A Place to Go and a Path to Get There: A Guide to Coming Home.

What if someone told you there is a place you belong – a place where fear loosens its grip, where the weight of judgment falls away, and where you remember, with quiet certainty, that you are far more than you have been living? Not a distant heaven. Not a reward at the end of a long road. A place available to you now, in this breath, in this very moment of your life.

This is the invitation at the heart of Hoku's channeled book, "A Place to Go and a Path to Get There". Through her connection with collective divine guides, Hoku shares a message that is both ancient and startlingly immediate: we are eternal beings based in love, here to discover who we truly are. And there is a path – not a rigid set of rules, but a living, breathing way of moving through the world that brings us closer to ourselves.

We would like to walk that path with you here. Not as instruction, but as a quiet conversation. A reminder of what you may already sense is true.

Before we can move toward something, it helps to gently name what we are moving through. Hoku's guides speak of three energies that keep us living in a contracted, smaller version of ourselves: fear, judgment, and limitation.

Fear is not just the obvious kind – the racing heart, the sharp dread. It is also the subtle, daily contraction that whispers "be careful, don't try, stay where it's safe." It is the energy that makes us grip tighter when life asks us to open. Judgment is the habit of labeling – good, bad, right, wrong, worthy, unworthy – that keeps everything, including ourselves, in a small, tidy box. And limitation is the quiet acceptance of fences we did not build, the false beliefs about what is possible for us that we absorbed so long ago we forgot they were not our own.

These three are not enemies to defeat. They are simply patterns to recognize. When you notice fear tightening your chest, or judgment narrowing your view, or a belief telling you "this is all there is" – you are already beginning to see clearly. And seeing clearly is the first step on the path.

If fear, judgment, and limitation are the contracted energies, then love, freedom, and unlimited being are the expanded ones – the open fields waiting beyond the fences.

But love, as Hoku's guides describe it, is not merely an emotion you feel for another person. It is the environment you live in. Imagine love not as something you have to earn or find, but as the air itself – always present, always surrounding you, whether you notice it or not. To step into love is simply to stop holding your breath.

Freedom, too, is something deeper than circumstance. It is the recognition that you are a sovereign being, intimately connected with all of life. You do not need permission to be who you are. And unlimited being – perhaps the most radical invitation of all – is the knowing that there is no design flaw. You arrived here whole. Like an acorn that already contains the oak, everything you need to become who you truly are is already within you. It has always been there.

One of the most practical gifts in Hoku's teaching is breathtakingly simple: your emotions are your guidance system. What feels good is alignment. What feels bad is misalignment. That is it. No complicated theology, no external authority needed. Your own body, your own felt experience, is the compass.

This does not mean chasing pleasure or avoiding all discomfort. It means paying attention to the deeper feeling beneath the surface – the quiet expansion when you are moving toward your truth, the subtle contraction when you are moving away from it. It means trusting that when something lights you up from the inside, that light is showing you the way.

Try it now, even as you read. Notice what lands softly in your body, what opens something. Notice what makes you lean in. That leaning is not random. It is your deeper self saying "yes, this way."

The path home is not about effort. It is about shifting – gently, repeatedly, with great kindness toward yourself. Here are some of the tools Hoku's guides offer, each one a small doorway you can walk through any day.

"Have to" becomes "Get to." Notice how often you say "I have to" – I have to go to work, I have to make dinner, I have to call them back. Now try replacing it with "I get to." Feel the difference in your body. This tiny shift moves you from obligation to gratitude, from burden to gift. It changes nothing about your circumstances and everything about your experience of them.

Choose and allow. The old way of creating was to plot, plan, and force. The new way is softer: choose what you want, point yourself toward it, and then allow it to unfold. This is not passivity – it is a profound act of trust. You do your part, then you let life do its part.

Surrender. Not giving up, but giving over. Relinquishing the need to control every outcome and trusting that something wiser than your mind is at work. Surrender is what happens when you stop white-knuckling the steering wheel and let the river carry you.

GEFF: Ground, Expand, Flash, and Fill. This is a beautiful energy practice from the book. Ground yourself – feel your feet, feel the earth. Expand your awareness outward. Flash – let a bright light move through you, clearing what no longer serves. And fill – fill yourself with love, with light, with the vibration of who you truly are. You can do this in sixty seconds. You can do it waiting in line. It is always available.

Have no fertile ground for seeds of doubt. When doubt arises, you do not have to fight it. Simply notice it, and choose not to water it. Let the soil of your inner world be so full of what you are choosing that there is no room for what you are not.

There is an image in Hoku's book that we find ourselves returning to again and again: do not fight the river. So much of our suffering comes from swimming upstream – resisting what is, arguing with reality, trying to force life into the shape we think it should take. But the river is not your enemy. It is your path. Get on the raft. Let go. Notice how much easier everything becomes when you stop struggling.

And as you flow, practice noticing what you notice. The world around you is a mirror. When you are in alignment, you will see beauty, synchronicity, kindness, openings. When you are out of alignment, you will see obstacles, problems, things to fix. What you notice is not just information about the world – it is information about where you are standing inside yourself.

Here is perhaps the most beautiful practice of all: begin to live in the vibrancy of the fulfillment of your desires. Do not wait until the thing you want has arrived to feel the joy of it. Feel it now. Let the feeling of fulfillment be your present tense, not your future tense. This is not delusion – it is alignment. It is choosing to stand in the field of love and possibility before the evidence arrives, and trusting that the evidence will follow.

You do not have to change everything today. You do not have to get it right. The path is not a test – it is a homecoming. And homecomings are allowed to be slow, and winding, and full of pauses.

Perhaps today, you simply notice one moment of fear and choose not to follow it. Perhaps you replace one "have to" with "get to." Perhaps you close your eyes for thirty seconds and feel your feet on the ground, and expand, and let light move through you. Perhaps you simply sit with the knowing that there is a place to go – and that you are already on the path.

The sequence of events is intentional. You are reading this now for a reason. Trust that. Trust yourself. And when you are ready, take one small step in the direction that feels like opening.