complex. One way to begin eliminating blocks is to make amends and seek forgiveness for all the hurt you have ever done in your life. Sit down and make a list of all the people you have hurt in the past. If they are still alive, ask their forgiveness in person or in a letter. If appropriate, make amends on the material level with a gift or some form of recompense. If the persons have passed on, go into the silence and ask for forgiveness in ritual fashion, then make a gift of goods or money to a relevant charity in their name. For example, many people feel guilty for something they did or did not do for one or both of their parents while they were alive. Go into the silence and ask the parent's forgiveness. The next day, give a donation to the parent's favorite charity in his or her name.

A forgiveness dialogue might go like this: I may not know all the pain and hurt I have caused you and I sincerely regret it. I did not have the awareness I have now. Today, in the presence of my Basic Self, and Higher Self, my guides, angels, and guardians, I ask for forgiveness to make amends. I am truly sorry for your hurt and the ways in which I participated in it, and I sincerely as your forgiveness. I am letting go of all my guilt and shame I had because of this hurt to you. Let us both ascend to a place of light and walk our paths in peace. Let us both be released. So be it. It is done.

Spend time with this and do it with sincerity and a heartfelt desire to receive forgiveness for what you have done. Ask forgiveness of each person one at a time, in separate sessions until you have asked and received forgiveness from all of those you believe you have hurt. At the end, do a general ritual in which you ask forgiveness of all the people you have ever hurt in your life, including yourself, by thought, word or deed, both known and unknown to you, throughout all time. Ask that you be released from the hurt and guilt , and ascend to a place of light.

The next step is to make a list of all the people who have hurt you. Write out a description of the hurts that caused you pain in the past and the people associated with them. See if you can understand what was really going on. How were they mirroring you and vice versa? Did you contribute to being hurt? See the hurt in perspective. Then if possible, contact the person and forgive them face to face, by telephone, or in a letter. If this is not possible, do the ritual at home for each individual.

Go into the silence, with a picture of the person nearby if possible. Imagine them sitting there with you. Ask both the Basic Self and the Higher Self to be present, as well as your guides, angels, and guardians. Explain to the person, as though they were sitting beside you, about the hurt you suffered, and address them in this way: You will probably never know all of the pain and hurt I suffered that involved you.You did not have this teaching, and we are all learning and evolving. With this awareness, and in the presence of the Basic and Higher Selves, my guides, angels, and guardians, I fully and sincerely forgive you for my hurt and suffering. I acknowledge my feelings of anger and resentment and release these emotions to the universe to be transmuted to a higher vibration. I truly forgive you. We are now at peace. Let us ascend to a place of light. So be it. It is done.

In doing these ritual's, it may be necessary to go beyond individuals and forgive whole races of people for hurts to you or by you. For example, of you are Jewish, you may want to forgive all Germans, of you are Native American or African-American, all white people. If you feel guilty about the wrongs done to a group of people by your own group, you may want to ritually ask forgiveness of the entire group.. Group guilt and group victim hood can cause your Basic Self to feel unworthy and ashamed. Hurts and hatred can go back a long way and be part of your lineage and even your cellular makeup. But even these can be released.

Know that when you are asking for forgiveness and forgiving others, you are erasing is your Basic Self's load of negativity, which can only cause you harm and dysfunction. Stored anger, hatred, shame , and guilt rankle in the soul and become toxic. No matter what the acts of the past were or how badly hey affected you, the only health-giving way is to sincerely forgive, be forgiven, and move on.

(charlotte Berney)

Abundance

Huna teaches harmony between the spiritual and the material worlds, and you can manifest abundance for yourself. In order to create abundance you must first do the work with your inner child to allow for the releasing of your negative attitudes towards money. If not, the assumptions held by your inner child will negate the effects of the abundance you are wanting to draw.
As you identify your attitudes (which are often similar to your parents attitudes), and release any negative ideas, you are them able to perform an abundance ritual. Since the child self is very symbolic oriented, you can wear green or gold to hold the vibration of abundance and this will help shift your inner child thoughts. Take four deep breaths exhaling slowly and ask that your inner child to help you to fully participate and also ask for assistance and the presents of your Higher self. Visualize yourself surrounded the things you are wanting-with so much of it that you have plenty for yourself and others. Smile at the sight of so much abundance. Take note of any feelings of discomfort you have or feelings of not deserving and address those.

Once you are feeling comfortable surrounded by your wantings, begin celebrating the beauty and quantity of it and that every being on Earth has an exhaustible supply. See the smiles on others faces as they take their gifts and go away happy. After you have supplied everyone on Earth with as much as the will ever need, look down at your feet and see yourself surrounded by the green mana. Repeat to your child self "by name", we are surrounded by superabundance in our lives and we will never run out, we are living in a state of total abundance. All abundance is ours, and we are rich beyond measure. So be it. It is done".

You will find generosity creates more abundance in your life than any other practice. When you give freely , you acknowledge the richness of the universe that you are a part of. Giving away part of your income to help others, you will see it return to you the many times fold.
Be aware of the belief that money can transform your life, that it will unlock your unhappiness. This way of thinking emphasizes a perceived lack and only creates more lack. Begin by figuring out just exactly what it is you want to do in your life, then make it happen. Don't let not having the money deter you. If your problem is poor living conditions or the need for better transportation, begin planning, even in a very modest way to make a change for the better in those areas. In other words, do the abundance ritual and manifest the monies and also begin working on making your dreams come true. You do not need to wait until you manifest money for your goals. Rather, you can manifest them directly and have money too.

First you will See Only Darkness

With all the transformation going on, and people expressing opinions and concerns, sometimes it is much easier to just post a poem of wisdom, verses adding my two cents into the already chaotic mix of ideas and thoughts. We are experiencing a birth!

For at first you will see only darkness

Know that only by learning to hold and balance both light and shadow, goodness and evil, will you become integrated

For even as your polarities war violently and sweep you up in a whirlwind of anxiety and
tension...

still a new third force will emerge from it all
and heal the wounds that split you asunder

Consciously embrace the new energies that flood you

Discover your true self and strengthen it

Take old repressed feelings and needs out into
the light

Acknowledge them

Name them and accept them with compassion

Then they can evolve and transform...

And if misery is your shadow

And you find no happiness in yourself

The surest way to contentment is to forget your
own personality

And if you tire of people...do not isolate yourself

For if you live in a continual state of isolation
of the heart, caring for nothing but your own needs...

You will pass away your life in dreaming of
that which you do not possess

And you will lose your substance of spirit and power

And a desire locked up in the heart feeds on you life if you harbor it

And stored-up anger seeks an object on which to vent itself...

Put aside your attachment to the entity called
suffering

Honor yourself and others will honor you

Stop reacting for the needs of society

React for yourself

And you will feel the release of internal chains
as they drop away

Rely not on guidance from outside yourself

For although the black smoke of negativity may
engulf you at this moment...

Know that you will not always be its slave

For the very act of reaching for another state of being

And speaking a word of faith in the unseen will
tilt you away from any dark forces.