good evening dearest reader,
I stumbled across these bracelets on FB and have since bought them in a rainbow of colors. I love them. I have small wrists so I was able to cut them down and make them smaller. They are lightweight and super comfortable to wear. I also adore the meaning behind the "share aloha" message. Here is a blip from their website...
"The Share Aloha bracelet was conceived in Hawai'i, the land of aloha. In addition to hello and goodbye, aloha means love, compassion, mercy, kindness, grace, and charity. Aloha is not something to be kept to yourself -- aloha is meant to be shared with others. Share Aloha bracelets symbolize and promote the message of aloha, reminding you to hold aloha in your heart and to pay it forward."
cool huh? I think so. (I'll let you in on a little secret...Dawn & I are going to Hawaii April/May 2013 - I'll discuss that in another post). I've done a bit more research on the word and meaning behind Aloha and this is what I have discovered. Aloha is similar to the word Namaste (the light in me recognizes the light in you). Aloha literally means the divine breath of life.
Below, in the words of Hawai'i's last reigning monarch, Queen Lili`uokalani (1891-93), is the true meaning of this magical word.
"And wherever [the native Hawaiian] went he said 'Aloha' in meeting or in parting. 'Aloha' was a recognition of life in another. If there was life there was mana, goodness and wisdom, and if there was goodness and wisdom there was a god-quality. One had to recognize the 'god of life' in another before saying 'Aloha,' but this was easy. Life was everywhere - in the trees, the flowers, the ocean, the fish, the birds, the pili grass, the rainbow, the rock - in all the world was life--was god--was Aloha. Aloha in its gaiety, joy, happiness, abundance. Because of Aloha, one gave without thought of return; because of Aloha, one had mana. Aloha had its own mana. It never left the giver but flowed freely and continuously between giver and receiver. 'Aloha' could not be thoughtlessly or indiscriminately spoken, for it carried its own power. No Hawaiian could greet another with 'Aloha' unless he felt it in his own heart. If he felt anger or hate in his heart he had to cleanse himself before he said 'Aloha'."source
if you'd like to delve into "Aloha" a bit more, here are two interesting websites...
aloha, namaste, light and love to you,
