 The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely," said Kalyang. This is a mindfulness meditation based around acceptance. Acceptance allowing to release suffering, acceptance sometimes on self-imposed suffering or embracing pain with acceptance, recognizing that acceptance does not mean approval just because you choose to open yourself up to painful thoughts, emotions and experiences that does not mean that you're condoning or proving them. It simply means that you recognize their presence with a mindful awareness and openness and curiosity. You're no longer fighting against what is, you accept it. The idea behind acceptance is the notion of surrounding and opening oneself up to all aspects of our internal and external experiences. This means being willing to fully accept pain, joy and neutral experiences when you make the choice consciously or otherwise to shut yourself off from the pain experiences. You only open up yourself to denial and you move yourself away from joy. The curious part about denying certain experiences and things that have happened in our lives is they don't go away. The pain will sit patiently and wait until you pull your head back out of the sand. It may disappear temporarily but it will re-emerge, it will find a way of expressing itself through your mind, through your body and through sometimes the aspects of what we see allow your thoughts and feelings to just be opening yourself up and making room for these, letting thoughts and feelings come and go as they do naturally with no attempt to change them or rush them along but making full and open contact with unwanted and wanting psychological experiences. Join me now on Meditation for Acceptance. Just find that comfortable seat in a place where you can be relatively free from distractions and just find that balance when you sit in the seat between sitting tall and remain relaxed. Feel the width of your chest as you soften your shoulders and your back, rest your palms face up on your thighs or in a manner that's most comfortable for you. At this point, just close your eyes and breathing and breathe out through your nose and just choose a breath that reflects all the qualities you desire in your mind, gentle, quiet, patient, steady, spacious and at ease and just balance your awareness between the three spheres of mindfulness, your body, your breath and the mind itself. Just stay present right here with all three. Don't get caught up in the thought of dissecting these, the idea is just to be mindful and at the same time free seated, breathing, present with body, breath and mind. Present, aware, open and spacious and as you just breathe in and breathe out you feel your awareness settling in your body and notice what's present here with you now. Notice if there's any sensations arising in your body. Maybe there's an energy that you can sense through your breath or a movement, an emotion or a habitual thought in your mind, whatever it is that you notice, welcome it with a spaciousness, with a platform and space that it can just pass straight through, you can allow it to be, you don't try to change it, you don't chase it, you don't try and push it away, remain still, remain spacious in your awareness as you accept what it is that's arising. This is how things are right now, right here and just notice how it is, we don't change it, we just accept it and just realise that acceptance is a spacious non-judgmental and attached ability to accept is not to endorse, to accept is not an opinion, to accept is simply to recognise and to notice, acceptance is mindfulness and awareness of reality as it is, so as you breathe in and breathe out just sense what's about now, what's present here with you now, what's arising in your body, what can you sense through your breath, is there a stillness or movement in the mind, no matter what comes back this is how things are, right here, right now, notice how it is and accept it and recall like all things it will also change, in your acceptance you give what it is that you notice the freedom to change when you and reality are no longer battling each other, reality no longer has to defend itself, thanks to your acceptance there can be softening, there can be movement and there can be change, so what about now, what's present with you right here and right now and accept all sensations that are arising in the body welcome it in, give it space give it freedom and what type of energy do you sense through this breath, welcome it all in, watch it, notice it with a curiosity but with no involvement, is there stillness or a movement in the mind, welcome it and accept it without attaching and without trying to push it away, whatever's happening right here right now this is how things are right here right now, notice, welcome and accept, sense the whole body, the breath and the mind itself, sense it opening into the freedom of acceptance, nothing needs to be different right now, this is how it is and from the spaciousness of acceptance, tap into the wisdom that acceptance provides, from the spaciousness of acceptance, from this awareness of things as they are, connect to the wisdom in your body, connect to the wisdom in your breath, connect to the wisdom in your mind, your soul and ask your body itself the question, what should I do now and be equally accepted of the answer, acceptance is the key to eternal happiness, take a deep breath in, wiggle your fingers, come back into the room I hope you enjoyed that meditation please feel free to leave any comments, subscribe to the channel or like this meditation, share it with friends if they believe that they need to understand the importance of acceptance, thank you for joining me, be love and give love, have a great day, goodbye.