Acceptance is a vehicle to healing

Acceptance and healing

Healing is embracing what is most feared; healing is opening what has been closed, softening what has hardened into obstruction, healing is learning to trust life. Our inclinication is to resist reject or oppose any chronic condition, disease or discomfort. this is like a reflex. but this undermines our ability to heal. what acceptance, radical acceptance is needed for starting the healing process?   Learn from the mouth of people who have been there, done that:
Dr. Howard Schubiner MD: insights about acceptance and healing

How acceptance is so connected to healing?

Acceptance is  connected to healing because you're accepting that you're okay, that the sensations are not dangerous. You're not reacting to them with fear or frustration. You're not trying to fix them because you're not actually broken. All of these things are decreasing the threat detection system, the danger system in the brain.  when the brain feels safer, it will relax and it will relax the body. It will relax the muscles, it'll relax the blood vessels. It will go back to this resting and healing state, and the body knows how to do this.

Acceptance gets you back to the resting state

The brain knows how to do that, and the brain knows how to turn the body back to that resting state. Now, in some people, as you pointed out, they've been living in fight or flight for so long all the time that they don't come back to quite as low level as somebody who's very calm and composed, but everybody has their ability to modulate this up and down, more tense, less tense, more danger versus more safety, and over time, we can train ourselves. We can train our brain to be live more in safety because the brain is neuroplastic.

Your brain is still neuroplastic in old age

This is true at all ages. You can be 105 years old. Your brain is still neuroplastic.

Florian Van Herk: insights about acceptance and healing

I think the most important thing to accept is that you are not perfect, life’s not perfect, and that’s okay. Also accept that you will heal over time if you have TMS, with the knowledge that you have gained!

Samantha Klassen: insights about acceptance and healing

Acceptance is the key to healing. The pain is  trapped emotion in your body so  allow the situation, accept it for what it is. What you resist persists so the more that we resist it, the more it wants to take control. If you don't like something. The more you push it away, It's going to attract more pain and become harder at you. Acknowledge , embrace accept the situationas it is in order to change it.

Sarah Hamilton: insights about acceptance and healing

Acceptance is the precondition of giving no energy to disease. By accepting your condition- you no longer feed  it and the story on top of it. If someone can give no energy to disease, it'll disappear. Resentment is a limited energy, it's against healing, it consumes the energy that should be used for healing. I think one should forgive everyone and mainly him/herself in order to achieve complete and fast healing.

Rachel whitfield: insights about acceptance and healing

Acceptance is not the same as resignation, but in order to move forward you do need to accept where you are right now and not be in a hurry to fix things or look back. The point where I stopped fighting what was happening was the point where things started to shift. 
 

Debbie Viggiano: insights about acceptance and healing

In meditation, I initially spent much time crying and I think it was a form of release of all that anger, upset and suppressed emotion.  Incredibly, I also found myself forgiving this person for making me feel this way.  After all, I’d obviously impacted on their health too.  I imagined, in meditation, sitting down with this person and simply saying, ‘I forgive you.’  And really Feeling That forgiveness.  So my advice to anyone doing this work is to see where the meditation takes you.  What “pops up” in your head?  An emotion?  A person?  A traumatic situation?  Anger?  Bereavement?  Despair?  You will find yourself working through it and, subsequently, healing emotionally and mentally, and then the body will reflect this by returning to health.  I followed Dr Joe’s formula which is 1) An intention (healing) 2) An elevated emotion (joy/gratitude) and then really Feeling Healed and so grateful and joyful to be healed.  You have to “rewire” your brain… your thoughts… your feelings… and really Instruct Your body that it is healed!  What better way to do this than imagine you are just that (even if you’re feeling rubbish and doubting!).  One thing I will stress is to meditate every day.  Do not return to your “old self” because the last thing you want is that old disease returning!

Christine Traxler: insights about acceptance and healing

This is tricky. Acceptance and denial are not polar opposites. In all things, you can choose what to accept and what to deny. If you have pain and you can’t avoid it, accepting the pain is part of what takes you out of being so upset by it, especially if you know the pain does not mean anything bad. Yet you can choose to deny it some of the time so you can do the things that make you happy, even when in pain. In that sense, you accept and make peace with that ‘illness part’ of you. That part is like an old friend who only irks you some of the time.

In my case, accepting that what I had was incurable would not have served me well. It was only when I became angry and denied it the chance to kill me that I became able to do what it took to become well. It is still ‘my old friend’ yet I chose to become its master and not its victim.