What are you accepting in your life?
Huh? What in the world, am I asking? Sure, I admit this is a vague open-ended question. I assure you it has a very simple yet complex answer. Well, at least that is my expectation.
Acceptance is the ability to find safety and comfort to be who we are in the world.
We spoke last time about resistance being the doorway to action . We cannot step into the doorway and begin breaking down our barriers of resistance without accepting situations and ourselves, as they are, nothing more, nothing less.
When we accept, we exercise patience, compassion, and generosity. We are more curious about the world we live and present with who we truly are. We naturally establish and maintain healthy personal boundaries. We allow people and situations to come and go without disrupting our overall happiness and flow in the world.
Theoretically, this all makes sense and seems relatively easy to understand, so why is it so hard to accomplish?
Humans have this thing called expectations we carry around with us. They affect the outcome of everything we observe and experience. Expectations are entrenched in stories we tell ourselves. They are mental debris that weight us down and suck the energy and focus from what we want.
Have you ever noticed how your expectations leave a sour taste in our mouth when things do not go as you planned? How much excess weight are you unnecessarily carrying around with you?
The world does not care about your expectations, or mine.
The only expectations we can try to satisfy is our own. Yet, we routinely place our unspoken expectations on people and situations. We are unknowingly sacrificing our own happiness.
We can learn to let go of our expectations and allow life to unfold. We alone are responsible for our lives. We can learn to allow. We can remove our judgment, expectations, and conditions of satisfaction from our experience. We can remove the burden of expectations we carry around with us. We can learn to experience people and situations from a first timer’s point of view.
We can unconditionally accept people, situations, and ourselves from who we are.
Think it is impossible, what is stopping you from trying to be more unconditionally accepting?
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