Acceptance of all: Everything

Everything “Just is”

Published by Lola

We always label things as good or bad, positive or negative; what about if everything “just is”? What if there is no such thing as a bad emotion, just applying the wrong emotion to the wrong situation or a lack of acceptance of what is?

Let’s take one of my favourites, guilt. Now, as much as guilt causes me many problems, guilt is a great emotion to have if you’re about to rob a bank or harm a vulnerable person, it can guide you to act for your highest good. How about joy, great emotion right? Joy is not necessarily an appropriate emotion to feel if you are visiting a mother who has just lost her child or to a friend who has lost a sibling. So, all emotions serve a purpose, it’s just when we use them in the wrong setting that the problems ensue.

Life would be a lot easier if we simply felt and accepted feelings, thoughts, situations and circumstance as “just is” and trusted in the highest good instead of placing judgement. We do not know why some things happen and certain situations seem very dire indeed, but we have to trust that there is a reason for it, it may not be for us to know right now.

When you’re happy, be happy; when you’re sad, be sad; if you want to cry, cry. They’re just emotions, they won’t hurt us, in fact they’re there to help us and it’s when we don’t allow them that repercussions arise. A lot of people supress emotion believing they are doing a good thing, however if a feeling arises, it has risen for a reason. The best thing to do is to allow yourself to feel the emotion and go through the process, suppression is simply postponing the event as it doesn’t go away and if anything, gets worse when buried.

Here’s a beautiful story to illustrate this point:

“There is a Chinese story of an old farmer who had an old horse for tilling his fields. One day the horse escaped into the hills and when all the farmer’s neighbours sympathised with the old man over his bad luck, the farmer replied, ‘Bad luck? Good luck? Who knows?’

A week later the horse returned with a herd of wild horses from the hills and this time the neighbours congratulated the farmer on his good luck. His reply was, ‘Good luck? Bad luck? Who knows?’ Then, when the farmer’s son was attempted to tame one of the wild horses, he fell off its back and broke his leg.

Everyone thought this very bad luck. Not the farmer, whose only reaction was, ‘Bad luck? Good luck? Who knows?’ Some weeks later the army marched into the village and conscripted every able-bodied youth they found there. When they saw the farmer’s son with his broken leg they let him off. Now was that good luck? Bad luck? Who knows?”

Love, light and abundance x x x