Black Meditation - by David Archer (Hardcover)

About the Book

Black Meditation: Ten practices for enhancing self-care, deepening your mindfulness practice, and raising your Black racial consciousness.

Book Synopsis

Black Meditation: Ten Practices for Self-Care, Mindfulness, and Self-Determination

Enhance your self-care and activate your inner resources.

When talking about mindfulness, a lot of people avoid talking about race-despite these practices coming from the lands of Black and Brown people.

This book is different: the author is Black and the message is Black. The purpose is to encourage spiritual consciousness, anti-racist awareness, and social change that benefits all people.

Reading Black Meditation will teach you about Kemetic principles, visualization techniques, and methods for cultivating self-love and self-respect. Cultivate your inner greatness by using guided meditations and writing exercises.

Here are the chapter titles for each of the 10 chapters:

• Cultivation: Introducing Black Meditation
• Purpose: The Goal Is to Sit
• Discipline: Breath and Body
• Vision: Envisioning a Direction
• Gratitude: Written Words to Yourself
• Blessings: Affirming Spirit
• Courage: Stepping outside of our Patterns
• Resilience: Recovering from our Trauma
• Strength: Links and Boundaries
• Love: The Missing Ingredient

Because I am not the only Black Meditator out there, I also included 6 short interviews with some expert Black Meditators from my city and my circle: Feugang Donald, Brandon Dawson-Jarvis, Vonnette Forde, Jacqueline Powell, Astin L. Davis, and Claude Kamga.

Learn about Black Meditation from a new perspective.

Learn from an anti-racist perspective.

Review Quotes

Jayne Wesler

5.0 out of 5 stars

Treasure Chest of Knowledge and Wisdom with Easy and Comforting Exercises

Psychotherapist and author David Archer has written a timely treasure chest of knowledge and wisdom "for the everyman who seeks something better." Although written "explicitly" for Black readers, this book can help everyone reach their great potential and reach psychological liberation. The easy and comforting exercises help raise awareness and help you to recover "from the inside-out." Here you will find self-care techniques which will "revolutionize your perception of the world." Sounds like a mighty claim, no? Well, read it for yourself and decide. You may find yourself moving more toward resilience and strength, all the while enjoying the journey and the beautiful, profound points and excerpts therein. I say, Go for it! You only live once. Today is the day. Just do it!