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I've come realization that I'm an empath and keep suffering with the above mentioned points under self abandonment. Healing from this is f%$!ing hard but it has to be done. Just gotta keep moving forward!!

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An educated black queen 🎓

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alex_elle ~ Instagram

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Meeting The Man: James Baldwin In Paris (1970)

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Portraits by James Van Der Zee 

Women and children, Lenox (c. 1909)

Harlem (c. 1920)

Alpha Phi Alpha Basketball Team (1926)

Billy (1926)

Untitled (Portrait of a Boy in a Sailor Suit) (1927)

Couple (1930)

Couple in Raccoon Coats (1932)

Sunday Morning (c. 1932)

Her Best Friend (1940)

Jean-Michel Basquiat (1982)

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🚫 Phrases to Avoid Saying to Boost Manifestation

The point of this post is to raise awareness on what kind of pattern of thinking and words we may use during the manifestation process that may cause the process to go slower. These are personal experiences I’ve found while working on manifestations so I thought I’d share. I’ve seen a significant difference in manifestation time because I’ve stopped saying these phrases as much as I can as of lately.

❌ Phrases to avoid:

❌ “I can’t wait” - the universe responds to vibrations and not words necessarily. But if your vibration is representing impatience, or anxiety, rather than excited eagerness and full faith that what you desire is yours, the universe will respond to that and the manifestation process can take longer, thus making you wait.

❌ “I want” - this indicates that what you desire isn’t really yours yet simply because it hasn’t manifested physically. Instead of saying “I want”, practice saying “I AM”. I am loved, I am prosperous, I am successful, etc. Saying it in the present is full confidence that it’s yours already.

❌ “I will” - although you are confident and sure of getting/doing what you desire, “I will” can also indicate doubt or the possibility that you won’t. Again, saying “I am” is more presently active more so than “I will”.

Those are the top phrases I’ve avoided saying out loud, in writing, and in my mind. Of course, this takes practice to undo thinking patterns, but if you are presently aware it can help quite a bit! Feel free to add other things you’ve experienced that can slow the process 🔑 Happy manifesting! 💚

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He asked me when I fell in love with him and I knew it sounded dramatic to say the moment I saw him, so I told him this story of my grandma who had Alzheimer's- she forgot her name and the words for fruit and food, she forgot her address and how to use the washroom, all her life lost to the disease. The only thing she remembered was her son's name and when that began to fade, the one thing she always remembered was that she loved him, even in illness, even in insanity. She saw this 6 foot 2 man with a scrubby beard and she didn't know him but she said she trusted him, she asked him to hold her hand when she died. When does memory end and love begin? All I know is- she loved him before she remembered him.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The world is a sphere of ice and our hands are made of fire

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Do I really?... or has ingrained childhood trauma taught me that if I'm not sacrificing my happiness for someone else's then I'm a villain.

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lil kim’s iconic wigs

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More examples of the WORST mansplaining here.

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Donna Summer at the garden outside her home in Los Angeles, California by Michael Ochs, c. 1977