日本に帰って早2年、ようやく日本の生活に少し馴染んできたように思います。
日本で育った日本人でありながら自分でも不思議なのですが、以前からアメリカと行ったり来たりしていたのでアメリカでの生活に心も体も心底馴染んでしまって（笑）、正直、浦島太郎な所が今だにあるですょ。。。笑
日本の社会に不慣れなことも、しばしば。笑
せっかくなので、楽しんじゃえ！ってことで、東京でのおもしろ生活のブログ、＜Moana's Lomi Lomi life in Tokyo (Limited)＞を作りました。
お気に入りなんかに入れてもらえたら嬉しいです☆
住む場所が変わり、周りの環境に影響されるのは、周りに流されているよう・・・まるで自分自身が（精神的に）自立していない証拠、と今回の日本の帰国はわたしにとっては今までの中でいちばんといって良い程成長する機会になりました。
日本で見つけたハワイとか、モアナの東京的生活の中で見つけたおもしろいことをupしていきたいと思います。
こちらのブログもしばらく書いてなかったのですが、やはり、見てくださってるみなさんのためにも、続けようと思います。
こちらのブログは主に、ロミロミに関することと、OHANAからのお知らせなんかを綴っていきますので、お楽しみにねっ☆
6.04.2011
4.06.2011
シェアする心
シェアすることは、Alohaの心の在り方のひとつ。
どんなことでもシェアしたいとわたしもいつも思っています。
ハワイで学んだロミロミも、アロハスピリットも。
知りたいと思っている人に包み隠すこと無くわたしが聞いた言葉のまま
言霊に乗せて、伝えるように心がけています。
その時が、わたしにとってとても幸せに感じる瞬間です。
田園調布にあるOHANA、MoanaのLomi Lomi sacred spaceは今や隠れ家的存在になっています。
そして、ここへ来てくださった方が、感じたままを言霊に乗せ、ご友人をご紹介してくださり、
また他の方が来てくださり、どんどん輪が広がっていっています。
そしてもっとたくさんの人が本当のハワイのロミロミを知ってもらいたいと思っています。
このやり方だと時間はかかると思いますが、それでもしばらくはこのまま静かな方法で素晴らしい本当のロミロミを知ってもらうことが、わたしに与えられた使命なので、そのために全力を尽くし、真心を込めて伝えていきたいと思っています。今後、方法は変わってくることもあるでしょう。しかし、わたしの心が変わることはないので、安心して欲しいと思います。
変わることを恐れない心もアロハスピリットです。
人生に変化はつきもの。
変化を恐れていては成長はありません。
そう思い、続けていくことが、それが、わたしに縁を授けてくれたハワイの人たちへの恩返しでもあり、きっとponoの道であると信じています。
これからも、Moanaのロミロミを、OHANAをよろしくお願いいたします。
Mahalo.
Moana
どんなことでもシェアしたいとわたしもいつも思っています。
ハワイで学んだロミロミも、アロハスピリットも。
知りたいと思っている人に包み隠すこと無くわたしが聞いた言葉のまま
言霊に乗せて、伝えるように心がけています。
その時が、わたしにとってとても幸せに感じる瞬間です。
田園調布にあるOHANA、MoanaのLomi Lomi sacred spaceは今や隠れ家的存在になっています。
そして、ここへ来てくださった方が、感じたままを言霊に乗せ、ご友人をご紹介してくださり、
また他の方が来てくださり、どんどん輪が広がっていっています。
そしてもっとたくさんの人が本当のハワイのロミロミを知ってもらいたいと思っています。
このやり方だと時間はかかると思いますが、それでもしばらくはこのまま静かな方法で素晴らしい本当のロミロミを知ってもらうことが、わたしに与えられた使命なので、そのために全力を尽くし、真心を込めて伝えていきたいと思っています。今後、方法は変わってくることもあるでしょう。しかし、わたしの心が変わることはないので、安心して欲しいと思います。
変わることを恐れない心もアロハスピリットです。
人生に変化はつきもの。
変化を恐れていては成長はありません。
そう思い、続けていくことが、それが、わたしに縁を授けてくれたハワイの人たちへの恩返しでもあり、きっとponoの道であると信じています。
これからも、Moanaのロミロミを、OHANAをよろしくお願いいたします。
Mahalo.
Moana
4.01.2011
Does your name shape your destiny?
Does Your Name Determine Your Destiny?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20110331/sc_livescience/doesyournamedetermineyourdestiny
Yahooに載ってた、すごく興味深い記事です。
わたし自身、両親からもらった日本名もハワイでハワイアンの先生にもらったハワイアンネームも、自分の生き方に沿っているなとすごく感じています。
わたしのハワイアンネームである「Moana」というハワイ語は、人に名付けるとOceanという意味がもっと深まり変化をするのだそうだ。
日本のことわざでも”名は体を表す”ということばがあることだし、
データも取ってないし、研究もしてないけど、、、
だけど、実体験から、名前は人を運命づける力を、持ってるとわたしは思っている。
*******
『Does Your Name Determine Your Destiny?』
The idea that our names are intertwined with our destinies goes at least as far back as the book of Genesis in the Bible, when Abram saw his name changed to Abraham, which means "father of multitudes" in Hebrew.
In more recent years, social psychology research has connected people's names to decisions they make in whom to marry, what street to live on and what they do for a living — all based on how similar the names were to a person’s own name.
But University of Pennsylvania researcher Uri Simonsohn is stirring controversy by questioning how much our names really matter in making life's more important decisions. Simonsohn examined whether people are likely to choose their workplaces based on how similar the company names are to their own.
The study, to be published in a forthcoming issue of the journal Psychological Science, is based on a sample of 438,000 Americans who had donated to political campaigns in 2004. It was designed to parallel a similar Belgian study that used a sample that included about a third of the general population and found people were overrepresented by 13 percent at businesses where the first three letters in the name matched those in their own names. (The raw Belgian data was unavailable for the new study.)
After controlling for people working at companies named for themselves or family members, as is common in law firms and other businesses, the effects of name similarity appeared to vanish, Simonsohn found. [Most Popular Names in History]
What’s in a name?
Regarding studies that have found a name-job link, "they're finding reverse causality rather than some subconscious attraction to names that are similar to your name," Simonsohn said. [Baby Names Reveal More About Parents Than Ever Before]
But Simonsohn's findings were contradicted by Frederik Anseel, a professor of industrial and organizational psychology at Ghent University and co-author of the Belgian study.
"We do not really agree with Simonsohn's points that the potential confounds eliminate the name-letter effect," Anseel told LiveScience. Anseel has written a response currently under review by Psychological Science.
Cultural differences might account for the discrepancy. Simonsohn points to the possibility that a higher percentage of Americans may start their own businesses. (A direct comparison to Simonsohn's study would be difficult, Anseel noted, because similar political donations are illegal in Belgium.) Anseel said, however, the effect of name similarity on decisions has been found in several countries around the world.
Anseel said that in light of Simonsohn's paper, "the effect becomes less strong," in his own research, but still stands.
Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology at San Diego State University, was skeptical that Simonsohn's study means people don't have an affinity for companies with names like their own.
"This is not representative of the population in any way, shape or form," Twenge said of the sample, explaining that the people involved, being political donors, were likely richer and would be more likely to own their own businesses. "This happens to be a variable that affects the variables he's analyzing."
Dennis the dentist
Previous research has found an affinity for name similarity in several areas. For example, more dentists are named Dennis than what would be expected by chance. (Although Andrew Gelman, director of the Applied Statistics Center at Columbia University, has noted that dentists only accounts for a fraction of people named Dennis.)
In a previous paper, Simonsohn had critiqued some of that research, including criticizing the idea that people choose spouses with similar names. Simonsohn's research suggested spousal similarity in names is likely due to ethnicity. Spouses with similar names, he said, emerge from having a similar ethnicity and background; among people of the same ethnicity in his sample, people with more similar names weren't more likely to marry.
"I'm certainly open to it," said Simonsohn of the idea of name affinities, adding, "If somebody tells me you base a major decision on a name, I would be skeptical. You need a major piece of evidence to do that."
But Simonsohn does not completely dismiss the possibility of a connection between our names and life choices.
He said the most convincing research he has seen came in a 2008 study from the University of Michigan showing that people were more likely to donate following a hurricane if they shared an initial with the name of the hurricane. For instance, if your name were Rachel, you'd be more likely than others on average to donate to Hurricane Rita charities. (The study itself begins with the story of a woman named Katrina selling lemonade to raise money following Hurricane Katrina.)
"That make sense — that is a decision for which people are nearly indifferent," said Simonsohn, referring to the multitude of good charities where people could donate money. But Simonsohn said his skepticism rises when the decisions are larger – where it would take a significant push to make people choose one option over another. For example, people are unlikely to alter their career choices for $100 or $1,000, he said.
So the notion that we make decisions for unconscious — and sometimes seemingly foolish — reasons may be an uncomfortable one.
"We think it is important to consider that people do not always make rational choices for important decisions in their lives," Anseel said. "We like to think of ourselves as rational beings making a very deliberate assessment of pros and cons when choosing a job, but our research shows that other factors might come into play without us being aware of it."
http://
Yahooに載ってた、すごく興味深い記事です。
わたし自身、両親からもらった日本名もハワイでハワイアンの先生にもらったハワイアンネームも、自分の生き方に沿っているなとすごく感じています。
わたしのハワイアンネームである「Moana」というハワイ語は、人に名付けるとOceanという意味がもっと深まり変化をするのだそうだ。
日本のことわざでも”名は体を表す”ということばがあることだし、
データも取ってないし、研究もしてないけど、、、
だけど、実体験から、名前は人を運命づける力を、持ってるとわたしは思っている。
*******
『Does Your Name Determine Your Destiny?』
The idea that our names are intertwined with our destinies goes at least as far back as the book of Genesis in the Bible, when Abram saw his name changed to Abraham, which means "father of multitudes" in Hebrew.
In more recent years, social psychology research has connected people's names to decisions they make in whom to marry, what street to live on and what they do for a living — all based on how similar the names were to a person’s own name.
But University of Pennsylvania researcher Uri Simonsohn is stirring controversy by questioning how much our names really matter in making life's more important decisions. Simonsohn examined whether people are likely to choose their workplaces based on how similar the company names are to their own.
The study, to be published in a forthcoming issue of the journal Psychological Science, is based on a sample of 438,000 Americans who had donated to political campaigns in 2004. It was designed to parallel a similar Belgian study that used a sample that included about a third of the general population and found people were overrepresented by 13 percent at businesses where the first three letters in the name matched those in their own names. (The raw Belgian data was unavailable for the new study.)
After controlling for people working at companies named for themselves or family members, as is common in law firms and other businesses, the effects of name similarity appeared to vanish, Simonsohn found. [Most Popular Names in History]
What’s in a name?
Regarding studies that have found a name-job link, "they're finding reverse causality rather than some subconscious attraction to names that are similar to your name," Simonsohn said. [Baby Names Reveal More About Parents Than Ever Before]
But Simonsohn's findings were contradicted by Frederik Anseel, a professor of industrial and organizational psychology at Ghent University and co-author of the Belgian study.
"We do not really agree with Simonsohn's points that the potential confounds eliminate the name-letter effect," Anseel told LiveScience. Anseel has written a response currently under review by Psychological Science.
Cultural differences might account for the discrepancy. Simonsohn points to the possibility that a higher percentage of Americans may start their own businesses. (A direct comparison to Simonsohn's study would be difficult, Anseel noted, because similar political donations are illegal in Belgium.) Anseel said, however, the effect of name similarity on decisions has been found in several countries around the world.
Anseel said that in light of Simonsohn's paper, "the effect becomes less strong," in his own research, but still stands.
Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology at San Diego State University, was skeptical that Simonsohn's study means people don't have an affinity for companies with names like their own.
"This is not representative of the population in any way, shape or form," Twenge said of the sample, explaining that the people involved, being political donors, were likely richer and would be more likely to own their own businesses. "This happens to be a variable that affects the variables he's analyzing."
Dennis the dentist
Previous research has found an affinity for name similarity in several areas. For example, more dentists are named Dennis than what would be expected by chance. (Although Andrew Gelman, director of the Applied Statistics Center at Columbia University, has noted that dentists only accounts for a fraction of people named Dennis.)
In a previous paper, Simonsohn had critiqued some of that research, including criticizing the idea that people choose spouses with similar names. Simonsohn's research suggested spousal similarity in names is likely due to ethnicity. Spouses with similar names, he said, emerge from having a similar ethnicity and background; among people of the same ethnicity in his sample, people with more similar names weren't more likely to marry.
"I'm certainly open to it," said Simonsohn of the idea of name affinities, adding, "If somebody tells me you base a major decision on a name, I would be skeptical. You need a major piece of evidence to do that."
But Simonsohn does not completely dismiss the possibility of a connection between our names and life choices.
He said the most convincing research he has seen came in a 2008 study from the University of Michigan showing that people were more likely to donate following a hurricane if they shared an initial with the name of the hurricane. For instance, if your name were Rachel, you'd be more likely than others on average to donate to Hurricane Rita charities. (The study itself begins with the story of a woman named Katrina selling lemonade to raise money following Hurricane Katrina.)
"That make sense — that is a decision for which people are nearly indifferent," said Simonsohn, referring to the multitude of good charities where people could donate money. But Simonsohn said his skepticism rises when the decisions are larger – where it would take a significant push to make people choose one option over another. For example, people are unlikely to alter their career choices for $100 or $1,000, he said.
So the notion that we make decisions for unconscious — and sometimes seemingly foolish — reasons may be an uncomfortable one.
"We think it is important to consider that people do not always make rational choices for important decisions in their lives," Anseel said. "We like to think of ourselves as rational beings making a very deliberate assessment of pros and cons when choosing a job, but our research shows that other factors might come into play without us being aware of it."
9.30.2010
文字を持たなかったハワイアン
モアナのフォトエッセイです。
ハワイにいたとき、ほんの気の向いた時に書いていたもの。
見つけました。
文字より伝わることがあるかも知れない。
文字で伝えることをハワイアンがしなかった理由が最近よくよく分ってきました。
時々、書いてみようと思います。
ハワイにいたとき、ほんの気の向いた時に書いていたもの。
見つけました。
文字より伝わることがあるかも知れない。
文字で伝えることをハワイアンがしなかった理由が最近よくよく分ってきました。
時々、書いてみようと思います。
8.31.2010
マラマアイナ
この前海へ行ったとき、浜辺でお宝を収穫！
天然の海綿。
海のミネラルをたっぷりと含んだ、肌にやさしい自然からの贈りもの。
天然素材100％の海綿スポンジは、石油から化学合成されたナイロンタオルやウレタンスポンジとは違った感触。
きれいに洗って、お風呂用と、流し用に使おうかな。
海へ行くと、貝やらなにやら可愛いなと思ったものを拾っては収集する癖がわたしにはある。
日本のビーチにはハワイにはない面白いものもたくさんあっておもしろい。
ついでに釣り糸やタバコの吸い殻も拾え、ビーチもきれいになるから一石二鳥どころか一石三鳥も四鳥もだ。
ハワイでは、「マラマアイナ」 という。
土地を敬い愛する気持ち。
その土地（場所）を訪れることができたことへの感謝の気持ち、その土地（場所）を敬う気持ち、を行動をもって表す。
人から言われるのではなく、自然とこういう気持ちが湧いてきて自ら行動をしてみたら、神様はちゃぁんとご褒美をくれる。
だから、広い浜辺でお宝に巡りあえたのだと思う。
写真は前回の収穫。
みる人にはなにやら汚らしいゴミにしか見えないでしょうけど。笑
瓶は、中国から流れてきたらしいもの。
クルクルと曲がった木は、海底に生えていたらしい根がついていたが何の木かわからない。けど、なにかアートを作ろうかな。
と思ってます。
きっと、可愛いステキなものが出来そうな予感
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