LOCS
Your locs are a deeply expressive form of you. It is one that should never be taken lightly, it holds the hands of wisdom and pushes forward growth. Energy enters and leaves the body through your head—through your hair, and with locs that energy is kept and held, leaving it to remain. Locs not only teaches love, but it teaches you the importance of growth, boundaries, trust, and self-love.
Boundaries because with locs comes a different level of protection for oneself. The fact that whatever energy you come into contact with stays with you, it leads you to be intentional with whomever you associate yourself with, who you speak to, share energy with, and who touches you and your crown, it makes you more aware of the energy and intentions of the people around you. It creates a more disciplined version of you, this form of your hair teaches you to appreciate and respect yourself. It leads you to understand your worth and protect it.
Trust because the process of your hair being loced teaches you how to be patient and present, it teaches you to trust the process and believe in it. It teaches you the beauty and power of submission when you release control to the right thing. It teaches you how to let go and simply be. A mirror for life. The greatest things are always the ones that are not meant to be controlled—cannot be controlled, for example, love.
Locs teach you self-love, it teaches you to love and accept yourself in every aspect from every angle, a lot of people neglect this part of the journey by putting down and demonizing the first chapter by calling it the ugly phase when really that phase is the most powerful. It teaches you to relinquish control, it mirrors the beginning of a new chapter, it shows you a new side of yourself that you have to accept—you naked, without any ‘beauty covers/standards of society’ just you. Locs is a journey that leads you to accept every part of you in the spaces that you are afraid to—in the spaces of you that you were taught not to love.
Growth because of all, because any energy that enters you can not be pushed to the side so all has to be faced, reflected upon, accepted and nurtured, good or bad which leads to growth.