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Acceptance, hard to define but worth doing

04/02/2025

Acceptance is very difficult to define.

One way of looking at it is that it means not struggling with realities that you cannot change, but saving your energy for those that you can change.

Past or future

And that could be accepting something from the past, perhaps something that will never be resolved. Or it could be something that’s coming up in the future that you’re going to have to go through anyway, that you wish you didn’t have to go through. And accepting it will make the whole experience much easier.

Good at change

Curiously, people who are good at accepting things also tends to be very good at changing things. And that’s possibly because they save their energies for those things that they can change.

Not rushing to judgment

Another way of looking at acceptance is to say that it means not rushing to judgment,  just pausing to take in the reality of the situation.

If you explore acceptance, if you give it some effort, I think you will find that it’s one of the most beneficial aspects of mindfulness.

Video edited from my Easy Mindfulness course.

My Easy Mindfulness course can help you to appreciate and practise acceptance among the many aspects of mindfulness.  It’s an  online course and payment is by donation so it’s affordable to all. Learn more

Easy Mindfulness

Padraig O'Morain

I have practised mindfulness since the late 1980s, have taught mindfulness throughout Ireland and in London and have had books on mindfulness published in several countries and languages. I have demonstrated mindfulness on RTE, ITV and TV3 (now Virgin). I provide courses online. My latest book is "Acceptance - Create Change and Move Forward." My aim is to make mindfulness easily accessible to people in their everyday lives.