Dane SilvaDane Kaohelani Silva of Hawai`i is a native born lomilomi practitioner and master teacher who has 29 years of experience in providing formal training in the field of therapeutic massage.View all posts by Dane Silva →
Your “80% mana, 20% ohana for healing” really codifies something I have been twirling in my head.
Consider for a moment the healing possibilities of food. Foods have mana, including both the energy/spirituality inherent in the food itself along with what is added by the intention energies of the various stages of its preparation. For example, leafy green vegetables benefit us with their open expansive, breath enhancing spirit. Just look how they grow up and out, are rife with energizing chlorophyll, and are the center of plant respiration. Or another example, root vegetables are so grounding and benefit us when we are in need of reinforcing that spirit energy. Or when we cook vegetables, particularly roots in soups, we change their natural cool and dry temperament to warming and moisture-giving, an enhancement for when we need that in our lives and in our natural healing. And, most particularly, when we prepare those vegetables with love and pule in our intent, there is nothing better, they taste better and feel better.
To my recent thoughts, think how we could impact a teen with limited attention/patience with what is necessary at the time (i.e. school) or addictive behaviors. Changing their diet to give them the warm grounding of cooked roots, or even a cool grounding of raw roots, in conjunction with emphasizing the cooling energies and breath enhancing mana inherent in many other vegetables. Combine this with writing and family-enhancing (ohana) experiences and you have the basis of a naturally based program to improve the lives of this important part of our lives.
Your “80% mana, 20% ohana for healing” really codifies something I have been twirling in my head.
Consider for a moment the healing possibilities of food. Foods have mana, including both the energy/spirituality inherent in the food itself along with what is added by the intention energies of the various stages of its preparation. For example, leafy green vegetables benefit us with their open expansive, breath enhancing spirit. Just look how they grow up and out, are rife with energizing chlorophyll, and are the center of plant respiration. Or another example, root vegetables are so grounding and benefit us when we are in need of reinforcing that spirit energy. Or when we cook vegetables, particularly roots in soups, we change their natural cool and dry temperament to warming and moisture-giving, an enhancement for when we need that in our lives and in our natural healing. And, most particularly, when we prepare those vegetables with love and pule in our intent, there is nothing better, they taste better and feel better.
To my recent thoughts, think how we could impact a teen with limited attention/patience with what is necessary at the time (i.e. school) or addictive behaviors. Changing their diet to give them the warm grounding of cooked roots, or even a cool grounding of raw roots, in conjunction with emphasizing the cooling energies and breath enhancing mana inherent in many other vegetables. Combine this with writing and family-enhancing (ohana) experiences and you have the basis of a naturally based program to improve the lives of this important part of our lives.