 Acceptance is not finding a way to turn off your fear or even to turn it down. That's not a thing. You might be working overtime to try and find a way to feel less afraid of your anxious sensations or anxious thoughts or just the state of anxiety or fear itself. So acceptance has nothing to do with finding a way to turn off your fear magically. Acceptance isn't figuring out some sort of special method for hating your anxiety any less. You are totally allowed to hate it as much as you want. So don't worry that you have to somehow find a way to stop hating your anxiety so that you can accept it. That's not the way this works. Acceptance is a precursor to less fear. Acceptance is not the result of less fear.