#1278 - From accepting to embracing.
As often happens in my life, topics or concepts keep resurfacing in my morning reflections until they fully become mine.
I've learned that to know is important, but it's only when I own that knowledge and it becomes part of who I am that something really shifts.
So, I keep going back to the same idea repeatedly, using different words, exploring other angles, and unveiling new little nuances.
Lately, the idea of acceptance has been a recurring presence in my writings and conversations. From accepting that it is what it is and that it's not to me to decide what happens around me.
Yesterday evening, during my weekly conversation with fellow explorers of the magic of life, I realized that I need to go further and move beyond acceptance.
I need to embrace what it is.
In Being at Full Potential and The Subtraction Experiment, we call this attitude "to alter the relationship with adversities".
To welcome everything that happens as an opportunity.
I am well aware that I'm asking a lot of myself.
I know there are opportunities in everything, even in the worst and most painful events and situations.
However, knowing the opportunities are there is not enough to see them.
It takes practice.
The relentless practice of curiosity, courage and compassion.