If you have a difficult situation or person in your life and you are fighting for what seems like your very survival, the above remark can seem like the very last thing you want or need to hear.
If you are in a situation where everything seems to be going wrong, you are resisting something or someone and frantically trying to change a situation or a person, the suggestion of “Accept it” can seem like the most back-to-front, illogical concept you have ever heard.
Actually, it can be the most powerful thing you can do.
What is Acceptance?
Acceptance is allowing a situation or person to be exactly as it is, without change or alteration. It is squarely facing a situation, however hard it may seem and then taking guided action, as appropriate.
You often cannot change a situation. Only rarely can you change other people and their behaviour. However, you can change yourself, how you choose to react and the decisions and actions that you take.
Why is Acceptance important?
As strange as it may sound, once you can accept that a situation is exactly perfect for this moment and you stop resisting it or trying to change it, you often feel a strong sense of peace.
Surprisingly, that is a very empowering place to be and decisions you take from there almost feel as if they are guided by a Higher Power.
Example of Acceptance
Earlier this year, we were struggling with money and every penny was spoken for before it came in. The family dog, a Rottweiler, developed a growth on his tail stump. It was really nasty and the more he licked it and fussed with it, the worse it got.
The Vet told us that it was going to cost over £200 (approx $300 USD) for an operation to remove this growth. This was £200 that we did not have and could not see any way of paying for it. We decided that we would wait and leave it, in the hope that either it would get better on its own or that the money would come in from somewhere and we could use it for the dog before it got swallowed up on paying for something else.
One weekend, this growth had turned really nasty and it smelt horrible. The dog was licking it at constantly and it left a horrible stain on the furniture and the carpet, everywhere he went.
Out of sheer desperation, I turned to the Acceptance Meditation to try and find some calm, peace and perhaps some clarity as to what I could do in this situation.
During the Meditation I came to a place of accepting that the situation was exactly perfect as it was right then, it was exactly as it was meant to be and that the Universe would take care of it with no further effort from me.
I came to a place of peace and being able to accept the facts of the situation - the dog had a huge, smelly growth on his tail stump and that I had no money to pay for surgery for him.
I did the Acceptance Meditation on a Sunday evening. As I was doing it, I felt a very strong intuitive prompt that I should phone the Vet the following morning and book the dog in to have the growth removed. I then got a second prompt to go to the bank and ask for the money to pay for it. That second suggestion caused me to break into laughter, as I really could not see how, in a million years, any bank was gong to lend me any money!
However I followed the prompts. The appointment for the operation for the dog was set for the Wednesday of that week and the bank gave me the money I needed!!
On the Tuesday morning I put the dog out in the garden because he was licking and biting at this growth on his tail stump. When I next went outside and looked at the dog, the growth was gone!
It appeared that he had taken matters into his own teeth and had ripped off this growth and eaten it! All that was left was a little red spot. All it cost us then was about £30 (approx $50) for an appointment at the Vet and some cream for the place where the growth had been.
When I handed the matter over to the Universe to take care of, I could never have envisaged the way it would get handled!
Audio Interview
I talked to my good friend Ken MacLean about the Acceptance process and how it has worked for us in our lives on the Interview With Spirit Radio show.
You can listen to this interview by pressing the Play Button on the player below.
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