My husband has Alzheimer’s disease. It has been eight years since we learned this. The changes have been slow and fluctuating. Perhaps this is why, the word, acceptance has been popping up in my life in so many places.
At any moment we can be changed by events beyond our control, no one escapes this possibility. The changes can take us up and/or down. (Though the ones that take us up seem to slip from mind faster than the ones bring us down.) How one navigates these changes, generates their experience.
Accepting people, places and things as they are, and/or lamenting about how one thinks they should be, reveals what is often obscured. Our part—in how we experience our life.
Seven things to think about regarding acceptance.
- Once the actuality of something is accepted, determining the next best move has room to show up.
- A problem unacknowledged, is rarely solved. Good fortune unacknowledged leads to entitlement.
- Acceptance and agreement are not synonymous, one does not necessitate the other.
- What I don’t accept, I usually resist.
- Resistance tends to hold things in place.
- Suffering is born of resistance to what is and what is not.
- Pain, whether physical, emotional or mental is an indicator, not a conviction. `
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