BEYONDISM PREMIUMSelf-ActualizationAfrican RenaissanceManaging MisfortunesThe Inner Child HealsSacred Ritual of BecomingHealing the Wounded SelfBEYONDISM PREMIUMSelf-ActualizationAfrican RenaissanceManaging MisfortunesThe Inner Child HealsSacred Ritual of BecomingHealing the Wounded Self
✦ A Sacred Ritual of Transformation ✦
BEYONDISM PREMIUM
Soulfully Signing a Therapeutic Treaty with Thyself
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✦ YOUR RITUAL GUIDE ✦
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CONTEMPLATE — Enter each sacred chamber with stillness. Read each premise slowly, as a prayer. Let the words land in the deep soil of your soul before you proceed.
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AFFIRM — At each station, choose one insight that resonates. Speak it inwardly as a personal vow. This is not mere reading — it is covenant-making with your innermost self.
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NAVIGATE — Move through all seven chambers in sequence, like a pilgrim walking a labyrinth. Each letter of PREMIUM is one station. Complete all seven to receive the blessing of wholeness.
Our general helplessness — personal, social, economic, political — as an African society, can be traced back to our CHILDHOOD. We were, in one way or another, unintentional victims of the Seven Wounds: Blamed, Bottled, Blackmailed, Battered, Botched, Bungled, Banished. We must decisively deliver ourselves from this psychic hemorrhage so that our LIFE may be FULL-BLOODED. The term "INNER CHILD" points to a fundamental quality of authentic personality — experiencing oneself as a child in relationship to SELF. If this authentic self-expression finds support and nurture, authentic personality is formed. The wounding of the inner child damages the very heart of the personality, causing a shift from authentic expression toward a survival personality. Healing this wounded child is our great work — personal, ancestral, and collective.
SORDID delusion is injurious — it soils the mind and opens the door to deeper suffering.
USUALLY, the best response to a past injury is not repression, but honest acknowledgement.
MOST misfortunes carry nothing harder to bear than the shame of being made ridiculous.
MISFORTUNE feeds memory with a reservoir of probabilities to handle the uncalled-for.
AS LIFE grows richer, the field of choice widens — and the solidity of our response deepens.
RICH alternatives arise from every situation, as a function of how we hold our past in memory.
YE shall not expect to be shielded from misfortune — only hardened to meet every shortcoming.
"It's hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember."
— Chris Brown (b. 1989) · PROPAGATING due DILIGENCE for MANAGING MISFORTUNES by empathetic self-relation
✦ THE SEVEN SACRED CHAMBERS OF PREMIUM ✦
RITUAL PROGRESS
CHAMBER I OF VIIPPREPARE
Prepare yourself to diligently PROPAGATE the creative 'capacity' for MANAGING MISFORTUNES.
PPSYCHICALLY, in each of us, there is a young, suffering child — traced to the hurdles we endured as children.
RRESISTANCE, protection, and defense against future suffering prompts us to forget those painful times.
EEVERY TIME we are in touch with the experience of suffering, we falsely believe we cannot bear it.
PPRESSURED in this way, we tend to stuff our feelings or memories deep down in our unconscious mind.
AACTUALLY, we may have for too long refused to face this child. Ignoring it does not mean its absence.
RREALLY, the wounded child says: "I am here. You cannot avoid me. You cannot run away from me."
EEND OF SUFFERING cannot be achieved by sending the child into hiding. Running away only prolongs it.
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CHAMBER II OF VIIRREALISE
Realise that PROPAGATING your innate 'quest' for MANAGING MISFORTUNES is in your 'power.'
RRUNNING AWAY from the child is borne of fear — the very opposite of the care and love it seeks.
EEVEN IF we have time, we do not come home to ourselves. The block of sorrow feels overwhelming.
AALWAYS trying to keep ourselves entertained — movies, socialising, alcohol, or drugs — we flee.
LLOATHING to experience that suffering again, the wounded child remains — unseen, unfed.
IIGNORANCE is deeply ingrained in consciousness — like a drop of ink diffused in a glass of water.
SSTOPPING us from seeing reality, ignorance pushes us to do things that deepen our suffering.
EEMBEDDED in LIFE is the cycle of suffering — as the already-wounded child within is wounded again.
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CHAMBER III OF VIIEEMPOWER
Empower yourself to PROPAGATE your deep-rooted 'freedom' for MANAGING MISFORTUNES.
EEACH CELL of our body holds the wounded child. We need not look far into the past to find her.
MMOST VITAL thing is that we only have to look deeply, in order to be in touch with that wounded child.
PPRECISELY — the suffering of that wounded child lies inside you right NOW, in this present moment.
OOUR PSYCHE, having been a reservoir of suffering, equally holds seeds of awakened understanding.
WWE HAVE a lamp inside — mindfulness — whose oil is our breathing, our steps, and our peaceful smile.
EENDEAVOUR to light that lamp of mindfulness. When its light shines out, the darkness shall cease.
RREALISING how long we have forgotten the wounded child within us leads to great compassion for it.
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CHAMBER IV OF VIIMMEDIATE
Mediate your 'choice' to PROPAGATE the inescapable 'prerogative' of MANAGING MISFORTUNES.
MMINDFUL walking, mindful sitting, and mindful breathing generate the sacred energy of mindfulness.
EENERGY of mindfulness will embrace us and heal the wounded child — awakening the inner wisdom.
DDIRECTLY speak to the child in a gentle language. From the depths of consciousness, it cries for help.
IINTIMATELY say: "In the past years, I left you alone. Now, I am sorry. I am going to embrace you."
AAFFIRM: "Darling, I am here for you. I will take good care of you. I know that you suffer so much."
TTRULY SAY: "I have been so busy. I neglected you. But now I have learned a way to come back to you."
EESSENTIALLY, if necessary, cry together with that child. This is cathartic, therapeutic, and sacred.
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CHAMBER V OF VIIIINDULGE
Indulge yourself in PROPAGATING your unexplored 'ability' towards MANAGING MISFORTUNES.
IINTIMATELY ASSERT: "Breathing in, I go back to my wounded child. Breathing out, I take care of it."
NNOW AND THEN, tenderly talk to your wounded child. Only then can healing begin to take place.
DDECISIVELY embracing it leads to the reassurance that it will never be abandoned or left unattended again.
UUNRAVEL this psychic practice right away. If you do not begin NOW — when will you begin?
LLOVINGLY return to it, listen carefully every day for five or ten minutes, and healing shall be initiated.
GGO ABOUT all your business together — invite the inner child to climb a mountain and share in your sunsets.
EEXPERIENCE of healing will come to your wounded child if you persist faithfully for weeks and months.
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CHAMBER VI OF VIIUUTILISE
Utilise your infinite 'potential' for PROPAGATING the 'compulsion' of MANAGING MISFORTUNES.
UUSUAL PRACTICE makes us see our wounded child as not only us — it may represent several generations.
TTHROUGHOUT their lives, our parents may have suffered too — unable to look after their own wounded child.
IIN EMBRACING the wounded child in us, we embrace all the wounded children of our past generations.
LLEARNING this is not for us alone — it is for the numberless generations of ancestors and descendants.
IINDEED, our ancestors may not have known how to care for the Inner Child, and so they transmitted the wound.
SSO OUR PRACTICE is to end this cycle. Liberating ourselves, we help liberate our abusers and all who hurt us.
EEXPERIENCING transformation, lessening suffering, and renewing relationships — this is the blessed end result.
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CHAMBER VII OF VIIMMONITOR
Monitor the forces that militate against your 'will' to PROPAGATE MANAGING MISFORTUNES.
MMOSTLY, we suffer because we have not been deeply touched by love, compassion, and understanding.
OONLY IF we generate the energy of mindfulness, understanding, and compassion, will we suffer less.
NNOW, when we generate mindfulness, compassion and empathy become possible — we allow love.
IINTIMATE COMPASSION helps us relate to others without suspicion — restoring open communication.
TTHERE IS more peace and love in you. Upon healing yourself, your relations with all others become well-oiled.
OOPULENTLY go back and care for your SELF — your body, your feelings, your perceptions all need you.
RREMEMBER: the wounded child in you needs you. Your suffering also needs your acknowledgement and love.
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The Ritual is Complete
You have walked all seven sacred chambers of PREMIUM.
The wounded child within you has heard your footsteps drawing near. Now begin again — for every return deepens the healing.