Self-acceptance is a gift of internal belonging that embraces who we are and who we are not. It widens our perception so that we can include the many paradoxes of life.

 

Acceptance reduces the conflict levels inside and around us and invokes change. It releases us from the struggle against reality and then new possibilities can open up to us that did not exist before.

 

Acceptance frees up our energy. It is a benediction, a blessing, a gentle rain that melts judgments, fears and doubts, and allows us to surrender to the truth of the moment without preferences.

 

It animates the big picture, welcomes a higher reality, and extends an invitation to embody our Human nature and our greater Being nature – in doing so, conflict ceases and we become one presence.

 

This month, look for experiences that you are rejecting or pushing against. If acceptance does not seem possible, practice relaxing your protective response that splits perceptions into division of right/wrong, good/bad, guilt/innocence. And let the mind unlock from its fixations.

 

May the Angel of Acceptance wrap its wings around you and hug you tightly filling you with acceptance then offer it freely to all you meet.