A part of the task that I see before me and all of us as descendants of the great African contributors to humankind is to restore our ancestors to their former and well-deserved dignity. We can best do this by demonstrating the power of their wisdom through applying it to our lives and condition. ☥ ☥ Dr. Na’im Akbar ☥
Shape clay into a vessel; It is the space within that makes it useful. Cut doors and windows for a room; It is the holes which make it useful. Therefore benefit comes from what is there; Usefulness from what is not there. ☥ ☥ ☥ Laozi ☥
From about 1885 to the end of the Second World War, most of Africa was under the yoke of colonialism; and hence colonial historiography held sway. According to this imperial historiography, Africa had no history and therefore the Africans were a people without history. They propagated the image of Africa as a 'dark continent.' Any historical process or movement in the continent was explained as the work of outsiders ... African history was seen as the history of Europeans in Africa ... Colonialism was celebrated as a 'civilising mission' carried out by traders, missionaries and administrators ... By Africa, for instance, many of the scholars meant 'sub-Saharan' or 'Black' Africa, definitions which were intended for various ideological and political reasons to divorce North Africa from the rest of the continent. Since the 19th century, many Western scholars have made strenuous efforts to deny the Africanness of North Africa and its peoples, especially the Africanness of the great civilization of ancient Egypt. ☥ ☥ Dr. Bethwell Allan Ogot ☥
Bat Energy ☥ The Inception Of Yin and Yang
If you have not yet read "What Is Ayurveda?" and "Discernment ☥ Wisdom Of Our Chakras," I highly recommend them as your next reads for historical ☥ energetic context and to re-read ☥ study to help you put the puzzle pieces together as they apply to your life. Bat is the Celestial Goddess Of Interdependent Opposites. She existed thousands of years before the birth of Christ and the development of Qigong. She was so important to Pharaoh Menkaure that he commissioned several images of himself with her at his left side. Yin and yang are not what we have come to know as "opposites" in the Western world. Yin and yang are interdependent opposites which has a much deeper meaning that transcends the written word. A way to think about the concept is to ask ourselves:
How do we define hot without an understanding of cold? Hot and cold are interdependent opposites. As we explore hot and cold, we find our center, a place where we can live at peace that is warm and comfortable.
Each of us is an electrical dynamo, a factory of a million strings to be fed and rejuvenated so that we can operate at the highest efficiency ... We must realize that crises come and are natural ... A healing crisis is an elimination process in which a vital principle is at work. The body wants to get rid of catarrh and we should not stop that elimination ... Healing occurs from the head down, from inside out, and in reverse order as the symptoms have first been acquired. Dr. Bernard Jensen
One of the reasons why it is so challenging for us to demystify ☥ heal our emotions is because we are terrified to explore them. If we want to find happiness and peace, we must dive into the most unpleasant part of our pain without allowing the pain of our past to infect or affect us in the process. While this journey may appear to be frightening, it is the most efficient way to identify and remove the root cause of our pain which dismantles it and allows it to dissipate. Our hesitation to dive into our pain keeps us imprisoned within illusions, sort in the same way that a child is afraid of a shadow that turns out to be a sweater hanging over a chair once the light is turned on in their room. The fear of what the illusion might be feels so real that we may spend our entire lives avoiding it, even if it means destroying our health through poor nutrition, addictions or other distractions. The wisdom of Bat shows us how to turn on the light, release our fears and guides us through a process of traveling back and forth between interdependent "opposites" until we find our center.
Thus African historiography was closely linked with the colonial period and its own official historiography, with prejudices acquired and disseminated as historical knowledge, and with Eurocentric assumptions and arrogant certainty. Social Darwinism accorded Europeans an innate superiority over other peoples and justified Europe's plunder of the rest of the world. ☥ ☥ Dr. Bethwell Allan Ogot ☥
The Aryan religion was brutal and materialistic. The caste system was rigid and oppressive, and the Brahmins wielded great power. The Sramanas, as the yogis and other independent thinkers and teachers were known, were tolerated when their priests were not strong enough to eliminate them, but were hunted down and killed, and driven out of the area where the priests had full control. ☥ Vivian Worthington
Colonization has dissected, dismantled/destroyed and appropriated much of Kamitian (Ancient Egyptian) culture, preventing it from developing in Africa. However, it survived through Ancient Africans, such as the Dravidians (a.k.a. Sramanas), who brought their intricate system of spiritual development ☥ lifestyle strategies into India. The system spread to China around 65 AD, but it was the Hindu sage Padma Sambhava who was believed to introduce the concepts of Tantric Buddhism to Tibet. Kamitian hieroglyphics include deep intellectual and spiritual practices such as Cosmology, Elemental Theory (which evolved into the practice of Feng Shui in China), Yoga and Qigong that appear thousands of years before their development in Asia. Bat is the Goddess of Interdependent Opposites. The Tao of Bat became known as the yin yang symbol. When we say her name and share her image, we restore the dignity of our ancestors and reclaim our stolen legacies.
The new masters also outlawed the religion of the Blacks as they made their new religion the official one of the land. This caused the religion of the Blacks, which involved Cosmology, meditation, Deity invocation (predominately Goddesses), hatha yoga, pranayama, mantra yoga, kundalini yoga, yantras, spiritual initiations, talismanic magic, tantric rituals, etc. to break up into separate practices. ☥ ☥ Ra Un Nefer Amen ☥
Today, those who do not know the history of the yogic tradition, nor understand its inner constitution, speak of the 'Light Of The East' when in reality it is a modification of the Light taken by Blacks from Nubia into the Tigris and Indus Valley in prehistoric times. ☥ ☥ Ra Un Nefer Amen ☥
What Is Qigong?
Qigong is the harmonious utilization, synchronization and catalyzation of breath and movement. The first part of the word is "Qi" (pronounced "chi") which has many meanings that transcend the written word, but the closest English translations are energy ☥ breath ☥ life force. Gong can be translated to mean cultivation ☥ movement ☥ work (activation). When we practice Qigong, we are cultivating our ability to connect with, learn about and evolve the potential of our energy. The practice of Qigong enhances the body’s innate ability to heal itself. Before teaching or defining Qigong, I conduct a demonstration because I firmly believe that the concept of "Qi" has to be experienced before it can be properly defined. To that end, I hope that you practiced connecting with your energy as instructed in the above video. If not, I encourage you to click on the picture below for an even shorter demonstration of "Qi."
Qigong is a spiritual practice in that we are connecting with the truest part of ourselves, but it will not interfere with any religious practice. Anyone (Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, etc.) can practice Qigong. We can think of Qigong as a tool - like a microphone that amplifies our personal religious ☥ spiritual practices.
[Our] thinking, emotions, physical activities, physiological processes and development of spiritual powers - in other words, all aspects of [our] life - are carried out by the life force or energy within [our] being. ☥ ☥ Ra Un Nefer Amen ☥
We know that many forms of energy cannot be seen with the naked eye. Many of us automatically attach an ominous feeling to the conscious cultivation of our own energy - a reflection social programming that has influenced us since early childhood. These feelings can cause us to fear what we do not understand even though it is an intricate part of who we are. My favorite way of teaching people about their energy is to have everyone stand in a circle. We rub our hands together until our palms become warm. Then, we slowly turn our palms to face the person's palm next to us and we get as close as we can without touching the other person. I instruct people to pause when they feel the energy of the other person in their palm. We then do a breathing exercise and notice how our palms can give and receive energy at the same time. I find that this exercise helps to make our energy less mystical so that people will be more more willing to practice Qigong. I also use it to demonstrate how we can offer healing energy to others without depleting ourselves.
It is now well known that the human body emits a broad spectrum of electromagnetic and acoustic radiation. Traditional medicine looks at these as by-products of biochemical reactions in the body. They are not considered by most biomedical researchers to be involved with the basic functioning (or healing) of the body. The basic tenet of energy medicine is that these fields are not only involved with functioning of the physical/chemical body but regulate these processes. ☥ ☥ Dr. Glen Rein, Electro-Medicine Researcher ☥
When we walk into a room and see a very attractive person, we feel energy (Qi). If we were to see a person whom has annoyed us in the past, we would feel energy (Qi). They are different kinds of energy, but they exist and they have always existed. When we don't practice Qigong, we become passive with these energies which puts those energies in control of our responses. Daily Qigong practice teaches us how to become proactive with these energies and firmly in control of our responses to them.
The Difference Between Qigong And Tai Chi
We can think of Qigong as the mother of Tai Chi (Tai Qi), the martial arts and healing modalities such as acupuncture. Qigong is an extension of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). It is a moving meditation that seamlessly integrates conscious breath work. When we practice Qigong, we focus on a few slow-motion movements that are continuously repeated which facilitates the cultivation, catalyzation and expression of our Qi. The repetitions gradually cause our body to relax which increases circulation and flexibility. For example, at the beginning of the practice, our back may be really stiff which limits our movements. However, after 10 repetitions of the same movement, we may be surprised to find that we are able to touch our toes without overexerting our body. Because most Qigong forms consist of just a few movements with multiple repetitions and requires that we move in slow-motion, it can be challenging for practitioners to be present because it tests our ability to transcend boredom and distractions while staying open to deep insights coming from the body. Moving in slow-motion increases self-awareness and tends to make people feel self-conscious which causes them to attempt to speed up the form or jump ahead to the next movement.
Tai Chi is also a moving meditation, but it is a martial arts style that has many different movements and is performed three times faster than Qigong. The focus of the Tai Chi practice is the expression of Qi. In my experience, people tend to prefer Tai Chi because they don't feel self-conscious when they are focusing on perfecting the specific movements. Because the form focuses on the expression of Qi, they can perfect their form by going through the motions without actually connecting with their energy. Tai Chi may have 24 or more movements, some of which look really cool to do, which allows people to focus more on how they look doing the form than the cultivation of their Qi. As a result of these differences, Tai Chi has been mass marketed and is much more readily available through classes and private instruction.
All culture and tradition which has survived must have its benefits. Perhaps some of them do not fit in our world; however, they deserve our respect. Remember, if you get rid of your past, you have pulled out your root. ☥ ☥ Jwing-Ming Yang ☥
Power ☥ The African ☥ Indigenous Connection To Animals
This section continues to evolve, so you may find a comfortable reading space and healthy snacks to be useful. In the Discernment ☥ Wisdom Of Our Chakras blog, we learn about a hidden form of psychosis that is embedded within colonizer behavior. The psychosis is fueled by a thirst for power that colonizers believe they can extract through domination/sex, which causes them to rape people and animals to feed an emotional addiction to feeling powerful. In other words, because colonizers do not understand their emotions, they mistake the intense feeling that accompanies an orgasm with the extraction of power. To be clear, we do lose a type of energy called “Ojas” when we have an orgasm. The concept of “Ojas” goes beyond the scope of this blog, but for the sake of simplicity, what we recognize as orgasmic energy does not transfer to another person. Similarly to what happens to urine when we go to the bathroom, it gets “released” unless two people are engaged in an exchange of sexual alchemy which involves a spiritual connection. In the case of sexual alchemy, the yin and yang spiritual connection causes an energetic exchange between the couple which cultivates additional energy that is coming from SPIRIT. The depletion of “Ojas” eventually leads to sexual debility and often sexual perversion as the person continually attempts to “capture” energy instead of cultivating it from within themselves. My sexual health series will provide comprehensive coverage of “Ojas.” Daily Qigong practice will teach us how to replenish “Ojas.”
The extraction of power misconception is reinforced by the trauma bonds that are formed through manipulative sex. A person who rapes a bear cannot become a bear or steal the strength/power of a bear. There is nothing a person can do to take the strength or power of a bear and put it inside of themself. However, SPIRIT can send bear energy (educational Qi) our way to teach us lessons that help us to cultivate power within ourselves such as how to harness the power of hibernation, assert strong boundaries (which develops our Qi), etc. Our attraction to the bear is not sexual. It is reverent in that we realize that the bear is bringing us a message from The Great Spirit to help us protect ☥ level up some area of our lives. In a similar way, power cannot be extracted because it comes from inside of us. However, a trauma bond creates an illusion of power. It would be like chaining a car to a tow truck to control if it moves and where it goes (a primary function of colonization). If the colonizer loses the chain, they lose the "power" which means that the "power" does not reside within them. If they were truly powerful, they wouldn't need the chain. Because the power that they seek cannot come from domination or sex, they cannot sustain the feeling that they are addicted to which causes the cyclical pattern of repeating their behavior. The power that African ☥ Indigenous People educe comes from inside through connection to the truest part of ourselves (connection with our Qi). An important missing link for African ☥ Indigenous People is daily Qigong practice because it is a strategy for the activation of our Qi, but because we confuse knowing with doing, we are left vulnerable to the incessant attacks from colonizers. Reading this blog and understanding the content will not activate our Qi. Daily practice = activation + strength + refinement of our inner power (Qi). Because we are not cultivating our inner power (which makes us passive with our energy), colonizers believe that they can extract this power without having to do the spiritual work which is how we ended up with economic suppression, the manipulation of herbs to create psychedelic and other drugs, alcohol abuse, pillaging, rape, beastiality, etc.
Daily Qigong practice protects ☥ strengthens us, offers a true understanding of power that we can directly access, the ability to thwart impending danger and the wisdom to recognize the futility of continually creating and perpetuating harm by attempting to extract power from an outside source. It is a silent yet formidable strategy for healing our world.
Let's review and repeat these concepts in Qigong fashion to ensure that we can apply them to our lives. Colonizers do not understand the African ☥ Indigenous connection to animals, but they want the power that they witness emanating from us as a result of the connection. African ☥ Indigenous People have deep connections with and learn from animals, but that connection is reverent, not sexual. Even Africans ☥ Indigenous People who eat animals, first talk to and pray with that animal before consuming it. In many African ☥ Indigenous cultures, it is believed that the animal comes to the person to be sacrificed for a spiritual purpose. The power that we get from animals comes from the embodiment of the lessons they teach us through their behaviors. Many of these lessons transcend words, so the animal is like a translator for The Great Spirit. Animals also visit us to bring a message or warning from The Great Spirit. When I was on a boat ride in Belize, I heard many birds singing. Our Indigenous tour guide said that the birds were telling the people at our destination that we were on our way. Before colonization, animals in captivity (chained, harnessed and even fenced in, etc.) was not a common practice for Africans ☥ Indigenous People. The animals roamed free in their co-existence with humans. One of the local hotels that I stayed at in Guatemala had wild turkeys roaming throughout the property. As a child, I loved learning about animals, but felt uneasy during my first trip to a "zoo," could not understand why people were so enamored with the "circus" and was confused by the concept of animals as "pets." The concept of an animal as a "pet" is a heavily promoted eurocentric idea and social program that alludes to some form of subjugation. Sex with an animal will not give a person power, but it does fuel sexual perversions that can be driven by:
☥ Loneliness (which may begin in childhood as the animal provides "secret" comfort)
☥ An unwillingness to learn how to have healthy relationships/resolve conflicts with people
☥ Emotional trauma from people, that they do not know how to heal, causing them to use
the animal for nonjudgmental emotional support
☥ Unresolved sexual trauma
Zoophilia can offer a person many forms of sexually transmitted diseases/other infections that will either manifest within them or (particularly if the person is a man and because they often don't show symptoms) will infect other people through sexual contact.
Zoophilia was estimated to be prevalent in 2% of the population in 2021. ☥ ☥ From The Research Article, 'Review of cases, case series and prevalence studies of zoophilia in the general population' By Adalberto Campo-Arias, Edwin Herazo and Guillermo A. Ceballos-Ospino ☥
The challenge with using animals for 'emotional support' is that, without a high level of self-awareness, they can become a crutch (emotional support → emotional transference or projection). Examples include people who make comments about animals being better, more loyal or dependable than humans. When we do the work of cultivating benchmarks for trust and set ☥ enforce healthy boundaries, we develop healthy relationships with people.
At what point will we actually deal with, heal and release the emotions/trauma (which will include experiencing some temporary discomfort)? If the animal is there soothing us whenever we feel bad, we may not do the work (which is too often the case), and over time we can develop an unhealthy relationship with the animal (i.e. begin to avoid people, conflict, suppress the urge to grow that is coming from our innate intelligence, etc.). As an example, a person may prefer an animal to a human, because all they have to do is feed/walk the animal to get consistent unconditional support (personal growth ☥ development is not needed). But with a human, the person will have to learn how to adapt and evolve in environments that are riddled with unknown variables (requires personal growth ☥ development ☥ maturity). Can we see how this behavior with the animal could turn into an emotional addiction or create a distraction that is no different than taking a drug? I get the distinct impression, from my conversations with Indigenous healers and from Bat ☥ Goddess Of Interdependent Opposites, that unhealthy behavior with animals is causing a global disturbance of our natural order and that there is a vital need for self-correction. Healthy people collaborate ☥ pluralistically communicate with and learn lessons from animals.
I will digress here to provide a few examples of pluralistic communication. I am defining pluralistic communication to mean an understanding (of people, animals, cultural or contextual situations, etc.) that is highly intuitive. This can include a feeling, insight or a cultural way of knowing or obtaining information. One day, I was hiking in Northern California. I was on a ledge that allowed me to see a large clearing that was about 1/2 klick (kilometer) away from me. I was surprised to see a lone wolf in the clearing. I wasn't afraid, and the wolf never addressed me, but I could tell that she had spotted me from her peripheral vision. I was too high up for her to reach me easily, but I couldn't tell if she was a scout or with a pack (female wolves don't usually scout). I cannot explain how, but she communicated to me (an example of intuitive contextual pluralistic communication) that it was not a good day to be on the trail. I immediately turned around and left. I chuckled as I walked back to my car and thought of a day when I went to an Italian pizzeria as a kid, and the guy who handed me the calzone said, "You're taking this to go right?" I was planning on eating at the restaurant, but the look in his eyes told me that it wasn't a good day to eat there. So, I took my food to go (an example of cultural contextual pluralistic communication).
During a long hike on another trail, an owl called out. I had just gone on a bird watching tour with the Outdoor Afro group, and no people were around, so I thought it would be a great idea to practice my owl calling. The owl was far away, but once I started practicing, it came closer and followed me back to my car. I got the distinct impression that it was critiquing and encouraging me to get it right. A professor, who is a Herpetologist at the University of New Mexico, was constantly recruiting me to take one of the university's snakes home. They were attempting to protect the snakes by allowing them to mature in a protected environment and then releasing them in the wild. However the idea of keeping frozen mice in my freezer and the thought of what I would do if the snake got out of its cage was enough for me to repeatedly decline the offer. However, one day I was on a hike, and I saw a long snake on the trail. It didn't have a rattle, but I was not going to get close enough to inspect further.
The professor, who was on a mission to get me comfortable with snakes, said that if I encountered a snake to make vibrations on the ground with my foot, and the snake would leave. But this snake would not budge. If I turned around, I would have been late for an appointment. So, I watched the snake for a few moments while I negotiated my courage level. I truly wanted to turn back, but I felt like I needed to keep going. I cautiously walked up to the snake while making vibrations on the ground, praying and asking the snake for permission to cross. I then stepped over the snake which was a major growth moment for me, and I must stress, is what the park service says NOT to do. The recommendation is to turn back if the snake doesn't move. The snake did not budge. I kept walking and when I was about 1/2 klick away, I looked back at the snake. In that moment, the snake slowly slithered off the trail Qigong-style as if to prove to me that it wasn't dead and could have moved at any time if it wanted to. I believed that the snake was teaching me something about facing my fears ☥ shedding outdated belief systems (translation from The Great Spirit), because the incident reflected messages that I was repeatedly receiving but rejecting from the professor. Would the snake have crossed my path at all if I had found a way to interact with one of the snakes in the Biology department (an example of contextual pluralistic communication)?
During my next visit to the Biology department, the professor was so excited to learn that I didn't turn back because he was attempting to rid the public of programmed fear of snakes. However, I told myself that if it happened in again, I would turn back in reverence for the snake and to honor its space (an example of intuitive contextual pluralistic communication). In my 14 years of daily hiking in that area, I had only seen two very small snakes, both of which quickly moved away from me as I approached them. In a different area, I walked past a snake that I thought was a strange looking stick, which brings my number up to three snake sightings in more than 20 years of hiking + one snake that our tour guide in Costa Rica stepped off the trail to find and show us. Daily Qigong practice heightens our ability to communicate pluralistically which allows us to simultaneously read a situation on physical ☥ emotional ☥ cultural ☥ contextual ☥ ancestral ☥ other unknown levels that transcend the physical realm and guides us to take the action that serves the highest good in the moment.
Colonizers' misunderstanding of our deep connection to animals often occurs because:
☥ Colonizers use monolithic methods to study Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant People, but
because we are pluralistic in our thoughts and behaviors, who we truly are cannot be
understood monolithically. I understood Sadhguru to say that we can understand some
things about an animal by dissecting it, but we cannot understand who a person is by
dissecting them. He also implies that we don't know what we think we know about
animals. Monolithic methods of study are limited and can create dangerous delusions of
arrogance + willful ignorance.
☥ Colonizers have traveled far away from the truest part of themselves in order to commit
heinous crimes against humanity and their delusions of superiority causes them to
believe that they can create/control anything/anyone with enough resources. They
believe themselves to be superior to everyone else and that we all think and behave the
way they do. Because their response is consistently subjugation through violence,
they believe that all people respond in this way. Their low level of consciousness
prevents them from realizing that Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant People want to live in
peace. This doesn't mean that we will not protect ourselves, but it does mean that we
realize what violent, predatory and parasitic behavior does to our soul, and we have no
interest in becoming like the people who oppress us. Colonizers are blinded by their ego
and guilt-ridden fear of losing something that they don't actually have. Nothing that
they acquire seems to satisfy them, but because they don't know how else to soothe
their addiction to the "feeling" that acquisition gives them, they continue to acquire,
regardless of the cost to themselves or others. This misunderstanding keeps us trapped
within cycles of psychosis, a root cause that fuels mental imbalances, drives global wars
and other forms of oppression.
The Outshined music video features a backstory of a white man building a human-sized gerbil's wheel, stoically stepping into it and continuing to walk as the video ends. Chris Cornell, the lead singer of Soundgarden, hung himself in a Detroit hotel in 2017. He struggled with an array of addictions, and his family asserts that he would not have killed himself (and that medication was the contributing factor). I am haunted by the fact that he had a multidimensional understanding of depression, but couldn't get up on his feet again and liberate himself from it, despite his success and indisputable vocal talent. Acquisition and access to the best medications money can buy couldn't save his life, but if he learned to tap into the truest part of himself, heal past traumas and educe his inner power, that power would have outshined the depression and put him on the path to deep fulfillment.
☥ Colonizers equate power with acquisition. For example, colonizers believe that they are
powerful because they stole a country's resources. However, Black ☥ Indigenous ☥
Immigrant People believe that a person who has to steal in order to feel powerful is not
powerful at all because people steal what they don't already have. We see them as
thieves, bullies, parasitic, violent, predatory and psychotic, but not as powerful because:
Their words and actions suggest an approach to life, technology and business that I have come to call 'The Mindset' – a belief that with enough money, one can escape the harms created by earning money in that way. It’s a belief that with enough genius and technology, they can rise above the plane of mere mortals and exist on an entirely different level, or planet, altogether. ☥ Douglas Rushkoff, From The Guardian Article, 'We will coup whoever we want!’: the unbearable hubris of Musk and the billionaire tech bros'
I started making connections about colonizers' misunderstandings of power through my psych experiments as I observed and interviewed narcissistic white women who date Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant men. I noticed that many of them exuded a deep sense of satisfaction when mistaking the look on my face for jealousy as they walked by me with their Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant man on their arm or bragged about their sexual conquests. I haven't ever felt jealous of a white woman as they have nothing that I want, including the Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant men that they are with (because these men will not be healthy mates for Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant women until Set can remove impurities and then Sobek can cleanse them in the Nile River). My Qigong practice taught me how to protect myself by becoming sensitive to energy, so Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant men who date these types of white women have an energetic signature or an odor that is often repulsive to me (and doesn't go away until the man becomes a King or Emperor).
The only way I can explain the look on my face, that white women misinterpret, would be to say that it is the anger, frustration, pain and emotional fatigue that comes from knowing that a Page/Knight is locked within a deep trauma bond and is being continually molested, but because of social programming, that Page/Knight doesn't recognize the emotional manipulation and believes that he is achieving a high level of status through the connection. It is difficult to watch a person being used, especially through sexual manipulation, and know that nothing we say or do will convince them of the truth because they have been blinded by their ego which causes them to hide behind "status" to mask their pain. It is even more difficult to accept that the social programming embedded within our psyche, which places white women on a pedestal, was paid for by generations of murdering hundreds of millions of our ancestors. The pain of Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant women comes from the silent exchange with the white woman because she is keenly aware that we understand the deception, and she takes great pleasure in knowing that we can't do anything about it (hence her perception of exerting power over us). All we can do is watch and hope that the Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant men wake up ☥ heal on their own.
The pain and emotional fatigue that Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant women feel is fueled by the injustice of societal norms that permit/celebrate manipulative behaviors. The behaviors don't rob us of our personal power, but it is both painful and emotionally exhausting to watch Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant men exuding self-hatred while knowing that they are being manipulated into believing that they exude power. The targeting of the most affluent Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant men by white women also represent a creative form of disenfranchisement. white women have used Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant men to become millionaires/billionaires and they have offered nothing to help Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant communities evolve financially or in consciousness. Many of these white women hang in there long enough to make the necessary business contacts, get exposure, have a few kids and then enjoy the benefits of a lucrative divorce settlement. Their kids are often just weapons to be used for emotional leverage. Because men aren't taught how to process their emotions, they punish themselves by dating/marrying the same types of women which locks them inside the trauma bond.
... elephant handlers often train[ed] baby elephants to be submissive by chaining them to a post. They'll fight with all their will to break free. Day in and day out they'll try, but eventually they just give up. When the baby elephants become adults they no longer need chains to be tied in place; just a thin rope will do. ☥ HuffPost, From The Article, 'Elephant Ropes: Our Continuing Attachment To Fear'
A biracial person once told me that their Black father attempted to sell them to get rid of them. This is a deep complicated issue.
This is not the first story I’ve heard about selling biracial children, and I haven’t dived deeply into the data, but the idea of/opportunity to sell a child on the street would not exist if it were not somehow heavily promoted in the underground market. It is imperative that Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant People share our stories so that we can expose and dismantle hidden forms of corruption spawned by racism and oppression. This type of hidden corruption feeds into the human trafficking market and proves that enslavement has not ended. It continues to be reinvented because our society has not healed and removed its root causes.
I tried to help this person understand that our parents are just people who had sex. Procreation does not make a person a parent. I deduced that this person's father was raped and manipulated by their mother, and trying to get rid of them was the father's way of attempting to release himself from the manipulation because he didn't know how to heal. I saw a response that this person's white mother made on social media that led me to the conclusion that she attempts to manipulate them through co-dependency. It is vitally important that biracial people heal ☥ cleanse ancestral trauma and their current environment. A seed cannot grow under the tree, which is why the wind blows the seed to a clearing where it can find its own space to grow. In a similar way, we have to take the lessons that we learn (positively or negatively) from our birth parents and use those lessons to help us evolve in consciousness - which requires that we heal and remove ourselves from toxic relationships.
Our value is not determined by the actions of others, and beautiful flowers ☥ sweet fruits can grow from the stinkiest compost. This biracial person's attachment to how they wished their parents were kept them trapped within a toxic cycle of emotional pain. This person is doing phenomenal work in their community, and they cannot afford to waste time or energy on anything/anyone that jeopardizes their mental/emotional wellbeing and keeps them from fulfilling their potential. Daily Qigong practice teaches us how to see things as they truly are, tap into the truest part of ourselves and educe our inner love ☥ power. As we heal and grow, we may have to spend some time in solitude and distance ourselves from toxic biological family members, but we will attract healthy people who become a part of our spiritual family. Black grandmothers can often end up raising/being an anchor for their biracial grandchildren, but grandmothers can only offer healing if they have done the work of healing themselves. The emotional and racial fatigue that Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant women experience causes us to feel like we must lift the heavy burdens of racism on our own which often traps us into rumination instead of lifting our consciousness to the level of SPIRIT where our solutions reside.
The targeting of Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant men leaves Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant women exceptionally vulnerable to abuse. In America, 62% of confirmed sex trafficking victims are African American. A Community-Based Ecosystems Approach To Healing Our Village shares a few stories of creative ways that middle/upper class Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant women are targeted for sex trafficking.
The emotional fatigue can cause Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant women to either:
☥ overlook the strong Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant men who stand beside us, are
truly in the fight with us to empower our communities and who do not succumb to the
incessant advances of white women; or,
☥ over burden Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant men with our complaints about the men
who have abandoned us ☥ our communities.
I have personally worked with many brilliant Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant men who are under tremendous pressure to co-create healthy communities in the midst of inhumane resistance. Our daily Qigong practice teaches us how to demystify ☥ heal our emotions so that we can "see" and positively affirm the men in our community who stand in solidarity with us. Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant women have become masters at using the insurmountable racial pressure imposed upon us to turn our coal into diamonds. I have yet to witness that kind of inner power emanating from a colonizer, but they continually hunt us to take the diamonds that we produce by force. The constant "taking" creates a false sense/definition of power that colonizers must keep "taking" in order to sustain. We cannot afford to be passive with our Qi. In today's society, this "taking" is gaining momentum and will make Africa and people of the African diaspora even more vulnerable to many forms of manipulation as its youthful population is causing it to be targeted for yet another modern day scramble:
Until colonizers overstand how to harness inner power, they will be stuck in the madness of seeking something that will forever remain elusive to them and will cause them to continually create and perpetuate harm everywhere they go. If they don't shift their behavior to humanitarianism, they will destroy everyone and everything on this planet.
African governments are scrambling for dollars, and that’s creating a new dividing line for investors … Investors are rewarding nations whose efforts to boost dollar liquidity are paying off. But they’re punishing those that can’t guarantee access to the currency they need to invest and repatriate returns, and are steering clear of countries without adequate reserves to cover import costs or debt repayments. African currencies are the worst performers in the world this year, with about a dozen sliding at least 15% against the dollar … Eurobond issuers who were forced to devalue this year include Egypt, Nigeria and Angola. ☥ ☥ Bloomberg ☥
How do we justify raping Africa for its resources for thousands of years and then re-invent economic suppression so that African governments are forced to scramble for dollars? Losing hundreds of millions of Africans to genocide and enslavement is not even considered as a lost resource. Stealing art that provides european museums with billions of dollars in revenue is not factored into the balance sheets. How did these investors get their money in the first place? Why is Africa in debt to any country? If we briefly explore African art, we find that:
☥ europeans were paid to steal the art from Africa.
☥ europeans are paid when people go to the museum to see the art (including Africans
who have to pay money to colonizers to learn about African art/history/culture).
☥ europeans are paid to take/disseminate pictures of the art which often includes white
people in those pictures to insert white people and their interpretations of our culture
into African history and culture.
the art because African art and history has been erased from the educational
curriculum. Similar erasures of history occur in America and globally.
Our daily Qigong practice reminds us to make the best of the resources that we do have so that we can cultivate an evolutionary growth mindset, even if our financial resources are currently limited. Phyllishubbard.com runs on faith ☥ fumes, and the three projects that need to be developed ☥ produced are stalled until they can be funded. It takes a long time and persistence amidst constant rejection, especially of healing work, to secure large grants ☥ funding. Many years ago, one of my clients insisted that I allow someone to take a picture of myself shaking my finger at her so that she could put it in her pantry to prevent her from buying junk food. Her request inspired some of my fundraising efforts, and I now say that I need your 40, junk food and gambling money. When you donate money to phyllishubbard.com that you would have spent on disempowering distractions, you empower yourself through a conscious decision to make better choices, regularly donate money that you aren't going to miss and that helps to heal yourself and our communities. 40, junk food and gambling money would pay for a month's access to the beautiful images that you see or one of the many business fees that are designed to shut down and disenfranchise healers. How many times have you seen a great idea disappear? It disappears because we spent money on 40, junk food and gambling instead of supporting the great idea. If everyone regularly gave a little and offered love gifts, we would be surprised at how much we could accomplish. However the heavy weight of oppression tends to keep us in cyclical loops of frustration and lures us into disempowering distractions which increases our stress and causes more problems for us to solve. The constant pressure often prevents us from taking actions - even small ones that could create lasting change.
A federal appeals court has struck down a key path for enforcing the Voting Rights Act. The new ruling in an Arkansas redistricting lawsuit may set up the next U.S. Supreme Court fight that could further limit the reach of the Voting Rights Act's protections for people of color. ☥ ☥ NPR ☥ All Things Considered ☥
We can't afford to wait for colonizers to wake up. Qigong was outlawed for hundreds of years because of Aryan influenced oppression and the constant extraction of its African origins. During this time, the Qigong masters learned how to practice concealed Qigong in public and kept it from disappearing off the face of the earth. In time, Qigong became so valuable that it went from being outlawed to respected as a primary system of health care in Asia. We've learned a great deal from their experiences and the actions we take today can create societal change without having to go underground for hundreds of years.
Because we have been passive with our Qi, we may not see the invisible ways that colonization reinvents and reinforces itself. Daily Qigong practice cultivates the self-awareness to consider that while Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant men and women are prevented from having healthy relationships with each other, colonizers can more easily extract our resources and prevent us from building and sustaining strong communities (or consider the insanity of the desire to prevent the cultivation of any healthy community). Our Qigong practice teaches us how to implement counterstrategies for protection ☥ recovery ☥ empowerment.
Qigong teaches us how to cultivate consistent, disciplined self-care practices, harness our inner power to build a better world, resist oppression in a way that does not deplete us, protect ourselves from the many ways that colonizers attempt to "take" from us and tap into the infinite source of energy required to cultivate wellness ☥ transcend the madness of racism and oppression.
What Is Qigong? Part II explores the power of slow movements and the healing benefits of Qigong. Learn how daily practice can help you dismantle social programming and cultivate inner power.
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