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Please stand.
By Frank Gjata
Founder, Conscious Ink
There are few things more powerful than the simple act of standing.
Gandhi stood for peace. Martin Luther King Jr. stood for equality. Mother Teresa stood for compassion. Hardly pushovers.
So what makes this standing so powerful?
When we stand for something, we have an unwavering commitment toward it. It’s clear and definitive. There’s no wasted energy thinking and rethinking, deciding and un-deciding, hemming then hawing. So those who stand for something enjoy super-concentrated energy.
And that’s just the beginning.
Since the entire universe loves clarity, it naturally and bountifully supports it. For example, a tree is definitive in being a tree. The universe abides by the tree’s decision and thus fully supports the tree by supplying everything it needs – sun and water, etc. The same holds true with us. When we stand for something AUTHENTIC within us, we will be supported by the ENTIRE UNIVERSE. Yeah, baby, yeah … now we’re talking!
Let’s take a look at how it works the other way around. Until we make a conscious commitment to stand for something, we stand for nothing. And when we stand for nothing, we’re lost in no man’s land. And in no man’s land, we can eat up a lot of energy quickly … perhaps by standing then sitting repeatedly, or standing until someone tells us to sit, or standing until someone sees us standing, so we quickly sit in fear of judgment.
What a mess.
No worries though. It’s a simple fix. First, get in touch with something that’s AUTHENTIC within the “real you” – your essence. Then make a conscious decision to stand for it.
Simple as that.
Now, here’s the trick: Make this decision when there’s NO PRESSURE to make this decision. Don’t wait for a set of circumstances to come up before you decide what you stand for! For example, if your essence likes the idea of integrity, make a decision right then and there that you stand for integrity. So then when a situation arises that might compromise your integrity, you automatically and effortlessly say no.
No questions asked. No energy leak. The decision has ALREADY been made. If, let’s say, certain circumstances arise before you’ve decided to stand for integrity, you may unconsciously get caught up in a particular story, rationalizing this or that, and ultimately make a incongruent decision.
The standing must come first.
One last thing … sometimes, before we can stand for something authentic, we must surrender something false, which may first require us to … fall to our knees.
Frank Gjata
Founder, Conscious Ink
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