MAKE PEACE WITH YOUR CHI
Mmuo (spirit) is an Igbo word. Mmuo comes from the word muo, that is to birth. Our ancestors understand that nobody comes to earth on his own accord. You were brought here by the spirit inside you. That is why our ancestors called this spirit Mmuo because just as your mother is the person that mmuo you, this spirit in you is the one that gave birth to you in this world. This Mmuo is also what our ancestors called Chi.
This is why our ancestors gave us such names as CHINWENDUM, CHIJINDUM, and CHINENYENWA. Chinwwndu means Chi owns my life. Chijindum means Chi holds my life, while Chinenyenwa means it is Chi that gives babies. Mmuo or Chi is your spiritual energy. The Ancestors know this spirit has tremendous power and this they preserved in the names of their children whom they named CHINWEIKE, and CHIBUIKE. While Chinweike means Chi owns power, Chibuike means Chi is power. So your spiritual power is your Chi. Your Chi is your power and it is so powerful. Without our Chi none of us can connect to our Chi-Male Principle and Eke-Female Principle, which is called Chinaeke or Chineke (‘Chi’ and ‘Eke’) in Igbo Language.
Our Ancestors knew that our world is Uwa Izu (a world where things are complementary) and therefore cannot be separated. The world of the fall apart when they started seeing the world from the white man’s perspective. The white man’s world is the world of ALIENATION where things are at opposite to each other. To the European, the man is the opposite of the woman, light is the opposite of darkness, water is the opposite of fire and earth is the opposite of heaven.
