"AIO KOA"
SLEEPING SEED, WILD FLOWER
Awaken Your Deeper Mind, Rebirth Yourself, ReGrow Your Life using Nature Inspired Teachings"

From:
Hirini Reedy
New Zealand

Dear Reader,
Perhaps you are a bit like me now. In the middle years of life. You have seen many changes over the years. You read the newspapers. You watch the news. Changes are happening a lot quicker now. More adverse events happening this year. Getting a lot harder to ignore. Something is happening. Hard to put a finger on. Yet the feeling is still there. A sense of disquiet. Hmmm.

Is this uneasy feeling a good thing?

Well if we just ignore it, it could rip our hearts and houses apart. If we listen to it, we could use it as a positive thing. To create new ways of adaptable living that align with these changes. If we seek to understand the hidden patterns and forces underpinning these changes.

WHY YOU SHOULD STOP AND LISTEN

Hi, my name is Hirini Reedy. A Maori from the Eastern Coast of New Zealand. Growing up as a child at the foot of the sacred mountain Hikurangi, I was shaped by the natural wisdom that is found in the nature spaces. Yet when I moved from here, I spent much of my life seeking to balance this natural wisdom with modern world realities. I served as a military officer. I qualified as an engineer. I searched for answers. I studied many strange modalities such as Reikii Healing, Neuro Linguistics, Hypnotherapy, Martial arts, and much more. I have been a soldier, a businessmen, a company director and other roles. Yet a seed thought from my childhood stayed with me...

Nature is my teacher, my school, my home.

The way of the seed and flower. It is everywhere. In physical and metaphysical form. Yet we are 99% blind. The same principles that make a seed grow and a flower bloom also apply to human growth and response in the many fields of life. The science of causality and consequence. The connection between mind and muscle. The heart and head. The soul and spirit. Martial arts. Healing arts. Sustainable Business. Quantum Physics. Simple Spirituality. Real Life experiences.

This led to the creation of AioKoa - Sleeping Seed, Wild Flower. The name AioKoa is not important. It is just a signpost pointing towards home. A way of seeking our own truths. Finding your own answers that have meaning for you. Not for me. Or anyone else. Your very own nature will tell you what will work for you.

So I started following the way of the seed and flower. Trusting in nature. For one whole year, I lived from my car and did my business using a laptop and mobile internet connection. I slept in the bush, at the beach or inside my car as my own way of living native yet still connected globally. I started coaching people from all around the world. I started to connect into other indigenous peoples and spiritual leaders for ceremonies. I created my own eco-spirituality, martial arts practices, healing techniques, sustainable business models and other applications using the seed-flower principle and its multiple expressions in nature. This is the way I want to live now. A modern nomad of sorts.

So what?

Sometimes we need to go back into Nature to remember. Leave our homes, our families, our nice ordered lives so that we can return back much stronger and aware.

Look at your hands and fingers right now. Look into the core of your eyes? These biological blueprints are unique to you. No one else has them exactly. Deep inside you is a sleeping seed. An infant star. You have your own unique solar system inside you. Your own inner sun. It is waiting to shine and radiate its light once again. But it has been covered in shit and crap. Limiting beliefs. Fears. Adult ways of living. Concrete over the heart. Blocking the natural flow.

Change is going to happen. A big shake up. The vibrations are growing stronger. It is time to get rid of the crap, the shit and other stuff. From both the inside and outside. Yet the old fears will cling, claw and try to hold on. Just bless these old fears for they simply forgot the natural way. Everything has its season. Both the good and bad, nothing is wasted. Only you will know what this means for you. Your life is your own.

SO WHAT IS THIS AIO KOA ALL ABOUT?

Aio Koa is simply a nature-inspired way of thinking. It is about finding your own truths. Observing Nature within ouselves and outside ourselves. It is about understanding the vibrations of energy dancing between physical form and metaphysical field. Maintaining inner balance within the complexities of life. You must test this in your own life. Find what works for you, recycle what does not.

One way to observe this is to plant a seed and watch it grow.Why does it grow? Good, now plant a seed-thought into your mind and watch it grow. Into its flowering form. You are both garden and gardener.

The Four Living Petals of Aio Koa

In the centre of your flower is your core essence. Your Aio Koa . You must grow out from this core into the petals of your life. Imagine a flower with petals in bloom The petals are the parts of the flower which give it form and contrast. Not all petals are exactly symmetrical yet they are functional. Here is a sketch from my handydandy notebook.

Together these petals give shape and colour to your life. How you perceive life is unique to you. So is how you protect life, provide life and preserve life? I will explain the four living petals of the Aio Koa Flower.

The Petal of Perception
This petal is about the Perception of the Field. The Infinite Fields of Forever. You must become a seer. A seeker of truth. Yet your truth is just one perception of the whole truth. There are infinite views of truth. Infinite perceptions both sensory and extra-sensory. Just like there are fields within fields. Seasons within seasons. Worlds within worlds. What lenses do you see the world through? If you have only worn red glasses all your life then you will only see a red world. I can show you a green leaf but it will still look like a red leaf to you. Your beliefs are like lenses. What is your native tongue? What is your native land? These help to shape your perceptions about life. Shape your tongue. Your habits. Your opinions. So ask yourself. What countries have you visited? Books have you read? Languages can you speak? Scars do you bear? Obstacles you have overcome? Lives you have touched? Gods do you know? All these experiences and influences give you your unique world view. Honour your view of the world. Yet remember that there are infinite points of view. Some hostile to yours. Some totally in alignment. Yet the more experiences you have the more points of view you can choose to see a situation with. We all have a blindspot. This blindspot can lead to blind judgement. Then the battle between the rights and the wrongs is declared. I am right. No I am right. Nah I am right. All right I am going to kill you. Now who is right? Silence.

You must become your own mystic. Your own scientist. Your own tracker. Your own seeker of truth. Finding your own proof. Discerning your own truth.

The Petal of Protection.
This petal is about the Protection of the Force. The Life Force. You must protect the life-force that was given to you. Your life is your own. It is sacred and no one has the right to take your life. Nor do you have the right to take another persons life. You have the right to protect your life though. Your very own nature will show how best this is done. You must also use the Life Force to protect the weak, the old and the helpless. Most of all, you must protect the children. Not just your own seed but all children of life. You must protect the mother of life which is the Earth. Be like the sky father and protect the biosphere of the planet. This is what the petal of protection is about. You are a warrior who protects life.

Yes, you must learn the arts of war but only for the art of self protection. As a way to self perfection. The inner victory. Using the heat of your struggles and the shivering grip of your fears as internal adversaries to fight and overcome. Transforming your own fears, doubts and limitations. Use pain as needed yet do not cause uneccessary suffering. To yourself or another. Remember there is the pain of a wounded soul. A wounded heart. The scars of the body may heal but the scars of the heart and soul will remain embedded as a reminder of your regretful actions.

Do not be deluded that peace is all bliss and joy. There will still be the ugly and the terrifying. A warrior of the earth must be a master at balancing opposite forces. Pain and pleasure will still co-exist. Hence you must strive to know your shadow. Your own devil. As well as your own light. Your own deity. You must know how to balance and cycle the two. Death is a form of rebirth. We must kill ourselves metaphorically so that we can relearn and start a new stage of our lives. The greatest warrior is the one who ushers in life. Such is the midwife who helps the mother give birth. Like a midwife helps a mother go through the trimesters and labour of birth so must you use the seasons to give you strategies and guidance. When you get old and your muscles grow weak or your beauty fades, you must resow and regrow yourself to align with the seasons of your life. Do not cling to the smooth surface of youth. Keep a grip of who you really are. Let your wrinkles be like the hills and valleys carved by the hand of life across the contours of your face. Be proud of them for they show the passing of time. The trails of tears and laughter in your life.

The Aio Koa warrior must use the seasons of spring, summer, fall and winter as ways of balancing the energy of a situation. A tense confrontation or a stagnant condition. It is about moving the energy from one form or one perception into another. Each problem has the embryo of its solution hidden within its core. You must dissolve the problem into its corresponding solution elegantly and organically. The seasons provide a way to fold and unfold. Just like a flower opening at day and closing at night. Look at your biggest problems? You are looking at it through seasoned thought. Conditioned thought. Now, rotate and circle your thoughts through the seasons such that your problem is becoming lighter. Explore it. Turn it upside down. Change your words. Forget it. Hmmm the energy of the problem is still in the fields of your body. Find the opposite of your problem. Make it a blessing. Or turn it into a deeper curse. You will feel a difference. Look outside at the trees. They align with the season of now. The circling moment that never ends. Life is what it is. But we try to make it fit what we are.

You must become your own warrior. Your own midwife. Your own guardian. A protector of the life force. However you define it. Not me or anyone else.

The Petal of Provision
This petal is about the Provision of Form. This is about providing food. Food for the body, mind, heart and soul. About feeding your hunger. Become your own gardener. Your own hunter. Your own banker. This is not just about providing food for the table. But food for the heart. Food for mind. Food for the soul. Food for others.

Show me the money? This is what many people think. Stuff all this flower rubbish. Well, I did mentor a man who used these same seed-flower principles to raise $1.25 million Australian in 6 weeks. His seed intention was to raise $5million and go public on the Australian stock exchange within 6 weeks. However it took him an extra 4 weeks to do this. 10 weeks to raise $5million and go public. My aim with this petal of mastery is to create organic wealth that comprises liquid cash fund, soil, water, animal nurseries, seed banks and other life essentials that can help a community to survive and thrive. To create local micro economies that can use alternate currencies yet still be able to trade globally. I have called this fund Mana Tree which is a play on money and mana within the tree of life.

However the best currency system and economic system will falter if people lack the character and discipline to live and trade cooperatively without exploiting the weak, the helpless and the environment. This is why the inner martial arts aspect is essential to building good character and self control. It is about ethics based on the principles of nature. Big business and corporates need to practice sustainable ethics. Honorable service. Forget customer service. Honorable service. This is the time of sustainable honour for businesses, merchant banks and corporates. Villagers must be shown economic alternatives to poaching, slavery and deforestation that produce meagre returns. For example in Burundi, killing a silverback gorilla for $10 return down in the local market. We must teach the poacher to become the gamekeeper. The slave owner becomes the freedom fighter. The deforester becomes the tree planter. The profiteer becomes the benefactor.

At the end of the day though, Aio Koa has to feed a hunger. Grow food. Feed children. Provide seed. Make people content. Otherwise this is all just fancy thinking on a webpage.

You must become your own gardener. Your own hunter. Your own cook. Your own banker. The provider of your own dream.

Petal of Preservation
This petal is about the Preservation of the Flow. It is about the lubricants of life. Maintaining the longevity of life, harmony and goodwill. The flow is about healing, connecting and making things whole again. It could be the finer arts and crafts of life. Poetry, romance, comedy, medicine and recreation. Whatever makes your body dance, your heart sing and your soul shimmer.

Every person has an energy body as well as a physical body. It is when the energy body gets blocked, smokey and covered with crappy thoughts, then this polluted energy turns into a physical thing called sickness, cancer or whatever the sticky energy appears as. You know when a negative thought form enters your energy field. You feel it in your body somewhere. It might be a little tense or could escalate into a full-out panic attack where you cannot squeam. Your limbs flop and you faint. This is why it is essential to maintain the even flow of energy through your energy body. Just like fresh streams cascading from your mountain head down the valleys and tributaries of body into the oceans of your cells. Your cell water holds your energy vibrations and thoughts so you have to keep the energy circulating and refreshing itself. Laughter is one way of energising and shaking stagnant energy. A real good laugh that makes your eyes tear, your belly explode and your internal organs shake. You release tension while sucking in huge gulps of oxygen as you recover. There are lots of energy modalities around the world. Many native cultures understood the effect of the energy body and how beliefs affected it. I believe no one way works all the time. You have to find what works for you. Again it comes back to results.

This is why it is so important to preserve your energy pools and keep the life force flowing. Move your energy body as well as your physical body. When you can move your body in harmony with your feelings then you can can really amplify your energy aura. You become both trance and dance in one. Thats why you become your own dancer. Whatever dance suits you. You need to be your own poet. Your own healer. Your own romantic. Your own clown. Your own storyteller. Your own minstrel. Your own whatever.

The Aio Koa Familia

All four petals form the flower of life called family. The familia surrounds the core, the foetus, the baby of life. There are radiating circles of family. The extended family is so important. The tribe or village becomes a garden in which we learn how to live with each other. Many flowers within the garden. Hence the saying we need a whole village to raise a child. Unfortunately in this modern world we do not have the extended family connections so we need to resow and regrow the sense of family and connection. We need the whole world to be the village that sustains the child of life.

Each petal is like a decoration of life. You must master each of the petals as they pertain to your life. You must set your own tests, codes and standards of mastery. I call these Your Petals of Honour. A flower worn over your heart.