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Don't be afraid to Start all over again!

  • Writer: Paola Najera
    Paola Najera
  • Jun 22
  • 3 min read

Don't be afraid to start over, especially if it's necessary a thousand times more.


One of my wishes was to go to Hawaii since I was very little, without knowing why it always caught my attention. When I was a child, I heard that it was the perfect honeymoon destination... (well, that's how I heard it and I believed it) And so it was planned before I got married, but a week before the trip, Hawaii was canceled. Now, after the divorce, I clearly understand that it wasn't the right time to go and not with the right person to be in that beautiful and magical place. This place was meant to be for me to go by myself.


During my trip to Honolulu, I went to see the volcano Kilauea in Hilo, HI. Not only was I fascinated by its history, myths, culture, and nature, but all its islands made me realize that this was the perfect place and the perfect time for me. (If you know my channeling page, you know that I talk about '"Emotional Attachment,'". by sharing my experience and learnings to help you heal that emptiness).


"Attachment'" is considered an addiction, but since it is emotional, it is not talked about, only its consequences, which would already be too late to address the problem. I recognized it in myself, and I decided to work on it and share it with you, as in my process I discovered virtues in myself that I did not know neither I was aware of it. It is so difficult to believe that by leaving an old belief, custom, relationship, behavior, role, status, responsibility, job will bring you something greater.


While walking among the dried lava in the volcanic area, the zone looks like a black desert, lonely and silent. There are parts in the lava where there are pieces of trees, clearly you can imagine how the lava took everything in its path. Further on, I was surprised because there were already trees and plants growing among the cracks in the lava rocks. One of the most popular trees is 'Ohi'a Lehua' (which also has an interesting myth).


There I decided to take a picture on the lava rocks. Life is about changes, everything changes and everyone changes, and the volcano reminded me of that!

When you resist change (and changes are "LETTING GO" / "DETTACH") no matter how much you resist making changes in your life or in your surroundings, your internal volcano will eventually erupt. Situations will present themselves like eruptions so that you align with the decisions or path you need to take. The more you resist (by evading, ignoring, or distracting yourself), there will be internal tremors/tsunamis within you before your internal volcano erupts.

By Resisting, the Lava spills over taking everything away without warning. Your solitude begins, introspection, perhaps anger, frustration leading you to victimization.

If within you there is already the desire to change but Fear stops you keeping you in stillness due to the uncertainty of "starting over, creating from scratch", remember the process of the "Ohi'a Lehua" tree that can settle in cracks and pockets of Lava rocks.


LAVA, among many things, is a great example of what 'Emotional Detachment' is, of not clinging to anything or anyone. Nothing is forever and no one is forever. You decide whether to stay observing the situation or to change the situation before your internal volcano erupts.


Today, as I continue walking between the dry lava, at 45 years old I imagine that I'm walking among the ashes of Who I Was and What Was. The Lava cracks like my old wounds that fade over time, Optimistic with the new opportunities of life like the flowers on the branches of the "Ohi'a Lehua", I loved and will continue to love like the fervor that lava carries...

What more can I ask for that I haven't already had? That is LIVING!!!

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