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My power spot, Hawaii

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Happy New Year, everyone!

Hope you all had a wonderful holiday with your family and friends.

I was very fortunate to have a very special hiking at Volcano National Park in Hawaii, which is very famous as one of the most powerful spot in the world.

This was my second time to do this special hiking and I learned so many things deeper with different ways.

Being on the earth with feeling that this earth is breathing and alive with such an amazing strong energy always makes me realized that I am just a human, very small one creature as a  part of this great mother nature on this earth, which the Creator created with a significant meaning.

I am supposed to be the one who finds my way with that significant meaning as the creator sent me to this world. With asking myself why I am living, why those people are with me, why I got married, why I have children, what I took over from my ancestors, why I came across the country and why I live such far place from my hometown..etc…etc…

I feel it’s just amazing when I look back to my past many years with thinking what brought me to here in the present. So many experiences with meeting people, things and thoughts made me to think what my next action would have been.

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It is always so meaningful for me to be away from busy life and take the moment to feel my life not thinking.

This hiking gave me very strong answers which I didn’t get a few years ago.

These answers are very simple but it is very easy to be hidden by so many other things from our busy life which are actually not that much important.

As I have  started my 2016, I will try to keep these answers in my mind everyday and I try to remember what I felt on this hiking.

Being on this earth is such a gift. We are living with receiving so many gifts from our Creator. I keep my answers which I got in my mind quietly but I would like to share the spirit “Aloha Spirit” I learned so much from this powerful island and I will love it always in all my life.

Aloha is being a part of all, and all being a part of me. When there is pain-it is pain. When there is joy-it is also mine. I respect all that is as part of the Creator and part of me. I will not willfully harm anyone or anything. When food is needed I will take only my need an explain why it is being taken. The earth, the sky, the sea are mine to care for, to cherish and to protect.This is Hawaiian-this is Aloha!”

I wish you all the best in your 2016 with good health and with warm love.

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