Guardian Word of the Week: Acceptance

I follow Upworthy (a website dedicated to positive stories) on Instagram. The other day they reposted this post from @slavingia:

“Don’t think you deserve the job? Apply for it anyway.
Don’t think your article is good enough? Publish it anyway.
Don’t think they’ll reply to your email? Send it anyway.
Don’t self-reject.”

This is profound: Don’t self-reject.

This week our Guardian word of the week is Acceptance, and I offer it to you with the hope that, by engaging with the energy of Acceptance, you’ll become more and more self-accepting.

Dictionary.com says that other words for Acceptance are:
• Admission
• Recognition
• Approval
• Acknowledgement
• Reception

Open your heart to the energy of Acceptance—Self-Acceptance—and begin a practice of self-recognition, self-approval, and self-acknowledgment.

I know that you already accept, validate, and recognize many, many others. Enter now into the energy of Acceptance and allow it to become part of your being. Notice what you feel in your body as you do.

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Make the energy of Acceptance a part of you, and the beauty of that energy will infuse everything you do from now on.