Lesson 1

Bear Witness to a Higher Power

     Our natural human predisposition is to submit our will to our Creator, and evolve beyond our physical desires.  When an individual has no fear of doing wrong or evil to themselves, their family, or their community that person will lose the will and discipline to sacrifice for their well being and a purpose greater than one individual.  However, when we recognize, remember, and submit to a higher power, than we can build the strength to succeed beyond any obstacles in our present society.

     A man is less of a man, when he does not recognize the mother or womb that raised him.  The man will be more of a man, the more he recognizes the mother or womb that raised him.  It is the same with humans and their inherited strength.  A human being will not be as strong as their full potential, if he/she does not recognize the source of power that gives them strength- their spirit.  Just as a human being will be in their full strength, the more they recognize and submit to the source of their power- their Creator.

     Bearing witness to a higher power will give you the strength to overcome the entire struggle in this material world; giving you a vision to strive beyond accomplished goals.  It will be like starting at point A, focused on point B, and going through any obstacle in between the two points. This is how easy the obstacles of negativity will be to defeat, and how easy it will be to succeed in a land of peace and opportunity.

Subtopics:  

I.                   Influences

A.     If a child grew up on an island with no influences, what would be its religion?

B.     What is the difference between spiritually and religion?

C.     Focus- Focusing the positive of your spirit builds your strength.

D.     Distractions- Distractions take power away from your spirit.

E.      Inherited Spirituality- Humans have an inherited spirituality.

Activities:  List five things that can distract you from positive development.

                   List five things people take to be like god.

Objective:  The students will begin to understand where the ultimate resource of power for personal success lies.

Lesson 2

Learning how to learn

Everything we do, every thought and response we perform, and every behavior we manifest, we have learned. Therefore, any negative thoughts or behaviors we have can be unlearned, and with discipline, we can learn new thoughts and behaviors. We must work through the cycle for change.

This begins with first identifying the problem or behavior that you want to change. Then becoming aware and taking responsibility for whatever part you play, in causing the problem, and work to change the situation. Once you do the work to change the problem and find a solution, then you will cause a change in your thought, behavior, and environment.

Learning how to learn is important because the foundation or learning process you build in yourself, will decide what type of energy you will absorb or reject. If you learn how to learn with rational thinking, you will grow and respond to your environment different than if you learned how to learn through violence and destructive behavior.

All of the social epidemics of sex, drugs, and violence are conditioned responses, conditioned in our thought process. All we have to simply do is discipline ourselves to unlearn these negative tendencies, and learn or condition new behavioral tendencies, into the mechanism of our basic foundation and values.

Subtopic:

I. Learned Behaviors

a. All of your thoughts and behaviors are results of what you have learned. Therefore you must unlearn the things you want to change, and learn new thoughts and behaviors.

II. Discipline

A. Discipline is the key to programming new behavior.

Activities:

Say A,B,D  20 times

Now say your alphabet correctly

Discussion points: Understand that it took discipline to learn the alphabet, and when you put discipline to learn something different, it was easy to change. This same process could  change you from drinking every time you get the urge, to reading and writing every time you fill that urge.

Lesson 3

Get Rich and Grow Wealth

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     First and foremost, invest money to win people and establish financial longevity. A satisfied customer is the best advertisement. This is how you create product demand. Second, prepare to market the world and expand capital base. To avoid financial bankruptcy in a local recession. This is how you create product supply. Third, learn how to be a winner, build winning relationships, and secure investors. It is not what you know, or who you know, it is who wants to know you. This is how you create product market. Fourth, use time to make money and gain knowledge of value. When you gain knowledge of value every breath you take is a service to someone, when you find the someone, it is a blank check. This is how you create product value. Fifth, manage anger and stress through healthy living and good nutrition. The body is organic and is fueled by an organic diet; when you have confidence, it betters your vision. This is how you create product longevity. Sixth, faith is necessary for perseverance - this is your cash flow. A vision is only faith until it becomes reality. Therefore, we must collaborate with faith based people to support and strengthen your vision. This is how you create product clientele. Seventh, conserve water - this is your energy. The body is made of two-thirds water. Dehydration will cause the lack of focus, concentration, and memory. This is how you create product determination. Eighth, master your emotions - this is your joy. Be like water, formless, indestructible, the essence of life, and you will master your emotions. This is how you create product growth. Ninth, achieve Financial and Personal Goals - this is your success. Wealth without power is imbalance, imbalance leads to self-destruction. Tie up loss ends. This is how you create product investments. Tenth, the key to success is simple, observe how fragile the mind is and your will see emotions can cause damage; be mindful to recoup loss mass daily with healthy living and good nutrition. Finally, Natural Medicine is the giving to the body what it needs to heal itself the soul. Self-Perfection will bring the genius out of intellect at the root of the Human Essence.

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Lesson 4

The Path to Peace

     Success and salvation is peace and harmony in your soul and spirit.  There are many approaches, and paths to achieve this peace and harmony.  However, look at all behaviors, besides knowledge and the search for truth in your soul, as just desires.  For example, their was a time when I thought working to build my community or my family or helping others was what will bring them peace.  I have learned that if I am captivated in my desires, I will truly lose the balance of my peace.  Having peace and striving to achieve peace will bring all those things.  When you search your soul to enhance your spirit, anything you manifest physically will bring you peace.  However, when a person believes something in physical manifestation is what will bring them peace.  ; they can be caught up in giving more energy to that object then they do their own peace, and development,, and that can lead to losing your peace,  balance, and harmony.

     We must search our soul for the best values that will bring understanding spiritually and little resistance physically.  I believe one of the tools for that journey is the six steps to find peace within one’s self.

Purpose:   The purpose is to help individuals remain balanced and at peace, so they can always be their strongest and gain valuable knowledge from all experiences they encounter in their life.

6 Steps to find peace within oneself

1. Look at every burden as a stepping-stone to bettering your character.
2. Search and find your true feelings and beliefs, and act on them.
3. Never cut the hand that feeds you, a mind is a terrible thing to waste.
4. Live nothing but the truth.
5. Family Values-we all come from the same nature, and will return to the same Creator.
6. Sacrifice for others, struggle builds character.

Subtopics:  

I. Peace

 A. What is peace ?  Where is peace ?  What is self-knowledge ?

 B. Nothing out side of you can bring your peace.  This is how you set yourself up to allow people to take away your peace.  Be happy with yourself before you try to please others.

Activities:   Write down 10 goals that will help bring you peace.  Identify how much emphasis you put on other people.  Recognize potential problems that can build confusion, fear, and self-hatred.

Objective: The students will build direction for personal happiness.

Lesson 5

The Commandments of Social Consciousness

Having a strong foundation of knowledge and understanding of self-potential and social consciousness is like being a well trained hurdle racer. The best hurdle racer is one who knows where every hurdle is and how many strides are in between 3each hurdle. So he can run a smooth successful race. If the racer does not stay focused on the hurdles, he/she may run into one, hurt themselves and never finish the race.

     In our environment, sex, drugs, violence, and negative influences have become hurdles for the people of our community, and if they are not aware and focused on these hurdles, they are running into them and injuring themselves, whereas they may never finish the race. In life, you can either keep up with the hurdles as they are placed down, you can run far past the hurdles before they are able to put them down, or you can stop and let the hurdles continue to pile up and take away your hope to complete the race. Because in the race of life, hurdles will continuously be placed on your track, and if you stop at one hurdle, you will see that the 10 hurdles you thought were left will be 20, 30, or 40 more hurdles to jump.

     This is why it is important to equip ourselves and our children with the ability to see the hurdles, and stay focused on the hurdles, to know how many strides our in between each hurdle, and know that they can win the race. This is the vision knowledge and understanding of social consciousness provides, and why it is important to our youth.

Purpose: To make people aware of the condition and situation the black communities are facing as individuals, and a whole.

Subtopics: 10 Commandments of Social Consciousness

1. Americans have been disconnected from their inherited spirituality.
2. Americans have been shocked into a breeding mode for survival.
3. We must carry our confused family members until they reach an independent state of mind.
4. Ignorance is a conditioned behavior.
5. Ignorance is the inability to adapt and progress in a civilized society.
6. Americans are afraid to achieve, and cause self-destruction for themselves, and their race. For example, when Americans make it, the media find ways to humiliate or degrade them, reflecting it on the entire race.\
7. Jesus saves self-empowerment.\
8. Nothing is finish until it is complete.
9. Humans are like energy markers, sticks out of the ground.
10. A healthy body creates an optimum mind to control the surrounding environment.

Activities: Write 10 things about the culture of Americans

                  Write 10 things about the American Society

Lesson 6

The method to control stress and anxiety.

           

     Because Americans, due to the overwhelming media images, have lost their identity, many have no foundation to build our future with. Or even a strong thought process to deal with daily situations and confrontations of stress and anxiety. Many of us have been conditioned with a spiritual void that was created during American Slavery. It has been filled with false superstitions and beliefs, teaching us to respond to external confrontation and influences with negative potential or tendencies of our human nature. We have been conditioned to respond to stressors with sex, drugs, and violence, and until we fill our voids it blocks us from complete truth, peace, and fulfillment.

     Self-Esteem is the human transmitter of external energy into internal fuel that is used to energize specific behaviors. If the energy is transmitted negative, the behavior will be negative, or take away from your positive energy. This is why positive self esteem is important to help people convert negative destructive energy into positive self-development energy. Any program that builds self-esteem on this level is valuable to all people.

     One destructive effect of stress is low self-esteem, low self-confidence, increased self-doubt, and self-hatred. Learning how to control stress and anxiety is one of the most valuable tools for lifelong success. The supplies for those tools are knowledge and understanding of self-potential and social consciousness. They will build balance in an individual, enabling them to deal with stress and anxiety by absorbing the positive and elimination of the negatives.

Purpose: The purpose is to teach the method of dealing and controlling stress and anxiety, with two steps to build a strong foundation unshakable to external influences.

Objective:

1. Provide knowledge and understanding of social consciousness and self-awareness of human potential to build a strong foundation to defeat destructive influences.
2. Teach individuals how to build themselves and be themselves, with confidence and direction to achieve balance in their spirit.

Subtopics:

I.                    Potential

A.     Enlightening the confusion with the truth of human potential.

II.                 The Tree of Life

III.               The Balance of the Human Essence

IV.               Balance

A.     Our spirits must be balanced like an atom.

V.                 Personalities

A.     When a person creates an “I” they break away from the peacefulness of being themselves.

Activities:

                Pick a life goal.

                Recognize the structured tension

                Know how to relieve the tension

                Know that tension will increase the more focused you are.

Lesson 7

Self-Responsibility

     Everything begins with self and ends with self, so you must decide what you are going to do with yourself. There are 3 basic necessities an individual must have to grow in their potential; one is the need to survive, two is the need to be loved, and three is the need to grow.

     An individual must fulfill each need in order to advance to the next level of development. For example, if a young man would like to grow, and is not taught a positive way to survive, or given positive love, he will choose a negative way to survive, and a negative way to receive love (i.e. drugs, gangs, or materialistic people); so he could elevate and grow.

     Many of our children are behaving recklessly out of frustration to grow. When their not taught to survive or be loved, they choose common, easy immediate paths to fulfill their necessities and grow on some level of new enlightenment. Until we teach our children a positive way to fulfill their natural basic necessities, they will do what it takes to build and grow.

Purpose: The purpose is to enlighten and inspire people to understand the inherited spirituality, their inner power has. The 3 basic needs that must be fulfilled in order for individuals to have balance and control of their life, and not be vulnerable to be controlled by peer pressure.

Objectives:

1. To teach individuals how to fulfill their basic necessity of survival (food, clothing, and shelter) in a positive way.

2. To teach individuals how to fulfill their basic necessity of being loved (you have to give love in order to get love), in a positive way.

3. To teach individuals how to fulfill their basic necessity to grow (you must evolve through every level of development in order to grow in your fullest capacity.).

Outcome: The students will have a sound understanding of their unlimited potential that can only be limited by their behavior.

Subtopics: 

I.                    Basic Necessities

1. 3 Basic necessities (to survive, to be loved, to grow)
2. If a person is not taught how to fulfill their basic necessities in a positive way. They will fulfill it in a negative way; because human necessities have to be fulfilled. For example, even though good nutritional food is better, if all that a person has in front of them is junk food, then that is what they will eat. Just like violence and criminal behavior.

Activities: List behaviors that may be for a positive reason, but destructive on the surface, for example, drug dealing, gangs, and runaways.

Objectives: The students will have an understanding of many underlying reasons for most destructive behaviors.

Lesson 8

Media Insights

     It is very important for individuals to know the difference between “people reality” and “television reality”. Our children must have the ability to see wisdom in everything they experience as a valuable tool, for security, to insure the least amount of corruption in your children’s life.

     Many youth and adults are misadjusted and misguided about crime and violence; by the images they perceive to be real on television. People believe prison is a fun place to be, they are misadjusted to believe crime is the best solution for success, and violence is portrayed to not hurt the victims. This is all through the media and entertainment.

     Our children have become numb to the reality, and pain violence brings. Because a bullet wound is portrayed in the media and cartoons as a scratch or flesh wound. It is time for our children to know the truth of crime, violence, and destruction with insight that will bring enlightenment to the corrupt conditioning used through media. Or the depth of the warning signs entertainers cry over music.

     One thing is for sure, in order for a successful combat against the negative influences in the environment, our people must be given a sifting mechanism to know the bad when they hear it or see it, and convert it to good. Or get good inspiration from whatever they see and hear, even if it is a negative portrayal.

Purpose: The purpose is to raise a new level of insight into media, and music, and begin to receive wisdom and enlightenment from any influence put on television and the radio.

Objective: 1. The objective is to study media, music, and entertainment for specific insights into the all American struggle from inferiority to an identity.

  2. To study music, and media of destructive nature, and build an insight for positive messages from any source of information.

Materials: Audio of Topic, KRS-1, Erika Badu, and Bob Marley: Video of Roots the Series, A woman called Moses, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr.

Subtopics:

                I. Subliminal Messages.

                A. Sublime marketing and conditioning.

                B. Everything tells a true message if you have an understanding, and search to see how people are publicly portrayed, vs. their private behavior and true nature.

Activities: Listen and analyze various music and videos for positive and negative messages.

Objective: The students will build resilience to the violence and destruction that overwhelms them in the media.