Healthy Rasta

Rastas are healthy. They take care of themselves. It's just simply part of it. Honoring Jah's gift to you. Your body. In order to serve and spread the love of Jah Rastafari, you must be healthy. Eat healthy, move, and think positive thoughts. Healthy mind & body. 

One Love, One Heart, Jah Rastafari!

Study, The Kebra Nagast, The Bible

Studying is very important. For me studying allows me to get closer in my own personal relationship with Jah. I read The Kebra Nagast often. Getting a different and deeper understanding with the turn of every page. The Bible is essential in a Rasta's journey as well. These two books accompany each other and create the most powerful tool a Rasta can own. Knowledge!

Other books worth readying coming soon. I will give you a list of books I have read on my journey and let you know what I think. Look for that this weekend.

One Love, One Heart, Jah Rastafari

Rasta Colors

The colors of the Ethiopian flag are Red, Yellow, Green. You can find this flag flipped having red sometimes on top and green sometimes on top. Below are a few I found.

Red stands for the bloodshed of the African people.
Yellow stands for the sunshine that falls on the African land.
Green stands for the land of the African continent.

It represents Love, Victory, Divinity, Royalty, His Imperial Majesty Jah, Spirituality. You will see the Ethiopian flag linked Rastas worldwide.

Sabbath

Saturday is reverenced as the Sabbath for Rastas. I have a ritual of devotion Jah.

I fast from sun up to sunset. During this time I study, pray, practice yoga, and meditate. Alone time is important for Rastas to meditate. I normally spend the first part of my Saturday teaching a yoga class until 9am and then I spend time alone or clean until normally about 2pm. Then I join my family and have lots of love and family time. About an hour before sunset I start cooking an ital meal for my family. During that time I listen to reggae and fill my heart with love from Jah to bless the meal.

That is my ritual. You can create your own. As I grow this may change, but currently this is what I do.

Who is H.I.M?

Books and Internet tell you all about Haile Selassie I being a great man. He was the king of Ethiopia, the only country to be free of foreign influence. It is also written as to why we Rastafari have such a deep admiration for him. He is a direct descendent of King Solomon and Makeda the Queen of Sheba. He is the King of Kings. You can go on Amazon and find so many different books and speeches to enlighten on H.I.M. Below are a few quotes from His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I, Jah Rastafari.

An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.

Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.

Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments.

Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'

It is important as a Rasta you study on your own. Otherwise how do you know it to be true? Anyone can tell you anything, but if you find the facts yourself and see it yourself. Then you know it’s true and you can hold it true to your heart and your spiritual path.