5 Tools for Acceptance and Surrender
Acceptance and Surrender
** NOTE: These tools are NOT appropriate for people experiencing suicidal ideation
Make note of the things you can change, and the things you cannot change, about your situation or what you are facing.
Notice where you feel resistance to accepting these things. Note when a thought or feeling brings tension to the body and where. This is your biofeedback for when you are tightening into resistance.
Mindfulness increases the awareness of this - link in 5
Body Scans or Attuning to the Body NeuroMeditation or Brain Exercise to increase awareness
Learn more about how the body responds to stressors (the things we resist) through the Vagus Nerve and the Nervous System
GENTLY invite acceptance and softening to these places. Draw in greater fluidity and ability to surrender the things you cannot change. Practice the 10 Keys for Success - especially BOTH/AND thinking
Practice the Accepting What IS NeuroMeditation
Practice Mindfulness - it increases our ability to stay rooted and grounded as we allow all that we think, feel, sense or perceive