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Burn the Shell: Why Your Passive Faith is Keeping You Trapped

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Burn the Shell: Why Your Passive Faith is Keeping You Trapped Let’s stop playing small. Look around. We are a culture of builders, creators, and visionaries, yet too many of us are walking around mentally bent over, carrying the crushing weight of a system that was never designed to see us win. We’ve been conditioned to be passive—to sit back, pray for a rescue, and hope for validation from the very institutions that profit off our dependency. That isn't faith. That’s a spiritual sedative. True Imani (Faith) is a fire. It is active, aggressive, and disruptive. But before you can catch fire, you have to scrape off the toxic buildup of doubt, blame, shame, and guilt that has accumulated on your psyche. We’ve become like a collective "Simba," raised by sheep, eating grass, and actively hiding our claws because we’re terrified of our own majesty. We’ve been trained to chase external certifications and look for permission from our captors just to prove our worth. It ends toda...

How Your Feelings Stop You From Growing - Daily Toast 611171

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Peace FAM: On this powerful day of Imani, I was hit by the thought of feelings. I know the power of feelings when they are properly directed, but I have been held hostage by them as well. Often times we find that how we feel about some task will freeze us up, and stop us from doing certain task. We have to learn to push past how we feel on some of our quest, because our feelings are helping to hold us back. It is human instinct to want to stay comfortable, we seek comfortable position, and we thrive in predictable situations. Even if the thriving is moving us on  a long train ride to destruction. We hang on to old habits even though we can see that they are making us obeist, lazy, sick, miserable, and etc.. We have to be willing sometimes to jump over how we are feeling and get things accomplished. This is a tough process but often for us to make break throughs we have to do this. Our feelings are a guidance system, not a ruler that should command our lives and limit our actions....