LIFE – Let It Flow Easy!!
If finding happiness is the purpose of life as said by many wise Masters, then happiness cannot be experienced without having a complete engagement with life. So what possibly would make one say that one is engaged with life?
A lot of Organization’s have started paying attention to Employee Engagement and there are surveys conducted to understand that and accordingly take actions to have better scores, better engagement. Employee engagement is a concept in the effort to understand and describe, both qualitatively and quantitatively, the nature of relationship between an organization and its employees. Based on the survey, employees can be classified as “Actively engaged“, “actively disengaged” or “not engaged“.
An “actively engaged employee” is defined as one who is fully absorbed and enthusiastic about their work and so takes positive action to further the organization’s reputation and interests. Actively engaged employee has a positive attitude towards the organization and its values. Mostly that’s because the organization’s values and the employees values are mostly aligned. They work with full passion and are emotionally attached to the organization. They are innovative and provide ideas and perform consistently to move the organization forward, in a way that they personalize the company goals and objectives and always work above and beyond their job requirements for the betterment of the organization.
An “actively disengaged employee” on the other hand ranges between someone doing the bare minimum work up to an employee who is actively damaging the company’s work output and reputation. They are unhappy, resentful, always complaining and spread negativity within the organization.
A “not engaged employee” is someone who does put in their time, but not their passion or energy into their work, they are not fully invested. They only do what is asked of them,. They do not hold either a negative or a positive attitude towards the organization. They consider their job a pay check and nothing more.
So in the context of life the question is what is our level of engagement with life? Are we actively engaged with our life? Which basically means that there is a sense of passion, love for the experiences that one is creating. Actively engaged people are excited about life, feel a sense of gratitude when they wake up in the morning, they wake up with a smile on their face. They have a general sense of excitement even if it involves doing mundane, routine things, have a positive energy throughout the day. However, if you are someone who regularly has Monday blues, or waits for the week to finish so that you could be happy during the weekend, if you are generally struggling to wake up in the morning, if you are someone who is taking life for granted, if your general view is that its all pointless in any case, then you are not actively engaged with life. Rather you are someone who is actively disengaged with life. Actively disengaged people are people who go through the motions of life because time has to be spent. They keep themselves busy because they are afraid to spent time alone, or they get bored very easily. They are usually unhappy resentful people who are always complaining, judging and attribute everything and everyone external for their cause of unhappiness. They have the victim mindset.
Not engaged people are people who are busy ticking the boxes because that’s what they are conditioned to do. they usually have a closed mind and a have strong sense of what is right or wrong. Not engaged people usually have a long to do list and they are busy ticking off that off and define their accomplishment based on the boxes ticked. If you are someone who is just going through the motions of life, ticking off the boxes on the to-do list, doing things because that’s the right thing to do, then you are someone who is not engaged with life.
From an energy perspective, we tend to fluctuate between the three levels of engagement depending on the task at hand. And that level of engagement eventually determines whether we are happy or sad, excited or not. Basically, our happiness quotient is then directly linked to our engagement with life itself. It is not dependent on anything external but largely on our energy, on our vibration – high or Low.
Active engagement means having the ability/ sense for total acceptance for whatever unfolds, for whatever we create, we know that we are doing as Masters of our lives. Having a sense of equanimity, detachment to the never ending pattern of changes. Someone who has the ability to live life with palms open face up – as the Masters say, who doesn’t grasp but feels gratitude for everything ( good or bad) that shows up and blesses everything that goes . Some one who knows that we are all playing the game called life, and just like how excited are we to play all other games, knowing very well that it will come to an end at some point, we put our heart and soul into it.
When we are actively engaged with life, we are able to spread love and experience the Godliness within us.
So what is your level of Engagement with life?