Black People : WHAT TO DO

[truetothecause]

YES

of your stress? Have you been holding onto something that the ancestors are asking you to release, like your "job"? I don't want to pressure you or ask nosy questions, I'm only seeking to illuminate the root of the uneasiness. Is there another direction that you can take your skills, or creatively market your experience in a new way that you would believe is productive? I'm guessing you work in a hospital / hospice / etc...

When you ask your highest self what is the one thing I need to change to improve my life what is the very first word you receive?

in large part....
I ask myself ALL THE TIME....How to BEST use my self and my skills.

I also have been working diligently to bring that into fruition AND am confronted with barriers called FAMILY...at every given turn right now!

I KNOW I would be best suited to something in public advocacy...maybe lobbying or something...yet...have NO CLUE how to get my foot in that door or how to provide basic needs in the meantime.

Also...lobbying means in many ways believing that it will "make a difference" for the "masses" whom I RE~present.
I just believe I am trapped between "a rock and a hard place"...with "no way out".

As long as whites are on this planet and FREE to continue the destruction of Afreekans ....then...I and WE will continue to be forced to take baths, pop vitamins, practice Ancestral worship...maintaining alters and the like....AS LONG as they are FREE to engage in the acts of ******y that they do...toying with the minds and hearts of ME AND MY PEOPLE...then...I'll likely to be in this state.

In the meantime tho...I WILL DO what I can as long as I am here.

Heck...IF the "Ancestors" want me to release my "job"...THEN they need to show me how I'm to maintain a roof over my head, food in my mouth...even if it's bean sprouts...clothes etc.....until then...my MOM ...who is now an Ancestor done taught me NOT to leave a job WITHOUT having a backup plan...i.e another job that's going to allow me to provide those BASIC needs. you know:?:

In my profession, the choices are slim to none cause I will be going from one plantation to the next...ssdd

M.E.

 

[PurpleMoons]

Ya know Sister, i think i must have sat here atleast and hour trying to muster up words of comfort in this stressful time. I then realized there is probably nothing i can tell you that you don't know already. You are a wise and knowledgable women. You have all the information and resources you need right there inside of you. Just look a little closer...then listen a little more intently. Yeahhh! You hear it don't you? You know what you must do. If you don't hear it, chances are you may be listening to the wrong thing.

But like many of us...we ignore it. We think we are not qualified enough to solve our problems because it's just too much going on in this tiny space. To many arms and voices screaming, needing, and pulling us in every which way. But Sister you can stop it. Take that time you need to refresh yourself. You need it...you deserve it...and it's yours for the taking.

To move emotionally and mentally forward, at some point we all have to stop to evaluate our maps, and see how far we've come. You're at that stopping point and you're bombarded with stop and go signs everywhere. It's more difficult to see your road right now. Your tired, frustrated, agavated, and just plain ol' discouraged. You look behind you and there's a trail of difficult hurdle you've had to cross. you look in front of you and there are more hurdles everywhere. It seems as if you've never moved. But that is the illusion. You have moved further than many...yet there are many still ahead. But what's even harder to see is those moments of triumphs. Those moments where you've crossed those lines to get to a new place.

Do you remember those moments Sister? The feelings/emotions you've felt when you reach each point? Do you remember how you thought you'd never make it through to find you have made it through and beyond your goal point? Do you remember how you cried when you thought you used up just about every last ounce of resource you've had?

Well, here we are again. And this too shall past. Smile with your heart Sister. Temporarily forget about how long the journey is, how loud those voices keep screaming, how high those hurdles have become, and cry those tears of joy and pain. For surely it was not easy, yet somehow you've pushed your way through all the bs. Put your energy in how worthy, determined, and desperate your are to reach your point. Know that you will succeed because you've always have thus far. Know that the only thing that can stop you is you. And remember with each hurdle you've crossed...it has put you that much closer to your next finish line.

Sometimes i wonder what life would be like if we had no challenges to face. Could we know accomplishment, satisfactions, self-empowerment, happiness, and success? What if we greet every challenge with the same enthusiasm we greet victory? I just wonder sometimes what affect that would have on us!

I know...i know, i have not answered one questioned you've asked. Shoot...i haven't even came close to the problem. But if i took your mind away from your pain for the one split second it took you to read this post...then i've gotten that much closer to my goal. And if i didn't, i will be back later on today to try again. I really hope i've made you smile. Sometimes that's all it takes to encourage the beauty of trail and error.

 

[Jazzytude]

My Sistah

I'm wondering...

How do YOU keep it moving:?:

Tonite, I'm feeling extremely SAD and hopeless. My people are hurting and I'm hurting too. I'm tired of all the bickering, fighting, backbiting and un-trustworthiness. I'm tired of watching the events unfold to destroy the SPIRIT of AFreekaness.

"Caring" and "Loving" "black" folks is a liability that I'm NOT willing to give up.
At the same time, I KNOW it is this very Caring and Loving that leaves me in a very vulnerable position.

At lot of my sadness and pain probably has to do with the "work" I do on a daily basis. Hearing and Seeing the EFFECTS OF SLAVERY in the lives, minds, hearts and most importantly, the BEHAVIORS of the people directed towards the self and others.

For those of a FULLY CONSCIOUS MIND....how do you maintain:?:
IN PARTICULAR....those who have no "mate" who is also CONSCIOUS or those who are surrounded by those who either don't WANT TO KNOW or those too sick to KNOW that they DON'T KNOW:?:

Recently, I had a Man of Afreekan Descent, who holds a "high position" in the organization I work for, who betrayed my trust. I suppose, in the end, it's MY FAULT for "trusting" him yet I did and now my work environment is more "hostile" ...as I experience it. It's NOT SAFE to TALK and to hold it all in is not safe.

What to do and where to turn. I live in a "bluelight" district and the people are comfortable with engaging in destructive behaviors and are not able to offer any hope or support.

I'm FEELING the Stress and Trauma and it HURTS....my SPIRIT.

"and if I get lucky, maybe I'll make it to [fifty]..HAPPY STILL AIN'T NO FRIEND OF MINE" (Tanya Stephens, Cherry Brandy)

Stress- Internal or External influences that disrupt an individual's normal state of well-being
Positive Stress - Adverse experiences that are short-lived and a normal and part of the developmental processes

Tolerable stress - More intense but relatively short-lived. With adequate support, unlikely to cause long-term problems

Toxic Stress - Sustained adversity. Children unable to manage this by themselves and can lead to permanent changes in brain development.

Traumatization occurs when both internal and external resources are inadequate to cope with external threat.

I am living with Toxic Stress and have not sufficient nor adequate resources to "cope".

Do ya'll and if so..where are you getting it from:?:

I do the best I can with meditations, Ancestral 'worship', recognizing the "power within"...yet...these things seem insufficient in the face of continued Toxic stress....sustained adversity

Can anyone help a SiStar out:?:


M.E.

I want you to stop right now and take your arms and spread them out and then hug your self...REAlly no joking!!! smell your arms and love your scent!!!!!!!!!!! Kiss your arms and then jsut lay your head on them!!! It is gonna be ok sistah!

I am feeling kinda down also...we have to push on tru...YOU HEAR ME!!!!!!!

oN A LIGHTER NOTE...GUESS WHAT? my cousins have yard chickens and they hatching eggs..two of the eggs already hatched... they gave me 3 eggs and told me to keep them warm. I have one under each buub...do you think that is warm enuff for them to hatch or do I need to kick up the heat...LOLOL?

lololol Hotep

 

[anAfrican]

who doin' the "you doin'" while you doin' the "they doin'"?

"Hear
M.E.

Share"

it might not be quite as easy, living in a concrete jungle. and parks don't quite cut it as they are pretty much just big "planter boxes".

get into the woods, sit by a tree and listen to the babbling of brooks, streams and rivers. watch the birds. listen/smell the breeze and watch the grasses waving. listen for the communication going on all around you until you begin to hear/understand it.

M.E. won't even mind if you punch some of Her larger trees. Her valleys and forests will welcome and swallow all your screams of rage and frustration and She'll whisper healing balms all around you. (sometimes She'll do a bit more than "whisper".) toss some big rocks around. sit in a river and slap and kick it.

Share with M.E.
Mother Earth IS Your Friend.
Mother Earth IS Your Source of Grounding.

Hug YourSelf. or, if you can, find a good hug that you can trust.

know that you have always had all the tools you'll ever need to get through anything you'll ever encounter. learn those tools. TRUST those tools. BELIEVE in those tools. they will get you through it!! you are undoubtedly somewhat used to that tool set: it's the one that you were born with/in/as.

take a vacation ... or more.

c'mere.

(Caring Mother Earth Revitalization Exercises)
crisis management suggests rockport state park, kalaloch, hoh rainforest, mount baker national forest, skagit river, ross lake overlook, out to the southeastern deserts or up to the cascade glaciers.

Come Share with M.E.

 

[Astrologer4U]

Truthtothecause, did you know that Capricorns go through mood swings of depression? It is because we are very serious people, half the time, what people percieve as fun, we Caps manage to see a dark side to that fun which makes the fun to us appear as frivolous and something to frown upon. Maybe I should not say us Caps because a lot of Caps are not willing to admit this mood swings of depression thing. So I will let that be up to you if you notice your self going through such. What I do for my self to help me not get so sad is, just keep climbing that mountain while knowing that my feelings of depression will soon dissapear, that is what keeps me going. This world is a sad place but it can't be this way forever, someday this madness has got to come to an end and that is what I keep telling my self. Maintaining some kind of happiness in a world so messed up is not easy but honestly, we get used to it. The kind of work that you do is the kind of work you probably should be doing because you can understand hurt and pain. People need those ones who can understand them to work with them.


From time to time I get out by my self, I like to do things by my self, go eat, go for a drive, go to a book store or the local flea market. I like to hang out with my daughter as well but I like doing things by my self when I get into those depressive moods. Do you like going out by yourself? When I am out and about and I see families eating or at the flea market, I say to my self "Look at that family, in the midst of all this madness the world holds, they still manage, as a family to try and get some of the good out of life that is still left? witnessing that makes me happy and gives me some kind of hope. I remember going for a walk one day, and it was fall time. It was dusk like outside, and the weather was kind of warm, yet breezy. I could here little feet running down the street behind me as I went for my walk and when I turned to see who the little feet were coming from, it was dead leaves on the ground being chased by the wind, hehe. Now you know that put a smile on my face. I remember thinking that day, soon the trees will bloom again and the trees will look so pretty and when that happens, I will be missing the sounds that the fall leaves made while being chased by the wind... but at least I will have something to look forward to.



Astrologer4U