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Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. In today's episode, I want to talk about

acceptance. It's kind of a funny word, acceptance. It's kind of a funny word, acceptance, another word that's often used as

surrender, which is even a harder word for many people to wrap their minds around when we're talking about anxiety, but today I want to talk

about acceptance how to do it. So really working through acceptance, letting go is a good way to look at it.

Being with what is, is that way of thinking about it.

And the is that we're bumping up against it.

And the anxiety that we're feeling and that we're bumping up against is actually the exact opposite of acceptance. It's we don't let go. It's a grabbing onto, a holding onto,

clenching down, and an inability, an actual inability to be with what is. There is a lot of desiring

things to be different than they are, an actual real non-acceptance of reality.

And this just gets us into a lot of trouble.

Actually being able to be with what is can help us in letting go of our anxiety.

There's that opening. Even just feel it right now. Clench your fists down. And then with the next

exhalation that you take, let your fists open up and open your hand up. Now that just feels so much more relaxed. That is an opening, a

receptivity, and acceptance. Trying to rationalize many of the symptoms that we have is really not acceptance.

It's something that we can go through on our journey with our anxiety but actually finding a symptom or a sensation and

rationalizing it coming up with reasons that it's there and kind of taking the story around that is not a way of

accepting. When we are accepting we can just be with what is. Maybe it is an uncomfortable symptom. Maybe it's this horrible sensation. Maybe it's the realization of a thought that won't go out of our head, a rumination, but we can

accept it. We don't have to say, well it's like this because of this and you can you

just feel with those rationalizations that we come up with

we're actually hyping ourselves up again and we want to stay away from that we

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