“When your inner child feels secure with you and you mend that relationship, you mend that connection with intimacy, love, respect, trust, and speaking the truth with each other. When that occurs your whole life shifts.”
-Red Feather
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Red Feather looked at me through Maitreya Zohar’s eyes, at the channeled group I attended recently. He asked me,

“Holly, where in your life are you not keeping your commitments to yourself?”

I thought about it. I had several choices. I gave my answer, avoiding the obvious choice. I wasn’t ready to face that one publicly yet.

I’m ready to face it now.

Several years ago, I lost twenty-five pounds using EFT, tapping on the statement, “I choose to eat only when I’m hungry, and stop when I’m a little bit full.” I made healthy food choices, exercised and did whatever else I felt inspired to do at the time.

I enjoyed the changes in my body throughout the whole process. I felt proud of my accomplishment. It felt wonderful to follow-through with my choice to lose weight.

Over this past year or so, I’ve gained thirteen of those pounds back and I’ve felt frustrated and angry with myself. Clearly, I hit my upper limit for feeling good about myself. Read more about upper limits in the post, “Is Bliss Too Scary?”

My commitment to myself was to lose the weight and keep it off. I have not kept that commitment. At least, not yet.

I happened upon a YouTube video of Esther Hicks channeling Abraham and discussing weight loss. Abraham spoke of keeping your promise to yourself to take the actions that make you feel that you are doing the right thing for your body.

Because you feel better as a result of taking these actions you raise your vibration. This allows ideas, guidance and inspiration to flow. You put yourself in a place where you can receive what you need to manifest what you want in your life.

The key is keeping your commitment to yourself by consistently doing the actions you have chosen to do.

Why is keeping your promises to yourself so important? Who’s to know but you?

And that is the crux of the matter – you know.

When you keep the promises you make to yourself, you learn to trust yourself. When you know you can trust yourself, you can feel good about yourself.

“I will do this for myself.” And you do it. “I choose to take care of myself in this way.” And you do. “I choose these actions to support myself.” And you follow through, doing those actions.

Trust builds up over time. The more that you can trust yourself, the safer you feel within and the better you feel about yourself. The better you feel about yourself, the higher your energetic vibration and the more you open yourself to guidance, inspiration and ease of creating what you want in your life.

How do we first learn trust? We learn from the adults in our lives when we were children.

When you make a promise to a young child it is important to follow through on that commitment. For example, when I tell my grandchildren that I will take them to their favorite playground today, I do my utmost to follow through on that promise. If for some reason I cannot, I explain why and then make sure that we go to the playground as soon as possible.
Why is that so important? They will play happily wherever they are. Does it really matter if we go to the promised playground?

Yes, because it is about keeping commitments, not about the playground.

When I keep my promises to my grandchildren, they learn that when I say I will do something I do it. Through that modeling, they learn responsible behavior. They learn that commitments made, matter. They can feel safe in this knowledge. They learn that promises made to them are important, because of this, they learn that they are important. They learn self-worth by the adults in their lives following through on promises made.

It is the same when we make a promise to ourselves. For who are we really making that promise too? Our inner child. Our inner child needs to know that we will follow through on promises made. In this way our inner child can feel safe. She can feel that she matters. She can know that she is worthy.  She gains in self-respect.

Speaking the truth with your inner child is all about keeping commitments made. You say you are going to do something and you do it.

When you offer yourself that level of commitment each day, you build trust and self-worth each day. One day at a time, as Red Feather says, “your whole life shifts.”

Manifesting our desires into this level of existence sometimes seems a magical process about which we can only hope and wish. According to Huna teachings that is not the case. Huna teaches that the process of manifestation is a specific process which can be easily learned.

Since I learned of it, I’ve been using the Huna technique of breath energized manifesting to create funds for various specific objectives, a workshop I wanted to attend, several short trips and a longer trip I’m preparing for, as well as maintaining an emergency savings account. The money showed up in each case. For the workshop I received what I needed from an unexpected source, just in time, a day or two before the workshop. Other times the money arrived well beforehand, again unexpectedly, not a part of our regular budgeting. Exciting stuff!

So, let me share with you my version of the Huna method of breath energized manifesting. 

First, a quick recap. In the last few posts of Know Thyself we learned that the subconscious mind is in charge of the body and the emotions. It also responsible for gathering and storing energy to give to the conscious and the superconscious minds.

The conscious mind is in charge of the mental aspects of things, the will.

The superconscious mind is in charge of manifesting. It is Divine Will and so functions at a level that is beyond understanding, but for this discussion we will focus upon its role as manifestor.

 The process of manifesting according to Huna teachings is this:

1. The conscious mind determines specifically what it wants to manifest. Consciously taking the time to envision what is wanted and get the emotions and thus the subconscious involved.
2. Once the focus is clearly determined and visualized, the conscious mind directs the subconscious to gather surplus energy. The conscious mind can aid in that through consciously directed deep breathing. 
3. The conscious mind thanks the subconscious for giving the gathered energy to the superconscious for the purposes of manifesting this intention.
4. The conscious mind directs a prayer through the subconscious mind to the superconscious with the specific intention and visualizations. As the conscious mind conceptualizes and the subconscious ‘feels’ the intention to the superconscious, the subconscious allows the surplus energy to flow to the superconscious, supporting the physical manifestation of the intention.

It is important to note that only the subconscious can gather and give energy. The subconscious is positively engaged when positive emotion is experienced. The superconscious needs the energy gathered and given by the subconscious to build our design in this reality. As the conscious mind envisions the thought forms of the desired intention imbuing them with all the detail possible, the subconscious has an emotional response. It may be excitement, or joy, or contentment or some other positive emotion. If, as you envision your intention you experience any twinge of fear or negativity or disbelief, this must be cleared or the necessary energy will not be sent to the superconscious. The subconscious will dig in its heels, so to speak, and refuse to budge. The flow and manifestation of your intention will be blocked.

There are many excellent tools and healers available for reprogramming the subconscious mind. The tool I use most often with my clients is FasterEFT-V, which you can find out more about on our Resources page. 

All three selves must be in accord, all three pulling in the same direction for prayer to be manifested.
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The manifestation process is not a mysterious unknown in Huna. It is consciously directed prayer, conceptualization and feeling, supported by intentionally gathered energy. It is a simple and effective process.


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“The kahunas (Hawaiian priests) believed that by an action of mind a man can create additional energy to accumulate a surcharge of mana (life force energy) when needed. They felt that hard breathing would assist in creating this vital force. This theory is supported by our medical doctors, who have found that our food is digested and then changed to glycogen, or blood sugar. This is then oxidized with the oxygen we breathe and gives us our strength to live. Since the low self (subconscious mind) controls all our bodily functions, it can burn more blood sugar by taking in more air to create mana.”
William R. Glover, Huna: The Ancient Religion of Positive Thinking
 
Huna philosophy teaches that the subconscious mind has another essential function in addition to what we discussed in Getting to Know Your Subconscious Mind I. This is where Huna teachings deviate from traditional Psychology and things start to get exciting.

Huna teaches that the subconscious mind is responsible for energizing our systems, conscious, unconscious and superconscious. That means that the subconscious mind is responsible for gathering energy from the food we eat and the air we breathe and storing it for use by our three selves, subconscious, conscious and superconscious.

Huna teaches that the superconscious needs this lower vibrating energy from the subconscious in order to create and manifest for us in the lower vibrating energy of our 3D world. We’ll talk more about this fascinating concept in the next post on the conscious and superconscious.

For now, lets look at how the subconscious gathers energy. This happens without our conscious awareness. It is an automatic function of the subconscious mind to gather energy from the food we eat and the air we breathe. This energy supports the physical functions of the body as well as the functioning of the conscious mind.

Most importantly, we can ask the subconscious to gather and store surplus energy above what we need for normal functioning by verbally expressing our intent. This surplus energy may be used to support prayer, manifestation, healing, affirmations and whatever you wish to create in your life. It may also be used to support prayer and healing for others.

We support the subconscious to do this with deep breathing, giving the subconscious extra energy through our breath.
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This is where the magic of Huna happens and we’ll talk more about this as we learn about the functioning of the superconscious mind in our next two posts in Know Thyself. 


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