Good morning children, new consciousness boys and girls. Welcome to the Progressive.
This one I just wanted to briefly speak about why and how we need to build collaborative environments as opposed to competitive environments.
Why? Well, first of all, let's examine the current mode of functioning we have and living and working in this current way of civilization that we have,
which is competition. Capitalism and competition go hand in hand.
The one which generates conflict between people of within two groups of companies, two groups of people, two countries, you have a sense of competition.
One makes a car, the other one wants to make another fancier car. The third one wants to make an even fancier car.
Before you know it, you have 10 different brands of cars, 10 different brands of clothing, 10 different brands of everything.
This competitive environment is a conflicting environment as you can sense and feel the energies through how I'm speaking through this.
So you'll know why we need to embrace one over the other.
So competition will bring about a conflict energy.
It harbors conflict as in you are constantly engaged with that part of the human being that is instinctively always insurmable.
You want to survive if you're a manufacturer who's making washing machines, for example, and the other one also wants to put up another factory for making washing machines.
Soon you have two factories which is first of all unnecessary in a very big load on the earth to have such a manufacturing setup.
It costs a lot of earth resources, costs a lot of human resources, costs a lot of energy and time.
And to what end are you doing this?
You're just essentially making the same product, but you want to have the attribute of working for profits, for shareholders, for stakeholders.
We have all these old systems going on which is rapidly collapsing now.
That kind of sense of living in competition with one another first of all creates unnecessary variety which we do not need.
And it creates a sense of conflict which is based in survival.
A person wants to survive, stay afloat above the waters, stay so that they can make some money.
They can earn some living out of it.
This competitive environment is working with the lower aspects of the human being where conflict is harbored, conflict is sustained, conflict is sustained through economic wars, for example.
We have economic conflicts these days.
Everybody wants to have a new take on a particular thing, particular product, make newer and newer products in order to sustain.
Well, this is not sustainable first of all for the earth.
Not only is it not required, but it is not sustainable for the earth and it is not sustainable for the human because every day the human wakes up, goes into work and he goes with the energy of conflict.
Who am I going to fight today? Who am I going to argue and debate against?
That's the energy you want to carry every single day and you always think of survival.
What about my savings? What about my bank account? What about my kids? What about how many cars I have? Do I have a better car than my neighbor?
All these kinds of energies if you are working with, that's what you will create and that's what we have created now in the civilization.
Now let's talk about collaborative environment and why that is important.
Well, in a collaborative environment you are constantly recognizing and appreciating the difference.
You embrace the difference, you embrace the diversity, you know that one person is not the same as the next one.
If you know any degree of Vedic Astrology which should be really taught in schools now, then they will be appreciative of how different two people can be sitting next to one another
and yet not be in conflict or in competition with one another.
Competition is essentially conflict, modified and packaged as something worthwhile to have.
It's not. There is no need for competition in this world.
Take the example of nature. We always keep coming back to the nature for all learnings.
If in a jungle, you walk into a jungle, there are all kinds of trees and plants and flowers and creepers and all ferns and all kinds of vegetation growing around you.
Are they in conflict with one another? One another, no. They are always in a symbiotic relationship with one another.
They are always cooperating with one another. One feeds the other. One enhances the other.
The great oak tree which grows to hundreds of feet is also a pillar of strength for the creeper that is creeping around its bark.
You see, you have to learn harmony and working in collaboration from nature.
That's the best source I can give you. It's always available.
So, collaborative environments foster difference, foster appreciating the difference. Let it be between two individuals, let it be between two countries or two different races.
We are all different. In the 15 or so countries that I have traveled around the world, I have worked with different cultures right from far east to the Middle East to the western countries.
We are all different. We are all different people. We are different approaches to doing the same thing.
And yet that's what makes it beautiful. That's what makes it fantastic. That's what makes it rich.
You have to accept the richness that is already there in order to break out of the poverty that is in the minds right now.
The mind right now in competition mode is full of survival mode, full of poverty. Everything seems to be scarce.
You see how the mind goes there. If you are always competing, you always think there is scarcity of something.
No, there isn't. It's just a made up idea. There is no scarcity. Earth has always been abundant, will always be.
That's because that's the way earth functions. This is not rocket science. You can go and just look up nature.
So why is collaborative environment more important? Because it's more heart centered. It's more accepting of one another.
It's more working with the difference rather than against the difference.
You are not trying to harmonize the whole human race into one type of thinking and working. Hardly.
You are constantly encouraging variety and yet you are not fighting against it. You are not fighting off one another.
There is nothing to be in conflict about. There is no need for always working in survival.
At all. It's just a created mode of living. And you, the children of new consciousness are going to create new collaborative environments,
new networks of people which is going to enhance collaboration, which is going to enhance creativity in every field of human knowledge and working.
How do we do that? Well, you got to embrace differences first. It's the basic rule. You can't fight the difference.
You are not trying to harmonize and make another individual think like you.
You work from the basic principle of life, of nature, of everything that every tree, every person, every individual is unique.
Just as everything in vegetation and plant world is unique. You are not trying to make the whole earth into growing just mango trees.
You are having a variety there. You have variety that is filled with richness and abundance in the earth.
Well, why don't we have that kind of a living in human society? It can and you will because that's where the heart centered focus comes.
Collaborative environments are full of heart centered energy. As in you do collaborations which is based on difference, which is based on doing different things.
Everybody is not manufacturing the same thing. We don't have five different manufacturers of cars. One manufacturer is good enough.
The other people want to do other things. See how it encourages more variety. It will encourage different types of work, different types of industries, different type of collaborative environments again.
This leads to more richness. It's like cultivating a forest which has got all kinds of trees, not one kind of tree.
The earth encourages richness. Children, you have to remember that once you understand this deeply that richness is appreciated.
Richness is the way nature works and grows and harbors and flowers, blooms. You will want to bring that concept somehow and those kinds of ideas into your work environments.
You can develop new systems, new systems using computers, new systems probably of governance, new systems of ways of enriching one another in variety.
Not going around proselytizing everything and trying to make everything into one. That will not work. We are not trying to make oneness in the way of functioning.
We are trying to encourage diversity, encourage variety even from one human to another. See how it becomes collaborative and heart centered.
You, the children of new consciousness have a heart centered focus. So this is where you should come from. You have a natural tendency of acceptance.
You have a natural tendency of encouraging one another rather than putting one another down and this has to carry on in your countries, between countries etc.
You can create new forms of collaboration that would create win-win situations. No loser there. There is no win-lose. There is only win-win situation.
You can encourage in any form of collaborative environment something that creates a win-win situation for every party involved.
That's what needs to be encouraged in this civilization in order to have more joy, more moving into sense of creativity and up the scale there rather than coming from a low end of the scale where humans are always fighting for survival.
We need to first get rid of the survival mode and take care of all the human beings where they have basic dignity of living.
Well above and beyond that what does a person need? Creativity, joy, expansion, all the six parts that we spoke of in the new human beings series.
So we need that creative spark but that creative spark is going to arise once you are working with a collaborative environment.
In a competitive environment you are pretty much doing the same things over and over again just to defeat the other person.
See how you can harbor conflict energy within a competitive environment. You don't want to go there. That's been played out over and over here and that's not needed.
Humans need not be fighting against other humans in any form of fashion even in daily work.
We need to be working more in diversity, encourage diversity but to encourage the diversity he is the catch and this is where you got to really catch it.
In race diversity you really need to create a win-win situation in every interaction with every human being and you got to first know and appreciate yourself as in who and what you are good at.
Every person is good at something or the other. You are not trying to make a frog sit suddenly want to fly or you are not wanting the shark to go and walk across the earth.
See we are trying to do very different things with people who are good for something else. Everybody is good for something else and that something else can be appreciated only if you know what your something else is.
What is your uniqueness? Where do you come from? Only if you are able to shine as an individual and you work from that space, from that heart centered space and mind centered space, you are powerfully creative and you are looking for the next best thing to create all the time.
That is what you got to then go and find it in others. That is how you create a win-win situation. The situation where everybody is just enhancing themselves beyond survival, beyond the need to be working under an axe or working under a threat all the time.
You can do this or else. I will take away your money, I will take away your job, I will take away your house and everything else. Right now the situation that has been created in the systems that we have, we call the civilization.
It is hardly that. We are hardly civilized bunch of humans with a higher consciousness but we are getting there slowly.
The destruction of the old systems, we will build new systems and this should be one of the basis of that which will make it far easier. This will make it far easier.
You are not trying to be in conflict with oneself all the time. When people are in conflict within themselves and conflict with one another and conflict with nature, that is what is going on.
You are constantly every day working as a means of conflict. You are constantly every day pulling out all your defense mechanisms. You go with the idea of defending yourself all the time rather than creating something all the time.
That is the difference between a collaborative and a competitive environment. In collaboration you are looking to, well how can I bring whatever talents I have, whatever abilities and ideas I am getting and sharing across the board.
To the workplace when I go and how can I enhance the other persons. I see that this other person or a colleague of mine has got a different set of ideas and he is good at that. He is very good at that.
You become someone who encourages this kind of work environment. Someone who encourages everyone. There is no sense of discouraging because truth is there is nothing to discourage.
The discourage energy comes from a person who is going around like a headless chicken not knowing who they are, not knowing who the other person is.
So it is a blind man leading another blind man. You don't want to get into that kind of situation do you? You want to get into a situation and an environment and develop them which is always encouraging of creativity.
You are moving up the scale. You can always move up the scale of human energy system where you are going beyond the animal kind of instincts.
Animals just have a survival instinct. Human beings are much more than that. If you want to really move into human kind of good living and good living standards, dignity of human living with compassion, love and all these higher aspects of human living.
You have to embrace this. You have to embrace a collaborative environment. That is how you work from that.
So I will leave you with this much for today. Think about it and embrace this. Try to develop systems around collaborative environments more and more. Try to create more and more win-win situations.
That will be the beginning of a heart-centered civilization, a really heart-centered civilization and one that works with nature, one that works with the earth.
Never forget the earth here. Right. Take care. Be safe and be awesome wherever you are.