"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change."
~ Carl R. Rogers
I appreciate this
reminder and I hope you'll find it helpful in some way too.
Nearly all of us, at times, would like something about ourselves or a condition in our lives to be different.
One of those things for me right now is my weight. It's higher than it's ever been. A part of me has felt baffled. "How did I let this happen?" A part of me has judged how I feel, how I look, and the larger size clothing I have
needed. Along with the self-judging, there has been rejection and denial.
But a few days ago I felt a shift, an acceptance of myself just as I am. I took a deep breath and said, "Yup. Right now my body weighs that number I see on the scale and requires larger clothing." And a sense of peace washed over me.
Paradoxes are curious, contradictory, puzzling, and mysterious. There's a beauty about
them too.
It seems to me that in my moments of meeting acceptance, acceptance has greeted me like a friend ready to go the distance with me.
We can also see that acceptance moment like the powerful point when the sea tide changes from ebb to flow and flow to ebb, from out to in and in to
out.
Life. There's so much beauty in all of it. And in each of us.
With reverence,
Charlene
