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Stop Hoarding Your Fire: Why Perfectionism is the Matrix’s Favorite Trap

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Stop Hoarding Your Fire: Why Perfectionism is the Matrix’s Favorite Trap Look around, Tribe. The matrix has pulled a fast one on us. It conditioned us to believe that a stumble is a death sentence, a delayed harvest is proof of failure, and every raw idea must be pristine before it ever touches the light. We call it "high standards," but let’s name it what it really is: fear dressed in a tuxedo. Perfectionism is a parasitic program designed by out-of-bounds forces to keep your hands still, your throat closed, and your spirit locked in the dark basement of blame, shame, and guilt. When you fear failure, you stop creating. And the moment you stop creating, you become a passive consumer of other people’s chaos. Look at our ancestral lineage. On August 1, 1834, hundreds of thousands of our ancestors broke through centuries of brutal bondage into the legal dawn of freedom. In 1960, Benin stood up and reclaimed its independence. In 1936, Jesse Owens stepped onto track lanes in Berl...
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Daily Toast- Ujamaa 420171 "Shame Is Robbing Us Blind" aka "There is nothing wrong with being a non-immigrant"

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Peace FAM: "Shame on you", what powerful words, these words can stop some of us in our tracks. We will hear them and start mentally reviewing our actions. Stopping all forward progress until we are able to identify the actions that may be bringing the feelings that go along with these words. Shame can drain an individual, of energy, but what can it do to a people. The feeling of shame blankets us, we feel that it is some shame in being taken advantage off, being robbed, rapped, pillaged, enslaved, and etc.. We as a group may be identifying the wrong emotion that shame comes under. Many of us would place shame under the feeling of mad, but then you must ask the next question, If you are mad then who are you mad with, and for many of us the answer will ourselves. Which is a trap, that will send you us into an endless maze. This is exactly what we have done as a group with our shame, we misdiagnose and wonder why we can't heal. We need to stop, take a breath and get honest...
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