Doubt: Doubt is something that I believe lives in all of us. It can be confusing and debilitating. Doubt can shorten our breath, sway our decisions, and take us off course. Left unchecked doubt can lead us far from our intentions. When doubt arises it can feel damaging and hurtful. It can feel like something outside of us making decisions for us, but this is not the case. Doubt is an animal instinct, it lives within all of us. Doubt protects us, it questions our current course, allows a moment to reassess our surrounding, to understand where we are and where we were intending to go. Like a hound who has lost the scent, we may find ourselves pacing back and forth in frustration or carefully investigating our current place. Sometimes we may need to take a few steps back to find our path forward. This can be frustrating in the moment but fruitful in the end. It helps us be more clear with ourselves, with our path forward.
Protest asks us to face our reality, to doubt our actions, to look closely at our surroundings and understand how and why we move forward in our chosen direction. For today’s meditation I recommend we take a moment to listen to our doubt. To understand what it is telling us and why. To understand that our doubt is part of our process, it helps inform us. If we embrace our doubt when it arises we may more clearly understand our path forward.
Protest From Home (~3 mins)
NAACP: Contract for Black AmericaRead one Paragraph / Sign one petition / That’s Protesting!
https://naacp.org/campaigns/we-are-done-dying/
Hunger Strikers Request (5mins)
Sit for 5 minutes, the length of time Breonna Taylor went without medical attention before she died.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CDQHoQTg6Pg/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Please be sure to follow Hunger Strikers for Breonna and send them a note or a like, they are doing incredible work. If you have it in you, they are asking that you give up one food item that you like for the duration of their hunger strike or donate funds to support their process.
https://www.instagram.com/hungerstrikers4breonna/https://www.facebook.com/hungerstrikersforbreonna
If you’d like to join I’ll be meditating at 3pm but feel free to embrace this process on your own time
~ much love
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