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The Counterfeit of Freedom: Why Breaking Chains Means Nothing If You Cut Your Roots

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  The Counterfeit of Freedom: Why Breaking Chains Means Nothing If You Cut Your Roots The matrix has a funny way of selling us a lie packaged as a luxury. It looks like hyper-independence. It sounds like "I got it on my own." It feels like standing completely alone on top of a hill, isolated from the very people who prayed you into existence. But let’s stop playing nice and look at the diagnostic warning our ancestors left us from Uganda: "If you cut your chains you free yourself. If you cut your roots you die." We have been conditioned to confuse isolation with liberation. We get so consumed with running away from the struggle that we run away from our culture, our history, and our collective responsibility. We are moving through a critical shift right now—vibrating under the frequency of Umoja (Unity) as we anchor ourselves into a cycle of Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility) . You cannot have one without the other. Internal unity is the fuel that makes co...
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Daily Toast- Imani 515171 "Hold your Breath"

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Peace FAM: I have been pushing heavy on the breathing and will continue to do so family. The breathing exercises that I am sharing and talking about will change your life. On this powerful day of Imani I discussed the retention of the breath. Family, breathing right not only contributes to your physical health it helps you with the other 4 parts of your being. I am stressing this in the blog, 21 Day Nguzo Saba Challenge , and especially those in GNJ's Warrior training (coming soon). Breath is the key that helps unlock the trauma, correct the body, clear the mind, and provide us with the energy needed to build the culture that a nation can spring from. I am saying that how we breath set us into a rythm that will either put us in time with oppression, or  freedom. Most of us are breathing in the rythm of slavery, and oppression. Now let's look at the retention of the breath. When you consciously hold your breath you are making an effort to take control of your your being. Bre...
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