Healing Our Communities

Using light is a powerful way in which people of African heritage can heal ourselves, our families and our communities.

You can send light into any situation. Send a beam of light from your heart to heal any wounding and resolve any conflicts. You will see amazing things begin to happen.

If you are willing to try something new, you can bring about real results. To hear more about this, click here to listen to my interview on Ask Dr. Donna yesterday.

For more about working with light, read Success Strategies for Black People or listen to my CDs for Radiant Health and Healing. Buy two or more CDs for a 30% discount. This makes a wonderful gift for yourself or for someone you know who needs healing.

We really can make a difference by bringing in more light.

The Paradigm Shift - How to Make a Quantum Leap

Ron G. Holland, bestselling author of The Eureka Enigma, talks about how he left his comfort zone and went from being broke, with no prospects, to being in the money. To read more, see

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The Paradigm Shift: How to Make a Quantum Leap

Bringing about Rapid Changes - Working with Light

If you are willing to try something new, explore working with light. You can bring about amazing results.

I talk about working with light in my book Success Strategies for Black People.

When we work with light, we can bring about dramatic changes in our lives. You can call light to you, imagine your body's cells glowing with light. You can bring light into any situation to improve it or to help you attract what you want.

If you are a small business owner, you can use light to attract clients or customers.

Use light in a difficult situation to resolve conflicts and bring about harmony. We can also use light to benefit those around us.

My CD for Radiant Health and Healing is also based on working with light.

For more about working with light, see The Higher Self.

Drug-Free Pain Relief - Free Downloads

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) has been shown to be highly effective for relief of pain. Download these free ebooks now:

Pain Control

Pain Relief

I talk more about EFT in my book Success Strategies for Black People.

For ongoing support and advice, and lots more free resources, join Nurture Success today - it's free to join.

Why Don't I Have Good Hair?

Chris Rock's daughter asked him this question, "Daddy, why don't I have good hair?".

This film is his response. Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A68UVn0nMvo

A huge, multi-billion-dollar industry has been built, and thrives, on Black women's hatred of ourselves. See: Black Hair Care: From Korea to Your Neighbourhood

Sistas and brothas, when are we going to learn to love ourselves - all of ourselves, including our hair, skin, thighs, other "problem areas", etc.?

Check this out: The Key to Confidence

Total Health Day

I will be leading a meditation day for people of African heritage on Saturday 26th September. I hope you will join us. Click here for details and to book. Complete beginners are welcome - you don't need to be interested in Buddhism.

In addition, the Total Health Day at the London Buddhist Centre, Saturday 19th September, is open to everyone. We will have free meditation sessions, yoga, talks and more. This day is open to everyone.

To read more about meditation and empathy, see Getting Past the Hate.

Relief for Diabetes Pain

EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) is based on acupuncture, but it uses no needles and no drugs. can be used successfully to relieve the pain of diabetes without drugs. It is very easy and quick to learn. Click here to download a free ebook on treating diabetes and the associated pain.

Click here to read lots more about EFT and download our free manual and free EFT videos.

The Black Barbershop Men's Health Project promotes health to African American men in the areas of hypertension, coronary heart disease and diabetes. To read an article about the project by Dr. Bill Releford, order the free ebook More Black Success Volume 5.

Click here to read a report on the challenges facing Black women, including high levels of cancer, diabetes and heart disease.

Black Women, Men and Self-Hatred

I’ve been reading an article in “Essence” on Black women and self-hatred. The article states that our negativity towards each other is due partly to our conditioning, i.e. Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome. I couldn’t agree more.

But this negativity does not just affect sistas. It damages brothas too. It damages our children. Its toxic effects seep into our families.

This affects people from Africa as well – witness the use of wigs and skin-bleaching creams.

What can we do about it? My work is all about practical solutions.

To read more, see Getting Past the Hate, to Have More Love.

Books for Truth-Seekers

More Black Success free ebooks - The truth-seekers of old would undertake perilous journeys, travelling across vast expanses of desert in search of knowledge.

Maybe you are one of the truth-seekers. You can gain entry to the secret, hidden vaults of knowledge. Or perhaps you are a sage, waiting to share your gifts with the world, and those seeking the truth will come in search of you.

Build your business, establish your online reputation. Check it out: Books for Truth-Seekers.

Why Did He Say "Yes, We Can!"?

Why did Obama say "Yes, We Can!"?

He did not say, "I Can!"

He did not claim to be our superhero come to wave his magic wand and make all our problems disappear.

His message is very clear: We are all in this together. Each and every one of us has a part to play.

Each and every one of us is unique. To read more, see Celebrating Barack Obama.

Celebrate your uniqueness. Your unique qualities and gifts. For more on this, see The Key to Confidence.

Check out More Black Success today for your

Inspirational, Educational Free Ebooks

Celebrating Black Success!

Learn how to:

• Improve Your Health
• Improve Your Business and Wealth
• Support and Develop Your Family

Order yours now: More Black Success

Here's to your success!

Connecting with Our Feelings and Needs

Click here to read about Nonviolent Communication.

This is a repeat and update of an earlier post.

I read about these killings of young people, by other young people. It surely cannot be natural for children to kill.

We need to find more love in our hearts. Sorry if this sounds airy-fairy. I am talking in purely practical terms. We need to find more love and learn how to express it better or, I fear, our species is not going to survive much longer.

We can find more love. There are methods that work. Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is a highly effective method. I have seen the effect it has had in my own life and I am determined to help make it available as widely as possible, particularly within African Diasporic communities.

We can use NVC to help improve our communication at home, at work, at school, with partners, loved ones, and with ourselves. Nonviolent Communication is very practical and its results are exceptional. It is used by children as young as four. It is used by people all over the world, including places where there is a history of extreme violence, such as Rwanda and Burundi, Sierra Leone, and Israel and Palestine.

Click here to find out more about Creative Communication.

Click here to read about Nonviolent Communication.

See also: How to Get Our Needs Met, NVC vs. Anger Management. These are both old posts, so the links are probably out of date.

Creating Deep and Lasting Change

Do you want to create change at a deep level - to any area of your life - money, career, relationships, health, success?

Maybe you have been working on yourself for a while, using affirmations and visualisations, running your business.

Are you happy with your results?

Are you feeling fed up and frustrated?

You may need to go deeper, to deal with your core conditioning - also known as core programming. Find out what deeply-held beliefs, attitudes and assumptions are getting in your way, and change them.

For more information, read Change Your Life with Core Conditioning.

Success Strategies for Black People contains a very effective method for discovering and changing your core conditioning.

Here's to your success!

Allowing Success

How can African American people achieve our goals in 2009? The more we dwell on our successes,the more successful we become. The Law of Attraction says that in order to achieve success, we need to vibrate at the level of success.

To read this article, visit Allowing Success.

Self-Love: Black Hair and Skin Care

One of the ways we have been taught to hate ourselves is in the area of our hair and skin. We are suffering from a collective inferiority complex. We have a lot of healing to do.

To read more, see The Key to Confidence and Self-Esteem. See also, What They Don't Want Us to Know.

We deserve to love ourselves, appreciate ourselves and value ourselves more and more every day.

Lama Rangdrol's Visit

I was privileged to meet Lama Rangdrol earlier this year, when he visited the London Buddhist Centre. He was fresh from giving one of the keynote speeches at the Beyond Race and Caste conference in San Francisco.

We had two meetings with him at the LBC. I asked him about how we can spread the Dharma in the Black community and spoke of my concern about the rising number of young people killing each other. Many of these murders happen in South London, and even in my neighbourhood of Camberwell, but mostly in adjoining areas such as Peckham.

Lama Rangdrol said we would need to practice for others who can't do it for themselves. Many of the young Black men he grew up with in Oakland, CA did not make itout of the ghetto alive. Those who did were often too scarred by their experience to be able to explore the life of peace and contemplation which Buddhism can offer.

I was glad to be able to meet an experienced Buddhist who is committed to exploring and demonstrating the relationship Buddhism has to the experience of people of African heritage.

We will be screening Lama Rangdrol's film, "Festival Cancelled Due to Heavy Rain", on Saturday at the LBC. Click here for more details.

Using EFT with Children

One of the great things about using EFT is that we don’t have to tell the therapist what the problem is. EFT still works effectively. We may be too upset or traumatised to talk about what is going on. Or we may feel it is too private and we don’t want to divulge our secrets. Either way, EFT still works.

One benefit of this is that we can use EFT with children. Again, the child may be too upset or frightened to say what the difficulty is. But the child may also not have the language skills yet to be able to describe the problem. EFT can even be used on babies who are too young to talk. It works with animals as well. There is a process called “surrogate tapping” that can be used for this. We can also use it at a distance – if you have a friend or family member who you know is having a difficulty, you can do surrogate tapping for that person.

You can even use it on strangers! I read a great article about tapping for someone who was nervous on a plane. The person doing the tapping did not feel confident to approach the other passenger, but saw the person looking visibly relieved and calmer after a few rounds of EFT.

To read more about EFT and to download the free manual, visit:
http://tinyurl.com/25xco5

Using EFT for Financial Abundance

Okay, this is not the best EFT video I have ever seen, but it's interesting that she uses several of the things I talk about in What They Don't Want Us to Know: gratitude, being open and receptive. And it worked! Click here to view the video.

Click here for more on EFT for financial abundance.

Click here for more information on EFT and to download the free manual.

New Review - The Key to Everything

I have just received the most amazing review for my new ebook.

Kristin Peoples, who runs this blog: Weekly Escapes Weblog, has sent me this brilliant review for The Key to Everything:

"Having read a few 'attraction' books, I had an idea in mind of what the book was about, but I was pleasantly surprised. Zhana touches on those principles, but it is so much more. There are real life exercises within this book. Be prepared for CHANGE when you read it. Zhana gives instructions on how to get the most from the book and I followed them. I have to say this book brings the excitement back. As you go through life, you tend to do the same things over and over and wonder why. The book helps you make better choices and shows you how to improve. It doesn't just talk about improving but really helps.

Awesome book. I look forward to the next book topic from Zhana."

This version of the book is for everyone. The version for people of African heritage is called What They Don't Want Us to Know.

You can read the review here and download the books here.

Black Parents: A Radical Alternative

My new "Success Strategies" radio show will be dealing with different topics, including Nonviolent Communication.

I was at a community meeting last night, where the speaker was saying it is part of our African heritgage to hit children. I have heard this so many times. The reason why there are so many problems today is that children lack "discipline", meaning they are not hit or beaten.
I think using violence is part of every culture, it's not just an African tradition. Violence is used by every race and every cultural group. When we use violence, we increase the energy of violence in the universe. This is universal wisdom. Look around the world and we can see the consequences of that. And we don't have to look far - it's happening on the streets of London.

I am saying there is a better alternative. Check out my new ebook: What They Don't Want Us to Know.

I am talking about a radically different way of communicating with children - and everybody else. But although it is radically different, it is based on ancient traditions.

Click here to join us for the radio show. For more info, visit Improving Communication.
Sorry to be controversial, but I am starting as I mean to go on.