Acceptance is the act of letting a person or situation be.   Although acceptance it implies allowing, it is still an active state of consciousness.  By allowing, I am not suggesting that in accepting, that we enable inappropriate behavior,  Rather, I am  suggesting acceptance in terms of being in a state of non-resistance.

            In the space of acceptance, creativity can be born.  New ideas come to life and energy within and with other shifts into peace with acceptance. Sometimes we may feel, “shouldn’t be that way.”  Why shouldn’t it?  Why not accept a person or situation the way it is?  Acceptance implies being at peace with all things as they are put into order with divine purpose.  There is a universal intelligence which puts all things into perfect order now.  How else can you explain your reading this column at this very moment, right when you are ready to receive it.

        To explore what acceptance really means,  it is important to examine the opposite of acceptance, which is 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 the 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.

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