Claude, 11. September 2016, 21:52 Uhr
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In their popular book Freakonomics, two economists discover that unwanted children are significantly way more prone to become drug addicts, criminals or drop outs. Being wanted seems to be a cornerstone of life. Sociologists claim that it takes at the least three generations to get a war out of the family system. Both my parents have been in a war. They met because of the war, when my father had to flee his home and hid in the farmhouse of my mother’s parents. I have been born, because of a war that doomed so many others. Many of my own family members have fleeing or hiding in the war, some were killed. This has influenced my life in many ways. In my family was a lot of fear. As I small child I was not aware of this. And being a bit more fearful kid than most, I was easy to bully at times. At the same time, because many of my family had been in the resistance, there was a tradition of standing up for believes. And born after the war, I was really wanted. So despite being teased I stayed on my course, one could say stubborn and recalcitrant. Thus two strong traits of my personality were formed even before I was born.
Humans are fragile. Our personality needs little to be dented for life.
Framing what helps and what doesn’t
All of us, long to be seen, acknowledged and cared for on soul level. We love to be and feel alive and present and of meaning in the world or at the least within our circles. And we love to see those around us in the same state. We care for them.
Within our families or among our social circles we then do take care for each other. We push shy people to open up. We push lazy people to act. We silence the ones that are not sensitive enough to someone elses feelings, etc. We want each other to open up and flourish.
We attack that which blocks people to get ahead. We see how friends and family handicap themselves with self hindering convictions, behavior. And in order to liberate them, we attack this shell. Thus we attack each other’s personality shell, because we feel it’s in the way of true contact or true unfolding. And, and this is essential, when we attack someone’s shell, because it is in the way, the attacked person will strengthen the shell more, in order to protect the core.
Scars limit the amount of option we think we have.
The self considers each attack on attitude and behavior as attack against the soul. This mix up seems to be essential to most humans. While we think we help, we damage. Often because we have been damaged ourselves. Thus we push, shout, enforce, beat and punish each other farther away from becoming a whole person. My father wanted me to be strong and get a good job. Since school was not my forte, he pushed, shouted, and became openly disappointed, all in the lost hope I would form myself to his idea of a capable personality. And I withdrew myself from him. My core considered itself under siege.
I started to become my best self, only after I started to discover my own path regardless of expectations of others. That is why many penalties, or even pressure towards demanded results, don’t work. That is why criminals come out of prison even more angry and scarred (literally often too with lots of tattoos), why soldiers come back damaged, why beating a child in order to raise it, has little to no effect.
Poverty, neglect and isolation scar.
Poverty scars. Prejudice scars. Torture scars. Isolation and neglect scars. Pressure, bad food, punishments, enforced rules and insults may scar badly. Too high expectations and too low expectations, in fact all expectations that do not reflect the longing of the soul may scar. And too scarred people or those fighting it we tend to avoid. They must be crazy. Thus we may become blind to a important fact: Our unique self is rarely what others want us to be.
The scarring though is what we know. Like a eye surgeon scarring the eye, so that thickness of the scar will form the right lens, we scar people to become something we think is best. Whole societies have made it an art of scarring people in a way that support that society as it is. We have many convictions about consciously damaging each other in order to help each other to become adapted to our environment. Think about breaking in recruits, gang members or new students, growing up rituals and even growing up at school; they all scar. Our school systems scars you to fit our society. But is the result the best possible option for both child and society?
So when we attack another person we never attack their true soul. We attack the outer shell we think is in the way to real contact. And even when we attack purposefully to damage someone, we strengthen the personality we hate. We see this in many violent conflicts. An attack provokes more than anything a contra force. And those that pass this point, like torturers who break spirits under torture, they will have scarred themselves for life as well. Something often has died within them too. We are fragile. Damaging others is damaging ourselves.
Race, gender, sexuality, status, figure, personality, attitude, ideas, living conditions, etc. are all part of the outer shell. So hate or misunderstandings between differences are all about shell. Shells can be so different we don’t even recognize the (same) soul in the other anymore. Thus enduring animosity between families, nations and all kinds of groups can arise. Shells can be so damaged that the individual has lost the capability to be in touch with his own core and or reach out to beyond someone else’s shell.
Fighting others thus creates more misery for the self as well. And fighting the damages also doesn’t help. And when people get damaged, they often get more dysfunctional. Racism, crime, self destruction, depression etc are often also the result of personal or group damage. Even overcoming damage, especially damage done to us by purpose will very likely leave scars too. People with many scars, can become disfigured personalities.
Attacking, forcing, pushing, or helping for that matter, the shell never helps the soul to grow. We even damage more. Force scars the personality and builds a thicker shell. Force never heals the soul. Never. This awareness is essential if we truly want to make a difference.
So: when we attack bad traits we enforce the shell. Then why do we do this? How can we stop ourselves? How can we heal each other and society?
Being damaged is different from being hurt. Hurt is natural. Accidents and injuries happen. Parents die. Friends and partners leave. We can overcome hurt. We can overcome setbacks. We can take on and overcome challenges and difficulties. We are build for that. We should not avoid it.
The core of human longing is connectedness. Being connected to the whole, to nature, to each other, to food, shelter and safety. When we lack access to any of these, we suffer. We will seek out connection, by asking if we can, by force if we feel we have to. If we are damaged we may use force, where none is needed. We may damage others and push away what we want, thinking it is our only option to bring it closer. Think of people who steal stuff in order to become members of the haves, and instead end up in prison or being despised. People blame others for what they don’t have/are. The blaming damages the blamers as much as it hurts the blamed. Racism isolates people. Once again this is all a sign of a cycle of damage repeating itself.
The Key to Overcome the Patterns of Damage
Now some of you may swear this is not always so. Some people seem to respond very well on pressure, they surpass themselves after being hurt. They overcome huge obstacles, that damage many others. It is true, we cannot tell how an individual will respond. Still a majority that gets damaged, will not heal themselves nor transform into a enlightened being. It might even be that people that reach amazing results after being through hell, are mostly overcompensating.
We may not like it, but many high achievers are using hard work, riches and status to prove their worth to parents who seemed only to like their core being, when it got rich. This while their parents hoped to protect or even boost the core by building character or preparing the child for a world full of dangers and challenges. Once again the big mix up between core and shell or trauma body. Have an insatiable drive to keep on setting things right is often just another face of misbalance.
And our parents tried so hard to do well. They wanted to save our souls, by being too nice, too pushy, too strict, too laisser fair. Unaware of the damage they were providing, they hoped to build a personality that would be a worthy vessel for the soul. They wanted to see us shine, and had ideas how to get there. And they failed. Almost always. They mostly scar us to best fit our society; as precise as the eye surgeon. And popular successful people are grateful of their family scars. Oh wonder. They worked! Whether you’re grateful or not of your scars; it’s part of being human.
So what is the key to making a difference if everything parents ever tried created its own kind of scar? What could be better to educate that adapting people to their society by imprinting social expectations?
Real strong man dare to be weak or even silly.

The key is not preparing towards our own expectations, but connecting to the soul as much as we can. Being there when there are pains, setbacks, disasters. Life will provide those challenges. When we believe someone’s personality is holding back and more is possible, we should not push, pull or force. We should invite the soul, speak to the essence. Believe in it. And we should stay open to the facts that we might be mistaken. And most of all, we should live, speak and act from our soul, seeking to be in touch with that of others. True strong men are not strong because of muscle or power, they are strong because of the amount of vulnerability they are willing to take on, their willingness to open their inner doors to others.
And this is scary, very scary. We all know those cases where we want the other to open up first. This is often the big fight in relationships. Luckily most of us also know some shining golden people, that are our examples. Mostly we think they got where they are because of fame, power, capabilities, we haven’t got. We should seriously consider that people may become famous, rich and powerful, for two reasons. The first is the damaged way. Single minded purposefulness towards a goal. This is a damaged way. We confuse single mindedness often for strength. I call it mostly madness. Normal people dare to doubt, think and consider before they act. The scarred people don’t. They tell the whole world their lack of feeling is actually leadership and decision making. And the sensitive people become insecure because they compare themselves to the mad people. That is the madness.
The second way is the way of the heart. Then we achieve deep desires, like connectedness, by opening up. By willingly taking risks, daring to be hurt (the normal hurt of setbacks and failures) and listening to inner guidance. Many famous actors are known for their vulnerability and willingness to learn and cooperate. A leader like Nelson Mandela is not for nothing such a bright example in politics. His integrity is way above the rest. Why then do most politicians stick to strategy and interests? Integrity and soul do shine, where strategies often just disillusion more people from politics. People may not exactly know what happens, but they feel something is off, even when the spin doctored story seems so correct.
Help those People that Shine
In my own vicinity I know a few people who radiate health of being. These are the people, when they call I would immediately leave things behind for. These are vulnerable people, that shine innocence. It’s like when a father puts a child on a train and asks other passengers to keep an eye on it, until the mother at another train station picks it up. I always immediately see others appoint themselves as guardian. I do it too. We want to keep the child safe and undamaged. I would say this happens in a healthy society. It takes a village to raise a child. We are all that village.
Happiness and laughter shine!
These shining people are the people we often want to keep happy, so that their light shines on. Many of us seem to help them as they would help the child in the train. And by helping them we are helping our own heart and hope. Through helping them we are helping society, we are growing and securing happiness. At the least I do, because I feel, that as long as they have not been damaged, there is hope. I think they are our real teachers and examples. They are the shining souls that heal us, whether they know it or not.
And I feel that I am healed more when I help them. When I help them I uplift myself. There is no pressure, no hidden agenda, but keeping the heart alive within them and in myself, so that I too may radiate to others.
When I focus on helping others who have trouble I often feel I make them weaker. Helping them is saying, you have a problem, that I have not, and you will not be good, until you have solved it. This kind of help is damaging too. It does rarely uplift. Many psychologists do little more than (re)socializing the personality, or the shell. Schools do it too. Because we all systematically confuse the building of personality and the capability to achieve with a healthy soul. The personality is at best the servant of the soul, the carrier of the inner being. Capability that voices the soul, is so much more alive, more contributing than a socialized person, committed to tasks and targets.
The golden people I know do more good, have more influence and make a bigger difference than many professionals, civil servants working on routine, following protocol or pushing, pulling, things around to get things according to a plan.
So here are some basic principles that come, for me, out of these observations:
Work, act, speak from your soul.
Speak to the essence or soul of people
Support innocence and shining people
Dare to be vulnerable.
Be open, curious and listen to what is needed
Offer what you can, ask for what you need
Never take attack personal, regard it as help
Play. It’s all madness anyway.
Notes
1) There may be some people who are either so damaged, they are not in touch with this longing or so hungry that they have other more urgent needs. Think of Maslovs model.
2) Schools scar. Children bully each other, teachers bully or discipline in a hurtful way. And the system itself scars. Testing demands deadening feeling to be rational. Testing with right and wrong answers means many people always think something is expected from them and never really learn to make their own choices or develop their own answers. Focus on knowledge means personal wisdom and social attitude are too often not well developed in many children. Etc. Etc.
3) Sadly many think, real contact is only possible if you are like me. If you have the same race, believe, age, class or just meet my standards. That is all shell or ego.
