Acceptance

     Acceptance is such an important commodity; some have called it “the first law of personal growth”. It is simply seeing something the way it is and saying “that’s the way it is”.

Acceptance is not approval,consent,permission, authorization, sanction,concurrence,agreement,compliance,sympathy,endorsement,confirmation,support,ratification,assistance, advocating,maintaining,encouraging,promoting,abetting or even liking what it is.

     Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction.We are not saying you can’t change the world, right with wrong or replace evil with good.Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action.

     If you don’t fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don’t fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed.

     When you accept, you relax; you let go; you become patient. That’s the true value of acceptance: you feel better about life, and about yourself. Everything we’ve said about acceptance applies to things you have done or failed to do as well.

     When you’re in a state of non-acceptance, it’s difficult to learn. A clenched fist cannot receive a gift, and a clenched psyche-grasped tightly against the reality of what must not be accepted-cannot easily received a lesson.

     Relax. Accept what do already taken place whether done by you or something outside of you. Then look for the lesson. You might not enjoy everything that happens in life, but you can enjoy the fact that no matter what happens, “there’s a lesson in here someplace”.