Acceptance

Acceptance: The act of letting a person or situation is, or letting it be. . (Julie’s definition)    Acceptance, though it implies “allowing”, is still an active state.  By allowing, I’m not suggesting that we enable inappropriate behavior.  I’m simply suggesting acceptance in terms of being in a conscious state of non-resistance.  The intention of this article is to outline acceptance as one of the modalities of awakened living, and how it applies to our everyday lives.

In the space of Acceptance, creativity can be born.  New ideas come to life and energy within and with other shifts into peace.  We drop the resistance to a person or a situation, that we may feel, “shouldn’t be that way.”  Why shouldn’t it?  Why not accept a person or situation the way it is?

To explore what acceptance really means, let’s examine the opposite of acceptance, resistance.

Have you ever been in a situation and thought, “This is not happening to me?”  But it clearly is happening?  The voice, “this isn’t happening…” is your ego’s resistance to what it happening in the now.

When we have inner-resistance to a person or situation, we ultimately are creating suffering for ourselves and others. By resistance, we are actually building more of the behavior that we don’t like.  By allowing the “other” to be the way that they are, a shift occurs in the energy vibration and the “other” will change naturally.  This also changes the frequency of the energy between people, thus allowing for a more peaceful co-existence.

Acceptance is vital.  One way to assist you with acceptance is to try to find something about the situation or person that you can be grateful for.  Gratitude can also help you to ATTRACT more of the qualities that you do appreciate.  Also, by being grateful, you may find that you are becoming more joyful.  Acceptance, Enjoyment and Gratitude, these modalities will help serve to inspire your life.  Be grateful for your life, even the stuff you don’t understand right now.  And if you cannot, at least being in a state of acceptance will allow you to have inner and outer peace. 

Love, Julie