Mindfulness tips: acceptance creates the freedom & motivation to act, not laziness

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It is a very common and very limiting belief to assume that accepting what happens in your life just means rolling over and giving up.

Or, that accepting what happens in life is mutually exclusive, and therefore preventative of also making changes and growing.

These assumptions may sound rational, but they are not true. In fact, what accepting an event, decision or action once it has happened in your life actually does is to unlock enormous power and freedom in your life in that moment.

Here’s why:

There are 2 ground rules that explain why acceptance = freedom:

1. The past cannot be changed.
2. The circumstances of the past will never again be exactly as they were in the past.

Taken together, these two ground rules mean that no matter what we do now or in the future, we can never reverse, replicate, or revise outcomes that have already occurred.

You’re probably still with me and in agreement so far; but here’s where the divergent thinking arises.

Intellectually acknowledging the fact that the past cannot be changed or will never reoccur is one thing, but emotionally, truly accepting the immutability of…