Accept The Opposite
A path to emotional freedom.
No one likes to or plans on having a bad day. An argument with a spouse or someone you work with. Your dream isn’t to hit traffic on the way home or get upset with your kids. Left solely to our control, we would never have a bad day or inconvenience. A perfect life. A perfect world. Always happy.
A path to emotional freedom is willing acceptance, of all external things. As perfect is fake. You cannot learn what makes you happy until you learn what makes you unhappy. You cannot learn what food you like until you try food you don’t like. In order for a good day to happen, you must have a bad day. The relationship between good or bad is inseparable. The chance of perfect weather is connected to a day with bad weather. A marriage doesn’t mean happy moments each day. Rather, you will have tough periods in your marriage. You won’t get along with your colleagues all the time, so disagreements are there. You cannot expect to grow your patience without it being tested.
This is not a hack or speaking it into the existence bull shit. What this is, is the realization that life happens and we have to accept that just like we do when life happens in our favor. Accepting the opposite of our preferred choice, willingly, will lead to peace. It’s a practice, just like meditating, journaling or exercise. By practicing, often the willing acceptance of all external things, you will be in a better place. Mind. Body. Spirit. After all, do we control anything outside ourselves anyway? No. Only what we do, say and think.
In all you do keep this in mind. There are two handles to the situation. The unfavorable and favorable. And we hold both, at all times. They’re both yoked.
Accept it.
Thought Provoking Question 1 : What do you stand to gain/lose by willingly accepting all that happens?
Thought Provoking Question 2 : Can you willingly accept an unfavorable outcome?
Dan Roman is a Husband, Father, and writer that releases a daily blog. A quick read on sharing wisdom and asking though-provoking questions.
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