The stages of acceptance are so important to understand when yo want to move towards a better state of well-being. These stages apply equally to emotional states like grief as well as physical illness and disease. The very stage is an acknowledgment or acceptance of how things are for you right now. This is not something we immediately think of – we are often so caught up in looking forward, trying to find a way out of a situation and looking for improvement and well-being. But it is the first step in your ‘health journey’ and finding balance and a better state of well-being.
It is a full, honest and deep acceptance of your state of your physical, mental and emotional health as it is today.
You see, it is very difficult to experience a deeper level of health and well-being, when you haven’t fully accepted your health as it is now. Let me give you an obvious example (a case I saw in the clinic) and that way you can see how it applies to many situations that involve both the emotions as well as physical symptoms.
A Case Example
I saw a client suffering from a severe case of IBS (irritable bowel syndrome). It caused not only a lot of inconvenience, but pain and discomfort. Over the years the frustration has been building as they have tried all sorts of treatments and nothing has really helped in the way they would like. Yes, some relief here and there but no long term and stable improvement. They became more and more frustrated and angry. Anger was their daily companion.
Real and sustained healing came to my client only after we spent time playing with idea of ‘accepting’ his condition for what it is. Just being really honest about the huge impact it had on his life and the consequences of that. Not being able to go out for the day without being worried about having to go to the toilet with a few minutes notice.
His condition had massive life-consequences for him and the emotional toll was huge.
Just being with his anguish, anger and sadness and allowing those emotions to ‘be there’ and working through them in various ways, was in itself a tremendous healing process for my client.
And for those of you that like a bit of science as well, go back to the issue of cortisol I talked about in part 6.
I had been prescribing him natural medicines which helped but the best improvement in is health came after this acknowledgement of his health in the here and now and all the consequences of it.
So you get the moral of this story. In most health-situations we need to stop and take stock of where we are. Not looking forward. Not craving for our health to be something that it isn’t.
Now here comes the exciting part! By accepting the status quo, we are never suggesting for one nanosecond, that our health will stay at that level and that we cannot move towards an improved wellbeing. On the country, its like the acceptance of the now unlocks the ‘channels’ that allow us to progress and move forward in deeper and more significant ways.
All of this means, of course, our immunity is going to have a ‘healthier’ body to be able to do what it is so wonderfully designed to do.
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