Competition Part One, the Question: Is it healthy?

Who are you in competition with? Your job? The people on the yoga mat next to you? Your diet? Yourself? Do you even know whether or not you’re in competition? Perhaps you don’t. We are trained to look at competition as something we just do, so much so that we unconsciously act from it quite often. It is such a part of our society that athletes are paid millions of dollars per year to feed the massive need for competition. Sure, a lot of other things come with competition. Like heartfelt emotion. I was watching the USA play in the World Cup and starting crying anytime someone scored a goal from the sheer vibration of the crowd. Heroes, role models and goals are also often born out of competition. So the question becomes, is competition healthy?