Acceptance

Have you already found yourself in a situation where you have directed your energy towards resisting circumstances you had no control over?

Acceptance is not about resignation or tolerating a situation that is unhealthy.

It is the ability to accept situations that are outside of your control without judging them, so they create less suffering. It is about ‘being with’ the situation, acknowledging our emotions honestly, and not ‘arguing with reality’. Valuing people as they are is another key part of acceptance – key in leardership.

Practicing acceptance means acknowledging reality and our (often contradictory) emotions honestly, without denying them or pushing them away.

Only when we understand what—and where—we are resisting, accept that this is the situation we are in, and be aware of how it makes us feel, can we begin to release tension, deepen our understanding of how our thoughts and mindsets limit us, and become more open, flexible, and able to seize opportunities.

Your self-coaching questions this week:

❧ Where in your life are you resisting what is?

❧ How is that resistance affecting your energy or peace?

❧ What parts of yourself are you judging instead of accepting with compassion?

❧ How would this situation feel if you stopped trying to fix it?

❧ What becomes possible when you release the need for things or people to be different in this situation?

❧ What in nature models acceptance for me in this moment?