Now is a time for a change of heart, change that occurs from the inside out. This new revolution is going to be internalized, not broadcast or televised. It is time to shine a light on our own ethnic and racial wounds and to begin the process of healing ourselves. The work we have to do requires shifts in consciousness and it starts with individual personal transformation. In order to effect social change, we have to approach the task of educating ourselves and of healing our internal wounds with courage, dedication, and devotion.īut the work we have to do goes beyond policy changes, diversity and inclusion initiatives, and laws. We don’t need to wait for a commission to be formed, or for systems and other individuals to change in order to do this work. I believe Restorative Yoga is a tool that can help us do that. See also A Yoga Therapist Shares The Truth About Trauma Now is a time for us to turn within and for healing our own pain as if our very lives depended on it because they do. We hurt others as a result of ignorance and of our own inner strife and pain.
It is time for each one of us to take an honest look at the wounding we have endured, and the wounding we have inflicted on others, whether intentional or not. The challenge of doing the hard work of healing the ancient pain of racial wounding is long overdue. Even though visible and invisible effects of ethnic and racial stress and trauma abound, many of us remain unaware of its effects because it is so common.
It is my observation that in a racialized world, each of us has emotional wounds based on events of ethnic and race-based stress and trauma that are unacknowledged and therefore unhealed.
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