Cheer You Up Part 2

The sound quality is not great, but this is still BRILLIANT.  I defy you not to feel good when this is on.

And when the coronavirus crisis ends, you can celebrate to this.  And it WILL end.  We WILL win.  We WILL NOT BE DEFEATED!

See also:  This Should Cheer You Up (Bobby McFerrin). 

See also:  Bob Marley, Three Little Birds. 

Stay well.  Stay safe. 

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Bob Marley, Three Little Birds

Bob Marley singing "Every Little Thing's Gonna Be All Right" - how can we NOT be uplifted by this music?  It makes my heart sing.

I've not heard this dub version before, and it's great.  This is what I've been missing.

In these difficult, challenging coronavirus days, we need music like this to lift our spirits.

Remember, the Law of Increase says whatever we dwell on increases.  Whatever we focus on increases.  That is the power of the human mind.  We are immensely powerful.

We have a choice - we can focus on the problem, or we can focus on solutions.  Either way, our results are influenced by our thoughts, feelings and emotions. 

Plus check out Bobby McFerrin, "Don't Worry, Be Happy".

Stay well, stay safe.

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This Should Cheer You Up

Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry, Be Happy.  In these difficult, challenging coronavirus days, we must look after our mental and emotional health and remember we can have fun - even in lockdown.

These lyrics are always uplifting.

We have a choice - we can focus on the problem, or we can focus on solutions.  Either way, our results are influenced by our thoughts, feelings and emotions. 

See also:  Iyanla Vanzant:  You Don't Need to Be a Virus Victim!

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Iyanla Vanzant: You Don’t Need To Be A Virus Victim!

Excellent advice from Iyanla Vanzant about how to keep yourself and your loved ones safe, well, and (relatively) sane during this coronavirus crisis.  

Want to boost your immune system?   Please watch the video above, comment below and please share.  

Some say laughter is the best medicine.  Check it out:  Coronavirus Lockdown Humour.  

I am continuing to post content about health and healing, and bolstering your immune system, as well as stuff to make you smile.  For more great content, go here to join my online group, The Key to Everything. 

Stay safe.  Stay well.  

Yes, the Collapse of the Stock Market Is Coming

Dr. Boyce Watkins makes some interesting points. According to him, yes, the collapse of the stock market is coming.  As it has many times before.  

Spoiler alert:  The stock market will recover.  As it has many times before.  

He is probably right.  

He also says only 1% of people will catch the coronavirus.  Here's why I don't agree:  

• If someone coughs or sneezes, the droplets remain in the air for THREE HOURS; 
• the droplets can remain on a surface for several days; 
• the virus is so small it can fit through minute gasps in a face mask; 
• mass testing is not being done in the U.S. or the UK, therefore we are not monitoring how many people have the virus, or where they are; 
• healthcare workers are not being tested so they may be infecting others. 

I could go on, but I'm not tryng to depress you.  

I reckon pretty much everyone will get it.  But most people will have only mild symptoms, so it's nothing to worry about unless you have underlying health issues - like me - or are aged over 80.  

Anyway, please watch the video above, see what you think, comment below and please share.  

See also:  Coronavirus Lockdown Humour.  


I am posting content about health and healing, bolstering your immune system building and  stuff to make you smile.  For more great content, go here to join my online group, The Key to Everything. 

Stay safe.  Stay well.  

Six-Year-Old's Encounter with Gun Violence

Merkel Taylor, recovering from head wounds

If you read or follow my blogs, you know that I am committed to nonviolence and Nonviolent Communication (NVC).

Go here for the Blogging Carnival for Nonviolence 2018.

Markel Taylor, 6, was being driven to football practice by Marlow Parker when he was attacked.

This little boy was shot in the head, which has led to serious long-term issues for him and his brother. They are still living with the aftermath of this horrific incident and the trauma it caused.

Go here to read more.

This case is currently subject to legal proceedings, so not much information is available at this time.  But this is an example of what can happen when we resort to using violence. 

Tapping to Clear the Chakras

Further to yesterday's post about chakra healing, I have found this video about using the EFT tapping points to clear the chakras.  

Working with the chakras can be a powerful way of healing the body and manifesting what we want in life.  

New Manifest Everything Now Free Audios

I have been posting my notes from some of the Manifest Everything Now audios on my new Nurture Success Site.  

These audios are pretty amazing.  They are highly inspiring and can help you to achieve your full potential in every area of your life.  
 
Click here to listen to the new audios from Manifest Everything Now.  They are each available to listen to for free for 48  hours. 

Plus, how are you using the Law of Attraction to improve your life?  Please post your responses below. 

See also:  Health, Wealth, Success.  

Health, Wealth, Success

Happy New Year! 

Have you made your New Year's resolutions? 

What do you want to achieve in 2013?  Health?  Wealth?  Success? 

Often, when we decide to achieve goals, we sabotage ourselves.  

But you can use the Law of Attraction to help you to attract what you want - and what you deserve.  

Click here to read how you can stop sabotaging yourself, overcome your inner objections and achieve your goals.  

Plus click here for Success Strategies for Black People. 

Radiant Health and Healing

Click here for my CDs/MP3s for Radiant Health and Healing.  Enhance and strengthen your body's natural healing energies.  Detox your liver and kidneys, and all the cells in your body. 

Think rich to become rich.

Here's to your success!  

Film Africa: Filming Sensitive Issues

Dancing on the Edge

THIS BLOG POST CONTAINS ADULT CONTENT. 

I had some serious issues with the Filming Sensitive Issues event held at the BFI as part of the recent Film Africa festival.  

I walked in to see a panel of three white women (one of them turned out to be mixed race, but she appeared white).  I immediately had a problem with this.  There are many Black people filming in Africa right now, at this moment, and I am sure some of them are filming sensitive issues.  So I question the composition of the panel.  

Two of the filmmakers had made a film about LGBT activists in Uganda.  I'm not going to say much about this right now.  

The other white woman, Karen Boswall, had made a documentary in Mozambique entitled Dancing on the Edge, about health workers educating people in local communities in order to prevent the spread of HIV.  So this was a real conflict for the woman who was the central figure in the documentary - she was an HIV+ health worker who was participating in the ritual. 

Dancing on the Edge showed girls taking part in a traditional initiation ceremony.  They had to take a vow that they would always sexually satisfy their husbands and never refuse to do so.  This goes directly against the health initiative to encourage people to use condoms.  They also vowed to submit if their husbands decided to beat them.  Thus, the initiation instructed them on how to be a good woman. 

One thing I found very offensive was that Boswall said the ancestors had required women to take these vows - this is what the locals told her.  I had a problem with this because it is the duty of the ancestors to protect their descendants (although not all ancestors are protective).  If your ancestors are telling you to submit to beatings, they are not doing their job.  However, there was no analysis of this from the filmmaker.  

It has rightly been pointed out to me that religion and spirituality are often used to manipulate and control people, as depicted, for example, in Ousmane Sembene's film Moolaade.  Therefore, it is entirely likely that the ancestors are being slandered in this instance. 

The film depicted many girls and young women taking part in the ritual.  In a lengthy sequence, they are topless.  So we see this sea of breasts - again, with no explanation or analysis.  There is no voiceover to place this in context. 

One thing I found particularly disturbing was that many of these girls were very young - far too young to have breasts - in fact, they literally looked like little boys.  I question why children so young were participating in an initiation ritual.  

Another problem I had with this event was that Boswall was surprised at how many people had asked her about female genital mutilation (FGM) in connection with her film.  It is obvious that, in an African context, any discussion of female initiation ceremonies will include reference to FGM, but Boswall did not seem to understand this.  Nor was she aware of Moolaade.  I have a problem with someone who knows so little about African film, or indeed African culture, having her work included in this festival.  

Boswall was well-meaning.  She said she was disappointed that her film was unlikely to bring about change, and she plans to make fiction films rather than documentaries in future.  

Some useful reflections came out of the event, as the filmmakers involved were very candid about the effects of their work on African communities.  I shall say more about this in future. 

Although the BFI screens the excellent African Odysseys film series on a monthly basis, I was very disappointed by this offering from Film Africa. 

African American Bloggers' Carnival

The theme of the next African American Bloggers' Carnival is "Black relationships, families, culture and society".

"All positive, Black-focused blogs are invited to submit links for review and possible inclusion."

The deadline for submission is the 30th of November. Click here to post your entries.

And good luck!

Click here to read more about Black bloggers and blogging.

Why We Are Afraid to Try Something New?

Does this describe you?

You have had a health problem for some time. Maybe you are in pain. Or you know someone who is.

If you have tried lots of different things, but you still struggle with this issue, you are probably feeling fed up by now.

You have experienced so much disappointment you don't even want to try anymore.

I can help.

I am offering solutions for diabetes, Alzheimer's, pain relief and other health issues.

If you are open to the possiblity that MAYBE you can find a solution, I can help you find one.

Click here to read more and download my free resources.

See also: Alternative Health Remedies.

Click here for more information about me and my work.

Here's to your health!

Focus the Power of the Universe

My new, free ebook The Power of Affirmations, helps you to focus the power of the universe to improve your

- money and finances
- health
- work and career

or any area of your life.

If you have ever had problems using affirmations, or even if you haven't, if you have been using affirmations for years or if you are a complete novice, The Power of Affirmations can help you. Click here to download it now.

Click here for more free ebooks and reports.

Here's to your success!

Free Reports and Ebooks for Health, Wealth and Success

In addition to the More Black Success ebooks, I have a number of free reports I would like to share with you, which I created myself, including:

Achieving Success with your 3-Step Success Formula

4 Steps to Finding the Job You Want

and Raising Money through Sponsorship.

Feel free to download them, use them and enjoy them.

Click here for my free job search consultations.

Click here for more about More Black Success.

Here's to your success!

Honouring Your Deepest Values

What is the most important thing in your life?

Is it your relationships?

Having genuine heart connections with people?

Spending time with those you love?

Fun and excitement?

Having a healthy, fit body?

Creative expression?

Education and learning?

The opportunity to learn and grow spiritually?

Whatever you most value, make sure you structure your life around it, rather than trying to fit it into your life.

To read more, see 12 Ways to Be Successful.

Click here for my free 3-Step Success Formula.

Here's to your success!

How This Affects Our Businesses, Families, Health

I have been posting an ongoing series on Why We Need to Heal. We have been brainwashed to hate ourselves and distrust each other. To read about how this affects us, our families, our businesses and our health, see

Why We Need to Heal Parts 1-3.

Stay tuned for Part 4.

My work is all about the healing. To read more, see Success Strategies for Black People.

Black Men's Health - Too Embarrassed to Talk about It?

On Oprah today, Dr. Oz will be the host. It's the first time anyone other than Oprah herself has hosted.

The topic is men's health. And everyone in the studio will be male.

If you are a Black man, are you too embarrassed to talk about your health? Do you avoid talking about it with your wife, the woman in your life, your family?

Do you avoid going to the doctor because you don't want to get bad news?

How can we as healthcare and health promotion workers reach African American and African Caribbean men? How can we support them to get the health checks they need?

In the free More Black Success ebook Volume 4, Dr. Bill Releford writes about the Black Barbershop Project. If we can't get the men to go to the doctor, we need to bring the doctor to the men.

For your free copy, visit More Black Success today!

Demise of Health First

With a heavy heart, I attended a recent meeting of the African Health Forum. It was the final one as part of Health First.

Health First was a resource funded by the Primary Care Trusts (pcts) of three South London boroughs, Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham (LSL). Large numbers of African people live in each of these three boroughs.

Health First provided support and advice to professionals and voluntary and statutory organisations for 15 years, but it has now been decommissioned.

I attended a stakeholders’ meeting several months ago, at which everyone agreed about how valuable Health First had been, and the value of the training provision in particular.

We had opportunities to meet people who played various roles across the three boroughs, whom we might never otherwise have met. This allowed us to share information and skills across a range of organisations and individuals.

In 2007, it was announced that Lewisham had decided to withdraw funding from Health First. Several months later, Lambeth and Southwark also decided to pull out.

This is reminiscent of when the Emergency Clinic at the Maudsley, a local mental hospital, closed a couple of years ago. Again, one borough – Lambeth in this case – withdrew its funding and Southwark, the remaining borough was not able to continue to fund the emergency clinic. This means that in an emergency, mental patients such as myself now have to go to the main hospital, Kings College Hospital, for help and support. We hope there will be a member of staff on hand who can provide specialist care and we have been told that there will always be someone available to do this. But Kings do not provide telephone support, which I have personally found extremely valuable at times when I was in a crisis.

Health First was seen as a flagship resource, and other local health authorities and pcts across the country looked to it as an example of good practice. The African Health Forum was an important part of the work of Health First. We are a group of people working in the voluntary and statutory sectors, specifically around HIV and sexual health issues, including health promotion, education, prevention and advocacy within the three boroughs. We have now widened our brief to include other health issues that affect local African communities.

I have been a member of the African Health Forum for over two years, and I have very much appreciated the opportunity to network and learn from others working in the area of health promotion.

The mood at the African Health Forum meeting was one of mourning. One person said it was like living in a house and someone tearing off the roof.

One thing that was said at the meeting was that there were allegations of mismanagement. This came as a shock to me. I had not heard anything about such allegations prior to that meeting and it seemed to be coming out of the blue. Nobody at that meeting was aware of any issues regarding mismanagement within Health First.

There are still funds committed to continuing the work of the African Health Forum for at least one further year. However, we don’t know what this work will be or what we will be able to achieve. We don’t know if there will be dedicated workers to support our aims. It is possible that we will continue in a different form – only time will tell.