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What Do You Stand For Rather Than Stand Against?
What you choose and how you choose it matters.
When taking a stand, it’s important to be for rather than against.
Why does that matter? Because when you are for a thing, you are proactive and working on action. When you are against a thing, you are reactive, and usually working with inaction.
Carl Jung said, “What you resist not only persists, but will grow in size.” Consciousness creates reality. Because of this truth, when you stand against a thing, since that is where all of your focus is going, you’ll tend to make that thing get worse.
This is why it’s important to give more focus and energy to what you are for rather than against. When your energy is for something positive, you can build upon it. This empowers you to effect change.
What if there is nothing to be for? The simple answer is that there is ALWAYS something to be for. While I will always maintain that we live in a world of greys and colors between black and white, the extremes DO exist. Order/Chaos, Good/Evil, Light/Dark, Hot/Cold and so on. As such, if there is something for you to stand against, there is also something for you to stand for.
I know that sometimes it’s hard to see just what the thing to stand for is. This can apply to the…
