TheJourneywithM
The Journey with M is a contemplative podcast with Mona. An invitation to journey with both the self and with humanity, through a mindful lens.
Here, mindfulness is not about techniques or fixing the mind. It is a space where we meet beyond thought. A space to explore the state of the world, both the inner and the outer. A space to slow down enough to notice what is actually present in each sacred moment. Moments that will never return in the same way.
This podcast grows from the same intention as Mona’s earlier Arabic podcast Mn’albi (“From My Heart”): to reflect on what emerges when we pause, listen, and allow life to meet us as it is.
No absolute truths or ready-made answers are offered here. Instead, each episode invites the listener to discern what feels true in their own heart. Listening without rushing to judgment. Allowing insight to reveal itself in its own time. Staying with what is.
This kind of listening takes courage.
The word courage comes from the French cœur (the heart) our center where feeling, will, and meaning meet.
To be courageous is not to be without fear, but to let the heart speak even when fear is present. To live from the chest forward. To remain open. To allow the heart to lead.
Guided by the heart’s intelligence, these conversations explore how we touch life, how we listen, and how our presence leaves its mark on the world.
Each episode is an invitation to feel, to remember, and to listen not from the mind alone, but from the wholeness of your being, from the comfort of your own space.
Wherever you are listening from, you are welcome to journey with M.
TheJourneywithM
12. Racism/العنصرية
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Did you know? "Sweden was the first country in the world to - in 1922- establish a government agency to handle issues related to racial hygiene. The proponents of racial- hygiene-thinking argued that certain groups had inferior genes. Society would be protected by preventing the spread of these genes."
Elisabeth Elmeroth
What makes some of us look down on others just because they don't look like us?
What implications are there if racism is left unopposed?
How would a world without racism look like?
James Baldwin said, on the American experience of Black people:
“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.”
He also said
“Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.”
And
“The power of the white world is threatened whenever a Black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.”
With us in this episode is Walaa Abulmagd. Walaa is an Egyptian woman living in Norway. She has a passion for making positive changes in the society. She has a phD in pharmacy and she works in the health care field. She is currently writing her biography which I really look forward to reading.