{"id":3945,"date":"2013-10-12T09:54:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T17:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=3945"},"modified":"2013-10-12T09:54:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T17:54:18","slug":"happiness-and-kindness-at-hahopa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/happiness-and-kindness-at-hahopa\/","title":{"rendered":"Happiness and kindness at Hahopa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tell everyone you know: &#8220;My happiness depends on me, so you&#8217;re off the hook.&#8221; And then demonstrate it. Be happy, no matter what they&#8217;re doing. Practice feeling good, no matter what. And before you know it, you will not give anyone else responsibility for the way you feel &#8211; and then, you&#8217;ll love them all. Because the only reason you don&#8217;t love them, is because you&#8217;re using them as your excuse to not feel good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Esther Abraham-Hicks<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/whiskeyriver.blogspot.ca\/2013\/10\/tell-everyone-you-know-my-happiness.html\">whiskey river<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Heading to Hahopa today.  \u00a0Hahopa is an idea.  \u00a0It is a place of the heart and the imagination which is rooted in the Nuu-Chah-Nulth principle of &#8220;teaching and learning with love and kindness.&#8221;  \u00a0You might say that it is a place of grace, an ideal place where we can ground our happiness in an experimental way of being.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hahopa.com\">Hahopa<\/a> is the dream of my friend Pawa Haiyupis.  \u00a0Pawa&#8217;s full name is Pawasquacheetl which means &#8220;she gives in the feast with the energy of bees coming out of a hive.&#8221;  \u00a0For years she has wanted to give the world a place where Nuu-Chah-Nulth teachings can be offered to anyone who feels that they are useful. Inspired by our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kufunda.org\">Kufunda village in Zimbabwe<\/a>, Pawa and her family this week are embarking on an incredible dream.  \u00a0The work we do together this week will set in place a lifetime of contribution to the world.<\/p>\n<p>So I am off to Tofino where we will initiate this endeavour being hosted by the land, the beach and the sea.  \u00a0We are open to seeing what will come of it and how it will flow.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to support this dream, please consider donating to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/hahopa-learning-village\">Indiegogo campaign<\/a> and follow along here and on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Hahopa\">facebook page<\/a> where I will be helping to harvest what we learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &#8220;Tell everyone you know: &#8220;My happiness depends on me, so you&#8217;re off the hook.&#8221; And then demonstrate it. Be happy, no matter what they&#8217;re doing. Practice feeling good, no matter what. And before you know it, you will not give anyone else responsibility for the way you feel &#8211; and then, you&#8217;ll love them all. Because the only reason you don&#8217;t love them, is because you&#8217;re using them as your excuse to not feel good.&#8221; &#8211; Esther Abraham-Hicks via whiskey river. Heading to Hahopa today. \u00a0Hahopa is an idea. \u00a0It is a place of the heart and the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[28,29,48,18,12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-of-harvesting","category-art-of-hosting","category-community","category-emergence","category-first-nations","category-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-11D","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3949,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions\/3949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}