The Wellness Warrior

Now this week on my episode, I'm gonna feature the Wellness war the Man Healed Thyself Wellness Warrior, just like the women's Sacred Women Rights of Passion. Well the Wellness Warrior was on fire, electric exciting to see strong black men, black kings, stepping in to themselves, elevating themselves, coming together as men, showing strength in unity and bliftment and focusing on the wellness both money, both mind, body and spirit.

I enjoyed it immensely. You know when I first um first two days when I went to the event, you know, I was in jeans and Chief shirt you know, Malay Books Store T shirt and had my jeans and whatever. And the men and the women were rolling in there and looking like kings and queens dress all you know nice and everything. You know, I came there to sell books, but I got so much more than selling books. I was rich by witnessing a brotherhood and a sisterhood, and

I was taking for he Lou. I tended a lot of events, but this he fit it was fire in electric. By the third day, I said to myself, I'm not going back there, no T shirt. You know, smiling is contagious, Laughter is contagious, Happiness is contagious. Well, you know what looking like royalty, Dressing like kings and quid is contagious. I said, I'm stepping into my royalty. I'm coming dressed

to impress. So I put on my ancient African garments and I rolled up into the spot that evening the witness the Ascension of the Wellness Warrior, a twelve week program where they study man, know Thyself and rights of passage. And I rolled up in there in my ancient African garments, looking like party and kingship, and I joined my brotherhood and spirit. And they was praising the fact that I came strong that day, looked strong that day, and represented

that day. They knew they had an effect on the people that were attending the event. So hey, I came to represent that day and I looked good. I enjoyed it. I was looking forward to witnessing their ascension that day because the first two days I just saw a commitment to know thyself, a no excuse attitude to elevate and do better, a brotherhood and sisterhood dead to me felt like love in peace and redemped in and resilience and unity.

So sit back and drawing the interviews I was able to conduct with some of the brothers that has sended and some of the brothers that are had already ascended into the Wellness Warrior. But before I do that, I need to mention that the man heal thyself. The Wellness Warrior's Journey to Self Mastery is a book that we carry at Malague Books, and they can be found in other places around the country. But this book by Supernova and Queen of Four is a global call to wellness

addressed to men. Each man is prompt to evaluate himself regarding his activities, to support of his family, and to do the work he creates and produces in the world. Within the text are wellness protocols to practice personal development through daily disciplines. The task are designed to enable strengthening social, emotional, and spiritual wellness on their journey to self mastery. Within this book, our methodologies vested in laying out the bridge

between health and manhood in order to inspire greatness. Well, that's a little book review before I get into the interviews about the Wellness Warriors. What you're about to listen to is some of the things said at the ceremony this particular section, UH, A sacred woman needed some healing, and the Wellness Warriors came together. Two represent the body and unity of one mind and one spirit to help the process of her healing in the things that she was some wit in her life. You are loved, You

are loving, You are still here. You can always carry that with you. There's only now. The pass is no more your future, your path. It's clear you are not the pain that you. Care free yourself by forgiving others for the pain that they had them, because that pain it's not children. Care free yourself by forgiving yourself. You are great, You're powerful, You should be cherished, and every man that looks in their eyes should see the beauty.

And it's d h. Most things that are sacred have an oath and a pledge that is often spoken so man heal thyself. Wellness warrior has a pledge that I want you to listen to. As a wellness warrior, each day I pleasure to honor my health and wileness of my mind, body and spirit with high varrational vibrational awareness

choices and interactions whether within or outside myself. I mean conde commitment to my commitments seven and three, six or five days of the year to defend myself convinced all toxic foreign enemies that are outside of me, such as viruses, people, places, and things. I mean condeed commitment to my commitments seven three sixty five days of years to defend mysel on against all toxic dovestic enemies are going to all within it,

such as toxic thoughts, toxic habits, and block juice. I protect myself against all enemies foreign and domestic as a man here that self well is where because I'm committed to a personal development and transfiguration demity every day as a new gift, a new opportunity and a new chance for a rare quality of life for our tom wellness, Do self ast me world power or formal del this next part that I'm gonna share you about the wellness

Warriors ascension ceremony is the affirmations. Now. Affirmations are very important because it affirms your values and your beliefs. And you need to have a system put in place where you constantly and continuously affirmed your pledge, your oath as well as your goals. And yes, well it's worse a little bit. I'm sharing with you guys my forgiveness affirmation. I forgive myself for past failures. I forgive myself for not showing up in my relationships with armed truth and integrity.

I forgive myself for not honoring my wellness, my life, and my spiritual growth. I forgive myself for the lack of focus, ambition, and discipline that has led to poor choices and procrastination. This journey requires a new version of myself, and I'm committed to the work needed to obtain wholeness of spirit. Today I released the old version and embrace d I two point oh. I'm ideally to the old self and lived as a new creature. This all firm

and confirmed, Um Alexander and Jamar Franklin. Forgive myself for not knowing myself. I forgive myself for not showing myself grace and mercy. I forgive myself for allowing anger to control them. I forgive myself forgiving the enemy the upper hand. Yeah, I forgive myself for not being intentional and blaming others for my experiences. I forgive myself for not forgiving myself.

With this forgiveness, I reaffirm and reclaim my committee. I say, all week, your brother has been demonstrating a lot of good frequency, a lot of good energy. You know, I could feel a brotherhood now. Listen. I got a podcast it's called Melik's Bookshelf, bringing the world together with books, culture and community. And I thought spontaneous, I'm just gonna walk up here and just get y'all experience and and put it on my podcast. And so hey, I'm recording

right now. So if anybody have anything to say about the Wellness Warrior experience, I appreciate if you say something on my podcast. What about you, brother transformation right there, there's no there's nothing to think about. If somebody is interested in being a part of this program, it's life changing, you know. So learning how to love yourself and confirming yourself, affirming yourself and meeting a group of brothers in the

like mind around the world. It's worth the price of admission. Absolutely. Absolutely. You told me to come back to you, my brother, So I'm gonna come back to you. Don't be shot, brother, Oh I'm not shot. I was gonna give you, the brothers an opportunity to say anything, uh say something. Part of me saying being an alum myself, I just wanted to come out and kind of, as you mentioned, UH, test the energy of the room, and they're exuding a lot of energy. That's what it's gonna take to carry

you over. I kind of talked to some of the brothers to find out where they were from. Uh. Talk to the one brother that says he's on this quest with his spouse. My spouse brought me in. So Uh. All I can do right now is it's multiply Uh. The person that's going to come from your efforts. So all I want to say is that anybody has not h taking the journey, um, actually look into it uh and pursue it. An opportunity and super Noble will get

you together. Absolutely, come this program as I must. Invaluable brothers. Man make the decision. Man heal thyself rites of passage. The experience is worth the investment. You get much more out of it than you than than than the dollar value. Don't even don't even question it. The brothers you meet, the experiences you have, the health you gain, the wealth you obtain, the information is it's inexplicable. Just do it,

Just do it. I just you know, I can't even sell books, but I was inspired by your brothers and the sisters today. You know, just the love and the brotherhood and the sisterhood and the energy. You know, it's genuine and so it it overwhelmed me yesterday. I want to admit it even overwhelmed my wife, you know, because you know, brotherhood is something that young black men search for their whole life. It is something that is necessary

and needed. And you know, this is why a lot of loos get caught up in the games in different groups. But you know, everyone here is striving to be the best man and the best person possible. Every sister is striving to be the best human being possible. And that's what I witnessed here, man, is that people rather trying to transform, you know. And I said to myself, I gotta get I gotta do a podcast on this, you know, but you know, I wanted to get it from firsthand

because y'all going through this. Y'all read the book and now you're about to sin, and so I wanted to get you know your thoughts on this journey and how it has changed your life. Wellness warrior King Chaos. So I too am part of a sacred union, sacred family. My wife is a sacred woman, sacred woman practitioner in the making. Um, and you know I'm a wellness warrior

who ascended and uh fall of twenty one. Um. We're here to change the narrative black men under attack and they labeled us all these different things and we're not that. This is who we truly are. We just need to find ourselves. And this program is about finding ourselves and transforming those brothers and those narratives into kings and the

rightful kings. We are the wellness Warriors, and it starts with the three piece suit of minded body and in the spirit, so we are representations of that in this journey will take you there. So you just have to submit to yourself and want to do better. We talk a lot, but the accents will get you there. So we're men of accent, were men of service, and this journey has taught us all that. Absolutely that what I'm saying, my brother, thank you for sharing that. How you doing,

my brother, Do you have any thoughts well? Hey, super Nova Sloan, Yeah, you know. Um, it's it's man's man's responsibility is to help man advance. We are each other's responsibility. Our women are the containers that hold the opportunity for us. But only we can square each other away. And so that's one of our meta metaphor affirmations in the training and the Fraternity of Holistic Wellness is man is man's responsibility.

And so as we go through the rights of passage to remember who we are and too, you know, get the tools necessary body minds, spirit, our three p suits will be strong enough to raise the signal to inspire other brothers to raise their signal um. And that creates an opportunity for us to be in harmony and myt with our sacred women and then our children that are birth from that in our family and our lineage is restored as we heal our ancestors hell. And that's the

journey of man healed thatself. But it's it's the The call to action is man raising his hand to his self care and wellness. One of our affirmations is no excuse wellness. So we we were making no excuses that we must be warriors to fight for our better quality of health, the better quality of our body, mind and spirit. And so we are pledging ourselves. As you know, we find we become warriors of so much things that for

our destruction. So we're calling all the warriors now to fight for a better quality of a higher mind, a righteous mind, a worry of of great health and great wealth, you know, prosperity, emotional healing. You know, we we go through the training, we help brothers heal the inner child that was maybe neglected, a view, just been left uncared for. Those men grow up to be men, powerful men, but still not self expressed and healed men. So we meet

our brothers and no judgment. This is a nondenominational outreach. We have brothers from all of the tribes, all of the religious backgrounds, all the different hues, and we open our arms to them because we understand that man is man's responsibility. As we can resurrect the power of man, we can rebrand a new version of man, not the what's been sold to us that man has to be. We can rebrand the concept of man um as an attributed host of the Almighty of got A Yahweh, of

of of intern of Allah here on earth. No most spook, no mistery or just doing the real man work. Man healed ourselves. Let's go, Let's go. And how long did it take for you to you know, finally didn't get to this point to accept this. My mom had been on this journey for a long time. Well she not even she noted meets to start. She started. She died at me. I started teaching when I was aged ten. I had but I had to. I had to teach tai Chi, I had to teach yoga, and I had

to teach um meditation. I had sixties students and that was my first deployment. So she said, you have to do that. So in my journey, I had my ebb and flows of taking the responsibility. I had my pivot to the streets and and and kind of got distracted by that low frequency. And then I returned back sand Colford, back to myself and my purpose. You know. It took some time and something of trans something happened in your life. Yeah, you made that shift back almost got killed and slanging

and banging and hustling. You know that that wake you up, you know, and and in every minded it shook me back into original intent. You know how the elders and UM united me on my purpose very you know, when I was very small, you know. So then I just took the time to uh you know again, to man heal myself, to heal my own self in my own trauma that that was unseen even though I had parents that were the work, I was still going through other rights a bapteis of my own self as a young

man growing up in the you know community. So I had to address that and heal that, and and and and have my own testimony of healing myself. And then that is what I used to UM become a minister of wellness for other brothers and other sisters on the journey of being well and warriors. So, you know, it's a lot of noise out there in the streets and

the community. How do you navigate through all of that, brother, and how do you encourage other people to stay you know, focused in stud fast to you know, the mission to thyself. You must hold this signal. When man knows thatself, he holds the signal. Once you recognize that you're a host of the Almighty, and the Almighty comes through you, your ancestors have access to you and you know that responsibility and you receive that regardless of whatever is happening outside

of you. You're on assignment. Now, you're something about being perfect. Some days you're going in, some days you're not as strong, but you have the tools to always tap back into your power. And so that's just a commit it that I having myself, and um I longed to have it as an example for other men and to meet them and not just no guilt, no judge, no judge, been, no guilt, And you don't have to be on the

level I'm at. You can be where you at. We're gonna strengthen where you at and have you be accountable that and raised to your higher frequency. And that's what it's about. With brothers, me brothers where they at, give them the tools, encouraged them if they're willing, and encouraged them to continue to with the homies in the street would say g up to really g up, you know, thank you, thank you, thank you all appreciate it. Man. Well, hey,

you know, supernooseling, he dropped a lot. But hey, everybody has or something to offer, because everybody's on their own individual journey. And I want to hear yours, my brother. Yeah, wellness warrior Selim and uh, you know, man, healed ourself for something that was presented to me and called to me by my wife. She started off as a sacred woman, and uh she's led the charge and I was and I was completely resistant. Brother, I did not want to take part of what she was doing. She was waking

up four in the morning, rising with the sun. She was creating an altar. She was speaking with our ancestors. She was taking spiritual baths and encouraging me to do the same. And all the way I was fighting, I was resistant. Once I surrendered and actually saw what she was doing, and I saw the value, and I saw the change within her and made me want to create

a change in me. So she gave me the information. Um, she does the work through the program, So we got a bit of a discount on the on the rate, and I signed up immediately, and I realized how necessary the work is, and uh, the man is the black Man is missing. You know he's missing, and then you find him through funding yourself. Once you find yourself and you hear yourself, you can go back and find the rest of your brothers and you can pull him up

with you. And that's what we're here to do. Here to find all the lost members of the tribe and bring them back on back. And that's what I want to see because I remember on the call, we was all making excuses of why we weren't doing what we're doing, and he said, hey, don't don't fall off, fall in And that's the call. That's the call, and it's the time is now. It's the time is for willing healing each other, each everyone it's involved in this transition, this journey,

the Wellness Warrior helped each other. Absolutely. It's a community. It's a transparency. Transparency. Um, it's no judgment. Brothers come on there and they open up and they they raw selves. We can we can laugh, we can cry, we can tell us about our strengths, about our weaknesses. We're going through a lot of pain that we haven't healed because we haven't revealed. And once you revealed, and you can go ahead and do the healing and that's what we're doing.

That's what we're about, and were ready to spread the message in the world so we can heal the nations. And it's up to us as the men. Our women have got it together. Now it's our time. So you mean you and that your wife jumped in and you saw a transition on her journey. You saw a genuine change and it inspired you. Yes, it cultivated you, and then you stand signed up for the Wellness Warrior. My brother, Um, I think they're about to start the program. Um. Oh,

they're taking a picture. I know you might want to get in the pictures. Okay, thank you, my brother. I don't want to hold you, but hey, I think you dropped enough jewels from me. Appreciate everybody's talking about Timey Nickels made his soul rest in peace. This murder of Tyree Nichols by five police officers, which happened to be black in this occasion. Oftentimes we know that these murders of innocent black people oftentimes are by police is a

white police. In this case, it was five black police officers in a task force called Scorpion whom beat the living daylights out of this one individual. Tyree Nichols, which ultimately from his wounds in the onslaught beating of him led to him dyane. These five police officers, or what I call black devils. You don't hear that that often.

But when you are acting other than yourself and living a life of a beast in a savage and you are apprehending innocent survelles and beating them senseless, the leads to their murder. What what what? What? What else is that? What else is that action? Speak louder in words? What's what's? What's your actions? This black owned black has to stop. Any murders need to stop. But this black on black did we see in the streets? We need to put us into this. This is unacceptable. I mean, you're speechless.

The video that came out, and it came out rather quickly, which is unusual the body cams coming out this quick. But it is what it is. It's out and another soul was lost because of reckless this wickedness and evil, this police brutality. Need to stop. They need to stop. They need you know, this is a form of trauma. What would possessed five police officers, black police officers to go on a rampage and beat down this young man, the lad to his death. Both were possessing them to

do such a thing. It absolutely makes no sense, but it does make sense because there's black on black being going on for quite some time. So why would we should be surprised about the murder of the black lea saw murdering a black person. You know these police allers man, some of them, they overseers who use fear and intimidation in order to reign hell in control of our communities. This is not acceptable. We cannot allow this to continue,

these white officers and black officers. This police brutality seems like it's no end to It is one generation after another, one decade after another, we keep adding more innocent souls to the list. The community needs a plan of action, and it can't be just marching up down the street. It can't be just suing the city and getting some chump change for the murder of an innocent soul. We got to formulate some type of strategy where we it's a plan of action, this strategic and tactical that puts

an end to Blue East brutality. Thanks for listening to Melik's Bookshelf, where topics on the shelf, our books, culture and community. Be sure to subscribe and leave me a review. Check out my Instagram at Milik Books. See you next time.