The challenge of Acceptance

Here we are again, almost a year to the date from last year when I was laid up with a broken toe…. this time it’s recovery from surgery to have my appendix removed that is keeping me off work.

However there is something different this year, something I was struggling with last time… and that is my acceptance of the situation, that as much as I would like to have the control to change it there is nothing I can do about it!  This time I have been happy to rest, take things at my own pace and let nature take it’s course in my recovery – not to keep trying, testing and pushing to see how far I can go and how quickly I can speed up the process.

This year I am also fortunate enough to be sitting in glorious sunshine as I write this as opposed to the cold and gloom that was last March.  It’s true, a sunny day makes you feel so much more positive about things.

This enforced rest has got me thinking about the time of year and why it might be that twice now I seem to have been directed to enforced rest periods!  It was a busy winter for me at work with the training and subsequent introduction of the Dorn Method to Ananda and helping look after Janet’s chiropractic patients in her absence, so perhaps it was just my time to slow down, regroup and prepare for a (hopefully) very productive Spring and Summer! 

Certainly the energy is shifting and you can feel that we are on the brink of the new growth surge, so I am happy to make the most of this opportunity I have been given to take it slowly, ride with it and see where it takes me.

I have realised over the last year in particular that the Universe generally has a way of getting us in the right place at the right time, however much we might want to fight it, however much we might resist seeing that it is where we are meant to be at that particular moment in time. 

Acceptance is a hard discipline to master and probably for most of us it will be a lifelong quest.  However starting the journey to acceptance makes it possible to realise that we do have the power to take control, espeically to take control of our minds and thought processes which can go a long way to removing the stress out of a situation.

I found a site with some great quotes on Acceptance which I thought you might find interesting – click here to visit.

Natalie