Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.

Don't resist them.

That only creates sorrow.

Let reality be reality.

Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao Tzu.

So today in this many episode, we are going to talk briefly about the concept and idea of

acceptance.

And this is something that I really have had an interesting journey with.

There's many things in my life personally that I have been

faced to accept addiction in my family, addiction within myself, a lot of shame and challenges

within my own life, infidelities that I've accrued and lies that I've told and all these types of

pieces are very challenging to accept. Our past can sometimes be very challenging to accept.

And when I see and work with people on a daily basis who are struggling to engage in a depth of intimacy that they desire or build a meaningful,

purposeful business. What I often see are people who are rejecting the acceptance of something,

the allowing of something in their life. And this is a byproduct of the culture that we live in in many ways.

North American culture does not respect acceptance.

I just want to say that again.

North American culture does not respect acceptance.

We live in a type of heroic masculine that believes in victory over acceptance,

dominance over allowing. And we get stuck in our lives because allowing and acceptance are

often a non-rational process, right? Our ego, our rational component of our

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