Self-Acceptance
“…You
reach a place where you are more embracing of who you are, and of how far you’ve
come, and you feel ready to work with what you’ve got. It’s important to notice
this moment, if it arrives. Because there is real peace in tender self-acceptance.
And, ironically, it may ignite the most profound change of all.”
Jeff
Brown (“Hearticulations”)
After
all the therapy, all the self-help books, all the seminars and retreats and
in-cramming of a thousand guru’s instructions, you may finally reach a place at
which you lay down the books and manuals and journals, and say, “That’s enough!”
Time to rest and allow all that hard work to pay off. Time to settle and to
give all you’ve learned an opportunity to enlarge your understanding of self.
Figuring
out who you are, all that has happened and all you have learned to bring you to
this time and place, is worth serious contemplation, but when you are in the “taking
in” phase of personal evolution, it’s hard to sort through. The seeds are
planted. Now, it’s time to water them and wait for germination.
If you
have done your psychological work, if you have sincerely worked at raising your own
consciousness, then reaching this place does not mean you stop altogether.
Certainly, it doesn’t mean you’re through—that never happens so long as you live
(and likely even afterward)—but it can be a resting place and a place of peace.
It’s kind of like reaching basecamp when you’re climbing Mt. Everest. Time to
settle in and get ready for the big push to the summit.
It’s time
right now to allow yourself to rest. To stop cogitating and ruminating and
simply be still and empty-headed. Clear the space, internally and externally.
You may be surprised by what comes from emptying out—maybe a fullness that is
more than you hoped for.
In
the Spirit,
Jane
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