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Kindness cannot happen without presence
What an african software engineer taught me about AI, burnout and coming home to the body 🤖🤍


Hi friend, 💛🌿
Ngoni told me something that surprised me, coming from a software engineer… “Kindness cannot happen without presence.” ✨
His path didn't start with a big awakening. During an energy healing session in South Africa, a practitioner asked him to notice his knee… and he realized he had “no awareness from the neck going down.” No presence in his own body. That moment started his search: meditation, Vipassana, breath, qigong.
[Where in Your body are You most present right now? And where are You least present?]
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Then life put him under pressure. Ngoni pushed himself so hard to perform financially that his body “just shut down”. He escaped into novels, slept badly, and felt guilt and shame. ⚓️
What brought him back wasn't fighting harder. He stayed with the sensations in his body… and allowed the resistance instead of fighting it.
I felt that one. How many times have I tried to push my way out of a wall that only softens when I stop pushing?
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And here's what makes Ngoni's session so unique: he holds Presence with technology and AI. 🤖 Today AI writes all of his code. And he isn't afraid of it. “AI isn't the problem, it's how we train and use it.”
For him, efficiency only makes sense if it helps us lean more deeply into our calling… into creating what only we can uniquely give this world. “The appropriate response isn't fear. The appropriate response is understanding.”
As someone building Hawimi with AI every day, that landed deep in me. 🤍
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Ngoni also guides a beautiful practice he calls the Radiance practice. I won't give it away here… it deserves to be received in his voice, with presence. 🙏
Ngoni's full session premieres at the Permanent Presence Summit™. 🎉 Free and online, anywhere you are, November 13 to 16, starting on the International Day of Kindness. Premium and VIP keep every recording for life, with each speaker's gifts.
I choose to come home to my body… I choose understanding over fear, even with AI… I choose, if you want, to do it with you. 🤍
Loto
Founder of Hawimi & the Permanent Presence Summit™
What if Kindness is Always the Answer?
PS. Three ways to continue, if you want:
① Register free for the Permanent Presence Summit and receive a gift Inner Circle session valued at €111: https://Hawimi.World/Summit2026 🎁
② If you want you can become Premium and keep all the sessions for life or VIP and get that + a full month of Inner Circle, with either way you give and receive more. 💛
③ Share this opportunity with the world and receive rewards for sharing kindness and presence. Here's the direct link: https://Hawimi.World/Ambassadors 🫂