—acceptance
Acceptance. Boom, lets go straight to the heart today. Life is a sum of all our choices, all our experiences and ultimately how we have chosen to move through them all.
“Acceptance is the key to it all.”
“Acceptance turns denial into possibility, confusion into clarity. It turns a house into a home, a choice into an experience. Acceptance alchemises is all."
—Shari Ingleton
Life is fragile. It shows up day after day, we tend to take it for granted that tomorrow will be ours. To live, to enjoy, to love, to do all the things that our hearts dream of doing — one day.
Acceptance invites us to really see all the parts of who we are, where we have been and integrate, love and accept all of it.
Because it all makes us who we are. It all makes us who we are becoming. Every experience, every heart break, every triumph, every mistake, every right call, every wrong turn — it is all a part of being human and no-one gets a free ride or a golden ticket, no matter what their circumstances are. Life gets us all. We are all human and as a human we experience all the emotions, all the highs and lows.
It is all so temporary. All of it.
If we knew how much time we had, if we knew when the last day would be or the last time we would experience something, how would we show up in the world? Would we still show up the same as we are now? Would we say yes to the things we say yes to today or would we say no thank you, not for me? Would we be so happy with our contribution to the world? Would we be content with who we are and how we used our days, our time, our energy?
Just for today, let acceptance be here. Let it integrate, let it all land. The first step in healing it all and creating inner peace, creating space in our lives, our bodies and our nervous system for new experiences and new ways of being is aware, the next is being accepting. The more accept what is, the more that we can receive.
No matter how much we wish things were different or we wish for different choices or decisions, we can never go back. Our choice from here is to let it just be what it is, accepting that it is a part of our journey. It is our choice how much energy, time and heartbreak we relive and reignite old stories that are no longer serving us.
Life never was promised to be fair or easy. It never came with a guarantee that those we love most would always take care of us and while we would them, it is not always a two way street. Life is about learning boundaries. About being in the moment we are in. About letting go of anything or anyone that is not for our best and highest good. It’s about choosing to let it go, because life is unfair sometimes. It breaks us and shakes us to the point where we feel at times we cannot take it anymore. The people that we thought would always be there, are the ones who have cut us the deepest. It hurts. Its life. Move on we must. Acceptance is hard, it truly is. Our time is so limited here and it is so precious. Where we are is where we are AND it is not where we will always be.
What we choose to do today matters more than anything we did yesterday. All we have is right here, right now. Be brave, cut yourself some slack and move forward with acceptance, ease and grace. Your big dreams, the life you are creating is waiting for you, waiting for you to say YES and that first decision, is to accept all parts, all experiences and all decisions that have made you who you are today.
Sending so much love xxx
