thrive and awakenTools: Complete Acceptance
Learning to Embrace Life As It Is!
In order to stay safe and connected in life-threatening situations your ancestors had to judge if a new tribe was a friend or enemy. Such judgments were necessary for their survival.
You also make quick judgments for everyday situations. You judge yourself if you’re adequate enough for a relationship, a particular task, or the ability to make a comfortable living. You are judging whether you can trust friends, family and co-workers. You judge the weather, sports teams, and politicians. The list of judgments is endless.
Although normal, these judgments keep you and our society in Survival Mode!
The result is ongoing vigilance, anxiety, anger, exhaustion, striving, depression, unhappiness, addictions, loneliness, autoimmune conditions, and more.
Thriving Mode is Choosing...
It is healthy to assess yourself and others. In Survival Mode the assessment is colored through the lens of good vs bad judgments. In Thriving Mode you assess through the lens of Complete Acceptance and learn what is adaptive or helpful to yourself and others. This type of assessment allows you to stay calmer, clear-minded, and open-hearted so you can CHOOSE how to think, feel, and behave.
There are two videos for this tool. The first applies Complete Acceptance towards yourself. The 13 min. video below comes from a virtual Self-Compassion Course Doug taught.
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The following 18 min. video applies Complete Acceptance towards others. There is a Reflection Form you’ll want to download before you watch it. Click here.
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Features of Complete Acceptance
- Accept yours and others’ Survival Mode habits as normal.
- “Of Course” you are in Survival Mode.
- You/others can Thrive by choosing thoughts, feelings, & behaviors.
- You/others are complete where you are in your development of consciousness.
- You/others can continue to grow and evolve.
- Your best will vary.
- You can completely accept yourself and others while advocating for what is more loving.
- Ideals are like horizons to turn toward, not reach.
- Say yes to life as it is.
- Life is FOR you, an opportunity to evolve and love unconditionally.
Complete Acceptance is a cornerstone for Awakened action. It allows you to be grounded, thoughtful, and open-hearted in your responses to yourself and others.
