I can’t change that, are you crazy?

Which one do you associate acceptance with more?

Most people think that if something isn’t going to change they better learn to live with it.

Some even think that’s true acceptance.

But do you want to know a secret?

You can’t really make yourself accept anything.

If you do come to accept things by telling yourself, “It’s just always going to be this way,” it’s more likely to be resignation than actual acceptance.

But there is a different kind of acceptance. One that’s more conducive to healing.

This is about acknowledging how things are right now.

This kind of acceptance sees exactly what your experience is in the current moment,  without projecting into the future or assuming that it will always be this way.

This kind of acceptance allows change to happen on its own. And it has nothing to do with giving up.

When you allow yourself to feel what’s here now, and see it exactly the way it is, that’s the true meaning of acceptance.

The acceptance isn’t forced. It happens organically as part of the process of making the “what is” known to you on the deepest level possible, the level of the felt sense.

Once you can experience this moment fully it can start speaking to you and eventually be ready to show you why it’s here.

This will give you the new piece of information necessary to form a new perspective.

Only when you’re able to hear it, will it subject itself to change. The mere action of being seen and heard will create the change.

It’s like you have the “felt sense” in a lab tube and then you add to it a catalyzing substance called “seeing and hearing” which creates a chemical reaction that inevitably changes that substance.