Change a life just by saying hello

burnout blip:
Offer yourself for service today, not for rewards for you.
Look for the invisible person that is taken for granted. Say hello.

We all have rushed by the invisible persons that keep our human society functioning. Some of them work right beside us, some are cleaning up after us, and some are even in our families. Some times we feel that we are the invisible person that no one really recognizes or even wants to know.

Martín Prechtel (Native American healer, author and teacher) teaches a beautiful ritual in his moving workshops. He asks that you bring three small gifts. During the workshop you interact with a partner. At the end of the time together, you give one of your gifts to this person. You also give them the other two gifts, with the instructions for them to give one of the gifts to an "invisible" person that they come across in their daily life. You are to also give them the second gift and ask them to notice another invisible person and share the third gift.  It can become a profound paying it forward.

You don't need little wrapped gifts to practice this potent service. Saying hello, and meaning it, can become a change agent for person's life. It can change the world itself.

Image is a drawing by Martín Prechtel.

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Comments

[Vicki Nikolaidi]

Very lovely ritual! And saying "Hello" can mean so much.