Speaker 1: My Lady Brooks has all the knowledge you want. My
Speaker 1: birds has how the knowledge you need. My ledgy birds, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they have all the works that the whole wild world
Speaker 1: want to read. Maliky Birds. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to Malik's
Speaker 1: Book Show, bringing a world together with books, culture and community. Hi,
Speaker 1: my name is Malik, your host of Malik's Bookshew. I
Speaker 1: spoke last week about Sacred Women the Rights of Passage.
Speaker 1: Now this week on my episode, I'm gonna feature the
Speaker 1: Wellness war the Man Healed Thyself Wellness Warrior, just like
Speaker 1: the women's Sacred Women Rights of Passion. Well the Wellness
Speaker 1: Warrior was on fire, electric exciting to see strong black men,
Speaker 1: black kings, stepping in to themselves, elevating themselves, coming together
Speaker 1: as men, showing strength in unity and bliftment and focusing
Speaker 1: on the wellness both money, both mind, body and spirit.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed it immensely. You know when I first um
Speaker 1: first two days when I went to the event, you know,
Speaker 1: I was in jeans and Chief shirt you know, Malay
Speaker 1: Books Store T shirt and had my jeans and whatever.
Speaker 1: And the men and the women were rolling in there
Speaker 1: and looking like kings and queens dress all you know
Speaker 1: nice and everything. You know, I came there to sell books,
Speaker 1: but I got so much more than selling books. I
Speaker 1: was rich by witnessing a brotherhood and a sisterhood, and
Speaker 1: I was taking for he Lou. I tended a lot
Speaker 1: of events, but this he fit it was fire in electric.
Speaker 1: By the third day, I said to myself, I'm not
Speaker 1: going back there, no T shirt. You know, smiling is contagious,
Speaker 1: Laughter is contagious, Happiness is contagious. Well, you know what
Speaker 1: looking like royalty, Dressing like kings and quid is contagious.
Speaker 1: I said, I'm stepping into my royalty. I'm coming dressed
Speaker 1: to impress. So I put on my ancient African garments
Speaker 1: and I rolled up into the spot that evening the
Speaker 1: witness the Ascension of the Wellness Warrior, a twelve week
Speaker 1: program where they study man, know Thyself and rights of passage.
Speaker 1: And I rolled up in there in my ancient African garments,
Speaker 1: looking like party and kingship, and I joined my brotherhood
Speaker 1: and spirit. And they was praising the fact that I
Speaker 1: came strong that day, looked strong that day, and represented
Speaker 1: that day. They knew they had an effect on the
Speaker 1: people that were attending the event. So hey, I came
Speaker 1: to represent that day and I looked good. I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: I was looking forward to witnessing their ascension that day
Speaker 1: because the first two days I just saw a commitment
Speaker 1: to know thyself, a no excuse attitude to elevate and
Speaker 1: do better, a brotherhood and sisterhood dead to me felt
Speaker 1: like love in peace and redemped in and resilience and unity.
Speaker 1: So sit back and drawing the interviews I was able
Speaker 1: to conduct with some of the brothers that has sended
Speaker 1: and some of the brothers that are had already ascended
Speaker 1: into the Wellness Warrior. But before I do that, I
Speaker 1: need to mention that the man heal thyself. The Wellness
Speaker 1: Warrior's Journey to Self Mastery is a book that we
Speaker 1: carry at Malague Books, and they can be found in
Speaker 1: other places around the country. But this book by Supernova
Speaker 1: and Queen of Four is a global call to wellness
Speaker 1: addressed to men. Each man is prompt to evaluate himself
Speaker 1: regarding his activities, to support of his family, and to
Speaker 1: do the work he creates and produces in the world.
Speaker 1: Within the text are wellness protocols to practice personal development
Speaker 1: through daily disciplines. The task are designed to enable strengthening social, emotional,
Speaker 1: and spiritual wellness on their journey to self mastery. Within
Speaker 1: this book, our methodologies vested in laying out the bridge
Speaker 1: between health and manhood in order to inspire greatness. Well,
Speaker 1: that's a little book review before I get into the
Speaker 1: interviews about the Wellness Warriors. What you're about to listen
Speaker 1: to is some of the things said at the ceremony
Speaker 1: this particular section, UH, A sacred woman needed some healing,
Speaker 1: and the Wellness Warriors came together. Two represent the body
Speaker 1: and unity of one mind and one spirit to help
Speaker 1: the process of her healing in the things that she
Speaker 1: was some wit in her life. You are loved, You
Speaker 1: are loving, You are still here. You can always carry
Speaker 1: that with you. There's only now. The pass is no
Speaker 1: more your future, your path. It's clear you are not
Speaker 1: the pain that you. Care free yourself by forgiving others
Speaker 1: for the pain that they had them, because that pain
Speaker 1: it's not children. Care free yourself by forgiving yourself. You
Speaker 1: are great, You're powerful, You should be cherished, and every
Speaker 1: man that looks in their eyes should see the beauty.
Speaker 1: And it's d h. Most things that are sacred have
Speaker 1: an oath and a pledge that is often spoken so
Speaker 1: man heal thyself. Wellness warrior has a pledge that I
Speaker 1: want you to listen to. As a wellness warrior, each
Speaker 1: day I pleasure to honor my health and wileness of
Speaker 1: my mind, body and spirit with high varrational vibrational awareness
Speaker 1: choices and interactions whether within or outside myself. I mean
Speaker 1: conde commitment to my commitments seven and three, six or
Speaker 1: five days of the year to defend myself convinced all
Speaker 1: toxic foreign enemies that are outside of me, such as viruses, people, places,
Speaker 1: and things. I mean condeed commitment to my commitments seven
Speaker 1: three sixty five days of years to defend mysel on
Speaker 1: against all toxic dovestic enemies are going to all within it,
Speaker 1: such as toxic thoughts, toxic habits, and block juice. I
Speaker 1: protect myself against all enemies foreign and domestic as a
Speaker 1: man here that self well is where because I'm committed
Speaker 1: to a personal development and transfiguration demity every day as
Speaker 1: a new gift, a new opportunity and a new chance
Speaker 1: for a rare quality of life for our tom wellness,
Speaker 1: Do self ast me world power or formal del this
Speaker 1: next part that I'm gonna share you about the wellness
Speaker 1: Warriors ascension ceremony is the affirmations. Now. Affirmations are very
Speaker 1: important because it affirms your values and your beliefs. And
Speaker 1: you need to have a system put in place where
Speaker 1: you constantly and continuously affirmed your pledge, your oath as
Speaker 1: well as your goals. And yes, well it's worse a
Speaker 1: little bit. I'm sharing with you guys my forgiveness affirmation.
Speaker 1: I forgive myself for past failures. I forgive myself for
Speaker 1: not showing up in my relationships with armed truth and integrity.
Speaker 1: I forgive myself for not honoring my wellness, my life,
Speaker 1: and my spiritual growth. I forgive myself for the lack
Speaker 1: of focus, ambition, and discipline that has led to poor
Speaker 1: choices and procrastination. This journey requires a new version of myself,
Speaker 1: and I'm committed to the work needed to obtain wholeness
Speaker 1: of spirit. Today I released the old version and embrace
Speaker 1: d I two point oh. I'm ideally to the old
Speaker 1: self and lived as a new creature. This all firm
Speaker 1: and confirmed, Um Alexander and Jamar Franklin. Forgive myself for
Speaker 1: not knowing myself. I forgive myself for not showing myself
Speaker 1: grace and mercy. I forgive myself for allowing anger to
Speaker 1: control them. I forgive myself forgiving the enemy the upper hand. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I forgive myself for not being intentional and blaming others
Speaker 1: for my experiences. I forgive myself for not forgiving myself.
Speaker 1: With this forgiveness, I reaffirm and reclaim my committee. I say,
Speaker 1: all week, your brother has been demonstrating a lot of
Speaker 1: good frequency, a lot of good energy. You know, I
Speaker 1: could feel a brotherhood now. Listen. I got a podcast
Speaker 1: it's called Melik's Bookshelf, bringing the world together with books,
Speaker 1: culture and community. And I thought spontaneous, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: walk up here and just get y'all experience and and
Speaker 1: put it on my podcast. And so hey, I'm recording
Speaker 1: right now. So if anybody have anything to say about
Speaker 1: the Wellness Warrior experience, I appreciate if you say something
Speaker 1: on my podcast. What about you, brother transformation right there,
Speaker 1: there's no there's nothing to think about. If somebody is
Speaker 1: interested in being a part of this program, it's life changing,
Speaker 1: you know. So learning how to love yourself and confirming yourself,
Speaker 1: affirming yourself and meeting a group of brothers in the
Speaker 1: like mind around the world. It's worth the price of admission. Absolutely. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: You told me to come back to you, my brother,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna come back to you. Don't be shot, brother,
Speaker 1: Oh I'm not shot. I was gonna give you, the
Speaker 1: brothers an opportunity to say anything, uh say something. Part
Speaker 1: of me saying being an alum myself, I just wanted
Speaker 1: to come out and kind of, as you mentioned, UH,
Speaker 1: test the energy of the room, and they're exuding a
Speaker 1: lot of energy. That's what it's gonna take to carry
Speaker 1: you over. I kind of talked to some of the
Speaker 1: brothers to find out where they were from. Uh. Talk
Speaker 1: to the one brother that says he's on this quest
Speaker 1: with his spouse. My spouse brought me in. So Uh.
Speaker 1: All I can do right now is it's multiply Uh.
Speaker 1: The person that's going to come from your efforts. So
Speaker 1: all I want to say is that anybody has not
Speaker 1: h taking the journey, um, actually look into it uh
Speaker 1: and pursue it. An opportunity and super Noble will get
Speaker 1: you together. Absolutely, come this program as I must. Invaluable brothers.
Speaker 1: Man make the decision. Man heal thyself rites of passage.
Speaker 1: The experience is worth the investment. You get much more
Speaker 1: out of it than you than than than the dollar value.
Speaker 1: Don't even don't even question it. The brothers you meet,
Speaker 1: the experiences you have, the health you gain, the wealth
Speaker 1: you obtain, the information is it's inexplicable. Just do it,
Speaker 1: Just do it. I just you know, I can't even
Speaker 1: sell books, but I was inspired by your brothers and
Speaker 1: the sisters today. You know, just the love and the
Speaker 1: brotherhood and the sisterhood and the energy. You know, it's
Speaker 1: genuine and so it it overwhelmed me yesterday. I want
Speaker 1: to admit it even overwhelmed my wife, you know, because
Speaker 1: you know, brotherhood is something that young black men search
Speaker 1: for their whole life. It is something that is necessary
Speaker 1: and needed. And you know, this is why a lot
Speaker 1: of loos get caught up in the games in different groups.
Speaker 1: But you know, everyone here is striving to be the
Speaker 1: best man and the best person possible. Every sister is
Speaker 1: striving to be the best human being possible. And that's
Speaker 1: what I witnessed here, man, is that people rather trying
Speaker 1: to transform, you know. And I said to myself, I
Speaker 1: gotta get I gotta do a podcast on this, you know,
Speaker 1: but you know, I wanted to get it from firsthand
Speaker 1: because y'all going through this. Y'all read the book and
Speaker 1: now you're about to sin, and so I wanted to
Speaker 1: get you know your thoughts on this journey and how
Speaker 1: it has changed your life. Wellness warrior King Chaos. So
Speaker 1: I too am part of a sacred union, sacred family.
Speaker 1: My wife is a sacred woman, sacred woman practitioner in
Speaker 1: the making. Um, and you know I'm a wellness warrior
Speaker 1: who ascended and uh fall of twenty one. Um. We're
Speaker 1: here to change the narrative black men under attack and
Speaker 1: they labeled us all these different things and we're not that.
Speaker 1: This is who we truly are. We just need to
Speaker 1: find ourselves. And this program is about finding ourselves and
Speaker 1: transforming those brothers and those narratives into kings and the
Speaker 1: rightful kings. We are the wellness Warriors, and it starts
Speaker 1: with the three piece suit of minded body and in
Speaker 1: the spirit, so we are representations of that in this
Speaker 1: journey will take you there. So you just have to
Speaker 1: submit to yourself and want to do better. We talk
Speaker 1: a lot, but the accents will get you there. So
Speaker 1: we're men of accent, were men of service, and this
Speaker 1: journey has taught us all that. Absolutely that what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: my brother, thank you for sharing that. How you doing,
Speaker 1: my brother, Do you have any thoughts well? Hey, super
Speaker 1: Nova Sloan, Yeah, you know. Um, it's it's man's man's
Speaker 1: responsibility is to help man advance. We are each other's responsibility.
Speaker 1: Our women are the containers that hold the opportunity for us.
Speaker 1: But only we can square each other away. And so
Speaker 1: that's one of our meta metaphor affirmations in the training
Speaker 1: and the Fraternity of Holistic Wellness is man is man's responsibility.
Speaker 1: And so as we go through the rights of passage
Speaker 1: to remember who we are and too, you know, get
Speaker 1: the tools necessary body minds, spirit, our three p suits
Speaker 1: will be strong enough to raise the signal to inspire
Speaker 1: other brothers to raise their signal um. And that creates
Speaker 1: an opportunity for us to be in harmony and myt
Speaker 1: with our sacred women and then our children that are
Speaker 1: birth from that in our family and our lineage is
Speaker 1: restored as we heal our ancestors hell. And that's the
Speaker 1: journey of man healed thatself. But it's it's the The
Speaker 1: call to action is man raising his hand to his
Speaker 1: self care and wellness. One of our affirmations is no
Speaker 1: excuse wellness. So we we were making no excuses that
Speaker 1: we must be warriors to fight for our better quality
Speaker 1: of health, the better quality of our body, mind and spirit.
Speaker 1: And so we are pledging ourselves. As you know, we
Speaker 1: find we become warriors of so much things that for
Speaker 1: our destruction. So we're calling all the warriors now to
Speaker 1: fight for a better quality of a higher mind, a
Speaker 1: righteous mind, a worry of of great health and great wealth,
Speaker 1: you know, prosperity, emotional healing. You know, we we go
Speaker 1: through the training, we help brothers heal the inner child
Speaker 1: that was maybe neglected, a view, just been left uncared for.
Speaker 1: Those men grow up to be men, powerful men, but
Speaker 1: still not self expressed and healed men. So we meet
Speaker 1: our brothers and no judgment. This is a nondenominational outreach.
Speaker 1: We have brothers from all of the tribes, all of
Speaker 1: the religious backgrounds, all the different hues, and we open
Speaker 1: our arms to them because we understand that man is
Speaker 1: man's responsibility. As we can resurrect the power of man,
Speaker 1: we can rebrand a new version of man, not the
Speaker 1: what's been sold to us that man has to be.
Speaker 1: We can rebrand the concept of man um as an
Speaker 1: attributed host of the Almighty of got A Yahweh, of
Speaker 1: of of intern of Allah here on earth. No most spook,
Speaker 1: no mistery or just doing the real man work. Man
Speaker 1: healed ourselves. Let's go, Let's go. And how long did
Speaker 1: it take for you to you know, finally didn't get
Speaker 1: to this point to accept this. My mom had been
Speaker 1: on this journey for a long time. Well she not
Speaker 1: even she noted meets to start. She started. She died
Speaker 1: at me. I started teaching when I was aged ten.
Speaker 1: I had but I had to. I had to teach
Speaker 1: tai Chi, I had to teach yoga, and I had
Speaker 1: to teach um meditation. I had sixties students and that
Speaker 1: was my first deployment. So she said, you have to
Speaker 1: do that. So in my journey, I had my ebb
Speaker 1: and flows of taking the responsibility. I had my pivot
Speaker 1: to the streets and and and kind of got distracted
Speaker 1: by that low frequency. And then I returned back sand Colford,
Speaker 1: back to myself and my purpose. You know. It took
Speaker 1: some time and something of trans something happened in your life. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you made that shift back almost got killed and slanging
Speaker 1: and banging and hustling. You know that that wake you up,
Speaker 1: you know, and and in every minded it shook me
Speaker 1: back into original intent. You know how the elders and
Speaker 1: UM united me on my purpose very you know, when
Speaker 1: I was very small, you know. So then I just
Speaker 1: took the time to uh you know again, to man
Speaker 1: heal myself, to heal my own self in my own
Speaker 1: trauma that that was unseen even though I had parents
Speaker 1: that were the work, I was still going through other
Speaker 1: rights a bapteis of my own self as a young
Speaker 1: man growing up in the you know community. So I
Speaker 1: had to address that and heal that, and and and
Speaker 1: and have my own testimony of healing myself. And then
Speaker 1: that is what I used to UM become a minister
Speaker 1: of wellness for other brothers and other sisters on the
Speaker 1: journey of being well and warriors. So, you know, it's
Speaker 1: a lot of noise out there in the streets and
Speaker 1: the community. How do you navigate through all of that, brother,
Speaker 1: and how do you encourage other people to stay you know,
Speaker 1: focused in stud fast to you know, the mission to thyself.
Speaker 1: You must hold this signal. When man knows thatself, he
Speaker 1: holds the signal. Once you recognize that you're a host
Speaker 1: of the Almighty, and the Almighty comes through you, your
Speaker 1: ancestors have access to you and you know that responsibility
Speaker 1: and you receive that regardless of whatever is happening outside
Speaker 1: of you. You're on assignment. Now, you're something about being perfect.
Speaker 1: Some days you're going in, some days you're not as strong,
Speaker 1: but you have the tools to always tap back into
Speaker 1: your power. And so that's just a commit it that
Speaker 1: I having myself, and um I longed to have it
Speaker 1: as an example for other men and to meet them
Speaker 1: and not just no guilt, no judge, no judge, been,
Speaker 1: no guilt, And you don't have to be on the
Speaker 1: level I'm at. You can be where you at. We're
Speaker 1: gonna strengthen where you at and have you be accountable
Speaker 1: that and raised to your higher frequency. And that's what
Speaker 1: it's about. With brothers, me brothers where they at, give
Speaker 1: them the tools, encouraged them if they're willing, and encouraged
Speaker 1: them to continue to with the homies in the street
Speaker 1: would say g up to really g up, you know,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, thank you all appreciate it. Man. Well, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, supernooseling, he dropped a lot. But hey, everybody
Speaker 1: has or something to offer, because everybody's on their own
Speaker 1: individual journey. And I want to hear yours, my brother. Yeah,
Speaker 1: wellness warrior Selim and uh, you know, man, healed ourself
Speaker 1: for something that was presented to me and called to
Speaker 1: me by my wife. She started off as a sacred woman,
Speaker 1: and uh she's led the charge and I was and
Speaker 1: I was completely resistant. Brother, I did not want to
Speaker 1: take part of what she was doing. She was waking
Speaker 1: up four in the morning, rising with the sun. She
Speaker 1: was creating an altar. She was speaking with our ancestors.
Speaker 1: She was taking spiritual baths and encouraging me to do
Speaker 1: the same. And all the way I was fighting, I
Speaker 1: was resistant. Once I surrendered and actually saw what she
Speaker 1: was doing, and I saw the value, and I saw
Speaker 1: the change within her and made me want to create
Speaker 1: a change in me. So she gave me the information. Um,
Speaker 1: she does the work through the program, So we got
Speaker 1: a bit of a discount on the on the rate,
Speaker 1: and I signed up immediately, and I realized how necessary
Speaker 1: the work is, and uh, the man is the black
Speaker 1: Man is missing. You know he's missing, and then you
Speaker 1: find him through funding yourself. Once you find yourself and
Speaker 1: you hear yourself, you can go back and find the
Speaker 1: rest of your brothers and you can pull him up
Speaker 1: with you. And that's what we're here to do. Here
Speaker 1: to find all the lost members of the tribe and
Speaker 1: bring them back on back. And that's what I want
Speaker 1: to see because I remember on the call, we was
Speaker 1: all making excuses of why we weren't doing what we're doing,
Speaker 1: and he said, hey, don't don't fall off, fall in
Speaker 1: And that's the call. That's the call, and it's the
Speaker 1: time is now. It's the time is for willing healing
Speaker 1: each other, each everyone it's involved in this transition, this journey,
Speaker 1: the Wellness Warrior helped each other. Absolutely. It's a community.
Speaker 1: It's a transparency. Transparency. Um, it's no judgment. Brothers come
Speaker 1: on there and they open up and they they raw selves.
Speaker 1: We can we can laugh, we can cry, we can
Speaker 1: tell us about our strengths, about our weaknesses. We're going
Speaker 1: through a lot of pain that we haven't healed because
Speaker 1: we haven't revealed. And once you revealed, and you can
Speaker 1: go ahead and do the healing and that's what we're doing.
Speaker 1: That's what we're about, and were ready to spread the
Speaker 1: message in the world so we can heal the nations.
Speaker 1: And it's up to us as the men. Our women
Speaker 1: have got it together. Now it's our time. So you
Speaker 1: mean you and that your wife jumped in and you
Speaker 1: saw a transition on her journey. You saw a genuine
Speaker 1: change and it inspired you. Yes, it cultivated you, and
Speaker 1: then you stand signed up for the Wellness Warrior. My brother, Um,
Speaker 1: I think they're about to start the program. Um. Oh,
Speaker 1: they're taking a picture. I know you might want to
Speaker 1: get in the pictures. Okay, thank you, my brother. I
Speaker 1: don't want to hold you, but hey, I think you
Speaker 1: dropped enough jewels from me. Appreciate everybody's talking about Timey
Speaker 1: Nickels made his soul rest in peace. This murder of
Speaker 1: Tyree Nichols by five police officers, which happened to be
Speaker 1: black in this occasion. Oftentimes we know that these murders
Speaker 1: of innocent black people oftentimes are by police is a
Speaker 1: white police. In this case, it was five black police
Speaker 1: officers in a task force called Scorpion whom beat the
Speaker 1: living daylights out of this one individual. Tyree Nichols, which
Speaker 1: ultimately from his wounds in the onslaught beating of him
Speaker 1: led to him dyane. These five police officers, or what
Speaker 1: I call black devils. You don't hear that that often.
Speaker 1: But when you are acting other than yourself and living
Speaker 1: a life of a beast in a savage and you
Speaker 1: are apprehending innocent survelles and beating them senseless, the leads
Speaker 1: to their murder. What what what? What? What else is that?
Speaker 1: What else is that action? Speak louder in words? What's what's?
Speaker 1: What's your actions? This black owned black has to stop.
Speaker 1: Any murders need to stop. But this black on black
Speaker 1: did we see in the streets? We need to put
Speaker 1: us into this. This is unacceptable. I mean, you're speechless.
Speaker 1: The video that came out, and it came out rather quickly,
Speaker 1: which is unusual the body cams coming out this quick.
Speaker 1: But it is what it is. It's out and another
Speaker 1: soul was lost because of reckless this wickedness and evil,
Speaker 1: this police brutality. Need to stop. They need to stop.
Speaker 1: They need you know, this is a form of trauma.
Speaker 1: What would possessed five police officers, black police officers to
Speaker 1: go on a rampage and beat down this young man,
Speaker 1: the lad to his death. Both were possessing them to
Speaker 1: do such a thing. It absolutely makes no sense, but
Speaker 1: it does make sense because there's black on black being
Speaker 1: going on for quite some time. So why would we
Speaker 1: should be surprised about the murder of the black lea
Speaker 1: saw murdering a black person. You know these police allers man,
Speaker 1: some of them, they overseers who use fear and intimidation
Speaker 1: in order to reign hell in control of our communities.
Speaker 1: This is not acceptable. We cannot allow this to continue,
Speaker 1: these white officers and black officers. This police brutality seems
Speaker 1: like it's no end to It is one generation after another,
Speaker 1: one decade after another, we keep adding more innocent souls
Speaker 1: to the list. The community needs a plan of action,
Speaker 1: and it can't be just marching up down the street.
Speaker 1: It can't be just suing the city and getting some
Speaker 1: chump change for the murder of an innocent soul. We
Speaker 1: got to formulate some type of strategy where we it's
Speaker 1: a plan of action, this strategic and tactical that puts
Speaker 1: an end to Blue East brutality. Thanks for listening to
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