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I\u2019ve been reminded again about the importance of breath.<\/p>\n

On April 26, I flew to Hawai\u2019i with my girlfriend, our birthday gifts to one another. I\u2019m writing this article in a cabana beside the hammock I\u2019ll be sleeping in later, with the sound of torrential but temporary rain and invasive coqu\u00ed frogs as background noise. The privilege to be able to do this has not left my consciousness for a moment since I\u2019ve arrived. After the traditional greeting of “Aloha!”, local people ask me about home. “What\u2019s it like where you\u2019re from?”<\/p>\n

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“We\u2019re flooding,” I say to the first Hawai\u2019ian who asked. There\u2019s a blank look in response and I want to explain, but the conversation carries on as I remain locked in the helpless knowledge that things at home are really, really bad. When I remember to breathe, it\u2019s time to leave the grocery store.<\/p>\n

At one of the places we spend the night, our host, a young woman, explains that she does not, like many other Hawai\u2019ians, consider herself a US citizen. She says she belongs to the Kingdom of Hawai’i; she says aloha ‘\u0101ina<\/em> or \u201clove of the land\u201d is foremost to every native. I know this is true for the Indigenous people of Turtle Island as well, and it solidifies the thought that if we make any headway against the capitalist, resource-extraction-obsessed culture driving climate change, it will be because we as a settler nation, and all settlers globally, will listen to Native people of every land. Our host speaks about rising sea levels and how that distinctly impacts her island nation\u2014and how they know it will get worse. She is speaking to all white people when she looks at me imploringly and says, \u201cDon\u2019t you know we are all \u2018\u0101ina<\/em>?\u201d Don\u2019t we know we are the land?<\/p>\n

Aloha is so much more than a greeting or a farewell. It\u2019s used in place of love and care as well. Its literal translation is “the presence of the Divine breath”, taking from alo<\/em> which means presence, front or face, and h\u00e2<\/em>, which is breath. When the problem is water, as it is in Hawai\u2019i with rising sea levels, and in Muskoka with historic flooding, the solution is aloha\u2014the solution is breath, the answer is love and care.<\/p>\n

I hadn\u2019t realized how preternaturally breath is tied to love until that conversation with our host who scoffed when asked if she voted in the presidential election and who showed us videos of authentic, traditional hula. Meditative breathing is how I learned to battle insomnia and anxiety. Breath is part of my practice of radical self-love\u2014no decision must be made before talking a deep, loving breath. With the water levels rising, plateauing, and not receding in my home town, I have felt choked. There are amazing local groups supported by incredible activists and everyday folks sprouting up, like Muskoka Power of Many<\/u><\/a>. We are learning to breathe together, against the flood. We are fighting the asphyxiating nature of helplessness, the hyperventilating pleas of \u2018no more\u2019\u2014no more loss, no more cuts, no more steps backwards. With our collective breath we are not asking anymore.<\/p>\n

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Today I tried snorkeling for the first time. I love to swim, feel at home in water, and I enjoy trying new things. My girlfriend is a certified SCUBA diver so I knew I was in good hands. The place we\u2019re staying allowed us to borrow snorkel gear and away we went to a relatively calm inlet. We tramped down the lava stones to the open water and geared up. Everything fit well and I was comfortable enough with my on-land lesson. However, as soon as I got into the water, even though my feet could still touch the ocean floor, I began to panic, experiencing my first breathless anxiety attack in years. I couldn\u2019t wear my glasses because of the goggles so my sight was limited; the flippers impeded my ability to steady my footing against the waves; the long-sleeve shirt I wore because I\u2019d gotten so sunburned the day before felt like seaweed grabbing at my wrists; and the thought of putting the snorkel tube into my mouth was so counterintuitive to my desperation to breathe that I couldn\u2019t tolerate it. I yanked the mask off my face and sucked in breath, aching to get that air into the lower chambers of my lungs but unable to. My breath training and years of experience were failing me\u2014I was succumbing to this attack. My girlfriend did everything right in supporting me, but I needed to figure this out myself.<\/p>\n

I remembered that as long as I\u2019m breathing, I\u2019m alive. And the only thing stopping me from inhaling properly is me: there\u2019s no water in my lungs, no hand over my mouth. I can do this. And I did. Eventually my breathing did slow, deepen. I yawned several times and finally one took, staggering the oxygen deep into my belly, the final stage in being okay after a panic attack. Half an hour later, I was holding my breath, jackknifing into the water, plunging to the ocean floor to fly along with the fish, then surfacing, blasting the water from my snorkel with a sharp exhalation, a short inhale, then a full inhale once certain the water is cleared. I had found my h\u00e2<\/em> again.<\/p>\n

What I have loved most about experiencing Hawai\u2019i is the introduction of the concept of the Aloha Spirit. According to the Session Laws of Hawai\u2019i, Aloha Spirit is \u201c\u2026the working philosophy of native Hawai\u2019ians… ‘Aloha’ is more than a word of greeting or farewell or salutation. ‘Aloha’ means mutual regard and affection and extends warmth in caring with no obligation in return. ‘Aloha’ is the essence of relationships in which each person is important to every other person for collective existence\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

If I could offer any lesson from halfway across the world, it is this: every single person is important to everyone else. If everyone acknowledged and lived by this universal truth, how would the way we treat each other, and talk to each other, change? Could we ever lose sight of another person\u2019s humanity again, as has apparently become so easy to do in our world? Positive regard for others, compassion, and care\u2014the cornerstones of a culture that has a lot to teach us, at this most vital time in our journey in solidarity and community.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not a lot\u2014but it\u2019s everything.<\/p>\n

Aloha.<\/p>\n

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