It is a Maori indigenous approach embracing our connection with Mauri. Your natural nature of balance and harmony. My Story
It seems to me that we go through life stumbling around trying to make sense of the non-sense in and around us. It was this non-sense that has pushed me to find meaning which I later discovered was right under my nose the whole time. I am privileged to have grown up to witness the richness of our Maori culture. We are called, tangata whenua. Not in the sense that we own the land but because we have a connection to it. In the connection is a rapport. And when we are in a rapport with the rivers, mountains the trees our ancestors we connect to Mauri. This is the aliveness of life. The life force of all life. The nature that breathes us. There is a realisation of something bigger here. Something beyond any concept of the mind. This connection is revealed in how we lived as a people. I still remember my elders when they spoke on the paepae with such elegance wisdom and power. And when our kuia did the karanga. It felt like connecting to another realm and the ground I walked on was suddenly sacred. Our people naturally connect with their presence of Mauri because it was our natural expression. The same Mauri that is expressed in our haka and waiata, the vibrancy of life expressing its aliveness. We tunned into the elements around us and the stars to guide us in balance and harmony. But sadly, we seemed to have now moved away from this internal precious connection to a westernise approach of time of living and wanting, through consumerism and commercialisation. Our attention has shifted to an external focus for our life fulfilment. But it is an illusion of never-ending consumption. The poison chalice attempting to satisfy a deeper yearning within. People are looking in the wrong place because they have disconnected from their natural sense of life, where absolute fulfilment is found. We have imprisoned our wholeness to a limited perspective of the value of life. It is my opinion that the decline of all human suffering is our disconnection from the purity of our lifeforce. It is not our circumstances that you need to sort out. It is relocating our attention back to our true sense of self. Tihei mauriora. Let us breathe this breathe of life. I have spent my early years as a youth worker, and over 30 years as a family violence facilitator. I spent a brief role in restorative justice and then working in one of Ngati Kahungnu Maori Health agencies. I have also participated in mainstream counselling and therapy. Despite their best intention and science-based approach of trying to fix the mind, it inevitably all falls short. Because all attempts are mind constructs which are imitations of what is natural and real. It does not matter what your present condition is. The process home, the process to what you really want is simple. If you are unhappy, it is because you feel a disconnection from your natural radiance of life. Mauritau is the invitation to what is beyond all suffering, what is beyond all the self-inflicted stories that you tell yourself. Because the truth is, you are not a human being, being, done by life; you are lifeforce doing the human being. This is the essence of Mauri Tau Unfolding.
