The Creative and the Competitive

By: Peter Boyd
Submitted: 2007-01-17 16:40:21
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Most of us are aware and operate in a competitive way of thinking. This way of thought is also the way that most of us were and still are taught. Examples are ‘the dog-eat-dog,’ thinking in the business world. If you do not get in there and get then some will beat you, there is not enough to go round, everything is finite. This is a struggle way of being and doing things. This is not to say that everyone in the world operates this way. There are many who work in a cooperative fashion.

This different way of thinking is exemplified in several by several different authors that I know of. One of these is Dr David R Hawkin in his Power vs. Force. This author had some quite remarkable experiences as a child and also in his youth. These experiences were of an altered state nature and may have been the catalyst for him to think outside the square.

Hawkin did a lot of research using a method of individual testing with a technique called kinesiology. If you have ever been to a chiropractor it is odds on that they used this method to find out which vertebrae were out of alignment. This research looked at the way that people reacted to different attitudes, emotions and words and set the response to a logarithmic scale of 0 to around 1000. Anger and fear come very low on the scale and the altruism of someone like Mother Teresa is way, way up.

In the book, Power is defined as a person coming from a base of creativity and wholeness. Whereas force is coming from a level of fear, anger and dog eat dog mentality. The use of the former comes up very high on the logarithmic scale. The latter of course is quite low.

With the use of power, not power over, power to be comes trust, a purpose larger than oneself, a sense that we are all on the one playing area and if I do some misdeed to you then this will bounce back upon me in some way.

Some find this a challenge to read, having a training in kinesiology I found it exciting and could not put it down.

Now further evidence of this creative way of operating from an author of 1910 by the name of Wallace D Wattles. His book, The Science of Getting Rich asserts much the same as Power vs. Force. Wallace states that if you operate in a competitive way then you are setting your self up for struggle. He is not saying that if you take the creative path that you will not have to work. What he is saying that if you work in the inner way and align yourself in this way be having a clear mental image of what you desire then this will indeed work very much for you. He suggest that we need to ‘think in a certain way,’ and by going this ‘certain way’ the path is made for us and many things will just seemingly fall into place.

There is more evidence to substantiate the opinion of the above two authors from many mystics as well as from the biblical quote via James Allen in his, ‘As a Man Thinketh.’ ‘As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be.’ My take on this is that it means that the same as the dictum, ‘as above, so below;’ that our outer world is a reflection of our inner world.

So, watch what you think about for surely it may come about. Have fun.

You may view more connections with the power of creation at Peter Boyd's sites at http://www.nowpathways.com and http://www.choicesforwealth.net/anti-aging. Peter has long sought and looked at different ways of thinking and being outside the usual.

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