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  Shedding the Shell: The Power of Double Umoja he Blog Post https://www.spreaker.com/episode/shedding-the-shell-the-power-of-double-umoja--72282085 Family, we are standing at a major cultural intersection today. It's a Double Umoja day, and we are officially stepping into the 49-day Cycle of Ujamaa. But before you start thinking about building outward, we need to talk about the internal clutter you're hoarding. Are you currently fighting an internal civil war? When your intuition, mind, emotion, spirit, and physical self are tensed up against each other, unity is impossible. Many of us are out here trying to resolve communal conflicts while carrying a massive shell of hidden trouble on our backs, completely unaware that conflict is just a glitch in our communication styles. We think we need to do more, build more, and add more to our plates, but the ancestors are flashing a red light. The tension you feel isn't because you lack resources—it's because you haven't cl...

Collective Kujichagulia

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  Great Kujichagulia to all my Kuji born out their: "Umoja in motion (collective work and responsibility)" We are looking at Kujichagulia today through the marvelous principle of Ujima. For those new to the journey, and to remind the old heads Ujima means collective work and responsibility. We teach within Gye-Nyame that Ujima is Umoja in motion. Today let's look at the power of a collective, which is a group that pulls together to accomplish a goal. Now let's imagine that they collectively focus on defining their world, or bringing it close to home,redefining their world. What type of changes could this collective bring about? "Gye-Nyame Journey has already put this into motion , by redefining the day" Kujichagulia as we saw last week is strong on defining the world, and since we are in the week of Ujima I believe that it is appropriate for me to call on our collective to start to redefine the world that we are in. Using our collective thought power to resh...