I will usually wrap my head when I am in the public or around people I don't know to protect my energy. But, when I am at home I keep my hair unwrapped because I feel more connected to GOD and Christ. I know it sounds strange but when I wear my 4C afro it's like I can feel GOD talking to me more. I wear a head wrap in prayer or meditation. Another reason for my decision to wear head wraps is because they are an expression of my heritage and femininity as a African-American woman. Wrapping my hair up in the different silk colors scarfs makes me feel more womanly and beautiful.
Wow I have never thought of wearing my head wrap specifically in prayer/meditation! I think I may try this. I bring awareness to the crown of my head when I am meditating. I agree that scarfs and headwraps make me feel more feminine as well ✊🏾
I looove a good head wrap. I’ve been very deliberate about “covering my head” for about the last 2-3 yrs consistently. I’m always wearing hats or head wraps, as I feel this innate feeling to protect my head. Not sure what from (besides bad energy of course) but I don’t question it, I simply comply. I’ve always worn my hair in lots of different styles and I’m currently growing my hair out long for the first time in maybe 3-4 years. I used to love a good fade. But now as my hair is growing out, I’m having a dilemma about braids. I looove braids! Cornrows, box braids, twists, you name it. But since our hair are antennas, I don’t feel comfortable blocking and entangling my coils with synthetic fibers. And human hair is already a bad sign since it was cut off of someone’s head (if it was cut as a “spiritual sacrifice or offering” what right would I have to put it on MY hair? Why would I?? For aesthetics?? Nah.) So I don’t know. Oh and I used to love coloring my hair too! But now I feel that I want to honor and respect my coils by not braiding with added hair and not bleaching away it’s melanin. I don’t believe I’m over thinking it but I’m also willing to challenge myself to just style my natural hair as it grows out. It’s like being vegan, but for your hair lol. Well, thanks for reading my friend. You are worthy and deserving of the absolute best! 💛🌻✨
the way i’ve been looking like a video for this for months now... i felt led a few weeks ago to start wearing head wraps by my spirit guides to protect my hair from all the negativity around me. i can’t explain it but when my hair is wrapped i feel like my energy is protected and i feel so grounded. thank you sm for making this!!
Thank you for this video. I’ve started to wrap my hair, because as a black woman in America, I’ve realized how fixated I’ve become of my hair. And I want to free myself of that mindset. I’ve started leaving my locs alone, and protecting them under my headscarf
Thank you for watching! So glad you enjoyed the vid and it resonated with you. I agree that our locs love to be left alone and a head wrap is a great way to do that and it’s beautiful as well
Headwrapping for Blacks in the US was also a statement for keeping parts of our stripped culture.....protection too. West African women still wear wraps til this day. Our ancestors were mainly taken from up & down the west coastline We're (US) still policed today for wearing them (from others & ourselves)
Good evening young lady, our hair(4C here too) is exactly like a DNA strand. Check for yourself. I've been loc'd for 26 yrs and this is it for me! Good luck and God bless. New Sub here. Keep teaching! We need you!!!
i am, this deep conviction a few weeks now...to the point of thinking about writing my employer about making it part of my work wear. Been purchasing scarves and such.
Great video. As usual, very informative. ❤️❤️❤️ I started wearing head wraps a lot last year. I feel a growing need to protect my crown and head wraps allow me to do so and still feel regal.👸🏽❤️❤️❤️
Lovely video! I will say that the levels between your voice and the music are off. I put this on to listen to as I drove to work and the music blasting scared me so bad 😅
Thank you! And lol thanks for letting me know the music levels were off I will definitely keep that in mind editing moving forward. Im glad you enjoyed the video otherwise 😂👍🏾
Thank YOU I’m glad you enjoyed it! I’m doing another one soon on the 30-day head wrap challenge where I wear wraps for 30 days straight and see how it feels different
I have a question! First of all , I find it beautiful. The history of it is inspiring and I respect it. I was wondering if it's offensive to wear headwrap buns as I feel so beautiful in it. Im thinking of wearing it on a festival as its really convenient as well because of the heat and my authentic style. Would that be okay?
Personally, I do not feel that headwrap buns are offensive to wear. There’s some who may say that it may be offensive to them but I certainly can’t speak for all black people. Appropriation is taking something from a history or background of another culture and using that thing without giving the proper credit to its origins. So as long as that is not happening, I call it fair. Thanks for your question!
As an African, i see at as really ignorant when I see people in the west say "African spirituality ". Africa is massive, we have millions of tribes (that speak different languages too) in just one country like mine Zambia we have 73 tribes that all have different spiritual beliefs. Even South Africa has many tribes that also have different beliefs. We have a few similarities sure, but we have many more differences. So to bundle up everything as just African spirituality is misinformation and the reason why black people in the west don't have much knowledge about their roots. You are not asking us who remained here in Africa. The slave trade didn't take captive the entire africa you know. We are still here and our grandparents have passed down information to us too. All you have to do to know about Africa is ask us the natives.
I guess I didn’t do as well of a job as I thought to provide the credible sources (from actual websites and books made by Native Africans) but I certainly tried I link all my sources in the description. I can’t please everybody. I will take this as a learning experience to always learn more. I can’t really help that I was born in America and my ancestors have been brainwashed, but I can do more to educate myself. It was never my intention to be disrespectful or offensive. Nevertheless, I take your comment with a grain of salt. Peace to you.
@@holisticflo ohhh no sis no offence taken. Its great actually that you are taking an interest in learning your roots and your people. My point is just that you need to get more specific like knowing which tribe or kingdom practices what you mentioned rather than generalising it as native Africans. Like is it the yoruba people or masai or luba-lunda kingdom. An example, one of our neighbouring tribes or tribal cousins they have a tradition were young women reaching puberty dance around with their boobs out to pay respects to their ancestors. But we can't generalise it and say native Africans do that when it's literally just like 1 or 2 tribes out of hundreds in southern Africa that do that. I am not saying that you need to know all the native tribes 😂😂we are just too many. However, i feel that if you get to know the particular tribe or kingdom you are referencing you will be able to understand it a lot better and appreciate its uniqueness from other tribes as well as their spiritual beliefs as a tribe.
@@faithangetile Yes I do totally get where you’re coming from! Africa is SOO large it’s a whole entire continent and there’s so much miseducation and discrediting that can happen when people spread misrepresentations of different tribes and possibly fail to distinguish between the beliefs and values of them. And I do really try to be careful where I get my sources from because a lot of America tries to misconstrue our native history and hide information and documents from us because they don’t want us to connect with our ancestry. I have understood that because a lot of our history had been kept alive mainly through story-telling because our ancestors weren’t allowed to write things down and become educated many times. I took a class in undergrad called “The Influence of Africa on the Americas” and a lot of information and documents about the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade where difficult to find and they make databases a bit difficult to even access on these things. Also, for black people living in America, they want us to believe that our very existence is based around us being slaves, instead of descendants of royalty. I strive to be a vessel of reframing that narrative. But thanks again for the constructive feedback I certainly do take interest in learning more about my ancestry and again I will definitely take this as a learning opportunity.
As the chosen people in the book of Giant a missing part of our history the fallen angels saw the first women who would be dark woolly hair and found them beautiful. The women had to cover their hair to avoid the fallen angel sexual attention because the bought forth the Nephilim who were evil violent giants. myth or legend?
I have never heard of this one but I will definitely look into it. However, I do know that a lot of our history is through word-of-mouth because one of the main forms of oppression was not allowing our ancestors to record our history in books, so a lot of it may not be found on the internet, but I believe it.
The book of Enoch is what your referring to and yes the fallen angels did mate with woman and not just abominations were created of the flesh but also the spirit, that’s where you get incubus and sucubus spirits .etc and also passed down forbidden knowledge to mankind like making of weapons and even conjuring and tampering with the Devine and other realms ie. Magick, voodoo,witchcraft and so on but your right on the money . Look in to the halleluyah scriptures and the cipher Bible , it’s the untampered books of the Hebrew people by catholic monks and the version that king James never wrote but only authorized the editing and publishing of the holy book only because only a person in a kings position can authorize and allow back then and it’s translated from paleo Hebrew to present day English... shalom
Hello, doesn't sound like you're very spiritual but from the beginning God commanded women who prayed or prophesied to cover their heads. 1 Corinthians 11 kjv. as to honor their husband (men) and God. Not saying that the reasons you give for head covering aren't legitimate. Without God there is no ROUTES. He's the Master of the Universe!! anyway have a GOOD DAY.
I’m not entirely sure what you were implying with the transatlantic slave trade reasoning because you didn’t spend much time on the subject, but the reason some black people were put into slavery was because of disobedience to the father in heaven. He made a covenant with them, they broke it, and then they and their children were cursed. You can find some proof of this by reading Deuteronomy 28. Not all black people had a covenant with Yahuah (God) but the ones that did, disobeyed him and were enslaved. It was a punishment. Many have been made to forget because of partly what you said, slave masters wanted us to forget our identities to have power over us and also because Yahuah (God) allowed us to forget (see Jeremiah 17:1-4 KJV and Psalm 83:1-4 KJV). With the context that the people in the Bible were mostly black, we can look at their customs as well. Many women in the Bible veiled/covered their heads. (Some men covered parts of their head or the whole thing). Some examples of women veiling are Rebekah (Genesis 24 KJV), Susana wore a veil (Susana 1:32 KJVA), Numbers 5, seems to imply that women’s heads were covered, and 1 Corinthians 11 mentions that women/a wife should pray and prophecy with their heads covered. There are different interpretations on these scriptures but to me, they show that ancient black women were veiling/covering their heads for various reasons. Some of the reasons are the same as you mentioned. Such as for beauty (Susanna- she was wealthy, she wasn’t wearing rags in this moment), for modesty/custom (Rebekah- she was unmarried, about to meet a stranger who is a man, so precaution was desired for her own virtue), also for submission and reverence to Yahuah (God)…(1 Cor 11 can be interpreted in many ways, but I understand it as covering in the presence of the creator. To show reverence to his greatness, you are diminishing your own “glory.”). There’s definitely more to biblical head covering. You can also cover to mourn, harlots also wore veils, and more. I think covering also protected our hair from elements. As someone who also has locs, we have to consider how different weather, diets, and materials can affect our hair. Also, while I don’t feel that it’s necessarily spelled out, I think covering could be a means of set apartnetness in this world. It may be a way to keep wicked angels from lusting because they see Yahuah’s people are under submission to him (there are always angels surrounding us, some are recording our every thought and action to report back to Yahuah, or protecting us. But their are also angels of iniquity who could be influencing us as well. It is up to Yahuah’s will, and our own actions as well - see the second book of Hermas, called his commands, command IV). See also Genesis 6:2 in reference to angels taking human wives. I’m sure headwraps run deeper than we know. I hope this has been enlightening.
I'm from a humble country in Africa called Zambia and have roots with many tribes from the south (eg Zimbabwe and south Africa) because of my grandparents. But traditionally our grand mothers and foremothers also covered their hair (we call them dukus i.e they used a duku to cover their hair). It is a practice that has nothing to do with white people for sure because our various tribes covered hair way before colonialism and the slave trade.
@@clothedinhonorRead what? The Bible? 😂 I would never be able to understand how oppressed a group of people feel and still worship their master. Seems like Stockholm syndrome to me. It’s so bad that you guys don’t want to let go so you find passages from this book and make it yours, worse of, many think that Jesus whose poster has always been white, same face globally is suddenly now black. 😂 Honestly believe what you want but unless you have a proper book and not the Bible , just keep your religious beliefs to yourself, it’s a religion , a belief and not a fact.
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I will usually wrap my head when I am in the public or around people I don't know to protect my energy. But, when I am at home I keep my hair unwrapped because I feel more connected to GOD and Christ. I know it sounds strange but when I wear my 4C afro it's like I can feel GOD talking to me more. I wear a head wrap in prayer or meditation. Another reason for my decision to wear head wraps is because they are an expression of my heritage and femininity as a African-American woman. Wrapping my hair up in the different silk colors scarfs makes me feel more womanly and beautiful.
Wow I have never thought of wearing my head wrap specifically in prayer/meditation! I think I may try this. I bring awareness to the crown of my head when I am meditating.
I agree that scarfs and headwraps make me feel more feminine as well ✊🏾
I am starting to have this urge to cover and I feel more spiritual as I do it amen.
I looove a good head wrap. I’ve been very deliberate about “covering my head” for about the last 2-3 yrs consistently. I’m always wearing hats or head wraps, as I feel this innate feeling to protect my head. Not sure what from (besides bad energy of course) but I don’t question it, I simply comply. I’ve always worn my hair in lots of different styles and I’m currently growing my hair out long for the first time in maybe 3-4 years. I used to love a good fade. But now as my hair is growing out, I’m having a dilemma about braids. I looove braids! Cornrows, box braids, twists, you name it. But since our hair are antennas, I don’t feel comfortable blocking and entangling my coils with synthetic fibers. And human hair is already a bad sign since it was cut off of someone’s head (if it was cut as a “spiritual sacrifice or offering” what right would I have to put it on MY hair? Why would I?? For aesthetics?? Nah.) So I don’t know. Oh and I used to love coloring my hair too! But now I feel that I want to honor and respect my coils by not braiding with added hair and not bleaching away it’s melanin. I don’t believe I’m over thinking it but I’m also willing to challenge myself to just style my natural hair as it grows out. It’s like being vegan, but for your hair lol. Well, thanks for reading my friend. You are worthy and deserving of the absolute best! 💛🌻✨
I love this❤️ I feel like I’m being led to cover my head when I go out in the world.
I feel the same way. But I'm protecting myself from the evil that is unseen but that is felt and led by the spirit within us .
the way i’ve been looking like a video for this for months now... i felt led a few weeks ago to start wearing head wraps by my spirit guides to protect my hair from all the negativity around me. i can’t explain it but when my hair is wrapped i feel like my energy is protected and i feel so grounded. thank you sm for making this!!
Thank you for this video. I’ve started to wrap my hair, because as a black woman in America, I’ve realized how fixated I’ve become of my hair. And I want to free myself of that mindset. I’ve started leaving my locs alone, and protecting them under my headscarf
Thank you for watching! So glad you enjoyed the vid and it resonated with you. I agree that our locs love to be left alone and a head wrap is a great way to do that and it’s beautiful as well
Headwrapping for Blacks in the US was also a statement for keeping parts of our stripped culture.....protection too. West African women still wear wraps til this day. Our ancestors were mainly taken from up & down the west coastline We're (US) still policed today for wearing them (from others & ourselves)
Thank you so much for your comment! Yes we need to be educated on our history and lineage!
An excellent resource is the book by Georgia Scott entitled Headwrsps. Thank you for an informative video and resource references. GOD bless you.
Thank you! 🙌🏾
Great video! Head wrapping also comes from Mother Africa!
Thank you, and yes great point!
Great video!! I bought some headwraps today to protect my locs, I'll be wearing them to work...
@@holisticflo Thanks hun pls check out my latest video 😊🌹
@@holisticflo thank you hun 😊🌹
Good evening young lady, our hair(4C here too) is exactly like a DNA strand. Check for yourself. I've been loc'd for 26 yrs and this is it for me! Good luck and God bless. New Sub here. Keep teaching! We need you!!!
Thanks so much for your support! Highly appreciated
I’ve been led to cover my hair and I know it’s the Holy Spirit … but i wanted to find other women who felt led as well
Yes definitely 🙌🏾
i am, this deep conviction a few weeks now...to the point of thinking about writing my employer about making it part of my work wear. Been purchasing scarves and such.
@@altheasmalling6233 Yes! That is so great and I pray all goes well with that on your journey 🙌🏾
Yes I wear scarfs led by holy spirit I feel power and close to my ancestors
Great video. As usual, very informative. ❤️❤️❤️ I started wearing head wraps a lot last year. I feel a growing need to protect my crown and head wraps allow me to do so and still feel regal.👸🏽❤️❤️❤️
Thank you! And yaasssss I love headwraps and they do make you feel Queen-ish lol 💁🏾♀️
Good video, I’m Puerto Rico mix with Taino, African my skin is not drank my mother skin was like a tan color her father yes drank skin is in my DNA
Lovely video! I will say that the levels between your voice and the music are off. I put this on to listen to as I drove to work and the music blasting scared me so bad 😅
Thank you! And lol thanks for letting me know the music levels were off I will definitely keep that in mind editing moving forward. Im glad you enjoyed the video otherwise 😂👍🏾
Thank you so very much for this video! This taught me so much!
Thank YOU I’m glad you enjoyed it! I’m doing another one soon on the 30-day head wrap challenge where I wear wraps for 30 days straight and see how it feels different
Another fantastic video ! I learned so much !
Thank you! So glad it was educational for you
I have a question!
First of all , I find it beautiful. The history of it is inspiring and I respect it. I was wondering if it's offensive to wear headwrap buns as I feel so beautiful in it. Im thinking of wearing it on a festival as its really convenient as well because of the heat and my authentic style. Would that be okay?
Personally, I do not feel that headwrap buns are offensive to wear. There’s some who may say that it may be offensive to them but I certainly can’t speak for all black people.
Appropriation is taking something from a history or background of another culture and using that thing without giving the proper credit to its origins. So as long as that is not happening, I call it fair. Thanks for your question!
As an African, i see at as really ignorant when I see people in the west say "African spirituality ". Africa is massive, we have millions of tribes (that speak different languages too) in just one country like mine Zambia we have 73 tribes that all have different spiritual beliefs. Even South Africa has many tribes that also have different beliefs. We have a few similarities sure, but we have many more differences. So to bundle up everything as just African spirituality is misinformation and the reason why black people in the west don't have much knowledge about their roots. You are not asking us who remained here in Africa.
The slave trade didn't take captive the entire africa you know. We are still here and our grandparents have passed down information to us too. All you have to do to know about Africa is ask us the natives.
I guess I didn’t do as well of a job as I thought to provide the credible sources (from actual websites and books made by Native Africans) but I certainly tried I link all my sources in the description. I can’t please everybody. I will take this as a learning experience to always learn more. I can’t really help that I was born in America and my ancestors have been brainwashed, but I can do more to educate myself. It was never my intention to be disrespectful or offensive. Nevertheless, I take your comment with a grain of salt. Peace to you.
@@holisticflo ohhh no sis no offence taken. Its great actually that you are taking an interest in learning your roots and your people. My point is just that you need to get more specific like knowing which tribe or kingdom practices what you mentioned rather than generalising it as native Africans. Like is it the yoruba people or masai or luba-lunda kingdom. An example, one of our neighbouring tribes or tribal cousins they have a tradition were young women reaching puberty dance around with their boobs out to pay respects to their ancestors. But we can't generalise it and say native Africans do that when it's literally just like 1 or 2 tribes out of hundreds in southern Africa that do that. I am not saying that you need to know all the native tribes 😂😂we are just too many. However, i feel that if you get to know the particular tribe or kingdom you are referencing you will be able to understand it a lot better and appreciate its uniqueness from other tribes as well as their spiritual beliefs as a tribe.
@@faithangetile Yes I do totally get where you’re coming from! Africa is SOO large it’s a whole entire continent and there’s so much miseducation and discrediting that can happen when people spread misrepresentations of different tribes and possibly fail to distinguish between the beliefs and values of them.
And I do really try to be careful where I get my sources from because a lot of America tries to misconstrue our native history and hide information and documents from us because they don’t want us to connect with our ancestry. I have understood that because a lot of our history had been kept alive mainly through story-telling because our ancestors weren’t allowed to write things down and become educated many times. I took a class in undergrad called “The Influence of Africa on the Americas” and a lot of information and documents about the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade where difficult to find and they make databases a bit difficult to even access on these things. Also, for black people living in America, they want us to believe that our very existence is based around us being slaves, instead of descendants of royalty. I strive to be a vessel of reframing that narrative.
But thanks again for the constructive feedback I certainly do take interest in learning more about my ancestry and again I will definitely take this as a learning opportunity.
As the chosen people in the book of Giant a missing part of our history the fallen angels saw the first women who would be dark woolly hair and found them beautiful. The women had to cover their hair to avoid the fallen angel sexual attention because the bought forth the Nephilim who were evil violent giants. myth or legend?
I have never heard of this one but I will definitely look into it. However, I do know that a lot of our history is through word-of-mouth because one of the main forms of oppression was not allowing our ancestors to record our history in books, so a lot of it may not be found on the internet, but I believe it.
The book of Enoch is what your referring to and yes the fallen angels did mate with woman and not just abominations were created of the flesh but also the spirit, that’s where you get incubus and sucubus spirits .etc and also passed down forbidden knowledge to mankind like making of weapons and even conjuring and tampering with the Devine and other realms ie. Magick, voodoo,witchcraft and so on but your right on the money . Look in to the halleluyah scriptures and the cipher Bible , it’s the untampered books of the Hebrew people by catholic monks and the version that king James never wrote but only authorized the editing and publishing of the holy book only because only a person in a kings position can authorize and allow back then and it’s translated from paleo Hebrew to present day English... shalom
Hello, doesn't sound like you're very spiritual but from the beginning God commanded women who prayed or prophesied to cover their heads. 1 Corinthians 11 kjv. as to honor their husband (men) and God. Not saying that the reasons you give for head covering aren't legitimate. Without God there is no ROUTES. He's the Master of the Universe!! anyway have a GOOD DAY.
Thank you! Have a good day
I’m not entirely sure what you were implying with the transatlantic slave trade reasoning because you didn’t spend much time on the subject, but the reason some black people were put into slavery was because of disobedience to the father in heaven. He made a covenant with them, they broke it, and then they and their children were cursed. You can find some proof of this by reading Deuteronomy 28. Not all black people had a covenant with Yahuah (God) but the ones that did, disobeyed him and were enslaved. It was a punishment. Many have been made to forget because of partly what you said, slave masters wanted us to forget our identities to have power over us and also because Yahuah (God) allowed us to forget (see Jeremiah 17:1-4 KJV and Psalm 83:1-4 KJV). With the context that the people in the Bible were mostly black, we can look at their customs as well. Many women in the Bible veiled/covered their heads. (Some men covered parts of their head or the whole thing). Some examples of women veiling are Rebekah (Genesis 24 KJV), Susana wore a veil (Susana 1:32 KJVA), Numbers 5, seems to imply that women’s heads were covered, and 1 Corinthians 11 mentions that women/a wife should pray and prophecy with their heads covered. There are different interpretations on these scriptures but to me, they show that ancient black women were veiling/covering their heads for various reasons. Some of the reasons are the same as you mentioned. Such as for beauty (Susanna- she was wealthy, she wasn’t wearing rags in this moment), for modesty/custom (Rebekah- she was unmarried, about to meet a stranger who is a man, so precaution was desired for her own virtue), also for submission and reverence to Yahuah (God)…(1 Cor 11 can be interpreted in many ways, but I understand it as covering in the presence of the creator. To show reverence to his greatness, you are diminishing your own “glory.”). There’s definitely more to biblical head covering. You can also cover to mourn, harlots also wore veils, and more. I think covering also protected our hair from elements. As someone who also has locs, we have to consider how different weather, diets, and materials can affect our hair. Also, while I don’t feel that it’s necessarily spelled out, I think covering could be a means of set apartnetness in this world. It may be a way to keep wicked angels from lusting because they see Yahuah’s people are under submission to him (there are always angels surrounding us, some are recording our every thought and action to report back to Yahuah, or protecting us. But their are also angels of iniquity who could be influencing us as well. It is up to Yahuah’s will, and our own actions as well - see the second book of Hermas, called his commands, command IV). See also Genesis 6:2 in reference to angels taking human wives. I’m sure headwraps run deeper than we know. I hope this has been enlightening.
This is yt supremacist lie.
@@BINFP read for yourself
I'm from a humble country in Africa called Zambia and have roots with many tribes from the south (eg Zimbabwe and south Africa) because of my grandparents. But traditionally our grand mothers and foremothers also covered their hair (we call them dukus i.e they used a duku to cover their hair). It is a practice that has nothing to do with white people for sure because our various tribes covered hair way before colonialism and the slave trade.
@@clothedinhonorRead what? The Bible? 😂 I would never be able to understand how oppressed a group of people feel and still worship their master. Seems like Stockholm syndrome to me. It’s so bad that you guys don’t want to let go so you find passages from this book and make it yours, worse of, many think that Jesus whose poster has always been white, same face globally is suddenly now black. 😂 Honestly believe what you want but unless you have a proper book and not the Bible , just keep your religious beliefs to yourself, it’s a religion , a belief and not a fact.
And talking about slave masters wanting you to forget your identity. They brought the Bible to us. It’s not adding up.