This week to attain, maintain or regain your sense of wellbeing...
...practice radical acceptance. Acceptance is "The action of consenting to receive or undertake something offered." Radical Acceptance is "seeing exactly what is [even the really bad things] and just accepting the fact of its existence."
**This week I consent to receive life on its own terms.**
By practicing Radical Acceptance, you give up on fighting reality. You accept what is and what isn't. It doesn't mean you become passive and give up on changing the things you can change.It's actually a lot easier to take action to address things when we are able to accept that they are there, even if we don't like or want them to be that way.
Useful self-talk statements you can use to practice this attitude shift include...
"I don't like it but it's just the way it is."
"I don't want it but it's what I've got right now."
"I can't change what has happened."
"This is the way things are at the moment."
"It's okay to feel this way, I'm only human."
"I'm not going to waste my time fighting with myself about this."
"I can't change what they want to do - other people make their own choices."
"That didn't go the way I hoped."
Once you are used to using radical acceptance with the everyday stuff, will add it to your Personal Coping Kete as a strategy for soothing unwanted thoughts and feelings.
*Note: Radical acceptance is a concept popularized by mindfulness and the concept of radical acceptance in the mental health community with Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).*
