The yes is, again, it's not saying yes to things that you don't want to say yes to,

but it's more of the aspects of acceptance that are, the word acceptance, the root of it means

to receive. So it's saying, I'm willing to receive what is. I don't have to like what is.

I don't have to approve of what is, but I'm willing to receive it so that then I can actually, you know, do something here about it, you know.

And so that even words like allowing or welcoming or being open or other words that we can use for acceptance. So that's

an example of a mind-based one. And then a behavior-based one for acceptance is acting in a way

as if you were accepting. So if you were fully accepting of your husband's vision loss,

what would you do?

Well, I'd look at him.

So even if you're not there yet, sometimes you can behave your way into things before you even are fully on board because we know that our behavior feeds in to our minds and our bodies as well.

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