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My inner bear is awakening to the Spring, where I used to feel quite reclusive and tired over the last few months, throughout Winter, I have noticed with the switch to daylight savings I have more energy; the smell of Spring is on the wind, the Spiders have awakened and are making tangled messes of web in my patio, the rosellas are even more abundant as the trees outside begin to bud and bloom, and the Sun gathers us all in his warm embrace, whispering of balmy summer nights spent on the edge of the lake watching as the raccoons come out to forage for food in the picnic areas.

I don't have access to the lake like I used to, Spirit Lake was a wonder that filled a good five or more years of my life before I left Wisconsin. My ex and I spent many nights down there with our kindred sister Joanne, we would wait until the moon was high in the dark night sky, strip down and go skinny dipping in the warm waters of the lake. We would float for hours in the water, enjoying each others' company, and then retreat to a roaring fire on the shore of the lake.

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This could also be called “Budgets – and how they limited the old me.”

 When we were in Hawai’i, one of the places we went to visit was the Warm Ponds at Ahalanui Park in Kapoho. From her website, she shares the mo’olelo (story) of the Warm Ponds and its healing properties. 

“The Mo'olelo-story about the pool is said to be a place of "renewal, rebirth" as it duplicates the womb, as one is comforted within the warmth of the pool, with nature's mixture of "just the right amount" of fresh life-giving water, with "just enough" heat, from Pele's steam vents, along with "just enough" salt from the ocean; all elements in balance to stimulate cellular memories of time before time, to beginning essence, life in water, the return to the womb; and according to the elders, one leaves the pool, "brand new," a new keiki - child rebirthed.”

The aspect of rebirth was really stressed to us, and we were instructed to speak of anything from our past, anything that affected us in a negative manner, as being of “the old me”. The reason for doing this is because once we have been reborn from the Warm Ponds we have shed all the old programming and old ways that were not serving us. If we do find a need to refer to the old way that we once were, we can do so by saying “the old me”, this creates a separation in the mana’o (the mind) between what once was, and what thought patterns it can act on, that we are creating from now.

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Sep. 7th, 2010 09:37 am
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Our alaka'i (leader) of the Hawaii trip asked us to share a few words about our experience. I have an entire paper journal filled with thoughts, feelings and teachings from the journey. I doubt I'll get much of it up online however, I'm really liking the paper feel right now. But, I did write this to share with her website, so I may as well post it here as well.

Aloha Tracey,

I’ve been having a hard time getting words down about the trip since I got back, I haven’t got the faintest idea where to start!

So, as I have been since getting back, pule (prayer) is as good a place as any.

A big mahalo nui na Aumakua, na Akua, na Kupuna for such a beautiful, nurturing and loving trip with true ohana. Mahalo to Tracey and all the wonderful people we met along the way (too numerous to mention by name so I’ll just say Mahalo Kakou!) who made this a journey of learning and growth on all levels. Mahalo to our guides and our ancestors for bringing us to the shining shores of Hawaii to realise our dreams and to connect (or reconnect) with the ‘aina (land) and history of the Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians). Mahalo nui for all the blessings bestowed upon us and for the direction our canoes are now going in, for the healing received, and the insights and teachings we were shown. Continue to bless all of those involved in this trip, and to guide us on the next steps of our journey, continue to put wonderful people and teachers in our canoe, and bless us with the constant feeling of being in aloha. Amama amama ua noa!

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