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Competing and Comparing:

Got a charge about that?

Most people do. Most people have an emotional charge about the idea of “losing” anything, be it a treasured item, a beloved pet, a loved one … or any kind of competition. To lose is to be a loser and that makes you less than … usually less than another person. Losing brings emotions like envy, anger, jealousy, self-criticism, shame, victimization, and a host of other undesirable emotions.

There’s this lie that persists among almost all human beings, perpetuated for millennia, until it has become a core belief that poisons the Spirit within. It is the lie that competition makes you better … a better person … better than others. Or, competition proves that you are the smartest, prettiest, fastest, strongest, etc., ad infinitum.

Competition is based on the illusion that being the best, the greatest, the prettiest, the whatever, makes you better, more important than others. It doesn’t. Regardless of what the media or other people may say. Remember? We all have a value of 1 … and, “No one is more important than anyone else … no one is more important than me.”

Which also means you aren’t more important than anyone else. Regardless of how smart, skilled, pretty, handsome, or strong, etc., you may be. These are not platitudes … they are Divine Truths meant to help you understand the nature of the Real reality.

Beyond the plethora of negative emotions tied to losing, there is Real emotional baggage that accompanies competition of every kind. Coupled with its companion ~ comparison ~ most people … even Aspirants and Disciples … compete with or compare themselves to others, constantly. Better than, worse than, prettier than, smarter than, dumber than, thinner than, fatter than, stronger than, shorter than, wiser than, poorer than, more successful than, more spiritual than, etc., etc., etc.

This constant comparison is key to answering why competition is so challenging for Disciples to manage. It means you get a free ride on the emotional roller coaster those thoughts engender, no matter how briefly your thoughts touch upon these comparisons. Like a sore tooth, your mind goes back to the results of your comparisons over and over again. And your emotional roller coaster continues.

These thoughts that compare yourself to others are insidious and prolific. Worse yet, competition can also foster the emotional trap of pride which, if you’ll recall, goes before not a fall, but … destruction. We’ll leave you to ponder on this truism and its highly undesirable consequences.

Only awareness can help you see the Truth of what we are telling you here.

And, what is also True is this: competition is one of the hardest mindsets to change.

Make no mistake: competition is a mindset  … a nucleus of thoughts so crystallized as to have its own neural pathways emblazoned on the brain. And a mindset is never without an accompanying attitude glued to it … which generally expresses itself as an irresistible emotional urge … though you may not recognize this particular urge because it has devolved into a compulsive habit of thought.

Both the mindset and the attitude are not simply will center issues ~ they are also brain issues.

Mindsets are old … many with pathways in your brain as old as the genealogy of your physical body … coming from a generational mindset handed down generation after generation after generation until they became genetic inheritances. A few pre-date written language … and a very select few pre-date an entirely human physical form.

Competition belongs in the last category.

Competition is hard-wired into that meat suit you’re wearing. In fact, the very elementals who were swept up into involuntary service by your Soul, to make your physical body, know competition. Competition once served a Real purpose that ensured the survival of the species to which you belong.

But that time in human development is long gone … and it is long past time to embrace cooperation and collaboration. In fact, your collective survival as a species now depends on learning to collaborate and cooperate.

The Real Truth is, nobody truly wins in competitions. What’s more, there are no good competitions … competition isn’t good for you … competition doesn’t bring out the best in you … on the contrary, it taps into your worst instincts. There is no such thing as a “friendly” competition. There’s nothing friendly in the idea of winners and losers.

Okay, so you can say, run faster than anyone else in your classification. What does that really mean?

Imagine you are judged the prettiest woman on the planet. The way your meat suit looks is only an experience your Soul wanted to have in this lifetime. There was a purpose in the experience … meant to teach you something important about yourself, whatever that might be … and you can bet that purpose had nothing to do with you lording it over anyone else, crowned queen, being prideful, basking in thinking you’re “the best,” or considering your meat suit is better, prettier, more beautiful than anyone else’s meat suit. Again, what does that really mean? If you are not that meat suit you’re wearing….

Like everything physical, including that meat suit you’re wearing, when your consciousness leaves this illusion, the trophies, medals, public accolades, etc., stay here. All they really are is a symbol for something that’s Real. And it’s the Real you take with you when you leave this plane of illusion … not those medals and trophies … or the public recognition that came with them, labeling you as “the best” or whatever.

Because none of this addresses the Real. The Truth. Here. In the illusion. Where you have come to learn and grow through your experiences.

As a LightWorker, or Aspirant, or Disciple, what will competing with others do for your Spiritual life? How will it help you be more compassionate, more loving, or wiser? Competitions negate the very necessary quality of humility and only serve to inflate your pride and ego ~ the “enemies” of spiritual progress on the Path.

The only Real value in competition comes from the qualities you develop as you pursue some ideal of excellence … qualities like commitment, discipline, perseverance, patience, etc. It’s the qualities you developed to prepare to compete that do go with you when you leave this plane. These qualities have Real value and will help you progress on the Path. Focusing there, instead, constitutes a great leap forward in your personal and spiritual growth.

However, if for a space in time, you cannot let go of competition, compete with yourself. Use the drive to compete to move yourself forward in your pursuit of Spirit and all things spiritual.

Leave behind the emotional roller coaster that is fostered by competition. Learn to live in cooperation and collaboration with everyone and everything ~ instead of the undesirable idea of seeing other people as competition, someone to defeat or because you believe resources ~ including praise and admiration ~ are so limited only a select few get to have them. In a reality you create, the only limits are the ones you make.

Without competition, you can see everyone as a potential friend and collaborator, ready to create something together that will benefit this world and ultimately, make it Heaven on Earth.