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The Power of Practicing Acceptance

by Rita Rivera Fox

We all seek the home that is calling us from within and to answer that call, the call of your soul, can present some unique challenges. Your individual response to this dynamic purpose places you exactly where you need to be - within the possibility of acquiring clear self reflection from the circumstances of your current life. The experiences you are having now and what is showing up in your life are the real gifts for you. For if you are having the experience at this time, then it must be the one that is best suited to bring to your attention what you are now ready to see in your life. These are the opportunities that come to us again and again until we are ready to be with "what is,” rather than how we think it should be.

Being with “what is” is just another way to describe the powerful act of acceptance. True acceptance in this sense is the ability to question your stories and the meanings about the situation at hand, and to suspend the interpretation you are having long enough to create a gap of awareness. On the occasion when you can suspend the need to know and accept what is showing up, the opening is created where all transformation comes from. Divine intelligence within you is doing its best to give you what you most need to answer the call of the soul as it heads home. Something is showing up that may not look like what you expected, but practicing acceptance brings you to the moment and dissolves all expectations, so you can experience life fully just as it is.

Somewhere along the way you have asked for more self awareness, or for more spiritual clarity, or perhaps more loving relationships. To accept, means to accept that your highest good, or the power of your intent which comes from these desires you have stated, is unfolding right there in front of you. To understand the power that you have when you ask from your deepest desire is to begin to understand what then has to show up in your life: everything that is an obstacle to the desire or intent you have expressed! These seeming obstacles are simply the opportunity for you to choose again in favor of your desired intent. It is part of the perfectly unfolding plan to bring into manifestation the content of your heart’s desire. Your heart’s desire is the silent working of the soul as it calls you home. To practice acceptance is the way we can most honor ourselves as powerful creators aligned with the God-force of pure potential.

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