Don't be a Haole - Aloha Breathing for Energy

Aloha. The power, the love, the magic of this word is eternal. But aloha is not just in Hawai‘i. You carry it with you everywhere you go and you can connect to aloha, any time, anywhwere.

Stop whatever you are doing right now and do this exercise with me. Take a full deep breath in through your nose. As you do so, think to yourself “Aaaaalooooo”. This breath should take about 4-5 seconds on the inhale. Next breath out through your mouth with an exagerrated “HAAAAAAA”. Make this sound noisily and it should last about twice as long as the inhale.

So when you head out holiday shopping and the parking lot at the mall is bumper to bumper: Stop and take that full breath through the nose, exahale through your mouth with a loud “HA”, it will reconnect you to the aloha.

Are your kids bouncing off the roof because winter break is here? You are trying to figure out when you have time for getting the decorations up, cooking for relatives and still working 40 hours a week? Inhale deep through your nose, exhale through the mouth with a loud “HA”, connecting you once again to the aloha.

Is it time for end of year reviews, you have to see your boss who seems to be in a bad mood all the time and you are nervous about how he is going to be today: Inhale through your nose and breathe out through your mouth, “HAAAAAA”. You will calm as you connect to the aloha.

No matter where you are, no matter what you are doing, you can connect to the aloha that resides within you always. Breath in through your nose… “aaaaloooo”, breath out through your mouth… “HAAAAAA”. Wherever you go you can build energy through connecting with the life force of aloha within you.

The Hawaiians named the first white visitors to the islands “Haole” – Ha, meaning “breath” and Ole, meaning “lacking. Prior to chants or prayer or any statement, Hawaiians breath deeply. The white visitors did not, thus the name haole.

Don’t be haole. Stop right now and do the Alo-Ha breath for the next several minutes. In through the nose, “aaaloooo”, out through the mouth “HAAAA”. Relax and just let the aloha fill your life energy. Let yourself be at one with aloha.

Ke aloha wale, ka mahalo wale

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