Imagery Exercise for Kwanzaa

Frequency: Repeat once a day before lighting the Kwanzaa candles each day of the holiday.

• Close your eyes and breathe out slowly, a long, exhalation, followed by a normal inhalation.
• Feel and know that to be a seeker is a blessing.
• Feel how it affirms the wholeness of our identity.
• Breathe out one time.
• See, sense, and know why and how the restoration of our wholeness is possible.
• See, know, and feel how unity is the destiny of man.
• Breathe out one time.
• Live the homeward journey back to your roots.
• Know and live how returning to unity is the basic human longing.
• Breathe out one time.
• Recognize why this unity is so far away in time and space and opposite to our human daily realities.
• See and know how we can make this world into a paradise of fellowship and love only by living in harmony with one another.
• See and sense yourself drinking from the kikombe cha umoja, the Unity cup, and sharing it with family and friends, past and present.
• Breathe out three times.
• Know and live how the quest for transforming your destiny is the reunion of you with yourself and your community.
• Breathe out and open your eyes.