Reforms Needed to Teach Positìve Thinking Through Education

 The present education system has created a revolution in technology 

but has not solved problems which affect happiness directly like 

depression, psychological sickness, relationship breakdowns, 

corruption, terrorism etc.; hence, unrest and violence in society have 

increased. An understanding of what the soul needs from improving 

its efforts, is necessary to realize inner happiness as a direct outcome 

of effort and not as a side effect of success. 

All technology innovations which we are so proud of as human 

beings, have been made only in the direction of improving external 

display or comforts without sufficient attention being given to our 

internal emotional and spiritual needs.

Happiness comes from satisfying the needs of emotional satisfaction 

along with acquiring bodily comforts. Becoming successful without 

feeling happy is like painting the walls of the house without the 

people feeling brighter. Happiness and good health are co-related, as 

will be explained. ... Good health can never be maintained by 

focusing on just the needs of material success and using the body as 

a projected image with the inner mind in unrest. 

Since science only focuses on the external, observable world, a 

purely scientific approach which aims at only focusing on improvements in scientific/technological development will never 

lead to evolution of peace and harmony within the soul or in society. 

Due to neglect of soul needs in the education curriculum, 

human development has failed to realize feelings of peace and 

contentment. To be happier or more peaceful, a training in 

systematic understanding of emotional complexities, needs to be 

inculcated with the same zeal as mathematical skills are taught. 

A focus on integration of soul needs along with material needs while 

teaching how to make choices in everyday life is essential to create 

peaceful adults. A training in integrated Emotional and Spiritual 

development is the only way to permanently increase peace and 

happiness in the world.

Though we blame everything else except our thinking patterns for 

the problems in our life , a regular focus on grades/marks/ 

performance ability, success and money has been the core negative 

thinking principle which has led to a lop-sided development of 

humanity wherein inner peace of the mind has been sacrificed for a 

need to perform due to external pressure.

This lop-sided development has led to creation of imbalanced 

individuals who have no training on how to resolve complex 

emotional issues and resort to violence or addictions to vent 

out frustrations in an attempt to find inner peace. 

Human happiness cannot be created as a side-effect of 

success. You cannot get balanced, peaceful and happy adults 

by pursuing mechanical/academic success as the goal of 

education. 

Mind patterns are set in childhood and are affected by mass culture 

which is affected by education, predominantly. Since, the focus of 

all education has been on becoming successful at the cost of 

neglecting training in development of peace and inner happiness.

This chapter is an excerpt from the book - SPIRITUALITY IN EDUCATION ( Redefine success as rising peace ,optimism and happiness)

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Changing Early Morning Self Forcing Getting Up Habit For Increased Positive Focusing

 Early morning mind-set is very rigid in today’s world. However, 

the habit has to be broken because forcing oneself to get up 

from deep sleep is the reason for people feeling forced through 

life in every job they undertake. Feelings repeat themselves and 

the feeling you get up with sets the tone of the day. If you get 

up feeling compromised, you live feeling compromised. If you 

get up feeling relaxed, life appears to be a relaxing journey.

Incomplete rest during sleep is a big reason for headaches, lack 

of concentration, irritability in temperaments, inability to sleep 

peacefully at night, need for alcohol and drugs to relax, inability 

to focus on original thinking/creative tasks, food indigestions, 

diseases which get created by a habit of worrying, release of 

stress- related negative hormones in the body and several 

aggression problems of society which are a result of feeling like slaves at work. 

The early morning drill makes the body feel like a running 

machine which suppresses peacefulness of the soul, thus 

reducing happiness. In semi drowsy states, the mind gets 

conditioned, mechanically into focusing on the first feeling it 

gets into repeatedly. Getting up feeling angry and grumpy 

creates a negative thinking cycle which keeps rotating around a 

point of negative focus automatically, and external 

circumstances are created such that this negative focus remains 

maintained (By the Law of Vibrations) 

A life-long cycle of stress and resentment starts because 

children are forced to get up when they can be trained into 

feeling peaceful as an energy cycle, by allowing them to get up 

naturally later. The violence which boys exhibit can be reduced 

substantially by allowing them to get up late, feeling peaceful 

and relaxed. The mind has to be conditioned into resting 

peacefully in the morning for it to remain peaceful and focused 

as a habit during the day.

The restlessness is forced by making children get up to work 

when they can be allowed to sleep in a natural state of resting.

Training children like oxen for work or donkeys to slave creates 

clerks in thinking who obey orders more easily than taking 

independent, responsible decisions. 

This blog is an excerpt from the book

SPIRITUALITY IN EDUCATION, Redefine success as rising peace, optimism and happiness , chapter 11.

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