ORIGINS
I initially set out to create Grounded Humans as a vehicle for living my own purpose (this is founder Ninamarie speaking) to uplift people by reconnecting them with their own softened hearts while experiencing meaningful work using my gifts & authentic expression. It has since unfolded into a larger artist vision in motion, the layers of which continue to reveal themselves to me. I now see that the building of my GH business model itself is a part of my purpose to change the way we live & work. I will have this page more built out soon for more meaningful reflection and inquiry about this very important aspect of the Grounded Humans ecosystem - that is, our WHY and HOW. In the meantime, I hope to leave you with the principles and vision that are informing my work with clients, the things I share with the world from my own soul essence, and the way I go about doing it. May this origins draft page help to give you a glimpse into the way Grounded Humans started, and the vision it is becoming. I am so glad you are here to be a part of its/our evolution, thank you!
EVOLVING VISION, MISSION & PRINCIPLES
MISSION & VISION
A collective of grounded, empowered humans using & creating the tools and visions changing the way we as a people live & work. The development of a business/work/life model that fosters people-'āina-spirit thriving; i.e that uplifts all levels & layers of the system from the top to the bottom, and back up to the top of the system, much like the brilliant technology of the Hawaiian ahupua'a system.
A BIT ABOUT THE PRINCIPLES WE LIVE & WORK BY
These are the truths Grounded Humans operates & serves from. Most of them are adapted from a book by Serge Kahili King. The same principles can be found in a number of indigenous frameworks including Hawaiian shamanic texts as taught by Serge Kahili King, and as experienced by my personal lived journey of being born & raised in the islands around some Hawaiian ways of thinking and seeing. These indigenous principles provide wisdom for how I seek to serve the thriving of myself & others through my work with dignity, aloha, accountability and pono (righteousness).
As an organization and platform, we commit to hold to these truths in our approach to coaching, services, operations and messaging: In order to see transformational healing, policy, actions at the collective level; in order to improve global living conditions - humanitarian, environmental and other - and support planetary sustainability, we must first come home to ourselves.
The world’s complex societal and environmental problems require that we wake up as a species from numbing ourselves, from ignoring our intuition and our authentic desires, the one born out of love, helping and expression instead of greed, survival and conditioning.
To wake up we must find inner safety first in ourselves before we can create systems that heal collective humanity: colonizer/industrial/perhaps capital models of “thriving” temporarily benefit a few. The answers to our most complex world issues lie in more indigenized/sustainable models of business, land management, people management (government, etc).
Coming home to ourselves means we must strive to be connected to our authentic self and inner intuitive direction and purpose in order to free ourselves to live our soul's work. The world needs our soul's work! It's why we are here in this time and place, to grow into and contribute through it, to the evolution of our humanity.
In order to maintain this energy & mission, with every move as a business,
we work to stay true to the following principles:
AUTHENTICITY IS KEY TO TRUE SUCCESS
Success may be defined differently by each person. How you choose to define it must align with your truest self if it is to be the right success for you. Awakening to your authentic self frees you from the common traps of living for "success" according to other people
THE WORLD IS AS YOU SEE IT IS
There are no set rules for how life must unfold and by what means something can be actualized in physical reality. All systems and rules are arbitrary; we create our own reality
THERE ARE NO LIMITS
There are no set ceilings. In deconditioning our minds we seek to release ourselves from the internal limiting beliefs that have been set there by others/our own perception of our past. When we change our thoughts, we change our life
WHERE YOUR ATTENTION GOES, YOUR ENERGY FLOWS
We create opportunities and close doors with our own thoughts, which dictate our energetic openness or closedness. By directing our attention, we direct energy. This power is our birthright as living, conscious human beings. In harnessing the power of attention and bringing mindful awareness to it, we unlock the tool of being able to direct attention intentionally to where we want to open doors and see momentum in our lives
THE PRESENT IS THE MOMENT OF POWER
It is beliefs, decisions, and actions in this moment that give you what you have and shape your reality. While now is the only moment we can embody the power to direct our energy and thoughts, it is through persistence over time harnessing our power in the now moment that we can create compounding results which unfold from these efforts. Applying presence consciously over time allows us to create our dreams now and in the future
TO LOVE IS TO BE HAPPY WITH
If we aren’t happy, we are not in love with what is. To fall in love with what is here and now is true happiness, which we get to create for ourselves through this act of love with what is. What takes love’s place when it is absent from our hearts? Fear, resistance. Love more, and fear/hate less. Loving unconditionally is possible and doing so increases joy and abundance for all. Gratitude is a powerful portal to love, which is the portal to joy
ALL MANA COMES FROM WITHIN
All the power that creates our experiences originates from inside of us. We have everything we need to build our dream authentic life. It is not outside of us but within
THE MEANS DETERMINES THE QUALITY OF THE END
The means towards unlocking our dreams and goals matters. It is important to live in alignment with proper principles, thoughts, and actions. Being intentional with your means and not losing sight of them, no matter what’s before you, can be a lighthouse in the dark
YOUR TIMING IS PERFECT
Joy is found and grown when we detach ourselves from the fictitious race in our heads. This is not meant to be a race but a journey, and presence with the journey is where true joy, love (for self & others) and success lives
THERE IS A UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS
Call it the Universe, god, spirit, or anything else, there is a universal consciousness running through us that connects us to the very fabric of life. By tapping into it we become more of who we are meant to be. We gain access to wisdom, creativity, peace and ancestral connection