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Namah Vol. 33, Issue 1, 24th April 2025

almost every field, there is a breakthrough Signs of a New Emergence
leap revolutionising our understanding and
the paradigms in each field. But the most This phase was followed by the observation of
important clue that is evident is in children. hyperactivity in children as well as adolescents
There is a dramatic, rather an exponential as if they were all on a high. This extreme
change in children. The initial change observed degree of restlessness is perhaps a sign that
was a kind of hyperactivity and a host of the nervous system is unable to handle the
psychological problems during adolescence burst of some tremendous energy taking
as if some critical barriers and boundaries place within mankind. This hyperactivity
of the self were breaking down. A host of was perhaps what inspired the term, ‘Indigo
abnormal phenomena were observed and children’. At the same time there has been
continue on the horizon which have been observed an increase in the number of child
categorised and labelled as this or that prodigies. This is still going on giving rise to
disease. The same is true of a number of exceptional children, exceptional in different
physical illnesses that cropped up during the fields and a general increase in the average
previous century. We tend to label anything intelligence of children, something that is
and everything falling out of the spectrum being reflected in the performance of these
of normalcy or the norm as illness but could children. It is not only in academic studies
it be that these abnormal manifestations are but if we closely observe the programmes this
simply reactions and ways of adaptation of the burst of intelligence and creativity is taking
body and mind to the efforts at recalibrating place in every sphere.
towards a new equilibrium. But instead of
helping the adaptation process, we are only Another observation one can make is these
creating more and more confusion. Surely children are fairly conscious of their inner
treating or rather controlling the symptoms subjective events. This is partly because they
or the outer manifestations is easier and do not need to suppress their feelings under
quicker as well as materially rewarding than social pressures and the need to conform. It
patiently trying to understand and discover the is partly also because the degree of freedom
deeper causes and the adaptive-transformative and permissibility allows them to experience
processes. a ‘feeling’ for want of a better term, that were
not possible earlier. Thus, for example,
they can now distinguish several shades of
human relationships that do not fall into
any category. They experience a range of
thoughts, viewpoints, emptions, opinions
as never before. While this is challenging,
yet it is also kneading the mind making it
more supple and wide. An increasing space
for the unconventional and the experimental
is breaking the old patterns and seeing the
emergence of new ones. Even religions
and ideologies, customs and culture, the

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