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Ixchel Lunar

Decolonize Time to Liberate Flow

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May 30, 2021 at 11:01AMThe Mayan worldview today embodies Time. Time is not an abstraction, but an entity. A person. The Mayan Calendar carries that relationship into the 20 archetypes and the 13 tones used to describe how Time is feeling on any given day. So when I heard Luis Mojica ask, “Is my body a relative or is my body a resource?” I could completely relate. Relative or resource can be applied to many areas of our decolonial life. In my work on decolonizing Time, this inquiry gets to the heart of our relationship to Time and Flow. Flow is our birthright. Flow is a state of being that enabled early humans to have focus in finding food. It’s why we are alive today. It is an incredible gift of focus and creativity that evolved into how we created “bodies of culture.” (h/t @ResmaaMenakem) And, here’s the rub… Flow has been proven by neuroscience to help people be more productive (h/t to my Flow mentor @StevenKotler). Flow has been weaponized by capitalism. Flow has become a tool of modernity and capitalism to extract productivity from humans and the planet to further “outsource entropy.” (h/t to Tyson Yunkaporta for that delicious term.) See the conundrum? When we believe what capitalism has trained into us, we treat Time as a resource not a relative. We are good little cogs in the industrial machine that consumes our future. That is, Time is being stolen (h/t Dr. Brittany Cooper). But that theft comes at the expense of our bodies, our lineage, our relations of the future. When we push ourselves for productivity’s sake, we are borrowing resources from our future body, outsourcing entropy. We are indebting ourselves. The System of Productivity knows this. It’s an institutionalized system of executive leadership, management, policies and procedures for extraction. A systemic problem. And since Flow begets creativity, creativity begets culture, and culture is a no-no in white supremacy, Flow had to be re-imagined as a tool for extractive capitalism. But we can reclaim our Time and creative Flow to dream a better world. We can liberate our Flow from that broken system. Un-leadership. Moving us toward relationship and how we’ve been initiated by the planet and Time. (Cont)

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May 27, 2021 at 10:02AM# Over the past year I’ve grounded my practice of anti-racism into my coaching work. During this time I’ve observed how businesses performatively responded to the events of 2020. Has it moved us forward to a more interconnected culture? Yes and… As a coach, I’ve been building my business practices with embodying anti-racism in mind as I go. And so, as we dismantle, we also need to reconstruct systems of justice. So I wrote an Anti-Racism in Coaching Statement for my business that includes accountability to myself and my future employees. I was going to just have it as link in the footer, but my business mentor, @kelly.diels saw it and said I need to share it. You can find it in my bio links in the profile. Let me know your thoughts. Do you have a statement and practice anti-racism in the workplace? I’d love to see other examples of #culturemaking. ✨????????????????????????????????????✨ I’m a ✨Time Witch ✨ I founded the JEDI Flow Collective to help Edgewalkers decolonize and reclaim your time, skip the crash so you can liberate creative Flow in leadership. Have you subscribed to receive ???? Dragon Letters ???? yet? The next letter is emerges under the Capricorn moon. #decolonizetime #antiracismcoaching #initiatedleadership #flowstate #autotelic #timewitch

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May 15, 2021 at 10:14AMWhen your settler colonialism has to pay young people to visit so you can convince them they are the chosen people to occupy land by violent force and make their newly acquired votes count more, there’s something wrong with your Zionism. When my kids were teenagers we were invited to send them to Israel, all expenses paid. They had bat mitzvah in Israel if they chose. I learned that Israel was losing citizens (dominance) and the voting block to support their colonization. They had to make Jewish votes count more to appear democratic. I understand the arguments about Jewish landback. But the violent forceful occupation is wrong. The concentration camps are wrong. There is no moral ground for what’s been happening there. A Hamas leader was born in the “refugee camp” in 1960. That’s 11 years before I was born. There is no hiding of what the US has done in creating this endless war. Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Mao, Capitalist. All live by force of dominance. What are your traditions grounded in for your resilience? Dominance or relationship? You choose.

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Black Lives Matter ✊????✊????✊???? #dauntewright The #redactionfont used in the first slide is now my go-to font. It’s about JUSTICE. Read more at redaction.us In discomfort and grief,…

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