The first step to well-being is acceptance

The first step to well-being is acceptance. That you accept what is happening in your life and in yourself right now. Even if right now that means accepting difficult things and situations.

Even if everything is broken and completely wrong – only by admitting and accepting what is happening in your life and in yourself right now and how you really feel inside, things can eventually change.

Acceptance is the point when you no longer try to deny or negotiate with a situation or issue that seems difficult. You can stay with the issue or the situation as it is. However, before reaching acceptance, you may have had to struggle with many difficult emotions.

Sometimes change has happened without us noticing. We have grown beyond the life we ​​are living, and something makes us wake up to a situation that no longer suits us at all.

Or difficult emotions begin an unexpected emergence that awakens us to the change that has occurred or will be unavoidable.

Often, we prefer to close our eyes to the difficulties and narrowness of life. We adapt to difficult situations and relationships, because we instinctively want to avoid the difficult things that are required to achieve change. Closing our eyes or ignoring difficulties also means that we do not admit on a deep level what is happening and what is happening in our lives and in us.

The door to a better time opens when you accept that right now, this life is all messed up or I'm not feeling particularly well. Or that there's a storm brewing in my life, after which nothing will be the same.

By admitting a difficult situation to yourself, you open the door to the possibility of change. Sometimes simply accepting a difficult situation as the reality of the moment makes you feel better – you no longer have to hide and cover it up, at least not from yourself. The truth sits bare in your lap, and you finally dare to look it straight in the eye. 

We often know our own truth deep down, even if it's sometimes hard to admit it. We adapt for so many reasons. The desire for comfort, fear, uncertainty, the longing for security. However, dodging the truth always takes its toll, and it takes extra strength from us on many levels.

We instinctively avoid crises. Facing difficult things and the twists and turns needed to figure them out. Changes in our own activities and lives that growth and change require. 

However, crises are always needed points of change and catalysts for better circumstances. Crises and situations of change always lead to a new balance. To a life and a dynamic that ultimately serves us better in the end. Many things in life may have been wrong for so long that we no longer even remember what it feels like to be well.

Something has come to an end or changed in a deep way, and it is time to look for new settings that will allow life to continue more appropriately. Crises challenge us to change and grow, to mature as people. To look for what serves us better in this moment and in future. To make changes in ourselves and our lives, no matter how challenging the thought may seem.

No matter how big or small the wound in our mind or the storm in our life situation is – digesting and accepting it begins piece by piece. From some edge where it is easiest to grasp. And from there the process of acceptance progresses step by step along a path and pace that suits our system.

It is never too late to embrace your own life and being with acceptance. Even the most complex messes will slowly find order, which helps you to begin to unravel them. 

You will better understand your situation and your own options when you dare to share your challenges with someone.

 
Warmly welcome to discuss life's challenges.

With a conversation partner, you will gain a better understanding of your situation,

and you will be able to plan the wisest way forward.

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