Posted on May 28, 2008
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This weekend was a perfect example of learning how to deal with finding acceptance in a situation that not only myself has to find but my whole family is working on trying to find in a family member dealing with a troubling and life long disease with addiction to alcohol and drugs.
Addiction runs in my family and it has played a very nasty role in a lot of my members of my family. Though what are you to do when there is nothing you can do about it because the person wants no help with their problem and you are forced with the decision either to accept the situation as it is or keep on trying to deny it and let it be unacceptable to you and ruin and take over your life?
Well, that is a very hard question to answer because their are so many things that come into play when it is someone close to you in your family. Over this past weekend was a perfect example of seeing someone in my family that has a problem with drugs and alcohol and for members of my family some of them are forced with a decision either having to accept his situation as it is or try to deny that there is anything wrong with him and his lifestyle choices that are killing him through his abuse with drugs and alcohol. His biggest problem is alcohol and I know it kills everyone in my family to see him going down the road to destruction.
So that is where acceptance comes into place and acceptance can come in many different ways and sometimes even be very hard to obtain because of certain feelings that come along with the situation and when you are trying to find it with someone that you care about and you know they don’t care about themselves or the situation that they are in.
Acceptance has played many roles in my life and most of the time acceptance is not an easy thing to come by especially when I am the one trying to accept something because when you are to accept something for what it is that means you are okay with every part of the situation at hand. There have been many things that have happened to me in my life that have been really hard for me to accept and have taken a long time for me to accept them because how can I accept something that I don’t believe that their is anything wrong with?
So that took me a lot of time and hard effort on my part to learn the steps and practice learning how to accept certain mistakes and certain situations that have happened to me in my life.
Once I learned that I had the ability to accept things for the way they were it made my life much easier to deal with and it made dealing with life’s obstacles a lot easier and along with learning these steps and practicing them throughout my life it made it easier for me to accept people, places, and things for just exactly the way they are.
So in the next section I am going to teach you the steps and procedures that I went through and how I learned throughout my life on how to accept a person, place, or situation just the way they are.
In my next post, I’ll be outlining the exact steps that I have taken to achieve acceptance, peace, and serenity in my life. Make sure you subscribe if you don’t want to miss it!
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This site is dedicated to people dealing with mental illnesses, people dealing with addictions,and tips on staying clean and sober.
I look forward to reading your post. I read something last week called the Celestine Prophecy. It made sense to me. You may find it helpful. Here is a link to the insights. http://www.celestinevision.com/