THE SACRED HOOP
By Yvette Neshi Lokotz
ELDERS SERIES:
The Unrecognized Elder Are you an unrecognized Elder? Have you disregarded someone who is an Elder? Recently I had a topic about Eldership, which turned into a series of live stream shows, on my weekly live stream called Communications from Home. In the Eldership series, we covered many aspects of Eldership. I want to share with you, dear reader, about The Unrecognized Elder. As I prepared for the show and this article, I asked myself if I ever felt like an unrecognized Elder and if I ever disregarded someone who would be considered an Elder. I have to admit, in all honesty, I have done both. I soon realized I was in a healing moment. As I replied to my questions honestly, I took the time to look deep inside myself and found wounds that I had not addressed.
into the background, and go unnoticed. Some people are shy or are introverts and choose to hold their energy close. Even though this may be true, when it comes to stepping into Eldership, we are changed. We grow into ourselves.
Wisdom comes from the application of [life] lessons we have learned. We apply what we learned to our everyday lives and build mastery. When we share our wisdom, we become Elders.
Let’s define the word unrecognized. According to dictionary. com, unrecognized is “not given deserved attention or notice, not identified, detected, or known.” I also looked up the synonyms of the word and found: “nameless, no-name, noteless, obscure, uncelebrated, unfamous, unknown, unsung.”
What is an Unrecognized Elder?
As I covered in previous articles about Eldership, an Elder is not necessarily determined by chronological age but by sharing wisdom. Our wisdom is accumulative across our soul’s experience. This accumulation came from all of our lifetimes when we were in a physical body. The life lessons we experienced and learned from are important to the building of our Eldership. Wisdom comes from the application of the lessons we learned. We apply what we learned to our everyday lives and build mastery. When we share our wisdom, we become Elders.
If we take the unrecognized definition, there is a possible thread of being unseen, not noticed, unknown, or uncelebrated that began long before entering Eldership.
An Unrecognized Elder has wisdom to share, but people around them dismiss their wisdom, disregard their experience, and often treat the Elder as feeble or ignore them. Many times the Elder’s feelings are hurt, which causes them to withdraw. The Elder sees the disregarding behavior, but chalks it up to immaturity and doesn’t take it personally.
I realize that there are some instances and personal occasions where you might want to be unseen, blend
I also asked myself the question, “Why do some Elders go unnoticed?”
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