Acceptance is so tricky! Why would you want to accept the situation?
Why is it so hard to accept our circumstances??
Why is it so hard to accept how we feel about the way things are in our life?
Why is it so hard to accept physical pain?
You have probably heard about the power of acceptance and you want that power but not the acceptance.
Because it seems like acceptance implies that you like the way things are.
It seems like acceptance means being okay with the current circumstances for ever.
It seems like acceptance means you won’t get to change anything.
Perhaps you desperately want to change things – the circumstances, the way you feel, who is in your life, how much money you have, and fix your body! So why would you accept things as they are?
The power in acceptance lies in what opens inside you. Sound a bit mysterious?
Can you remember a time when you did accept a circumstance? Maybe you felt there was no choice and so you did. And what happened then? How did that feel? What did you notice?
Acceptance leads to relaxation – there is then no need to be anxious about the future, no need to fear what might happen, and no need to be stuck in those thoughts that go round and round.
As well as relaxation, acceptance allows the world of possibility to open, because you are not narrowing down what you want the change to be. Resisting narrows awareness and keeps your focus on the issue.
Acceptance allows you to be present, here, now. And there is something about being present that deepens and allows wisdom to arise.
Acceptance allows you to accept you – all of you - emotions, self-beliefs, mis-takes, what your body can and can’t do – and then you can expand.
Even the pain can subside when you are not resisting it and therefore tensing up with trying to make it go away.
And within all that acceptance, the wisdom that is arising from deep within, shows you the decisions and changes that can happen naturally. Like an impulse from inside you, not driven by fear or desire, but driven by love.
However, you can’t just decide in your mind to accept.......so that you can get the benefits.
There is something else – are you willing to be totally present with the emotions arising because of the situation? And whatever else has been hiding in your unconscious? Can you be honest with yourself?
It’s not for your mind to decide. It’s for your body and your being to decide. Are you willing?
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