{"id":7439,"date":"2019-04-25T09:15:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T00:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/findingyourease.com\/?p=7439"},"modified":"2019-04-25T12:13:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T03:13:19","slug":"the-power-of-acceptance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findingyourease.com\/the-power-of-acceptance\/","title":{"rendered":"The power of acceptance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Accepting the country and culture you live in, relationships you encounter, your self-image, your emotions and feelings are not always easy.<\/p>\n

Fighting against something that we can\u2019t change drains us, takes a lot of energy. There comes a point when we need to make a decision. Will we allow that situation to further drain us or do we change the way we look at it, accept it?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Just to make sure, acceptance is not the same as giving up, giving approval or surrendering. No, acceptance is a conscious decision we make to \u201csimply be\u201d and to let it be. It\u2019s about to stop fighting what we have in front of us. It\u2019s about freeing ourselves from trying to change or understand something that we can\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Accept our feelings and emotions<\/h2>\n

Thinking about acceptance brought me back to when we moved to Cairo about 10 years ago. Oh, how I struggled in the beginning. The change to Singapore couldn\u2019t have been bigger, my son was then barely 2 years old, my daughter 11 weeks. Needless to say, we had a lot to adjust to. But I remember that I focused all my negativity on being in Cairo those first couples of months.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Then one day, I got tired of myself of being so caught up on the negativity. I knew something had to change for myself. I could not change where we had moved to in the short term, and I didn\u2019t want to move away anyway. But I realised that I needed to change to make this work. I accepted the situation and by that caused a shift in my own approach of life there. I started to not get lost in the bigger picture, but to take the day step by step, focus on small things.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And looking back, those 2.5 years in Cairo were fantastic. No regrets. And I still remember that positive shift I felt inside me when I started to let go of the fighting, how I was able to see and embrace things I didn\u2019t see before.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What I realised when I started to ponder about the whole acceptance topic is that no matter what, it was and will never be easy to get to the point. It can be a rather long and painful process. But when we come to the point of acceptance we free our mind, our feelings and emotions and find ourselves again.<\/p>\n

I found in various situations that acceptance<\/p>\n