Hoki Group One 2024 - Harata Meretana Ma Charitable Trust

Hoki Wānanga One and Two: August 2024

Kia Ora e te whānau. This site was originally set up as a profile for potential funders to understand my experience in healing a number of health and mental challenges throughout my life that have given me the tools to maintain my wellbeing. It is a privilege to provide this app platform to review the wānanga content. There were a number of things you wanted to learn more about in terms of healing as seen on the pics of the whiteboard. Click on the Quizz at the top right hand corner as it helps you to remember the content better as it is interactive. That’s how we learn best!

He Karakia versus Christian Inoi

The first thing we went over was the karakia that is also used as a tauparapara. Where an inoi is a Christian prayer to a male God, karakia acknowledges both male and female Atua of nature.

Whakataka te Hau

Whakatakatehau ki te uru Settle the wind in the west

Whakataka Te hau ki Te Tonga Settle the wind in the east

Kia makinakina ki uta Settle the piercing cold on the horizons

Kia mataratara ki tai And the rough storms over the seas

E hī ake ana Te atakura Pull and rise the red dawn with

He tio, he huka, he hau hū The icy frost, the white snow and the blistering windy/cold

Tihei Mauriora Behold the sneeze of life

Hinamarama

Here is another karakia as promised that acknowledges Hinamarama – the Atua of the moon that acknowledges our Atua Māori of both genders.

Ka takina te kawa, te kawa nui, te kawa roa, te kawa ora e ahu mai no Hinamarama

Hina whanake, Hina roroku, Hina te ahoaho i nga kukume

Hina i whakamautai, Hina i whakamau kare a roto

Homai to marama ora

Hei oranga mo te whenua

Hei oranga mo te tangata

Hei oranga mo te whanau o Tangaroa raua ko Hinemoananui

Hei oranga mo te wao nui a Tane raua ko Hinekura.

Hei mana mãrama moku. Ko to manawa ora. Ko toku manawa ora.

Whano whano haere mai te toki, haumie .. taiki e

To translate te reo to English, click on this link

The Benefits of Drinking Water

There are 3 processes the body goes through in 24 hours.

During the day the body is feeding.
At night the body is processing the food sending the vitamins and minerals to different parts of the body
In the morning, the body is searching for water to clean itself
In the morning before eating or drinking anything, drink 2 litres of warm to hot water

The temperature of the water is so the body doesn’t have to heat the water up before using it to clean itself. It shocks the body if you drink cold water in the morning then all the energy goes into heating the body before it can use it to clean itself. After the two litres, you will find that you cannot help but go to the toilet to poo. This process is about cleaning the colon naturally.

MORNING

If you drink water with food then the body will digest the water instead of using it to clean itself.

If you add anything to the water to make it tastes better like lemon or a tea bag then the body will digest the water instead of using it to clean itself.

WATER ONLY with nothing in it so the body can use it to clean itself.

If we drink coffee first thing in the morning it will kill all the vitamins and minerals. As coffee is a diuretic, it will make your body piss out two cups of water. So, if we drink a litre of water a day then 2 cups of coffee then the body will piss out the litre and then our body is in a state of chronic dehydration which means our body is acidic. If we continue to drink coffee all day and no water then the body will be paru inside and the body systems will struggle to clean itself resulting in an acidic body that will struggle with a number of diseases.

AFTER LUNCH

An hour after eating lunch, drink another litre of warm to hot water. This will be the third litre of water. Be mindful that drinking this much water will make you pee a lot but this is how the body cleans itself so get used to it. The kidneys are known to shrivel up and die if you continue to not drink water and then the kidneys have to be removed surgically. Once this happens, then you can have problems with controlling your bladder for the rest of your life when all you had to do to support your kidneys is drink water. Those who refuse to drink water long term, end up on a dialysis machine for the rest of their life. It’s a choice to drink water as a way of living to keep the body alkaline.

If we want an alkaline body where ‘disease cannot survive in the body’ then drink water and eat green vegetables.

If we want an acidic body where ‘disease thrives in the body’ then drink no water and eat no vegetables.

AFTER DINNER

An hour after dinner, drink another litre of warm to hot water. Find a way that works for you. At 62 years old, I am on no medication. I take a thermos to bed at night with two bottles of warm/hot water. One bottle to drink at bedtime before going to sleep and one to drink overnight for when I get up at night to go to the toilet. It is inevitable that you will have to get up 2 – 3 times a night. The thermos is for when I wake up in the morning so my drinking water is warm/hot otherwise I get lazy to get up and go down into the kitchen to boil the kettle. It is a discipline to prepare water every day but the benefits are immeasurable.

Sometimes I drink two bottles of water in the afternoon on the way home from work if I have not had time to drink much water during the day. I do not always get the opportunity to eat lunch until I finish bodywork at 3 pm but an hour after eating, I have my water bottles ready.

DO NOT DRINK WATER WHILE YOU ARE EATING If you drink water while eating, you are watering down the acids that help to digest the food so it takes longer for the food to be digested. The water is not used for cleaning the body when anything is added to it as it is digested instead.

Sugar is Poison to the Body

Coke, sweet wine, beer, chocolate, pizza, sweet coffees, chips, potatoes, rice, pasta are all full of carbs and sugar. No point in trying to heal the pain and inflammation in your body if you are eating loads of sugar. Foods and drinks with sugar in it lights up your brain like a pinball machine and causes inflammation which in turn leads to physical pain. A sugar overdose can lead to liver failure.

There are a number of easy simple to make rongoā to clean your liver. Rongoa and health supplements do not work on their own. You have to change the diet and go sugar free as well as drink hot water and eat low carb veges if you want to be well.

Natural Alternatives to Sugar

Here are a number of sugar alternatives. I stopped taking Equal, Sweet n low, and Splendour years ago as they’re full of chemicals which is worse than sugar.

Now I use monk fruit, erithytol, stevia, nativa and foods that have malitol like chocolate and Zilch chocolate ice cream. I don’t buy xylitol though as it can kill your dog.

In my experience, many of the whai ora with complex mental health issues eat heaps of sugar in their diet with lots of coffee and fizzy drinks. Foods packed with sugar feeds bad bacteria that lead to inflammation, pain and disease

DRINKING SWEET FIZZY DRINKS

Drinks with sugar in them defeats the purpose of cleaning the body. Sugar is poison and can stop the immune system from working. It can also create inflammation in the body which in turn creates pain. If you have been suffering from pain for many years, then stop having any of the foods that are laden with sugar. There are a number of natural sugar alternatives like monk fruit, xylitol, erythitol, sativa and nativa to name but a few and these are available at your local health shops or supermarkets.

Drinking energy drinks with 7 teaspoons of sugar in each can stop your immune system from working for the rest of the week and although it speeds you up, you can come crashing down later resulting in a number of emotional and behavioural problems.

Parasites in your Body

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Click on this link to see research from Dr Lance Sullivan about parasites eating away at our organs. Not for the feint hearted and no way we need to buy this product but it serves to provide us with an awareness of the process of cleaning the parasites out:

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Prescribed Cannabis Treatments for Cancer

I have been blown away by the healing qualities of natural cannibis oil for cancer, fibromyalgia, depression, anxiety and so many other diseases. When I support people to withdraw from psychotic and heavy pain medication like tremadol, morphine and codeine with the oil, I also ensure that they hydrate the body with fresh water, juice fresh vegetables to detox and change to a low carb … no sugar diet with a balance of protein and high fat foods to keep the body alkaline. Disease cannot survive in an alkaline body.

Using natural medicine, hydrating the body and eating the right food, keeps the body alkaline which is free of inflammation … inflammation happens in an acidic body … disease thrives in an acidic body.

Healing Diabetes

One of the symptoms of diabetes is the swelling in the hands, legs, and feet, is known as edema and is a result of chronic dehydration. Not drinking water and eating excessive sugar foods creates inflammation that is uncomfortable and painful. If you do not drink water then the body cannot clean itself on the inside. There are natural alternatives to eating sugar. Kawakawa poulticing is excellent for edema and can shrink the swelling right down.

Kawakawa Poulticing

You can put kawakawa leaves in the bath for skin problems. The fresh leaves can be bruised by screwing them up to put cracks in them and you just need to add a handful for the bath to help ease your aches and pains. A kawakawa steam bath heals a number of skin problems like excema and provides relief from rheumatic and arthritic pains.

The kawakawa leaves are also used as a poultice to heal cuts and sores as well as draw out cancer as well as poisons and pus from edema that is a result of diabetes. Kawakawa can also provide relief from bruises, boils and neuralgic (head & face) pain.

Take care of the kawakawa plant and do not pick a branch but rather take the single leaves leaving the young leaves to grow still. Karakia before picking the kawakawa leaves and choose the older leaves instead of the younger leaves as they are more potent for healing. When picking the kawakawa leaves, prioritise the leaves that get the sun first thing in the morning. Choose the leaves that have holes in them as the insects are showing you that these ones are the best. Only pick enough leaves that you might need to prevent waste. To store, put them in a snap lock plastic bag then put them in the fridge until you are ready to use them. Only lasts a week or so in the fridge then they start to wane so time is of the essence. Remember being alive, the mauri is still in the leaves.

Wash the leaves quickly when you are ready to use them as a poultice or as a wairakau. Let them drain rather than soaking them in water as all the goodness comes out when you soak them.

When poulticing, dip the leaf in a plate of boiling hot water before placing the unshiny side on the skin. Continue this process on the skin before wrapping a toweling wrap cut to the size of a bandage over the top of the leaves. Wrap with

glad wrap (not too tight) ensuring that the edges are pushed down to make it air tight. This provides a spa like environment for the kawakawa to do its magic. Cover with a blanket to create heat and lay down and leave for 2 – 3 hours or if you can, leave overnight and take off in the morning. The darkness of the leaves will show what has been drawn out.

Return the leaves to Papatuanuku (mother earth) and thank them for doing their magic

Anti-psychotic and anti-depressant medications

The synthetic antipsychotic and antidepressant medications have so many side effects that cause a range of damage to the internal organs and affect your natural highs and lows. The Drs tell you that you must not stop taking them and this is right because the body is addicted to them so it you just stop them, you could have seizures, experience induced suicide ideation and have pain as well as mental confusion. It is like being on an emotional roller coaster often where you don’t know what’s going on. I was on these meds for 20 years and never healed. The meds are only to treat the symptoms and create more symptoms instead of healing. The natural remedies and rongoā heal the dis-ease and ease the symptoms.

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