Lotus Unfolding

 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.