What Does Namaste Mean? and Sorry for all the Questions!
An intelligent and outgoing, questioning 17 year old has been asking me a bunch of questions about how I made my career choices, and how to make decisions now, for the rest of his life.
I think it is absolutely crazy that kids have to make these kinds of decisions at the age of 17. So here is my combined response to his emails:
Namaste is a Sanskrit term that means “the light in me goes out to the light in you”.
I had no idea what I wanted to do when I was your age… my only plan was to get my degree and jump on a plane to the UK. It took me 12 years to come home and settle back in NZ – and by then my path had evolved so far that it was unrecognizable as the same path I had started on - but indeed it was. And, in hindsight, it makes perfect sense for it is the foundation to my ability to handle my “today.” There is nothing like knowledge converted to wisdom through the path of life experience. You can’t learn it all in a text book, but you have to start somewhere, back it up somewhere else, and be prepared to evolve your conclusions. We must be open to new possibilities ALL THE TIME… because just when you think you know how it works, something will change again!
I think the best thing you can do right now is keep your options, and your mind, open; and to continue to develop your ability to take on as many different perspectives as possible. The only certainty in life is that THINGS WILL CHANGE… I wouldn’t write anything off or set anything in concrete. You’re a new breed of kid today. You are super smart and have a whole new energy and intelligence about you that is driven – and lot of “grown-up’s” could learn a lot from that.
We are alive in very exciting times where nothing is as it has ever been before. So the educational/psychological/economic/financial/ environmental structures all need to change now. Just keep asking questions to everyone and anyone and hopefully the institutions will start trying to figure out how to answer them…. and this, in turn, will help facilitate much needed growth and increased awareness of our Evolutionary process.
Don’t ever feel that because the “grown-up” dosn’t have an answer you’re question is wrong. Your questions are just new and they help facilitate research, change and growth. All your questions are an opportunity for learning and growth – for BOTH the one asking the question AND the one trying to answer it. Anyone that approaches the question as otherwise is trapped in Ego.
You keep asking your questions. We need your questions so we can see where the change needs to occur and where the evolution is happening. Your questions guide our clarity, just as much as they do yours.
And just because your mum (a counsellor) says she’s not smart enough to be a psychologist, probably qualifies her to be exactly that?! I haven’t met a single psychologist yet (or anyone for that matter!) that knows exactly how it all works. The meaning of life and how to live it is a curious and beautiful mystery to us all! All we can do is put one foot in front of the other and go in the flow of what feels good to our integrity. Find your flow and BE YOU. Only You can express what you came here to express, and the world is a better place for your aspect of input – when it comes from a place of integrity; so nurture that.
Namaste.
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August 19, 2009 1:37 pm
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Wow! This was me who emailed you! Thanks for writing a blog about it! By the way, my blushing (Erythrophobia) isn’t gone yet
still the same in fact
Carmel Reply:
September 29th, 2009 at 11:39 am
Hey… hopefully you are working on that Self Love and Acceptance. Thats more important than anything else. When we love ourselves and it is overflowing from within, we have love to give and when we have love to give we feel better and when we feel better we’re more comfortable and when we’re more comfortable we’re more accepting and when we’re more accepting we love more… and around and around it goes…!
Namaste
Yup I am. I’m listening to your “Being You” hypnosis everyday
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