Why Acceptance Is The Beginning of Everything

In this week’s episode of UnBroken, Dr Rachel gives you a framework for acceptance, which is the ultimate key to all transformation. Choosing self-acceptance can free up massive amounts of energy that can be caught up in the futility of comparison, less-thanism and constant critique. This episode raises some interesting questions that you can ask yourself to begin the process of self-reflection, to see where you can increase your levels of self-acceptance, and how to shake off the shackles of perfectionism and ‘fitting in’ which keep you playing small. 

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Key Insights From This Episode

• Acceptance is not a passive situation, acceptance is actually quite active. 
• Once we start to actively embrace everything that is going on, and to view it through objective eyes, we can actually start seeing what could be the cause of our discomfort.
• Let's start being honest about how we feel about ourselves. Are we basing our acceptance of self on comments that were made when we were children?
• What is acceptable is denoted to us within a set of often unwritten rules that we all adhere to, because this is how we've lived. This is what we've been told since before we've even had awareness.
• Look at what you were exposing your senses to. Is it toxic or is it a tonic? 
• We need to start actually observing ourselves and start really loving difference.  Difference is so important. Difference is what brings innovation and creativity.
• There's nothing as interesting as hearing somebody else's opinion that you've never even considered before.
• Human beings need human beings. We need to connect.
• It's pretty difficult to make choices when you have a restricted internal world. When you have a narrow viewpoint of what life is. 
• Once we start to actively embrace acceptance, once we stop comparing and start celebrating, understand the conditioning, start to make the connections, then we start to have very different choices. 
• We might behave in a certain way, but we are not our behaviours. We are so much more than that.

Keywords: acceptance, comparison, compassion, difference, connection, conditioning, awareness, choices

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Dr Rachel Taylor

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Dr Rachel Taylor is a neuroscientist with decades of experience exploring, discovering and solving everyday challenges faced by many, as well as listening to and telling the stories of people she comes across