Acceptance pt.2

Resistance = perpetuates present condition 

Acceptance = changes present condition

Irony is, if you try to change the present condition without first accepting it you perpetuate the condition. 

But if you don't resist the condition from perpetuating, then it will eventually change. 

Why does this happen?

By resisting the condition we focus on it, hone our attention to it.

And since Energy Flows Where Attention Goes, we're adding more energy to the condition thus preserving it. 

Now when we accept the condition, by allowing it part of our experience in the present moment, we no longer push against it. We allow it to be, and so our attention is freed to focus elsewhere, adding energy to whatever it is we're now focusing on. 

You'll know for certain if you're accepting a condition by the feeling of relief, freedom, detachment, peace, and/or an increase in mood. 

Like all things, to be good at this requires practice. So be patient with yourself. Because if you aren't and grow irritated with your progress or seeming lack of, you're back to resisting lol. Accept where you are. Accept where your life is. Accept where the world is. Accept Accept Accept. 

Now = Freedom, Truth & Life more abundant

Live right here in the now. 

Pull your consciousness, awareness, and attention to the now. The present now. 

Fear, doubt, and anxiety don't live in the present. Only in the future. 

They are untrue and distorted thoughts that are concerned with the future. 

Fear of if he will think I'm dumb. 

Doubt of if she will like me. 

Anxiety of if they are judging me. 

All of these thoughts are concerned about the future. They have nothing to do with the present except to control and restrict your behavior, robbing you of being yourself. 

Stay in the right now. There is no next minute or next hour. 

Just now. 

There is no tomorrow or next week. 

Solely now. 

There is no next month or next year. Only now. 

Every moment should be experienced in the present. 

Only when we voluntarily focus on the future to set a plan should we allow attention to be drawn away from right now. It should never involuntarily drift off to the future or even the past unless we deliberately choose to shift our attention for the purpose of reflection. 

There is no consequence for allowing our attention to drift except that we become at the mercy of our emotions to life's circumstances.  

If we have drifted, then when a distorted thought of the future presents itself to your mind, you will experience the negative emotions of fear, doubt, and anxiety. Which can worsen and magnify if you cannot bring your mind back in the present. 

If you however, stay in the preset, when a future thought presents itself, you will let it pass by undisturbed. For you know the truth of the circumstance which the thought addressed. 

Truth lives in the now.