Why Be For Rather Than Against Things?
Photo by Marija Zaric on UnsplashYou’re bombarded every day with messages that tell you to take a stand against this, in opposition to that, and so on. It’s as if there’s an endless loop of things to take a stand against.
While on the surface this seems like a good way to resist awful things happening in the world, its depths tell a very different story. That’s because consciousness creates reality.
This is not some hooky-spooky, new-agey idealism. This is a law of nature. The Law of Attraction, where like attracts like, has been shown time and again to be a functional Law of the Universe.
You’ve experienced it without knowing that’s what it was. When you went to do a thing with a heavy heart, expecting it to suck, anticipating it being a miserable experience, and then it was? That’s the Law of Attraction in action.
Carl Jung offers a psychological observation that’s more grounded but says the same thing:
“What you resist, persists.”
When you stand against something, you are telling the neutral Universal forces of conscious reality creation that’s what you desire to create more of.
Before you dismiss this as some bullshit flight of fancy, please allow me to elaborate on why being for rather than against things is a channel for greater self-sovereignty and empowerment.
Controlling what you can controlWhen you look at the big picture world around you, it’s easy to feel uncertain, lost, scared, confused, and generally out of control. And that’s because, truthfully, you have no control. There is nothing you or I can do about Trump and his sycophantic supporters in Congress, the Israel/Palestine madness, Russia’s war in Ukraine, or anything of that nature.
Yes, you can vote, boycott, attend protests, write scathing emails and blogs, and discuss it with everyone you meet. But that’s about it. You control nothing on that level.
What you do control is yourself. Ultimately, this is about your inner being, your mindset/headspace/psyche self. That comes down to being actively, consciously aware of your thoughts, feelings, intentions, positivity or negativity of approach, and actions. Apart from choosing and deciding who, what, where, how, and why you are, that’s where your control exists.
This is not so limiting as it might appear. You are empowered to choose to be for things that can improve your life. Improving your life can be a beacon that others might use to improve their life.
This is where being for rather than against things becomes important.
Photo by Pete Pedroza on UnsplashWhy be for rather than against?When you feel negative, whatever form that takes, it’s incredibly easy to find and/or create more negativity. Depression, for example, is often a mix of sadness, fear, uncertainty, anger, concern, disillusionment, and more. All of which are negative thoughts and feelings.
Conscious reality creation is not necessarily creation of the tangible. This is often applied to the intangible. Hence, if you are against something, you might find yourself getting more and more things to be against.
Standing against something can be cathartic. But there’s a problem inherent in it. That problem is what to replace it with.
A perfect example of this is the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). Those who stand against it have never offered a replacement for it. They simply take a stand against it without offering anything in its place. They are for nothing.
When you stand for, rather than against, you are creating. Be for peace instead of against war. You can be for reason over being against fear. Be for kindness rather than against cruelty.
Enter conscious reality creation. Being for something is a creative force. Standing against something is destructive. Creating empowers while destroying disempowers.
It might feel like an insignificant idea, but nothing big started big. It all begins with small ideas.
Be for to empower yourselfToo many of those outside forces in the big picture want you and me disempowered. That way, they believe, they can control and manipulate us.
It works, too. Many people, beaten down enough times or bombarded by rhetoric without analysis, give in. They allow themselves to be manipulated, often because nobody, from teachers to parents to other authority figures, teaches anyone active conscious awareness.
You have more power than you would believe. It starts by being mindful – actively, consciously aware – and making choices and decisions for yourself. Even minor, seemingly unimportant choices like pausing to make your bed and eating breakfast rather than skipping it can impact you mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.
Every act of mindfulness is empowering. Choosing and deciding to be for, rather than against, is a flexing of that muscle. In an increasingly fear-based society, we need every empowered individual we can get to be for reason and kindness rather than against unreason/fear and cruelty.
Nobody can do this for you. Empowerment comes from within. You activate it via active, conscious, mindful choices and decisions. When you choose to be for things rather than against them, you’re choosing a creative tool and empowerment.
In this way, you choose the reality you consciously desire to create.
Can you see that being for rather than against helps conscious reality creation build greater resources for empowerment for everyone?
This is the seventh-hundred-seventeenth (717) exploration of my Pathwalking philosophy. These weekly essays are my ideas for – and experiences with – applying mindfulness and positivity to walk along a chosen path of life to consciously create reality.
I share this journey as part of my desire to make a difference in this world and empower as many people as I can with conscious reality creation.
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The first year of Pathwalking, including expanded ideas, is available here. Check out my author website for the rest of my published fiction and nonfiction works.
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