Sometimes we need a reminder that we are good from the inside out. For many, it’s easier to offer critical feedback than it is to acknowledge great performance.
Source: Dharma Comics (Dec 2012)
Photo by: Hugh Sitton (Getty Images)
I was recently told of an African tribe that does the most beautiful thing. When someone does something hurtful and wrong, they take the person to the center of town and the entire tribe comes and surrounds him. For two days they'll tell the man every good thing he has ever done.
The tribe believes that every human being comes into the world as GOOD, each of us desiring safety, love, peace, happiness.
But sometimes in the pursuit of those things, people make mistakes.
This community sees misdeeds as a cry for help. They band together for the sake of their fellow man to hold him up, to reconnect him with his true Nature, to remind him who he really is, until he fully remembers the truth from which he'd temporarily been disconnected... "I AM GOOD".
Positive acknowledgement typically gets far better results than ongoing critical comments. It takes many positive comments to make up for every negative comment made.
