- How many of you live life at 100 miles per hour
- How many of you live life like this because keeping busy helps to shut out the internal demons.
When we practise acceptance we can often run into strong and difficult emotions especially when we include compassion into that recipe. Lets look at what I mean when I say acceptance.
I am refering to how you look at a problem inside yourself because the problems you carry around it is a direct reflection of your outer world. We spend 48% of our time daydreaming and usually it is either in the past looking at what we wish we could change and the future how we plan to make ourselves happy.
I am not asking you sit on your problem, suppress it, or forget it because this is what you have been doing as a bad habit for years I am asking you to accept it and be aware of it.
Doing these two things dramatically increase the chances of you getting better.
For example have you ever walked into a room that is darkened and then had the lights been turned up slowly and you start to notice all the things in that room like junk in the corner and also things of interest. Well your mind works the same way the dark room is your problem and the light is acceptance.
The minute you draw awareness and you familiarise yourself with the ingrained behaviour the less likely you are not to tune out because this issue is limiting you by not allowing you to reach your full potential and accepting that is the first key step.
How many of you have woken up and gone today is going to be a good day feeling of positivity running through your body then all of a sudden negativity sets in this unresolved story line causing you to have anxious feelings.
Your threat system goes through the roof and a sense of conflict begins and any attempt to suppress it or bury it disappear.Well this is when you accept it and look at for what it is if you are aware of it's origins and now is the time to resolve this I recommend you start with small issues first and build up to this as time goes on as you do not want to be overwhelmed straight away.
Remember raising awareness takes the power out of the emotion do not let your mind wonder look at it in the now and present and start to work with it by all means if you cannot resolve this by yourself then seek help from coaches, counsellors etc.
Remember acceptance is a process of opening up and fighting our moment to moment experience we work with it and resolve it with awareness and acceptance.
Richard Armstrong at Happy Days Coaching
