This week's practice: acceptance

Note: scroll down to Sept. 2 post for upcoming events

It seems like a lot of the discussion around the idea of "acceptance" focuses on accepting the negative: obstacles, "no," etc. The idea in most people's minds seems to be that we need help going with the flow when it (the flow) isn't going the way of our expectations. Which is often true.


But that's not what I'm talking about here—or at least, not entirely.

What about accepting what we say we want, but aren't at all sure we can have (or deserve to have)?

When I was teaching Practical Magic (visualization class), I would tell my students that my first rule of manifestation was to be careful what you ask for, because you ARE going to get it. The tricky part is recognizing it.

One of the challenges with accepting a "yes" is that it doesn't always fit our expectations, although that's not always because we made assumptions that didn't play out. More often, I think, it's because we never really thought it would happen, and we aren't prepared.

This week's posts will all be about acceptance, so feel free to weigh in with comments here or on the Facebook page whenever you like (www.facebook.com/ConsciousSanity).