Acceptance Eases Life’s Challenges

Letting go of unsettling life events can be a tough cookie to swallow. Acceptance is earnestly acquiescing to what is happening or has happened without judging, negotiating, bargaining or blaming.  

We may not always welcome or appreciate our experiences. We can obsess over them, click our red ruby slippers and wish for a different outcome, live in regret, or accept that an unpleasant event has occurred. An event that does not define who we are or mandate how we shall live. Life will spin us in many alternating, difficult and exhilarating directions.  We can’t always predict when or what welcomed or unwelcomed event will transpire, but we can choose the words we use to define the experience and the behaviors we put into play to manage through it.

 Accepting the moment rather than fighting against it or shutting down, allows us to refocus on what is within our grasp, what makes life truly meaningful, what can be achieved rather than what is lost.  

Our emotions are impacted by our life events and subsequently by our mindset, the words we use, the actions we take and the attitudes we carry forward.

If acceptance is truly the key to happiness, as some experts suggest, we should  grab an umbrella and keep an eye out for rainbows when life is pouring rain down upon us.