*Acceptance- noun | ac-cep-tance 1. the quality or state of being accepted or acceptable. 2. the act of accepting something or someone.
*Accept- verb | ac-cept 1 a : to receive (something offered) willingly accept a gift
b : to be able or designed to take or hold (something applied or added)
2: to give admittance or approval
3 a : to endure without protest or reaction
b : to regard as proper, normal, or inevitable
c : to recognize as true : believe
4 a : to make a favorable response
b : to agree to undertake (a responsibility)
Thanks to Merriam-Webster for clarifying to me what accept and acceptance mean. I noticed that acceptance is a noun and accept is a verb. So for me today, I understand a little more on this journey of mine that by accepting (verb- action), I will get to a place of acceptance (noun- place). I may have to accept every day (every second) of the roller coaster ride I am on, yet one day I will arrive at acceptance.
I have read over and over again, the only way through anxiety and fear is accepting what is going on and not fighting it. Yet, no one has ever really taught me how to get there, until recently. I really don’t believe that you understand the place of acceptance until accepting is the only option you have left. This past year and a half of recovering from a medication has taught me what I truly can control and what I cannot, this has led me right to the healing power of accepting. I could not change anything that my body, mind or spirit was doing to heal itself…much like a person healing from a broken bone or car wreck, there is nothing they can possibly do to speed up the process of repair. So, every moment of every day I practice accepting what is going on and hold on to hope that it will come to an end one day and I will be in a different space or season than this one. However, as much as I want to speed through this season of healing, I am coming to learn so much about myself and life right now. I am grateful for that. I know that I will come out a better person because of this and will have much more wisdom from riding the storms out.
For today, I breath in and I breath out…acceptance is my destination and accepting is my action.
*definitions from Merriam-Webster.com
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