Why Acceptance is the Answer to ALL your Problems

Acceptance- Sounds very simple, doesn’t it? However, it is the single hardest thing for most people to master throughout their lives. Why is that?

Acceptance is as straightforward as letting what is, be. It might sound effortless, but for whatever reason, people resist with all their might.

We fight for control and grapple with understanding. When things do not go how we imagined them to, we kill ourselves trying to create a different outcome or torture our brains with the thought of, “why is this happening?”

Our lives are a series of sporadic events. We are the captain of our ship, and we hold the power to conduct it where we wish to go. However, we cannot control the tides, storms, and conditions in which we sail. It is within those unpredictable conditions that we must master the art of acceptance and perseverance.

Before you learn to accept things for what they are and not what you thought they should be, you must first accept yourself.

Some of us never get passed this point. We look in the mirror and pick ourselves apart. We utilize things like surgery, make-up, and filters to mold us into what we think we need to be. We find people in our lives who inspire us, but we then end up trying to mimic their lifestyle and uniqueness because we don’t think our brilliance is interesting or successful enough to share with the world.

Society may have categorized what the term “attractive” means. It might have even brainwashed you into believing that it is showcased as a specific type of man or woman. When in reality the word “attractive” is defined as, “pleasing or appealing to the senses.” Seeing as that is different for every single person on this planet, you can’t possibly restrict it as a single “type” of beauty. We are all attractive in our ways.

I’m sure you have heard the expression, “It’s not what’s on the outside, but what’s on the inside that counts.” Many of us tend to roll our eyes when we hear this expression, but the truth is we all can be “pleasing to the senses.” It’s called your energy and it’s scientifically proven to be the vibrations we give off to those around us.

If you remain unhappy with yourself and how you look, you will release a very low vibrational energy, whereas if you authentically love who you are and embrace the differences you possess compared to others, you will naturally give off an inviting and powerfully positive energy. This in turn attracts people to you without any effort.

Beware! This will also attract many low vibrational people to you as well because those who are unhappy with themselves tend to try and bring others down to their level of misery- misery loves company. You will continue to prosper when you accept those people for how they are without allowing them to deconstruct your self-image. You don’t need to ask yourself why they are trying to hurt you or what you might need to do to change their image of you. You must understand that their opinions of you are because they lack positive opinions of themselves. When we begin to realize that the nastiness of a bully has nothing to do with US personally, we hold the power to remain untouched by their negativity. We have now practiced the art of acceptance.

After you learn to accept yourself for how you look, you must accept and forgive yourself and anyone who has wronged you in the past. We ALL make mistakes. We ALL have bad things happen to us. We ALL have wounds that need healing. But when we can’t learn to accept that and forgive ourselves as well as the people who have wronged us, we harbor negativity deep within ourselves. One that silently dismantles any efforts you put forth towards creating happiness in your life. It will sit there within the deepest corners of your being and continue to dim the light you so desperately search for.

You MUST accept what was. You don’t need to analyze it. You don’t need to ask yourself, “what if” or “why?” All you need to do is accept that it happened and focus on where you’re at in this very moment as you sit. Let it go! Please, I beg you, to let it go. Be present at this moment right now with me and recognize that your life was NOT a mistake. You have greatness resting within you. You have the ability and the power to vibrate at such a high level of energy that nothing will have the ability to demolish the beauty and capability that rests within you. You have the power to attract love, abundance, and happiness into your life, but it all starts with acceptance and is followed by forgiveness.

Lastly, acceptance is pivotal within our everyday lives. Like I said in the beginning, you are the captain of your own ship, but you do not get to control the conditions in which you sail. Everything that we go through in our lives has a purpose. We meet people to teach us valuable lessons about ourselves, we lose jobs to open up better opportunities for careers, and we fall A LOT so we can learn how to rise back up.

I need you to comprehend that you are not alive to be punished. For my fellow Christian folks, Jesus died for your sins so you could live out your remaining days and be rewarded with the oasis that is heaven. He wouldn’t have kept you here or done any of that if he didn’t see a special spark within every one of you. Discovering the spark? Well, working through the growing pains is all part of discovering who you are. That is the grandest gift of life. You must trust and ACCEPT the process.

For those of you who think differently when it comes to the soul (maybe you’re uncomfortable with God talk) and your purpose of being here, I want you to think about your life for a second. Why would you be put here only to suffer, to be unhappy, and to simply exist? Why would the process of bringing you into this world be so complex and miraculous if you weren’t meant to accomplish magnificent things?

You must persevere! You must continue to use every single day you’re given to do so! The way you maneuver yourself out of the shadows is to do one simple thing: Accept what is and have faith in what will be.

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