Sun-Moon

Acceptance February 21, 2010

So often we move through life looking outward for our perspective, for meaning  and for our answers. How remarkable one moment can be when you are present  enough for your focus to go inside. Here is where acceptance starts. Not in your thoughts or ego assessments, not in the hurry of assigning more meaning to one thing over another, not in avoiding through addictive behavior or through feeding on your conditioning.

True acceptance is very simple, clean, revealing, clearing, refreshing, calming and starts inside. All it takes is accepting everything just as it is. Giving life its space in our dream we are experiencing. Breathing space around your conditioned moments, finding where inside of you that these conditioned moments attach and then breathing space around what you are feeling/thinking. Relaxing and letting go of how you should proceed and let the answers that you innately have express themselves.

Test it out. Next time you feel: angry, withdrawn, grasping at something, entitled pride, withholding love, fear, less than, overwhelmed; stop and breathe, close your eyes, find the spot within you that is tight and hanging on and breathe space around that spot/space.

It may take a few tries to calm yourself enough to feel the shift. If you give it a go and give yourself permission to become aware of when you shift into a self made experience, you will catch yourself and create opportunity to heal and be accepting.

We need to accept ourselves and heal ourselves in order to accept what is outside of us, just as it is.

Peace and Light.