I don’t resist what is. I realize it and embrace the challenge. It’s inevitable my beliefs will change. The choices will always be for MORE 🪷
— Denelle DeFer
Once you’ve accepted reality, you’re working with the thing itself instead of flailing in the air of hiding in a hole. You can see what is changeable – inside and outside yourself – and you can do something. This is the glorious (and terrifying) truth about facing and accepting reality: you leave powerlessness and become powerful.
A note: If you’ve think you’ve accepted reality but you feel that reality is both a cloud you cannot grasp and a wrecking ball you cannot control, you’re not there yet. Keep looking for what is going on. Keep working to minimise your cognitive biases. Keep going until you can see a specific situation in which you have an opportunity for action.
To start with the only available action may be stillness or acceptance. But until it’s time for you to die, that’s not the final action. There is a challenge to embrace.
Another note: Before this gets all heavy, remember that life is a game.
You’ll like the Indie sound, but you’ll keep watching to find out if the woman makes her way safely out of the field of laundry.
Grow slowly
Jeff
I accept what is until I suffer. I suffer from cognitive dissonance. That’s the incongruity between my thoughts and actions. If I want to lose weight but eat ice cream, I am going to suffer a mental hamster wheel. The friction between my thoughts and actions make me suffer and my body feels it. I prefer the easier way. If I accept what comes (especially negative), quickly, then I am in position for conflict resolution instead of under the whole mess. So, back to you, Jeff, in keeping your power.🪷