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Stop Fronting Unity on the Outside While You’re Bleeding on the Inside

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The West Monetized the Chaos, But We Preserved the Blueprint Great Umoja Stand at the intersection of Broad and High Streets in Columbus, Ohio during the morning rush, and you’ll see it clearly. The world is moving fast, but it’s moving in circles. Broad splits the city East to West; High cuts it North to South. It is a physical grid designed for economic commerce, but mentally, it’s a meat grinder. Every single day, our people are forced to make a radical internal choice: do you keep burning your spirit navigating a hyper-competitive, frantic system engineered to keep you stressed, or do you drop anchor into the intentional, unyielding rhythm of the ancestors? This isn’t abstract philosophy. It is the life-or-death shift from being trapped in the emotional prison of the Mad, Sad, and Scared to operating in the sovereign authority of Peace, Power, and Joy . We are currently moving through the week of Kujichagulia (Self-Determination) , but today specifically anchors us in Umoja (Unity...

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....