We live in a
competitive world, as we proudly tell our children . Competition is the
basic tool we use to motivate our children to achieve success in life. But,
does that success focus on us being happy at all?
The wars which began in the primitive world to secure food,
clothing and shelter later became competitive ego wars. The kings started using
competition for spreading inequality and injustice to the masses. There have been no scales to measure an increase
in happiness in the world. If we go by the hospital charts, depressions and
stress related disorders have only been increasing, in the modern day
competitive world.
We teach our children to imitate what other kids are doing
and ask them to do better. In other words, we teach our kids to treat other
kids as inferior. After this negative conditioning in childhood, we complain
about people being unjust and selfish as adults.
Instead of motivating children to do their best so that they
would get joy and happiness from the start, we teach them to start fighting
with other kids by competing on who is the best. Can violence ever stop in the
world if our core focus is on teaching children how to fight/compete from
kindergarten?
MOTIVATION TESTS
INSTEAD OF COMPETITION, IF WE COULD USE MOTIVATION TESTS
, each child would use an exam for
testing his motivation and understanding of a subject. The children who did
well would be motivated to continue on the same path . The children who did
poorly would be guided to pursue other streams where their unique talents lie.
A lot of standardized , stagnant learning would get sacrificed if
motivation would be encouraged over competition. Unique , creative learning
programmes would be developed to involve children from their hearts in participating
in what is taught. Several children who feel like misfits in the competitive
race or who become selfish because of the competitive zeal, would be able to
regain their emotional balance. The pursuit of success is to achieve happiness
in life. But, happiness can come in only when we are motivated to do work from
within such that the soul gets joys from the work it does.
Bureaucracy and stagnation would fade off and give way to an evolving, growing, happy , moving world.
COMPETITIVE TESTS
Competition tests hamper creative development of the human mind and stagnate potential as they test your skill to obey than be creative.
Instead of evolving to a higher quality of consciousness, competition
encourages spreading of that which already exists. Several toothpastes of
similar kinds or several films of unreal strifes, show degeneration of human
intelligence than evolution. The result of competition is that of stopping your
mind from thinking with joy, and feeling sacrificed to fit in. The outcome we
see is in increasing hospital bills, mental suffocation and sexless. loveless
life of the modern day man or woman. The soul stagnates and becomes
dysfunctional rather than remain a source of creation , as part of being the
Co-creator .
In the competitive tests, the ones who win a race feel
superior more because others applaud than because they get inner joy from the
task. People get so trained in being competitive that they start enjoying
bickering and fights only to fuel the release of negative hormones in the body.
Competition starts acting like drug addiction. It is an easy
tool to motivate children in the beginning to perform but it later starts
creating side effects – in the form of increased violence, rapes, thefts,
murders, manipulations, conspiracies, terrorism and wars.
Everything is branded in a competitive world including
religion. Each person fights over whose God is best . The sanctity of God’s
name and the love it represents, is sacrificed to suit man’s competitive needs
on proving himself the best – be it in the clothes he wears, the cars he
travels in or the Gods he worships.
Man becomes so obsessed with proving his own thinking right
that he sacrifices God’s thinking to prove his own worship. The labels of Gods –
be it Hindu, Muslim or Christianity
become more important than the ideologies these religions uphold. People
compete put of habit and accumulate goods , furniture , houses , cars and
mobiles but they have no real joys like peace, happiness, love or sexual satisfaction
.
The child like mind gets so conditioned to prove “I am the
best “ that it doesn’t understand why it seeks to be the best. If you take the
responsibility of being the best, you would offer the best quality of work for
upliftment of the masses. The idea of being best is to be like God, where your
inner being radiates positivity and happiness in the lives of several others. But,
with negative competition, people only want to prove themselves externally the best
without caring about whether they contribute anything in terms of spreading
love or compassion or any positive energies of life.
As is written in the
book CREATION OF HAPPINESS:THE ENERGY WAR, a soul's perspective:
The positive intention behind the original
development of the concept may have been to reward those souls who put in their
energies intensely into any work they do or any thought of creation they focus
upon. The idea was to reinforce utilization of a person’s full potential by
rewarding his/her best performance.
However, over the years competition became a
process by which the person was led to perform his best at the cost of
undermining other people’s efforts. It started leading to creation of negative
energy rather than positive energy because some souls started thriving
materially, by creating blocks in the progress of other souls.
Positive energy in the universe, as a whole
cannot grow if one soul feels positive and another soul feels negative in the
same context. The negative cuts the positive exchange of energy. We need to
perform our best as a whole. We cannot hope to find happiness if we thrive
individually at the cost of others’ suffering, because happiness is an energy.
Happiness cannot spread freely when negative energy rules over positive energy.
The work needs to be done well to feel satisfied within and not for defeating
others or for meeting demands of society which may not lead to self growth.
Competition is a useful concept as long as it
implies that we should work at performing our best. However, on the negative
side, competition leads to performing for impressing others than for meeting
our soul needs. The need to win becomes a priority, even if our happiness gets
sacrificed during the act of pursuing conventional success.
Over the centuries, success has become
materialistically defined. Instead of being a measure of happiness, it has
become a measure of wealth or power.
Wealth or power can lead to happiness only if
they are used for spreading positive energy. The wealth by itself does not
equal happiness but if it leads to creation of positive feelings; then, only it
helps in increasing happiness. It is the investment in creating positive energy
which makes us feel more loved, creatively successful or healthy.
Money
or power do not make us happier, if they increase our anxiety of losing or make
us escape from our soul lessons by enabling resorting to short term gains of
materialism.
.... Human beings in a competitive society expect
themselves to behave like computers.
Computers only perform. They don’t feel. Similarly, human beings, in a
competitive society, train themselves to suppress their feelings and keep working
for mechanical success.
How negative competition hampers the Soul’s life-plan
The stress competition places on a mechanical
life hampers the soul’s unique creative potential.
Our soul takes birth in the human body to
learn the process of creation so as to evolve upwards as being a part of the
Creator. The very purpose for which the soul takes birth in the body gets
side-lined in order to perform well in conventional ways to get good grades or
earn good money , irrespective of whether they increase the soul ‘s positive
frequency or not. The focus of education needs to be on teaching students to
transcend negative challenges and be happy.
However, the stress on competitions insists
that happiness is of inconsequence and only success in competitive terms is
important. It is assumed that success would automatically lead to happiness but
it does not happen as being negative cannot transcend into being happy ,since
suppression and happiness are energies of opposite frequencies.
To be happy, we have to allow our soul
frequency to feel positive, and not compromised because if we feel sad, only
negative energy can enter us; positivity cannot. As souls learn to suppress
their need to be happy from childhood, their energy focus becomes negative.
Hence, negativity multiplies since the energies which we focus on multiply
over-time, by law.
Instead
of being able to master negative energies, the soul becomes a slave to a
conditioning of the mind which focuses on external measures of success. The
requirement to be the best at that which already exists blocks development of
new ways of doing things. The soul’s creative zeal remains grossly ignored in
trying to obey set definitions of good or bad work.
As a result, the soul lives futile lives
trying to prove itself on the material plane while neglecting its original need
for evolving on the multi- dimensional plane of energy, as is exemplified in
the book - ‘In Search of Happiness: the soul’s perspective’
.....
Competition inhibits creativity
Standardizing perfection leads to inhibition
of creativity. Quality gets sacrificed when creativity is met with doubt.
Suppressing creativity makes living in a physical body meaningless for the
soul. The soul is a part of the Creator, and its whole focus becomes negative,
if it cannot create what it wants to experience and instead it creates what it
does not want to experience.
Since soul satisfaction is ignored, the soul
within feels miserable and negative energy spreads on the planet. Each person
feels blocked and suppressed from within, and yearns to spread her/his wings
which get cut as a result of the mass vision of reality.
Competition and fear reinforce each other
Competition instills fear of losing in us.
This fear gets ingrained in us from childhood, since we are taught to learn and
improve by using competition as the driving force.
Our schools follow a general definition of
perfection. They instill in us the belief that if we don’t follow this general
definition, we lose grades and respect and that subsequently, in adult life, we
will lose out in the rat race.
In our schooling systems, we are usually not
trained into visualizing beforehand, the material success which we would get
from doing the work which gives us emotional satisfaction; neither are we
trained in waiting for positive visualizations to manifest. In our hurry to
achieve short-term goals, we lose out on goals which can help us evolve from
the eternal perspective.
We often choose to invite stress, disease and
worries to clear the next immediate exam of school, and later, the next big
challenge of a job rather than pursue our creative talents. We force ourselves
to ignore our soul needs which demand that work pays respect but also gives
peace of mind.
We give in to fear that we may be wrong in
pursuing happiness, than give up on competition which wrongly defines happiness
in material terms only. Thus, stress and tension spread like an epidemic. The
negative energies rise because we believe we need them to survive.
Due to the emphasis on competition, as a race
we get governed by fear - fear of failure, fear of disapproval, fear of
survival, fear of rejection, fear of abuse etc., which makes our choices in
life negatively tilted. The more we focus on fear while making choices, the
more we get trapped in the energy of fear.
Competition promotes negative mass expectations
Competition, as interpreted today, is based on
the notion of scarcity. We need to compete because it is assumed that there is
not enough for all. When we operate on this belief, we create a world which has
scarce resources because as souls, we create that which we expect to manifest
by the Law of Creation.
Competition would make sense, if it could be
used to develop unique individual potential and helped each soul excel in his
own unique abilities. Instead of rewarding those who perform the best and make
those who don’t perform the best feel bad, if soul needs could be recognized
there would no longer remain ONE BEST for all.
If our children’s focus shifted to getting joy
from the work done; as adults we would be intrinsically motivated to perform
our best in whatever we excel at ; be it
folding clothes, cleaning the house, maintaining files, singing , painting ,
dancing or sculpting.
We would pursue whatever gives us inner
satisfaction and not impose our definition of good work on others, who are not
adept in the field we are good at. We would recognize that each soul has a
different talent and help each other perform as a group where each has a
different chore. That would help each person to creatively and satisfactorily
contribute to his work, as he would have fun learning that which he enjoys
working at.
Also, if the unique talent of each individual
was rewarded and respected, the planet’s overall emotional level of well being
would rise. By encouraging innovative thinking, we could take creation to an
altogether higher dimension.
However, when emotions are suppressed, human
consciousness does not evolve as required because the accumulation of negative
energy prevents the spread of creative energy.
When consciousness doesn’t evolve, it
stagnates or devolves. By not allowing the soul to express itself, we are
blocking our progress as a human race. From human beings, we are becoming
performing robots and we are collectively, consciously allowing this
degeneration.
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