ACCEPTANCE

Acceptance and non-resistance are very closely related ideas. Basically, for me, acceptance means not resisting what is right now. It is not a judgmental action. Acceptance is an openness, without judgment, to whatever is in my life at the present.

Nothing can change until what is now is fully accepted. Lack of acceptance is what keeps me stuck. Because it is my full acceptance that transforms things. When I resist, it gives substance to what I am resisting.

Just because I accept some person, place, thing or situation as it is, does not mean I am approving of that person, place, thing or situation. Usually the things I approve of and want in my life, I accept fully and have no resistance to. So resistance becomes a knock on the door that there is something I am not fully accepting.

Acceptance happens at the heart level and not at the head level.