change is usually quite simple, but not often easy.

Make like Hineahuone and fashion yourself into something the world has never seen before, something the world never knew it needed to transcend itself — yeah cool story bro, but how?

Haha I hope it’s obvious that I don’t have that answer for you. I can share what goes into the process for me and my own experiences, but you’re your own person. We’re probably similar in many ways, but experience the world differently (the world experiences us differently too hehe), we express ourselves in our own way, have different dreams and visions for our people and purpose, different gifts to refine and share…

so, the “how” needs to be tailored to us too.

Besides, we needn’t look too far to see the effects of enforcing foreign systems, methods or values onto a person/group of people.. not every effective and can even have adverse effects.

Aaaaanyway, we’re baaaaaack for more Hineahuone (Earth-formed Maiden, first woman) Tāne Mahuta (atua of the forest, Hineahuone’s baby daddy) kōrero! More creation goodness, more built-for-purpose, more we-have-everything-we-need-already-within-us carry on lol from a different perspective.

‘Transcending into something the world has never experienced before,’ into a truer form of you means something’s gotta give. Something’s gotta change.

When you take stock or make an assessment of where you’re at in life and identify some areas you might want to change… for whatever reason, no judgements, you do do. the ‘thing’ we want to improve/change/remove from our lives is usually quite simple.

i.e. less time on devices, more time in nature or with whānau, more nutritional kai (in all its forms; puku food, information, emotions etc.), taking the leap into the unknown in pursuit of what we’ve decided is worth doing, even if we fail.

Here’s something my uncle, Warren Buffett, told me once that might help with this wānanga,

“chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”

Our lives are a result of the habits we have, yeahhh other things too, but these are within our control. And the idea of changing our habits is simple, but as the quote says, too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Nevertheless, it only takes one crack for light to seep through, for awareness to kick in and allow us the space to respond differently. To set off a new ripple effect, to produce a different way of thinking, behaving and doing — a new reality. Awareness in the moment can do that, having a vision to guide us will do that, leaning into a solid support system definitely does that too, just to name a few.

The pūrākau (story) of Hineahuone’s creation encompasses all those things and much more, funny that haha anyway.. to finish off and reaffirm our capacity for and our inherent responsibility to transcend ourselves and become our best selves, here’s a whakaaro from a previous post,

what is it in a seed that when planted in the earth,

isolated and in darkness — it becomes undone,

it breaks and stretches itself beyond its means

and reaches for the light?

what is it in us that inherently reaches for light in our own way?

Tēnā tātou,

Hana.

*this is post #208. four years of blog posts every. Thursday. I appreciate you for being part of this journey more than I can articulate. ka nui te aroha.