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Image by NASA Goddard Photo and Video via Flickr In faith we will walk/ with Imani shielding us/ this year will be great/ Principle - Imani Element - Fire Number- 7 Day- Sunday Color- Red Imani Is faith and when we use our faith as a weapon rather than a crutch. I often hear faith being used in a passive way. Faith is an active power that we must learn to focus. If we do not we become a victim of our own power. We find out as we work with this powerful principle that the things we put Imani in help to shape our life. We bring to life all things we send Imani into, regardless of whether they are good or bad for us. So learn to focus your Imani on what it is you want to strengthen or manifest in your life. Take some time to work with this principle using the tools given. Use the word (Imani) and meditate on it and unravel the secrets for yourself. Related articles January 1st -- Imani (Faith) (icemanbaldy.com)

Image via Wikipedia Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. -Hermann Hesse Familiarity breeds contempt. ~ English Proverb You must eat an elephant one bite at a time. -( Twi ) Brother Ha2tim SelfMasteryCoach Nation Builder HipHop Philosopha & Shaman Related articles Stillness (naomiestment.wordpress.com) Wisdom Quotes for 2011 (psychcentral.com)

Image via Wikipedia This is the new beginning for all those on this Journey. In the coming year we will deal with many new as well as ancient ideas. It is important that all of us walking this Gye-Nyame path to SelfMastery™ that we understand that the holiday season and the celebration that take place prepare us to continue into a new era of time and learning. The ceremonies of winter Solstice, Christmas ( if you celebrate it), New Years, just prepare us for the coming year of ritual. We need to keep in mind that living is the ultimate ritual. Only through living do we get the challenges that force us to grow. In life we have to pull on our principles and by focusing on these principles we open ourselves to divine assistance. So enjoy your parties, and ceremonies because after it is all over the true ritual begins. I am glad that you chose to take time to tune into Gye-Nyame journey to help and challenge you on your walk. So I raise my glass and toast you and pray that we will meet on

Image via Wikipedia Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. -Bo Bennett Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. ~ Thomas Edison One's character is just like any writing on a stone [it is obvious] -. Jaba Brother Ha2tim SelfMasteryCoach Nation Builder HipHop Philosopha & Shaman check me out @ Gyenyamejourney.blogspot.com

Image via Wikipedia Kuumba teaches/ I create therefore I am/ lets recreate world/ Principle- Kuumba Color- Orange Element- Earth Number - 6 Day - Saturday This principle speaks of our very nature. We were created to create. We are here to create. The only question, "what is blocking your creativity?" If Kuumba is in us then why do we refuse to unleash this power on the world? I see a lot of products being produced, I see clever wrapping, I hear some what impressive music, but it is not creative. A majority of what I see in the world today is a variation of a variation of a creative idea from years ago. Kuumba!!! Where have you gone? Come back into my life and the world. Help us create our freedom and prosperity rather than begging to recieive it from the uncreative powers that be.  To create, to practice Kuumba is one of the highest forms of Worship. When we create we pull on that divine spark within ourselves. By pulling on that diviness in us we show our apprec

Image via Wikipedia Believe you can and you're halfway there. ~  Theodore Roosevelt Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails. ~ Scottish Proverb A new world order is in the making, and it is up to us to prepare ourselves that we may take our rightful place in it. Malcolm X Whoever walks with unworthy people becomes unworthy. -Kenya Now I understand........Happy New Year Brother Ha2tim SelfMasteryCoach Nation Builder HipHop Philosopha & Shaman check me out @ Gyenyamejourney.blogspot.com

Image via Wikipedia Living with Nia / sheilds us from life's random winds/ that blows away fake/ Principles- Nia Element- Air Day- Friday Number- 5 Color- Yellow Accidental life/ Poor child, wake up and live life/ Try life on purpose / This was an old Ha2ku from earlier this year, and here is a blog called " Live on purpose ", purpose has been a major topic on our journey this year and probably continue to be. It appears that many of us live our life on accident, we zoom through life on auto pilot following  regular patterns that make us comfortable, but it is this very patterns that may be holding us hostage. during this day of Kwanzaa we get to re-evaluate our life and the reason for existence, and refocus our efforts to accomplish what we chose to come to this planet to fulfill. Part of Nia is taking responsibility for your existence and stop allowing the random events of your life to hold you off your path. When we embrace our Nia, and begin to focus on

Image via Wikipedia Believing that you must do something perfectly is a recipe for stress, and you'll associate that stress with the task and thus condition yourself to avoid it. ~ Steve Pavlina The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. ~ Aristotle It takes 20 years to make an overnight success. ~ Eddie Cantor Brother Ha2tim SelfMasteryCoach Nation Builder HipHop Philosopha & Shaman

Image by day chokes night via Flickr Resources combined/ build power for task at hand/ when many are one/ Principle- Ujamaa Color- Green Day- Thursday Element- water Number- 4 Economics can be defined as the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management. on our journey it is our challenge to look deeper into issues. Ujamaa teaches about cooperative economics but the challenge is to look beyond the outer and move inward. Their is no way we can can talk about managing anything if we have taken the time to learn to mange our inner world. Just for a few moments today I challenge you think about what products you create in your life, how you distribute them to your self and to others. Are the products (thoughts, emotions, imaginations and etc.) are they good or bad for you. Are your products good for those around you.Cooperative economics is not just about gathering and combining the resources

Image via Wikipedia He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced, crushed; he who ceases to grow becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up; the condition of standing still is the beginning of the end. - Henri Fredric Amiel A good fight should be like a small play...but played seriously. When the opponent expands, l contract. When he contracts, l expand. And when there is an opportunity... l do not hit...it hits all by itself (shows his fist). Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it. Bruce Lee George Santayana : "There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval." Brother Ha2tim SelfMasteryCoach Nation Builder HipHop Philosopha & Shaman

Image by The U.S. National Archives via Flickr Collective work and/ Responsibility is/ the key to freedom/ Principle- Ujima Number- 3 color- blue Day- Wednesday Chakra- throat Element- Fire Ujima is the principle that helps us accomplish our goal by teaching us about communication. It is through communication that we are able to marshal our internal as well as our external resources to work together to achieve a goal. When we look at this principle and put it in to practice we become the great speaker, but we also learn about the responsibility that comes with being the bringer of the word. by getting in tune with Ujima and working with it in meditation we learn about the importance of the collective, and how by use of the proper words and motivation we can accomplish the impossible. The mistake that many make with this principle is that they  focus only on the outside world. To get the full use of the power of Ujima we first have to focus its power inward. Yes we have a

Image via Wikipedia He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. -Mary Wilson Little No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. ~ Aristotle The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind. ~  Napoleon Bonaparte PUMA is having a 40% off sale...

Image via Wikipedia My mind is focused/ on Self determination/ Define self for self/ Principle: Kujichagulia: Numbers: 2,8 Color: Indigo Element: earth Day: Tuesday Chakra: Third eye Kwanzaa is time for us to rededicate ourselves. To reconnecting to what is true within us, and to rebuilding our communities The second principle of Kwanzaa speaks to this on several levels. The major issue that we will focus on today with this principle is the power to define ourselves for ourselves (check out my blog and Ha2ku called "NamingYour Purpose "). This principle speaks to us about the importance of defining ourselves and the world that we are in. When  we learn to use the power of this principle in the world we take command of our reality. This makes it easier for us to live, by giving us the responsibility and ability to create the world that we want to see. This powerful principal can be used also in hard times to help us pull through. Self Determination is what it sp

Image via Wikipedia Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. ~ Thomas Fuller Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven't fallen asleep yet. ~ Author Unknown Brother Ha2tim SelfMasteryCoach Nation Builder HipHop Philosopha & Shaman

Image by The Advocacy Project via Flickr Gye- Nyame salutes/ Kwanzaa, let's seek Umoja / Oneness in journey/ Principle: Umoja Day: Monday Number: 1, 8 Element: Air Chakra: Crown Color: Violet Umoja is the principle of unity. This guiding force is one of the most powerful principles to meditate upon, and practice. This principle speaks to us about the unity of all, and reminds us that our existence is interdependent with the rest of existence. By focusing on this principle and its numbers, colors, days, and element we get a deeper understanding of ourselves, and a view of how the universe works. By being able to master the practice of Umoja we become one with all. In this unity we find peace, and also realize that we are lacking nothing. Take time today and reflect on Umoja. See how you fit in to the tapestry of life. Relax and meditate on this principle as well as using it (UMOJA) as a word of power through chanting. Feel it fill each cell of your body and share the