Last week I attended a CPR first aid course. The instructor was describing the acronyms for treatment in first aid. DRSABCD. The first thing you are taught to do in an emergency situation when assessing someone’s consciousness is to check for Danger. Stop look around, survey the scene, call out to others around that they must also assess for danger before touching or going close to a casualty to continue with assessment and action.
Take stock, assess for danger, look around, and shout out for awareness to everyone if needed.
This reminded me of my experiential training in Hawaii with Na Pua ‘Olohe, whereby you announce yourself as you enter the classroom or the room where everyone meets for the day. Stating your full name or announcing your name to the space you are about to enter is very powerful. It is like the first step in an emergency situation. The exercise invites us to ‘wake up,’ gather, ‘redirect’ and ‘focus’ on the time and the place we are in. To be fully aware!
Go on, give it a try for yourself right now. Stand up and state your full name. See and more importantly feel what happens within your being. You are standing in your place, calling yourself back? You are also recalling and gathering the energy of your entire tribe. Your family of origin, your ancestry, your children, your spirit, your family of emotions, your mind and your body. You can also add an adjective to your name, which might sound something like this; Kara Leonard ‘here and present’ or Kara Leonard ‘ready and willing for a new experience’ or Kara Leonard ‘vibrant and passionate’.
It is an opportunity to turn your current position into a statement of how you want to experience yourself and your life. Call what you want into being. Connect with yourself fully then it is easy to redirect your focus, your energy and your awareness. My flying-movement meditation group began with this exercise last week. Movement meditation is an extension of this exercise. It is an opportunity to feel your body in motion, to ‘wake up,’ ‘gather,’ ‘redirect,’ and ‘refocus’. Life is a series of opportunities and chances to live fully.
Kahuna Bodywork is another practice of constant shifting focus and calling yourself back into presence and total embodied awareness. I have heard many times in my training, when you touch a body you are touching a soul. Taking stock of our own being, our spirit, our internal energies, and the state of our mind is what makes this bodywork so unique. Energy can be endless as you continue to redirect and ‘call yourself’ back. This is full awareness. A deep engagement and movement with all that you are. You are at once able to be an observer and a participant which can be applied to any situation you face in life. Really Kahuna bodywork and its principles are a way to move your whole life with passion, inspired action and flow.
We are not often faced with Danger or emergency life/ death situations (unless of course you are a paramedic or medical practitioner) but why would you wait even one more minute of your life to treat every moment like it was life or death and shout out ‘Danger’. By this you know I mean shout out and announce yourself, call yourself back, your spirit, your family, your emotions and all of these things I expressed earlier, because this is when you can take yourself seriously, take inspired action and make the big or small changes needed. Compassion for self is also cultivated if we are brave enough to shout ‘Danger’ and feel the feelings that are there to remind us of our own and others humanity.
There is no need to take yourself too seriously just give yourself the opportunity and the permission to do it differently and be honest with yourself in what needs to change.
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