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The Scarcity Trap: Why Your White-Knuckle Hustle Is Rotting the Harvest You can throw a punch with a closed fist, and you can strangle a few dollar bills until your knuckles turn chalky white. But let’s cut through the noise: a clenched fist cannot build an institution, and it sure can’t catch a blessing. Modern culture conditioned us to believe that wealth is a brutal game of musical chairs. We’ve been fed a predatory algorithm that whispers: If your brother eats, your plate goes empty. If your sister takes the stage, you get pushed into the dark. That is artificial scarcity speaking—a psychological trap engineered to keep us exhausted, suspicious, and locked in the frantic cycle of Mad, Sad, and Scared. When you operate from that fear, you don't build wealth; you just hoard crumbs in a burning house. True Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics) doesn’t begin with consumer stacking or running on the hamster wheel of lifestyle inflation to impress people you don't even like. It begins...
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Why Meditate?


I breath in and out/
slowly and with a rhythm/
mind begins to clear/





Meditation is a process of learning to measure our thoughts. In measuring them and observing them we learn how to quite or mind so that we can find peace. According to the lessons in Gye-Nyame when we are asked "what is peace?" The proper response is Harmony and Order. So by practicing meditation those on the Journey bring Harmony and Order into:
1. Into there inner world
2. Into their day life
Being on the Journey regardless of what system you follow requires you to be able to draw on a source of power beyond your physical being, and meditation helps with this. It helps align you with the "True Self". According to the SelfMastery system that we use in Gye-Nyame the Self is defined as: " the absolute, complete, perfect qualities of being that is not influenced by external circumstances" meditation is a major way to commune with this part of our being. When we cultivate peace within ourselves this opens the door for communication the deepest part of our being.
Now meditation does not have to take place just sitting still. Any activatie can be turned into a meditative situation. A prime example I have found in my life of this is the practice of martial arts (capoeira or akido), running, writing (for me poetry, haiku, as well as blogging). These activities are all practices in which I have to settle down and get in contact with that deepest part of my being and get it done.
Now take a moment in your life and identify the practices in your life that you have that can be transformed into meditative moments.
I don't want to take away from sitting meditation because that is important as well. Todays world robs us of time and I have found other ways to increase my contact with my True Self, and I woukd suggest the same for you. Meditation is good for your total health and is a simple tool that can be used on your Journey to assist you in getting the fullness out of this life experience. Meditation helps you become more conscious of the world you live as well as the world that lives in you. So use it, and if you need help checkout my "Sacred Space" meditation on my spreaker radio show and the meditations that will follow. If you want to support the Gye-Nyame Journey you can purchse my "Meditation by the #'s " MP3 availible on bandcamp.com or purchase the "Player's Pyramid" which have a meditation described in its pages.
*I need to mention that you can receive the "Player's Pyramid" free as a PDF if you sign up and make a comment on the blog.
Nuff said
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Peace & 1hunidyears

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