We all have things about ourselves and our lives that we have difficulty accepting. Some of us struggle with family relationships that the other person isn't going to change and the relationship is probably irretrievable broken, but you keep attempting to fix it. Or coming out as gay after being taught all your life that it is wrong. Or accepting maybe the job you wanted and finally got, that it isn't the right fit you thought it would be. There are varying degrees of trivial to serious things that one can and should accept.
Often times the things we struggle to accept in life make it that much harder to be of a mind to know what you want or don't want. Ignoring reality or choosing to not accept something for what it is tends to have ripple affects on someone's actions and choices. It makes decisions less assured or concrete because you may feel well if the something that won't be accepted or the struggle, why wouldn't it be the same for every other decision?
Accepting difficult situations or choices or lifestyles can cause a lot of discord in one's mind. For example, someone who is gay and has chosen to ignore the fact based on various reasons like raised in a home where it is taught it is wrong, this can make someone self hate. We have seen it time and time again that politicians and church officials that rail the hardest against homosexuality, they end up coming out as gay down the road and it was their way of trying to push their truth away.
Accepting isn't an easy thing to do for some aspects of one's life, but the process and the conclusion of coming to a place of being able to accept a situation makes the mind and the body much more cohesive and sated, and for many, much happier.
You task this week is to address something you have struggled to accept, and start the process in earnest to do so.
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