For about ten years before I moved to America, I had been working as a freelance translator and interpreter. The great opportunity came to me all of a sudden. In 2005 and 2006, I was hired as an interpreter for the Lakota tour for three times.
My employer was a Japanese man who had built a friendship with a Lakota man for years. He had started a tour for Japanese customers so that they can visit Lakota land and learn their culture and traditional ways.
This Japanese man was also a friend of my dad-in-law. While I was visiting my Navajo family in 2004, he visited my dad-in-law. That was how I met my future employer. During the conversation, he mentioned about his Lakota tour and he was looking for an interpreter for the following year. I instantly raised my hand for the job title, and he hired me right away. I was at the right place at the right timing.
Up until then, I had some experiences working as an interpreter for some manufacture companies to explain their products. In these cases, I already knew about the products. I started feeling comfortable for the job title.
However, I thought, the interpreting for a tour was totally different. Although I was the one who raised my hand for this job offer, as days were getting closer to the tour, I had started feeling nervous about it. Interpreting for the Lakota tour was my very first experience, anyway.
During the tour, I had kept on feeling nervous. I didn’t have confidence in my English language ability. Especially when I encountered some words that I didn’t know the meaning, I would feel panicky. I had kept on praying and asking for help to my family souls and spirits. Over and over again.
One night during the tour, we had a sweat lodge ceremony. During the ceremony, I kept on seeing the vision of the blue happy light jumping around. They kept on sending me the messages “stop praying. Stay being yourself.”
Interesting enough, after the ceremony, the Lakota man who conducted the sweat lodge ceremony came up to me and whispered the messages from Spirits for me. It was like this.
Stop praying to us for support. We chose you for this job. You are the chosen one. Just stay being who you are. As long as you relax, it is easy for us to convey messages through you to other people. When you get nervous and keep asking for support, it gets in the way.
It was true. I was dominated by ego. My ego kept on telling me that I had to do well on this job. I felt overwhelmed and pressured. I must have had a stiff muscle all over my body. After getting this message, I finally started feeling relaxed, and let ego go. Then I started doing better than the previous days.
This can be applied to everybody, right? When we want to do something well, first, we need to release our ego. Once we release our ego, everything will finally start flowing more smoothly than before.
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