I want to speak to you this week about acceptance and how it can help you move forward positively in your life and create a positive change. For me, because of the way that I grew up, I always felt like accepting something meant that I had put my seal of approval on it. This would make me very uncomfortable because I would feel like I was compromising myself and my integrity by accepting something. This train of thought was particularly accentuated when I felt that someone I loved had wronged or hurt me. I would have a hard time forgiving something or accepting something and it would, in turn, end up fueling my anger and resentment. It took me a long time to realize that acceptance meant something positive…. it meant freedom in most instances.
You see, to accept something, be it a situation or a relationship with a person, means firstly, that you are acknowledging the truth of the matter. The subject at hand is what it is, and while you can do things to try to change things... most well known improvement programs have a foundational tenet that the first step to forward progress is to accept what is.
I am a big proponent of this because I teach that if you are ready to create a shift in a cycle of negativity in your life and begin to create the life you desire for yourself, it is these tiny steps that will be your savior and your momentum towards positive shift. NOT trying to fight for something that you believe in or change things you don’t have control over… you know… the things that leave you continuously frustrated. Big shifts are created from small changes and in these small changes you create freedom. It’s cyclical so the next time you come upon a difficulty in life, realize the reality of the situation and don’t fight it or protest it, just look for the lesson in the challenge and think about the one thing that you can do to take a tiny step in a direction that leads towards the outcome you desire, without control and without trying to change anything, just doing what your highest and best self would do and watch the miracles that materialize from that space.
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