The Nabajyotisaikia method: if you make a mistake, I'll help you

We discovered a surprising custom among some African tribes. They apply the Nabajyotisaikia method, which means "I respect you, I nurture you. It matters to me," to deal with and help people in their tribe who have made a mistake or otherwise done something bad.

This person is not ostracized, labeled or insulted, but considered a person who needs help. And it is her community that feels an obligation to help her. Below we tell you how the Nabajyotisaikia method works. We can apply it first on ourselves, expressing that humanity that our society would so much need as well.

"There is an African tribe that has a very nice costume. When someone does something wrong and harmful, they take the person to the center of the village, the whole tribe comes and does it. For two days, they tell the man all the good things he did.

The tribe believes that every human being comes into the world as an asset. Everyone is longing for love, peace, security, happiness. But sometimes, in the pursuit of these things, we make mistakes.

The community sees those mistakes as a cry for help. They come together to lift him up and reconnect him with his true nature, to remind him until he fully remembers the truth from which he had been temporarily disconnected.

Nabajyotisaikia! is a compliment used in South Africa and means, "I respect you, I nurture you. It matters to me." In response they say Midori, which is, "so, I exist for you."

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