Work is a process of growth and a source of happiness.
What kind of worker are you?

Part 1 of 6 parts

Work Versus Slavery

Do you enjoy your work? Are you effective? Are you able to attune yourself to your work environment? Are you able to put your creative self into what you do or do you feel like a slave, who is selling his or her soul for money?

WE CANNOT AVOID WORK

Work is the basic activity of our incarnated lives on this planet Earth. We cannot avoid activity. It is our nature. Even if we are independently wealthy and do not need to earn money, or have retired after many years of hard labor, our physical nature does not allow us to remain idle. We feel the need to do something. Whatever we do, from building a home to drawing a design, from cooking a meal to solving a crossword puzzle, from running a business to taking care of children, from shopping for groceries to solving mathematical equations, from teaching to gardening, it can be done consciously, creatively and joyously or it can be done begrudgingly, mechanically and unhappily.

Any act can be performed as an expression of the creative divine potential within or it can be performed as a mechanical act that must be done because we need the money, because someone is obliging us to do it, or because we are bored and want to be occupied.

Our work can be an opportunity for growth, self-knowledge and emotional, mental and spiritual evolution, or it can be an unconscious repetition of automatic movements while our minds are focused elsewhere or nowhere at all. Work can be an offering of love or it can be something we do just in order to get it done, or because we fear being rejected if we do not do it. It can be also something we do in order to gain attention, affirmation and acceptance from the others. There is a great difference between doing something with love and doing it to gain love from others. Work can also be an opportunity to perfect our abilities or concentration and physical dexterity to create something that nears perfection. It can also be something we do as quickly as possible, giving no attention whatsoever to the quality of what we are doing.

A LOVE OFFERING OR SLAVERY

Work is the means through which the soul expresses its infinite divine potential here on the earth level.

Let us look at some of the traps that we fall into that prevent us from enjoying work to its highest potential. Some of us may fall into one "category" of worker, while others may fall into various categories. Also, the quality of our consciousness and work will depend on various external factors, such as the type of work we are doing, our coworkers, our own mood and our level of energy. Let us look at some of the types of workers and ways of working.

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Robert Elias Najemy is the author of over 600 articles, 400 lecture cassettes on Human Harmony and 20 books; sold over 100,000 copies. His book The Psychology of Happiness is available at Amazon. You can download FREE articles and e-books and get guidance at http://www.HolisticHarmony.com

About the Author

Robert Elias Najemy who is the author of 20 books which have sold over 100,000 copies. He is the founder and has been the director of the Center for Harmonious Living in Athens, Greece for the last 26 years. The center has a membership of 3000 clients and 600 students. He has lectured over 25,000 hours and has worked with around 20,000 persons through personal appointments, classes and seminars. He has produced over 500 cassettes and videocassettes with an abundance of information or human harmony. He is not a psychologist, nor a doctor but rather a chemical engineer who gave up his profession 35 years ago in order to study human nature and all aspects of human health, happiness, harmony and spiritual development. He has a certificate in Counseling from the Counseling & Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body (UK) and certificates as a practitioner of three forms of Energy Psychology; specifically Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), Tapas Acupuncture Techniques (TAT) and Thought Field Therapy (TFT). Robert has developed a six-year self-knowledge seminar which is taught at his school and has also been recorded on 200 acoustic and videocassettes and is thus available in other cities. He has trained more than 250 life coaches, 50 of whom now work with him in Athens, Greece and other affiliated centers around Greece and Cyprus. His site is www.HolisticHarmony.com