Schools are the norm in today’s world. With the coming of
the Industrial revolution and parents being required as work force, children
started being sent to mass education programmes which were convenient alternate
homes while the parents worked.
However, though schools were advertised and promoted as a
boost to children’s development, paving the way top their success and happiness,
we find that the adults which emerged were successful but unhappy. Since the beginning
g of the twentieth century, diseases and stress related disorders increased.
Mass schooling, a lack of attention to individual expression,
and competitive performance made children into performing machines, with their
soul needs being grossly negated.
The little children souls felt trapped in institutions like
armies where they had to obey more than think, compete more than enjoy and
perform to get love which was their natural birthright.
While the souls were negated, children were brainwashed into
thinking that the schools are the best institutions for their development. They
were taught that compromise in school, with teachers, and the mass education
system was the best hope for happiness which they had.
Compromise, by its very definition, breeds negativity. We
compromise when we are not happy. So, essentially, instead of learning to
redefine happiness in ways where they could express their unique potentials,
children were asked to fit in mass defined norms like computer tablets.
Rarely could schools cater to children’s needs for emotional
development. The stress was son science or maths, learning facts more than learning
their application. Children need to be taught skills to cope up with stress in
adult lives but instead they were conditioned into negating their emotional
needs.
Negative emotions when unaddressed keep releasing negative
hormones in the body like poisonous acid in the bloodstream, which leads to
stress related disorders like asthma, diabetes or cancer. So, a major reason
for increasing diseases and hospital bills in the twentieth century can be
grossly attributed to schools paying no attention to the children’s emotional
needs where their soul purposes were addressed.
As is explained in the book IN SEARCH OF HAPPINESS- HOW PAST
LINES AFFECT THE PRESENT LIFE
Schooling is a base structure of our society. It
lays foundations for adult lives. But, a teacher is usually, unable, to help
kids develop coping skills for the emotional demands of adulthood.
We rarely use more than 30% of the theoretical
concepts we study in schools in our
professional lives but we use up a good deal of
our precious founding years learning subject details which would not be
relevant to us when we grow up and enter jobs or businesses.
How many of us need to know how fractions and
trigonometry sums are solved or the distance of the Sun from the Earth in exact
units or the type of algae that grow in water? Why is it relevant to teach all
this when more important emotional learning skills need to be inculcated?
Instead of
spending hours on lecturing about traditional subjects, concepts like stress
management, love for fellow humans, understanding inner talents etc. can be practically
taught which would help kids create positivity in their lives?
Most schools almost run like armies. Pupils are
expected to obey authority without questioning it. The slow method of teaching
a mass class causes frustration in several students who process information
quicker than others. The need to develop patience to sit in a class-room often
feels unnecessary especially to the brighter students. When forced upon, it may
lead to violence among students who are otherwise, traumatized by having to
study subjects they hardly find meaningful. Ritual is given priority over
reason since the need to study becomes a ritualistic tradition than the need of
the hour for the little, evolving minds.
Students and teachers are encouraged to blindly
follow the Dinosauric institution of schooling, even if it spreads more negative
than positive, growth oriented energy.
Instead, if students could learn from the beginning
an open-ended syllabus which would also help them meet their soul needs, along
with studying what is required to achieve external success, then their attitude
towards learning would automatically become more positive.
Human mind conditioning and its impact on development of
diseases and traumas in life has been discussed in more detail in the book
CREATION OF HAPPINESS: THE ENERGY WAR, a soul’s perspective:
An excerpt from the book:
Our schooling makes us focus on the world
outside rather than on our soul selves. We feel negativity in the external
world, and feel driven towards attaining happiness. But, we do not realize that
we create the negativity, ourselves, due to our misguided internal negative
focus.
Competition instils 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 instil 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.
There
is an almost complete lack of understanding of cause and effect relationships between
thought and reality. People rarely
attribute problems in their lives to their own negative thinking. Instead, they
keep looking for external causes and seeking to solve or overcome them. Yet, the
problems keep increasing in one form or another owing to a consistently
negative thinking process developed in schooling years. Our competitive
education systems train us to focus on negativity on ‘what is missing’, as a
way of life.
HOW SCHOOLS CAN SPREAD PEACE AND HAPPINESS ON THE PLANET BY INCORPORATING
SOUL PLANS IN EVERYDAY EDUCATION
In our school systems, developing
individual talents and emotional maturity needs to be given a priority through
a more comprehensive education system. Each person comes into Earth with a
specific professional plan which helps him/her achieve his soul’s purpose.
Practical methods of finding individual soul plans through using techniques of
emotional management need to be introduced so that studying leads to a sense of
fulfilment and happiness in the student.
Also, teaching children the spiritual Laws of
Creation and Repetition which govern our ability to create happiness in our
adult lives, helping children develop intuition for understanding and connecting
to their innate soul needs, and rewarding practices like sharing, compassion and
expressing creativity instead of rewarding performances in competitive sports
or academics; is necessary to help students find learning and working meaningful.
Developing practices which train students in
positive thinking skills help them cope up positively with stress in their
adult lives. The focus needs to be on happiness, not success so as to train
students to create happiness with the efforts they put in for material success.
SCHOOLS CAN HELP SPREAD PEACE, END WARS BY PRACTICAL TEACHING ON BEING PEACEFUL
AND CO-OPERATIVE IN INTERACTIONS
It is not possible to spread peace by simply
preaching about peace. The preaching has to be applied in everyday life, such
that people’s thinking changes from the core.
Our core thinking patterns are set by our early
education. It is the thoughts our minds get conditioned into before we are
seven years of age, which set the foundation for how we evolve as adults. When
we are children, we do not argue back on the rules of life taught to us.
Therefore, the early teaching affects our subconscious minds the most as we are
like sponges then, ready to absorb all that which is fed.
Hence, to spread peace on the planet, Peace
has to be taught in schools as a practical subject like sports or painting.
Instead of focusing on teaching English or
Maths or Painting or Skating, it is necessary to teach children how to share
with each other, how to enjoy helping, how to express love and compassion, how
to create what they desire by focusing on thinking the right way and how to use
energies of music or painting or dancing or games to feel good internally, than
perform externally. The grades need to be given for creativity, joy and
compassion rather than for rote learning or imitating well.
Education should be more fun for the students
than stress. The learning needs to be automatically imbibed, than forcibly
inculcated.
If children are force to compromise from the
beginning, they will develop negative thinking habits. They have to be
encouraged to enjoy learning by making education flexible and convenient.
It is only when our minds are free to create,
that we will evolve above being humans like monkeys, running after bananas to
being humans like Gods who fly freely in bliss.
To live on a peace loving planet, we have to
love peace in our everyday life. We cannot keep fighting with our inner selves
and expect peace to radiate from our beings.
At a mass consciousness level, our mind’s focus
needs to be on the energy of how it will be when peace exists rather than on
worrying that peace does not exist. The more we worry about riots and
terrorism, the more we energize these negative manifestations of restless minds
on the planet. When we deliberately focus on feeling peaceful within, ignoring
http://www.homeshop18.com/swati%20shiv/search:swati%20shiv a restless external reality, we will energize the spread of peace on Earth.
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