Speaker 1: Hello, I would like to discuss a few ideas with
Speaker 1: you about healing, about life, and about learning to cooperate
Speaker 1: with the universe instead of fighting against it. You know,
Speaker 1: so many people come to healing only after they have
Speaker 1: become very tired. They have pushed and struggled and argued
Speaker 1: with life. They have said, this should not have happened.
Speaker 1: I should not feel this way. My body should be different,
Speaker 1: my past should be different. People should have loved me better.
Speaker 1: The timing should be faster, and my dear, I understand that,
Speaker 1: I really do. We all have moments when we want
Speaker 1: life to change immediately so that we can finally feel safe.
Speaker 1: We think, if this situation changes, then I can relax.
Speaker 1: If this person apologizes, then I can have peace. If
Speaker 1: the money comes, then I can trust. If the body
Speaker 1: heals first, then I will love it. But you see,
Speaker 1: that is often the very place where we get caught.
Speaker 1: We place our peace somewhere outside of us, and then
Speaker 1: we wonder why we cannot reach it. We wait for
Speaker 1: life to become perfect before we allow ourselves to breathe,
Speaker 1: and life, in its loving wisdom, keeps inviting us back
Speaker 1: to the only place where healing can truly begin. Here now,
Speaker 1: inside ourselves. I want you to consider something gently with me.
Speaker 1: What if the struggle is not proof that life is
Speaker 1: against you. What if the struggle is only showing you
Speaker 1: where you are still resisting love. That may sound strange
Speaker 1: at first, because we have been trained to believe that
Speaker 1: acceptance means giving up. We think if we accept something,
Speaker 1: we are saying it is wonderful, or we are saying
Speaker 1: it should stay forever. But that is not what acceptance means.
Speaker 1: To me. Acceptance is not surrendering your power. Acceptance is
Speaker 1: becoming quiet enough to see clearly. Acceptance says, this is
Speaker 1: where I am today, This is what I feel today,
Speaker 1: This is what my body is telling me today. This
Speaker 1: is what life is showing me today, and I am
Speaker 1: willing to meet it with love instead of war. That
Speaker 1: is a very different energy. When you fight the present moment,
Speaker 1: your whole body tightens, your breath becomes shallow, your mind
Speaker 1: begins to race, your heart closes like a little flower
Speaker 1: in a storm. But when you say, even softly, all right,
Speaker 1: this is where I begin. Something inside you loosens. The
Speaker 1: body hears you, the nervous system hears you, the little
Speaker 1: child within you hears you, and the universe hears you too.
Speaker 1: We do not need more anger, my dear. We do
Speaker 1: not need more self punishment. We do not need more criticism,
Speaker 1: more pressure, more mental whipping, more endless conversations about what
Speaker 1: should have been. We need more self acceptance. We need
Speaker 1: more self love. We need the gentle courage to say,
Speaker 1: I am where I am, and I can begin here.
Speaker 1: It is like cleaning a house. You do not stand
Speaker 1: in the doorway and scream at the house because it
Speaker 1: is dusty. You do not say I will only love
Speaker 1: this house when every room is shining. No, you pick
Speaker 1: up one cloth, you open one window. You begin with
Speaker 1: one corner, one shelf, one little drawer, and if you
Speaker 1: keep going with patience and kindness, eventually the whole house
Speaker 1: begins to feel different. Your mind is the same way,
Speaker 1: your life is the same way. Your healing is the
Speaker 1: same way. It does not matter which room you begin in.
Speaker 1: Begin with one thought, Begin with one breath, Begin with
Speaker 1: one soft sentence. I stop fighting life, and I begin
Speaker 1: to heal. Take a breath with me now, not a
Speaker 1: perfect breath, not a spiritual breath, just a simple human breath.
Speaker 1: Let the air come in and let the air go out.
Speaker 1: You see, you did not have to argue with the breath.
Speaker 1: You did not have to force the next breath to arrive.
Speaker 1: Somewhere within you, there is an intelligence that knows how
Speaker 1: to breathe you, how to beat your heart, how to
Speaker 1: renew cells, how to bring you through nights you thought
Speaker 1: you could not survive. That same intelligence is part of
Speaker 1: the great intelligence of life. Some people call it God,
Speaker 1: some call it spirit, some call it the universe, some
Speaker 1: call it the higher Self. The name is not as
Speaker 1: important as the relationship. Can you begin to trust that
Speaker 1: there is a wisdom moving through your life, even when
Speaker 1: your little human mind cannot yet see the whole picture.
Speaker 1: Can you begin to trust that life is not punishing you,
Speaker 1: but teaching you. Can you begin to trust that what
Speaker 1: is delayed is not always denied, and what is removed
Speaker 1: is not always a loss. Sometimes life takes something away
Speaker 1: because you have outgrown the old room. Sometimes life slows
Speaker 1: you down because your soul needs to catch up with
Speaker 1: your desires. Sometimes life repeats a lesson because there is
Speaker 1: still a frightened little place inside you asking to be loved. Now.
Speaker 1: I know, the mind may say, but Louise, I don't
Speaker 1: like this. I don't want this lesson. I don't want
Speaker 1: this waiting. I don't want this pain. And I would say,
Speaker 1: of course you don't, darling. We are not pretending that
Speaker 1: pain is pleasant. We are not putting pink paint over
Speaker 1: a wound and calling it healing. We are simply learning
Speaker 1: not to add more suffering by fighting what is already here.
Speaker 1: There is the situation, and then there is the story
Speaker 1: you tell about the situation. There is the feeling, and
Speaker 1: then there is the criticism you place on top of
Speaker 1: the feeling. There is the delay, and then there is
Speaker 1: the belief that life has forgotten you. There is the change,
Speaker 1: and then there is the fear that you will not
Speaker 1: survive it. Healing begins when we separate the fact from
Speaker 1: the fear. Healing begins when we say, this is happening,
Speaker 1: but I do not have to hate myself through it.
Speaker 1: This is difficult, but I do not have to abandon
Speaker 1: myself inside it. This is uncertain, but I can still
Speaker 1: be kind to me. I have seen again and again
Speaker 1: that people are willing to accept almost anyone else before
Speaker 1: they accept themselves. They will forgive a friend, they will
Speaker 1: comfort a child, they will speak tenderly to a pet.
Speaker 1: They will water a plant, feed it, move it into
Speaker 1: the sunlight, and say, oh, you poor little thing, you
Speaker 1: just needed some care. But when it comes to themselves,
Speaker 1: they say, what is wrong with me? Why am I
Speaker 1: not better yet? Why am I still afraid? Why am
Speaker 1: I still repeating this? My dear? That is not healing.
Speaker 1: That is old training. That is the voice of criticism
Speaker 1: pretending to be improvement. Criticism never healed anyone. It may
Speaker 1: frighten us into temporary action, but it never creates deep peace.
Speaker 1: Love heals, love teaches, Love opens, love dissolves the hard places.
Speaker 1: Love says I see you, I hear you. I am
Speaker 1: not leaving you because you are unfinished. And perhaps that
Speaker 1: is the sentence many of us have been waiting our
Speaker 1: whole lives to hear. So let us practice a little acceptance,
Speaker 1: not as a concept, but as something you can feel.
Speaker 1: Place your hand over your heart, if you can let
Speaker 1: your shoulders drop just a little, Let your face soften.
Speaker 1: You may not realize how often you hold your face
Speaker 1: as though you are preparing for bad news. Soften the forehead,
Speaker 1: soften the jaw, let the tongue rest, Let the belly
Speaker 1: be allowed to exist. And now say quietly, perhaps only
Speaker 1: in your mind. At first, I accept myself as I
Speaker 1: am today. Notice what comes up. Perhaps the mind argues,
Speaker 1: Perhaps it says, no, not yet, I have too much
Speaker 1: to fix. That is all right. Do not fight the argument,
Speaker 1: Just notice it. Then say again, a little more gently.
Speaker 1: I accept myself as I am today, Not because I
Speaker 1: am finished, not because everything is perfect, not because I
Speaker 1: have all the answers. I accept myself because I exist.
Speaker 1: I accept myself because I am learning. I accept myself
Speaker 1: because love is the soil where all good changes grow.
Speaker 1: If we wait until we are completely healed before we
Speaker 1: accept ourselves, we postpone healing. If we wait until the
Speaker 1: body looks different before or we bless it, we deny
Speaker 1: the body the love it needs now. If we wait
Speaker 1: until the bank account is full before we trust life,
Speaker 1: we keep teaching the mind that safety is always somewhere
Speaker 1: in the future. If we wait until everyone understands us
Speaker 1: before we feel worthy, then we give our power away
Speaker 1: to people who may not even understand themselves. No, darling,
Speaker 1: we begin now. We accept ourselves. Now, We bless life. Now,
Speaker 1: We cooperate with the universe. Now, and then change comes
Speaker 1: not from panic but from peace. The changes we make
Speaker 1: when we love and accept ourselves are always positive. Always.
Speaker 1: They may be small at first, but they are real.
Speaker 1: A kinder word, a slower breath, a better meal, a
Speaker 1: little rest, a drawer cleaned, a boundary spoken, a mirror
Speaker 1: looked into with less hatred. These are not small things.
Speaker 1: These are the first shoots coming up from the fertile
Speaker 1: soil of the subconscious mind. And when you see them,
Speaker 1: do not say that is not enough. Say oh good,
Speaker 1: here it comes. Life is moving. I am changing, you see.
Speaker 1: Accepting how the universe works means we stop demanding that
Speaker 1: life obey our fear. We stop saying it must happen
Speaker 1: this way, at this time, through this person, or I
Speaker 1: cannot be happy. That is not trust, That is control
Speaker 1: wearing a spiritual costume. The universe has avenues you have
Speaker 1: not thought of. Life has time. You cannot always understand
Speaker 1: while you are standing in the middle of the lesson.
Speaker 1: Very often, when something does not happen the way we planned,
Speaker 1: we think we have been rejected. But sometimes we have
Speaker 1: been protected. Sometimes we have been redirected. Sometimes we are
Speaker 1: being prepared for a larger good than the one we
Speaker 1: were clinging to. This does not mean we become passive
Speaker 1: it means we become receptive. We still take steps, we
Speaker 1: still make choices, we still speak honestly. We still care
Speaker 1: for the body, the home, the work, the relationships. But
Speaker 1: underneath it all, we stop fighting life. We begin to say,
Speaker 1: life is not against me, Life is teaching me. Life
Speaker 1: is arranging itself for my greater goods. Have you ever
Speaker 1: planted a seed, my dear, and then become angry with
Speaker 1: the soil because the flower did not appear the next morning.
Speaker 1: Have you ever looked at a tiny green shoot just
Speaker 1: beginning to push through the earth and said, this is
Speaker 1: not enough. You are too slow. You should already be blooming.
Speaker 1: Of course not. We understand when we look at a
Speaker 1: garden that life has a rhythm. The seed goes down
Speaker 1: into the darkness. First it opens where no one can
Speaker 1: see it. It breaks quietly, it softens, it sends out
Speaker 1: a little root, before it sends out a little leaf.
Speaker 1: And for a while, if you are standing above the ground,
Speaker 1: you may think nothing is happening at all. But underneath,
Speaker 1: my dear, everything is happening. That is how healing works, too.
Speaker 1: That is how the mind changes, That is how the
Speaker 1: heart learns to trust again. You may say an affirmation
Speaker 1: for three days and then wonder why your whole life
Speaker 1: has not rearranged itself. You may choose one loving thought
Speaker 1: and then feel disappointed when the old fear comes back
Speaker 1: again in the afternoon. But this does not mean you
Speaker 1: have failed. It means the old roots are being met
Speaker 1: by new seeds. It means your inner soil is learning
Speaker 1: another way to grow. So let us be very patient
Speaker 1: with ourselves. Let us stop pulling up the little seed
Speaker 1: every morning to see if it is working. Let us
Speaker 1: water it with love, give it warmth, give it time,
Speaker 1: and trust the invisible work of life. I allow my
Speaker 1: healing to unfold in divine right time. There is a
Speaker 1: very gentle discipline in trusting the process of life. It
Speaker 1: is not laziness. It is not sitting back and saying, well,
Speaker 1: I shall do nothing and the universe must do everything
Speaker 1: for me. No, that is not what I mean at all.
Speaker 1: Trusting the process means you do your part with love,
Speaker 1: and then you release the timing. You plant the seed,
Speaker 1: you water it, you let the sun reach it. You
Speaker 1: remove a few weeds when you notice them, But you
Speaker 1: do not shout at the seed. You do not demand
Speaker 1: that the rose become a rose. Bud before it is ready.
Speaker 1: You do not compare your little garden with the garden
Speaker 1: next door and say life loves them more than it
Speaker 1: loves me. Your path is your path, Your timing is
Speaker 1: your timing. Your healing has its own divine order. And
Speaker 1: sometimes the part of you that wants everything now is
Speaker 1: not really asking for healing. It is asking for control,
Speaker 1: because control feels safer than trust. So when you feel impatient,
Speaker 1: do not scold yourself. Just say, oh, there is the
Speaker 1: frightened little part of me that wants proof. Then give
Speaker 1: that part love. Tell it we are learning. We are safe.
Speaker 1: We do not have to rush the universe to be
Speaker 1: loved by it. This is how we begin to loosen
Speaker 1: the old habit of forcing life. We become cooperative, We
Speaker 1: become receptive, We become willing to grow, little step by
Speaker 1: little step. You know, many people get very discouraged when
Speaker 1: their desires do not appear immediately. They say, I asked
Speaker 1: and nothing happened. I affirmed and nothing changed. I tried
Speaker 1: to be positive and life did not reward me. But perhaps,
Speaker 1: my darling, something did happen. Perhaps you simply do not
Speaker 1: recognize it yet because you are looking only for one
Speaker 1: specific form. Life may be moving people out of your way.
Speaker 1: Life may be teaching you a boundary. Life may be
Speaker 1: strengthening your sense of worth so that when the good comes,
Speaker 1: you can actually receive it. Life may be preparing a
Speaker 1: larger answer than the little one you were insisting upon.
Speaker 1: I have learned not to call every delay a denial.
Speaker 1: Sometimes a delay is protection. Sometimes a delay is preparation.
Speaker 1: Sometimes a delay is the loving space in which your
Speaker 1: consciousness grows large enough to hold what you have asked for.
Speaker 1: If you ask life for a new relationship but still
Speaker 1: believe you are unlovable, then perhaps the first answer life
Speaker 1: gives you is not another person. Perhaps the first answer
Speaker 1: is a mirror. Perhaps the first answer is a book.
Speaker 1: Perhaps the first answer is a quiet morning where you
Speaker 1: finally say, I am willing to love myself, And the
Speaker 1: mind says, but that is not what I asked for,
Speaker 1: And life says, oh, but it is what you need,
Speaker 1: so that what you asked for can stay. So when
Speaker 1: a desire has not yet come, let us not be
Speaker 1: cruel to ourselves. Let us not say I am unlucky,
Speaker 1: I am forgotten. Nothing works for me. Those are very
Speaker 1: powerful words, and they do not nourish the garden, they
Speaker 1: trample the tiny shoots. Instead, we can say something deeper
Speaker 1: may be forming, something wiser, may be arranging itself. I
Speaker 1: am being prepared, guided, and strengthened. You see, my dear,
Speaker 1: The universe is not a vending machine. It is not
Speaker 1: a cold little mechanism where you insert one affirmation and
Speaker 1: demand one perfect result by Friday. Life is intelligent, Life
Speaker 1: is responsive. Life knows the hidden corners of your heart.
Speaker 1: Life knows what you are ready for and what you
Speaker 1: are becoming ready for. And very often what we think
Speaker 1: is a closed door is only a hallway. We are moving,
Speaker 1: We are not stuck. We are in transition, and in
Speaker 1: transition there is often a lot of back and forth.
Speaker 1: One day you trust, the next day you worry. One
Speaker 1: morning you feel peaceful, that evening an old fear comes up.
Speaker 1: Please do not use that as evidence against yourself. You
Speaker 1: are not failing because an old thought returned. You are
Speaker 1: practicing a new one. You are learning to live in
Speaker 1: a new house of consciousness. And every new house feels
Speaker 1: unfamiliar at first. Be patient with yourself, build yourself up
Speaker 1: instead of beating yourself up. Delay is not denial. Something
Speaker 1: deeper may be forming. Now, let us talk about something
Speaker 1: very important, and I want you to listen tenderly. Here.
Speaker 1: The words you speak are not small things. Your words
Speaker 1: are little messengers. They go out from you, and they
Speaker 1: also go into you. They tell your body what to expect.
Speaker 1: They tell your mind what to search for. They tell
Speaker 1: your heart whether this is a safe place to open.
Speaker 1: Every complaint is an affirmation too. It may not be
Speaker 1: the affirmation you want, but it is still an affirmation.
Speaker 1: When you say I am terrible, life hears the energy
Speaker 1: of that. When you say I never can, the mind
Speaker 1: begins gathering proof that you cannot. When you say I
Speaker 1: am broken, the body contracts around that command. We often
Speaker 1: use our own voice as a weapon, and then wonder
Speaker 1: why we feel wounded. But the voice can become medicine.
Speaker 1: The same mouth that has criticized you can bless you.
Speaker 1: The same tongue that has repeated fear can begin to
Speaker 1: speak peace. The same breath that has carried worry can
Speaker 1: carry a new decree of love. This is not about pretending.
Speaker 1: This is about choosing the language that helps you heal.
Speaker 1: I would like you to begin noticing the little phrases
Speaker 1: you say without thinking. They may seem harmless because you
Speaker 1: have said them for so long. I can't do this.
Speaker 1: I am so tired of my life. I always mess
Speaker 1: things up. No one helps me. My body is against me.
Speaker 1: I am too old, I am too late. Things never
Speaker 1: work out for me, My dear, These words create an atmosphere.
Speaker 1: You would not choose to live in a room filled
Speaker 1: with smoke and then wonder why you cannot breathe. Yet
Speaker 1: many people live in a mental atmosphere filled with criticism, hopelessness,
Speaker 1: and complaint, and then they wonder why their hearts feel heavy.
Speaker 1: We are not going to shame ourselves for this. We
Speaker 1: are only going to become aware. Awareness is the beginning.
Speaker 1: You cannot clean the room if you refuse to turn
Speaker 1: on the light. So we turn on the light, not
Speaker 1: to punish ourselves, but to see what needs love. And
Speaker 1: when you hear yourself say I can't do this, pause, smile.
Speaker 1: If you can, then say I am learning one step
Speaker 1: at a time. That is a very different atmosphere. It
Speaker 1: gives the mind a path instead of a wall. When
Speaker 1: you hear yourself say I am so broken, pause again
Speaker 1: and become very tender. Perhaps what you mean is I
Speaker 1: am hurting. Perhaps what you mean is I need gentleness.
Speaker 1: Perhaps what you mean is I do not yet know
Speaker 1: how to hold this part of myself. So let us
Speaker 1: not call ourselves broken. Let us say I am healing.
Speaker 1: Gently feel the difference. One phrase shuts the door, the
Speaker 1: other opens a window. When you hear yourself say nothing
Speaker 1: works for me, try saying life is opening new ways
Speaker 1: for me. The mind may argue, of course, it may
Speaker 1: say where are they? I don't see them, And you
Speaker 1: can answer, I do not have to see every way today.
Speaker 1: I am open and receptive. When you hear your self
Speaker 1: say I am not enough, place your hand on your
Speaker 1: heart and say I am worthy right now, not later,
Speaker 1: not after improvement, right now. Worth is not a prize
Speaker 1: handed to you after you perform well enough. Worth is
Speaker 1: your nature. You were born worthy. No baby ever looks
Speaker 1: in the mirror and says I must earn the right
Speaker 1: to be loved. Babies simply exist. They breathe, they reach,
Speaker 1: they receive, and we spend so many years trying to
Speaker 1: return to that innocent knowing. Words can burden your life
Speaker 1: or bless your life. Today we choose blessing. And I
Speaker 1: want you to speak to yourself as you would speak
Speaker 1: to someone you truly love. If a frightened child came
Speaker 1: to you and said, I don't know if I can
Speaker 1: do this, would you say you are right, you are hopeless. No,
Speaker 1: you would kneel down, you would soften your voice. You
Speaker 1: would say, let us try together. One step. I am here.
Speaker 1: If someone you loved was healing from pain, would you say,
Speaker 1: hurry up, you are taking too long. No, you would say,
Speaker 1: take your time. I am proud of you for beginning. Then, why,
Speaker 1: my darling, would you speak to yourself with less mercy?
Speaker 1: You are with yourself all day long. Your own voice
Speaker 1: is the one voice you cannot escape. So let it
Speaker 1: become a kind voice. Let it become a home. Let
Speaker 1: it become a healing hand on your own heart. Say
Speaker 1: I bless my mind, I bless my body, I bless
Speaker 1: my timing. I bless this day. I bless the lesson.
Speaker 1: Even before I understand it, this is not silly, This
Speaker 1: is powerful. You are retraining the atmosphere of your consciousness.
Speaker 1: New words create a new inner atmosphere. Let us practice
Speaker 1: this now, very simply, very gently, take the old words
Speaker 1: and let them soften into new ones. I can't do
Speaker 1: this becomes I am learning one step at a time.
Speaker 1: I am so broken becomes I am healing gently. Nothing
Speaker 1: works for me becomes life is opening new ways for me.
Speaker 1: I am not enough becomes I am worthy right now.
Speaker 1: I am too late becomes I am moving into fine
Speaker 1: right time. I always ruin things becomes I am willing
Speaker 1: to learn a new way. My body is failing me
Speaker 1: becomes my body is communicating with me, and I listen
Speaker 1: with love. The universe has forgotten me becomes life is
Speaker 1: arranging my good in seen and unseen ways. Can you
Speaker 1: feel how the body responds. It may be very subtle,
Speaker 1: A little breath, a little softening, a little space in
Speaker 1: the chest. That is enough. Do not demand thunder and lightning.
Speaker 1: Sometimes healing begins as a tiny quiet yes inside the heart.
Speaker 1: And if the old words come back, do not panic.
Speaker 1: They are only old habits looking for a familiar chair
Speaker 1: to sit in. You can smile and say, oh, I
Speaker 1: know you. You are the old way. Thank you for
Speaker 1: trying to protect me. But we are choosing differently now.
Speaker 1: We do not need to hate the old thoughts, We
Speaker 1: only need to stop feeding them. If you have spent
Speaker 1: years saying I am not enough, then one day of
Speaker 1: saying I am worthy. May feel strange. That is natural.
Speaker 1: The new thought is like a new pair of shoes.
Speaker 1: At first you are aware of it. You may wonder
Speaker 1: if it fits, you may feel awkward walking in it.
Speaker 1: But if you keep wearing it, it begins to feel
Speaker 1: like yours. So repeat the new words. Write them down,
Speaker 1: put them on the mirror, Whisper them while making tea,
Speaker 1: say them in the car, say them while washing your face.
Speaker 1: Let your everyday life become a little temple of new language.
Speaker 1: Your subconscious mind hears everything. It hears the criticism, and
Speaker 1: it hears the blessing. Let us give it blessing. Now,
Speaker 1: I would like to offer you five thoughts to carry
Speaker 1: with you as you learn to accept how the universe works.
Speaker 1: Do not rush them. Let them be like five little
Speaker 1: seeds placed gently into the soil of your mind. The
Speaker 1: first is I accept myself exactly where I am today.
Speaker 1: This does not mean you will stay where you are.
Speaker 1: It means you stop attacking yourself for being there. The
Speaker 1: second is I trust the process of life to guide me.
Speaker 1: This means you are willing to believe that there is
Speaker 1: wisdom beyond on your immediate fear. The third is everything
Speaker 1: I need to learn is coming in the right time.
Speaker 1: This means you no longer need to chase every answer
Speaker 1: in panic. The fourth is I release resistance and allow
Speaker 1: healing to begin. This means your energy is no longer
Speaker 1: wasted fighting the doorway. And the fifth is the universe
Speaker 1: supports my growth in seen and unseen ways. This means
Speaker 1: that even when you do not see the full evidence yet,
Speaker 1: you are willing to believe that roots are forming beneath
Speaker 1: the ground. Say them again in your own rhythm, perhaps
Speaker 1: with your hand over your heart. I accept myself exactly
Speaker 1: where I am today. I trust the process of life
Speaker 1: to guide me. Everything I need to learn is coming
Speaker 1: in the right time. I release resistance and allow healing
Speaker 1: to begin. The universe supports my growth in seen and
Speaker 1: unseen ways. Good, Let them move through you, Let them
Speaker 1: find the places that have been tight and tired. Let
Speaker 1: them speak to the part of you that has been
Speaker 1: trying so hard to control every outcome. You do not
Speaker 1: have to carry the whole universe on your shoulders. What
Speaker 1: a burden that would be. You are not here to
Speaker 1: manage every detail of timing, every person's reaction, every doorway,
Speaker 1: every result. You are here to become more loving, more aware,
Speaker 1: more receptive, more honest, more at peace with yourself. Do
Speaker 1: that part, do it gently, do it daily, and let
Speaker 1: life do what life knows how to do. I trust life,
Speaker 1: and life supports me. This is where many people misunderstand acceptance.
Speaker 1: They think acceptance means I give up, I will never change,
Speaker 1: I must tolerate everything. No, my dear, Acceptance is not
Speaker 1: giving up. Acceptance is telling the truth without adding self abuse.
Speaker 1: Acceptance says, this is what is here, and I can
Speaker 1: meet it with consciousness. If you have pain in the body,
Speaker 1: acceptance does not mean you refuse help. It means you
Speaker 1: stop hating the body while you support it. You may
Speaker 1: see a doctor, you may rest more, you may change
Speaker 1: your food, you may pray, you may affirm, you may
Speaker 1: receive treatment. But underneath all of that, you are no
Speaker 1: longer saying my body is my enemy. You are saying
Speaker 1: my body and I are learning together. If a relationship
Speaker 1: is changing, acceptance does not mean you let yourself be mistreated.
Speaker 1: It means you see clearly. You stop arguing with the truth.
Speaker 1: You make choices from peace, not panic. You say yes
Speaker 1: when yes is loving and no when no is loving.
Speaker 1: Acceptance gives you back your energy because you are no
Speaker 1: longer spending all your strength pretending that what is happening
Speaker 1: is not happening. When you stop fighting, life energy returns.
Speaker 1: Have you noticed that resistance is exhausting. Rehearsing old conversations
Speaker 1: is exhausting, Arguing with the past is exhausting. Trying to
Speaker 1: force people to become who you want them to be
Speaker 1: is exhausting. Demanding that the universe use only your little
Speaker 1: plan is exhausting. But when you breathe and say I
Speaker 1: accept what is here and I am willing to be guided,
Speaker 1: the whole system begins to soften. Then you can hear
Speaker 1: your inner wisdom. Then you can take the next right step.
Speaker 1: Then you can act from clarity. This is why acceptance
Speaker 1: is the doorway to real change. Before acceptance, we react.
Speaker 1: After acceptance, we respond before acceptance, we fight shadows. After acceptance,
Speaker 1: we turn on the light. Before acceptance, we try to
Speaker 1: heal from fear. After acceptance, healing begins in law. So
Speaker 1: today I invite you to make a small commitment, not
Speaker 1: a dramatic promise, not a harsh discipline, just a quiet
Speaker 1: inner agreement. Say today I will stop using my own
Speaker 1: voice against myself. Today I will bless my timing. Today,
Speaker 1: I will speak to my body as a friend. Today,
Speaker 1: I will trust that life is teaching me, not punishing me.
Speaker 1: Today I will practice acceptance as the beginning of healing.
Speaker 1: And if you forget, begin again. If you complain, bless
Speaker 1: yourself and choose another word. If you panic, breathe and return.
Speaker 1: If the old fear says nothing is happening, remember the
Speaker 1: seed underground, Remember the roots forming in the dark. Remember
Speaker 1: that divine right timing is not late, it is wise.
Speaker 1: You are not behind, my dear, You are becoming. You
Speaker 1: are not forgotten. You are being guided. You are not broken.
Speaker 1: You are learning how to love yourself in places where
Speaker 1: you once learned fear. And now, if you are listening
Speaker 1: to this and something in you is ready to stop
Speaker 1: fighting yourself, I would love for you to make it
Speaker 1: real in a simple way. Write the words I accept
Speaker 1: and heal. Let those words be your little declaration to life.
Speaker 1: And if you wish add one thing you are learning
Speaker 1: to accept to day, perhaps you write myself, my body,
Speaker 1: my past, my timing, my healing, my life. There is
Speaker 1: no wrong answer. Wherever you have been fighting, that may
Speaker 1: be the very place love wants to enter and I
Speaker 1: encourage you to listen again each morning for seven days,
Speaker 1: not because you are trying to force change, but because
Speaker 1: the mind learns through loving repetition. Let these words become familiar.
Speaker 1: Let acceptance become an atmosphere. Let trust become a new habit.
Speaker 1: Let your own voice become a blessing. Take one more
Speaker 1: breath with me, now, Let it be easy, Let it
Speaker 1: be enough. Feel the air come in as life, feel
Speaker 1: the air leave as release, and say softly within yourself,
Speaker 1: I accept myself. I trust the universe. I allow healing
Speaker 1: to begin. Now. Everything does not have to be solved
Speaker 1: in this moment. You do not have to know how
Speaker 1: the whole path will unfold. You only need to open
Speaker 1: the next door within you, the door of acceptance, the
Speaker 1: door of trust, the door of love. And as you do,
Speaker 1: life meets you, Life supports you, Life begins to show
Speaker 1: you new ways. My dear one, you are safe to grow,
Speaker 1: You are safe to heal. You are safe to stop
Speaker 1: fighting life and begin co operating with it. I accept myself,
Speaker 1: I trust the universe. I allow healing to begin. Now.
Speaker 1: Life loves me, and so do I. A