There is a shortcut to reconnect with the Fabric of Life. It is, quite simply, total and unconditional acceptance of the flow of Life and Light in your body. Acceptance is a quick way to bring your awareness back to your core self and your core consciousness, behind the wall your ego creates.
When you are in a state of acceptance, you are transparent to Life like a clear window. Instead of things hitting you, they just pass through you. Acceptance prevents new blockages from forming as there is no longer any resistance to the flow. You simply go with the flow, and flow with the go, just like a river effortlessly cascades down a mountain.
Acceptance is allowing Life to flow with you, through you, as well as out of you once it has served its purpose. Life is just like water: you drink it, allow it in your body, it flows through every cell of your body to do what it’s there to do, and it leaves your body again carrying the waste and toxins it collected on the way. If water doesn’t flow, it goes stale. It’s the same with Life. Allow the flow.
ACCEPTANCE = ALLOW
When you live in total and unconditional acceptance of the flow of Life, you stop trying to force life to go your way. It’s bit a like turning off the engine of your sailboat that was pushing the boat forward and putting the sails up to make the most of what life brings you.
What does that mean for your goals and future plans? If you are completely accepting in every moment, you will be able to take in all the facts of life along the way with confidence and clarity. You’ll then realize that success or failure does not depend on the outcome of your projects anymore, but on whether you are flowing with the events or resisting them, as fulfillment is already within you.
Some heroic characters in good old classic movies often display the ability to accept. Take James Bond, for example, who always stays so calm no matter how much danger is around him. Agent Bond always seems to find the best way out in any situation. He simply goes with the flow. He is always ‘cool, calm and collected’. I’ve often admired that trait. In most movies and novels, the main character’s inner journey is often related to finding and embracing their life purpose or to overcoming some of the limitations that get in the way of unleashing their ultimate potential. Much of this journey is about acceptance of their purpose and of the facts at hand in order to take empowering actions.
Once you flow with Life, things are not happening to you, they are happening with you. Life just is.
THE SUNRISE
While you read this analogy on acceptance, try to see if you can feel the vibration of acceptance in the whole of your body so your awareness can enter in resonance with the frequency of acceptance. That is the beginning of learning full-body acceptance.
You know that tonight the sun is going to set and tomorrow the sun is going to rise. Tomorrow night the sun is going to set again and the day after the sun is going to rise again. Acceptance is just realizing that this is a fact of life you cannot change. The moment you want to change that, you start causing yourself some suffering.
If you wished the sun not to rise tomorrow, you would just create a lot of disappointment and misery for yourself. The sun, whether you want it or not, will indeed rise tomorrow. And there’s nothing you can do about it.
For example if your partner, friend, colleague or boss does this ‘thing’ that annoys you, an everyday gesture or an attitude that really gets on your nerves, once you develop the same attitude toward it as you have toward the sunrise, which is total neutrality, it won’t affect you anymore. You know it is going to happen, and if you accept that fact, you’ll be OK with it. Why don’t you give it a try?
Every time you fight life’s occurrences, you pull further away from the Fabric of Life and create more resistance and suffering within you. When you go with the flow, new options are available to you. Acceptance empowers you.
If you saw all the events in your life the same way as you see the sun’s movements, you would stop being disappointed, frustrated or angry about certain situations. You cannot change the fact that something is happening. The only thing you can change is whether you unconsciously react to it, or consciously act upon it.
LEARNING ACCEPTANCE
The level of acceptance that’s going to make a difference in your life is not just in your head, nor your heart. It’s having no resistance in your body when your awareness resonates with the Fabric of Life. In simple terms, what this means is that when you tune your awareness to the natural frequency of the Fabric of Life, your body feels completely expanded and relaxed.
This is where you need an effective technique to help you dissolve the blockages that create the resistance to the flow of Life and Light in your body. The fewer blockages there are, the more acceptance there is, and the easier it is for your awareness to resonate with the Fabric of Life naturally.
If you were able to really feel such a level of acceptance in every single cell of your body, you would instantly feel alive, enlightened, content, fulfilled and happy. In the end, it all boils down to acceptance.
Total and unconditional acceptance of the flow of Life is the most powerful tool of self-mastery you could ever learn. If you want to find out more about full-body acceptance, there’s more on the website www.UltimateHappiness.com. I am planning to write an ebook on acceptance soon.
In practical terms, total and unconditional acceptance means allowing your awareness to resonate with the natural frequency of the Fabric of Life without any resistance. The frequency of the Fabric of Life is always there, all around you, all the time. You can tune in to it, just like a radio receiver tunes in to a certain radio station. The less resistance you have to that frequency, the happier you become.
This is an extract of the book Beyond the Rollercoaster.