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Acceptance is associated with the energy vibrations of contentment and calm. We still have
our feelings of liking and disliking, however we generally do not experience indignation when
the world does not conform to our preferences.
Repression causes emotional numbness, in contrast, acceptance of emotions allows us to use
and enjoy them. The extent to which we repress one emotion is the extent to which we repress
all emotions. When we refuse to feel love, we also reduce our capacity to feel true happiness.

When we embrace acceptance we stop consuming energy in pointless battles against the
people and circumstances that cannot be changed, and we don't waste emotional energy via
hatred and self hatred.

If we are not accepting, we can encounter stress, and stress related illnesses. The excess stress
arises because we are fighting circumstances that we cannot change. The stress is literally the
energy that we cannot discharge because we are pushing against immovable objects such as
circumstances that are to be accepted rather than changed.

Through acceptance we accept our body's reality, the reality that a human body requires
adequate nutrition, rest, exercise, and medical care.
Developing Acceptance

In choosing the benefits of acceptance:

We cultivate energy tones such as relaxation, contentment, and pleasure with self

affirmations such as . "I accept the challenges of life." "I accept myself as I am and I want to be
even better.", "I find a satisfying place for myself in the world as it is.", "I enjoy the variety of life.".

We can visualize ourselves being calm in a situation that usually triggers excessive stress or
judging.
We act as if we are accepting of the unalterable conditions.

Intuition can tell us which situations are to be changed, and which situations are to be
accepted as they are. Our intuition can then tell us how to change things, or how to accept the
things that cannot be changed.

If we believe that we are an honest person, our potential contains our capacity for dishonesty.
As we discover the traits of our potential, we discover traits that we have repressed or denied.
When we learn to accept the traits in our potential, we can still leave them there so that we can
continue to think of ourselves as an honest person, but now we are aware of the traits of
dishonesty in our potential. Once we are aware we can consciously decide not to use or
project them.

We can accept our past. Some people say, "If I had to live my life again, I'd do it the same". This
is retrospective self acceptance, a realization that their life unfolded in the way in which it need-
ed to unfold, despite any complaints that they had along the way. If we adopt this perspective
now, rather than waiting for the wisdom of age, we accept our problems as part of our
education and maturation. Problems come to our attention because they reveal something
within us that needs to be recognized, understood, and then properly administered. To accept
whatever we are at this moment is to trust this process.