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. 

Acceptance

Acceptance of your circumstances liquefies you, makes you like water. Allows you to mold into the current shape of your life and so releasing resistance to what is. 

Thus freeing up attention allowing you to shift your State of Being. 

Shifting to a better emotional state which will then reflect better circumstances.

If you try to shift your state of being before accepting what is, you will be alternating between wanting something and pushing against something else. 

Law of Attraction states where attention flows, energy goes. 

So if your attention is consistently switching between what you want and what you don't want, it's like trying to drive somewhere by pushing on the gas and then the brake and then the gas and then the brake. It's exhausting and barely goes anywhere. 

Acceptance is taking the foot off the brake. 

Happiness = controlled thoughts

“You must learn to let go of your fears and insecurities, and instead let your emotions remain within your control, rather than dictating your actions or reactions”*

I can control my emotions by controlling my thoughts. 

Emotions = thoughts + feelings**

*Excerpt From: Entourage, Secret. “Third Circle Theory: Purpose Through Observation.” 

**Independent. Remains constant. We will always feel for things and circumstances. Cannot cut feeling from life: unhealthy, inhuman. 

Intentional Association is a Key to Happiness

We are beginning to develop a sense(not just an understanding) that the reality of our emotions are not based, fed, or sourced from our experience. 

Our happiness and our sorrow are not caused by successes and failures. 

These experiences virtually have no influence on our emotions except for the feelings we've allowed(however unaware) ourselves to habitually associate them with over the years. 

It's not what happens to us that shapes our feelings.

It's how we choose to shape our feelings to what happens to us.

This determines our emotions, and then our attitudes(which are habitual emotions), our character(habitual attitudes), and ultimately our Life(summation of our character and our behavior).  

Implied method:

Change how we associate feelings to experience = change our lives