An Honest Conversation On Social Justice & Injustices

This meditation invites us to have an honest conversation about racism, separation, and how we can begin a healing process. Our willingness to sit, be still, and contemplate is a call to action. We might not know what to do during this time of dis-ease, but we feel the need to do something. Healing begins with self, and this meditation helps us to feel, deal, heal and ultimately reveal a higher conscious way of life. Blessings and Namaste.

Transcript

Hello,

And welcome.

I'm Skip Jennings,

Meditation teacher and yoga instructor.

I welcome you to this guided meditation,

Also a process dealing with the times we're in.

We have been seeing racism for so long,

For centuries in this country and in the world.

But it seems at this time,

There has been this overwhelming amount of information that we are receiving about this issue.

So my intention for this practice and my intention for this meditation is for us to have an honest communication with ourselves.

Racism,

Sexism,

Homophobia,

All these low frequency vibrations holds us back from being who we are meant to be.

I believe our calling is to be in a state of peace,

Not just peace with each other,

But peace with ourselves,

A state of absolute love.

And I'm not talking about the romantic love.

I'm talking about the energy that creates all things.

We are called to be in a state of grace,

Of right action,

Of oneness,

Divine power.

And these are all the higher frequencies that we are.

So one of the things that we must be able to do is to have an honest communication around what is happening.

So during this past couple of weeks,

We have began to emerge out of our quarantine from this pandemic.

And I believe that a part of what we are experiencing is that uneasiness of wanting to get out of our homes and out of this space that we feel contained.

But there's something so much deeper than that.

There is a conversation that we are not having.

See,

Racism is a ancestral energy that has not been healed.

We have not been willing to have that conversation of healing and reparations.

And I'm not talking about monetary.

I'm talking about forgiveness.

So as long as we're not having this conversation,

As long as we're not focusing,

Then we'll never fully heal.

See,

Racism is rooted in fear.

Fear of someone else or fear of something we have learned to dislike.

We witness police brutality all the time because of this energy that others have learned to control or dominate another person.

But the biggest reason,

I believe,

Is because we have forgotten who we are and what we are.

We are one.

We are connected.

There is an energy that flows between all of us that cannot be denied.

But we have forgotten.

Some of us know our oneness and have forgotten.

Others have never learned.

This meditation is a call to action.

This process is a way that we can get honest with ourselves,

But then ask the bigger question,

What can I do?

And after the contemplative process,

We'll do a beautiful Hawaiian prayer I learned when I lived in Hawaii on the island of Oahu.

Hoho Pono Pono is a prayer of forgiveness.

To help us to forgive ourselves,

To forgive others,

And ultimately landing us in a space and a place of peace.

So let's begin.

Let's get comfortable.

Let's begin to relax and to breathe,

Releasing any tension in the body.

There could be some disease from watching the news or just reading the papers or being online.

This is your time to release it.

Just for this sacred time of meditation and contemplation,

Release anything that you might have brought into this meditation,

Into this time and space.

Don't worry about where you're going to be after this.

Just be here.

Your willingness to settle in and to become more mindful is a call to action within itself of a spiritual evolution.

So I invite you to close your eyes and today just breathe.

Remember that you are here.

You're setting the intention to wake up to a higher frequency.

We're setting the intention to begin an ancestral healing.

Be open.

Be willing.

As we begin to contemplate our lives as social justice warriors,

We invite an honest conversation and communication with ourselves.

Transformation begins at home and you are the home.

And as we continue to breathe and continue to have these introspective moments,

The first step is to feel it.

This is not a time for spiritual bypass and to pretend this is not happening.

Racism,

Social injustice,

Brutality,

It is happening.

We feel the energy.

We recognize it.

We see it.

It's happening.

And because we're willing to feel it and to call it out,

Then we're able to deal with it.

And the dealing of this is to understand that this is a time of remembering.

We have forgotten that we are one on this planet.

We have forgotten that we are connected so much deeper than skin color,

Race,

Sexual preference,

Gender.

We're connected by something that we can't see,

But we can feel.

There is an interruption in the balance.

There is an interruption in our state of peace.

There is a dis-ease in the way that we are living our lives,

But we're willing to deal.

The dealing of this is a time for us to be more mindful,

More loving.

It is a time to ask,

What am I here to do?

What am I called to do to make this a better place?

We are all not called to be on the front lines of a protest,

But we can protest in our own way.

Maybe not allowing hateful language to be around us,

Or maybe what we post in the social media or maybe we are called to be on the front lines as a social justice warrior.

We feel so that we may deal,

And then we heal.

The healing is an energy of peace,

Of love,

Of bringing us together.

We are not called to be on the sidelines.

This is a call to action.

Your action might be to teach others to pray,

To meditate,

To walk,

To speak languages of truth.

Whatever you're being called to do is from a place of love.

It is a time to be willing for right action to take place with love,

Social justice from a place of love,

Helping others to connect,

Because we are love.

The healing is a space where we allow ourselves to remember,

To remember the place of peace,

To remember the space of connection.

The healing is internal.

The healing begins within ourselves.

We feel,

We deal,

We heal,

And we reveal.

The revelation comes forth during a time where we do not fully understand what's going on.

The revelation is a time of understanding something has to be done.

We must shift and heal lifetimes of separation,

Of fear,

Of separation.

The revelation is a call for peaceful demonstrations,

Peaceful acts.

We ask,

What am I to do?

What is my calling in this movement?

The revelation,

The revealing,

Is a time that we acknowledge justice,

Equality,

Oneness.

And it begins with how we think,

How we treat ourselves,

How we treat others.

We reveal a call for forgiveness.

We reveal our willingness to forgive generations of the way we think,

The way we allow other people to treat us.

We reveal this time that's calling forth a higher way of living.

We reveal the time is now.

Let's breathe in.

Big exhale.

So I invite you to participate in a forgiveness mantra,

Forgiving our past indiscretions,

Forgiving ourselves for maybe believing in untruth or allowing our thoughts to separate us or to feel a place of separation.

I invite you to simply repeat after me.

And this can be done on your own.

It can be done anywhere,

Anytime that we're feeling dis-ease and unrest.

So let's begin.

I love you.

I'm sorry.

Please forgive me.

Thank you.

I love you.

I'm sorry.

Forgive me.

Thank you.

So I believe forgiveness begins with ourselves.

So let's say it to ourselves.

I love you.

I'm sorry.

Forgive me.

Thank you.

I love you.

I'm sorry.

Forgive me.

Thank you.

Now bring to mind someone that you've had a confrontation with or maybe someone that has brought this energy of separation or slow frequency energy into your consciousness.

And repeat.

I love you.

I'm sorry.

Forgive me.

Thank you.

I love you.

I'm sorry.

Forgive me.

Thank you.

And let's send this out to the world,

To the globe.

Bring to mind the globe,

The planet,

And especially in the times that we're in now,

Repeat after me.

I love you.

I'm sorry.

Forgive me.

Thank you.

I love you.

I'm sorry.

Forgive me.

Thank you.

So I'll just begin to take a deep breath in.

Let's begin to bring our awareness back into the space that we're in.

Slowly begin to open up the eyes.

Just feel the energy of the process that we just experienced.

I love you.

I'm sorry.

Forgive me.

Thank you.

And today I invite you,

No matter what you're doing,

Bring the intention to be a social justice warrior of peace,

Of love,

Of right action,

Forgiveness,

And grace.

I wish you well.

I wish our planet well.

And reminder that this is a process.

We are learning how to heal.

Namaste.

Reviews

Thank you for this meditation, simple and direct instruction.
I love you

Dear Rev. Thank you for this honest, raw, open and beautiful meditation. It brought me both into and out of myself. Sometimes I can be egocentric and focused mostly on what's happening in my life directly and am easily overwhelmed with the suffering of this planet, of so many on this planet that I feel frozen, paralyzed.... feeling like any small deed isn't enough. Thank you for the permission to do what I can, what we each can. Collectively we are agents of change. To you Rev and to all that read this: "I love you. I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you ". 🌻

Thank you for your beautiful message of love, hope, forgiveness and redemption in these troubled times 🙏🙏❤️❤️

Thank you 🙏🏽 🙏🏼🙏🏾

Thank you for your wisdom and guidance. Thank for these healing words of Love.

Hi Skip this was amazing and as you know if been wanting to listen .. I try and remember some of my thoughts and actions as possible ..

1. you took the words out of my mouth - FEAR .. but also comes down to hate.
2. what I believe is there are more similaties between race, sexual preference, religions which far outway the differences .. the similarities should be embraced .. the differences should be accepted, acknowleded , respected and even learnt from ..
2. I liked the fact that you brought up sexusl choice and religion ..
3. this however such a deep seated problem, you covered a small too of the iceberg, that the fixing I personslly do not feel it will ever be fixed .. one can only hope
4. it is learned but that learning would generslly start with the parents, teachers peers etc generally difficult to break ..
5. in South Africa and throuhht the world there is a statement that is is used often .. I'm not racist - I have black friends .. what does that mean .. are they truly your friends .. more importantly are they in the same class system? what about the guys below ..
6. for me it comes done to treating people with respect and as equals and not below so that you look down on them
7. forehiveness is a difficult one. we are meant to learn from history. but as humans we generally don't .. it gets repeated .. that history is also so deep seated in the memories of those on the receiving end that foregiveness can be nigh on impossible .. those forgiving themselves - are they really? actions speak louder than words .. I wrote this at the end of last year and is appropriate ..

"How do you expect your slate to be wiped clean if that slate keeps gathering dust?"

just a couple more things

8. when you went through the mantra there was a part I kept quite as I would be lying to myself and not being honest, truthful or believe .. 1 was a relationship from last year and hurt terribly but the positive was I am out of it .. maybe from that perspective I should be grateful .. and forgive as it did do me a favour .. the other is a business relationship I'm in where I'm treated with so much disrespect but I do everything in the business .. the person I feel is egotiscal. arrogant and a narcissist amongst others. forgiveness is not an option as it continues
9. back onto USA .. the counyry was developed based on equality, freedom, respect for all etc etc .. what happened to those dreams? I do now understand that in the ununitated states of America why the African American name appears to no longer be used .. that connection. with America has been lost ..

I think from this and previous converststions you understand my stand point .. but one final thing .. I thought of calling it a disclaimer

Do I know black people that I don't like. get on with, respect or see eye to eye with? Yes! the same applies to people of various sexual pretences, religions (particularly those that claim to be religious) .. but that does not have anything to do with what or who they are.. it relates to that person and that person alone .. it is not made as generalization .. just because that person is like that well then it applies to all ..

I do my best to treat everyone with respect ..

I know this is War & Peace and if you read to the end thank you ..

love peace and gratitude .. 5* Skip

I found a strong resonance with this meditation. May all who listen feel the same and pass it on to others 👃🏽

Amazing. The powerful truth. Thank you! I will keep listening to this. You are a gem and shining light in this world. 🙏🏼❤️🌞✨

Calming voice bringing me back to love, clarity, and grace.

So very grateful for the beauty of the message 🕉🧡🙏🏼

Powerful and voluptuous. If I could, I would make this meditation obligatory for every citizen of the globe. There’s a message here and a resonant, sweet energy that’s transmitted. Dialectics hasn’t taken us across the energy barrier that still separates us as an ancestral Legacy. This is a beautiful and essential piece of work, interior and exterior are called together for healing. Thank you thank you, this meditation speaks volumes about our next steps to evolve as human spirits, as individuals and as a collective. It left me feeling more whole, more hopeful and invigorated. Brilliant!

this was the most amazing meditation I could ever do. I released so much negativity within me, and as a person of color myself the mantra was exactly what I needed✨🙏

Thank you so much for this meditation.

Exactly what I needed. Thank you for the kind message, namaste 🙏🏿

Thank you so much Skip. We have much work to do but your gentle guidance makes going there almost bearable.

Thank you for sharing your beautiful perspective 💛

Beautiful! So much of this is needed in these times. Thank you for sharing wisdom & love!

Thank you so much, Skip. Your heart, guidance, and wisdom make me so grateful. Will do this session over and over again and will lead others to it also. Just, thank you.

thank you so much for this x