Article on acceptance vs. resistance in HuffPost.

[lildreamer316]

lildreamer says:LOL!!
What you resist, persists!
NOTE: PLEASE, ANYONE WHO IS IN THIS GROUP and is having a hard time; DO NOT think I am aiming this at you AT ALL. It's more for the LOL I got that a 'mainstream' paper printed an opinion that is close to some of the ideas in New Thought, etc.
Just wanted to make sure no one got unnecessarily upset or hurt..I mean no judgment in ANY way by posting this. :hug:




Are You Better Off Accepting Or Resisting What's Going On?

Russell Bishop Senior Editor-at-Large, Author, Executive Coach, and Performance Improvement Consultant
Posted: December 7, 2009 09:05 AM

It probably doesn't take a genius to recognize that despite various assurances that the recession is over, there are plenty of us out here who are still challenged in many ways.

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...the word acceptance actually comes from an old English usage meaning "to receive from." Other early but less commonly held meanings of acceptance are "to recognize as true" or "to agree to undertake a responsibility."

So what does all this mean when faced with the short end of the stick? A workable, practical acceptance mindset means that you had better recognize and learn to face what's in front of you, no matter how unfair it might seem, and then start to figure out what you can do about it. Why? Because if you don't, you're stuck with it!

Hopefully, the pragmatists can see the wisdom in recognizing what's so and then working to make things better. That's what true positive thinking is about - recognizing the present reality, differentiating that from a realistic and preferred outcome, and then setting about moving toward that more positive future by taking positive, proactive action in the here and now.

..more at link.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/russell-bishop/are-you-better-off-accept_b_382130.html

[mother earth]

1. Well of course there is acceptance of what is going on,

none of what's happening can be denied. Resistance may be in the eye of the beholder.

If we did not resist over the years and decades and centuries there would be no USA, and there would have been no sixties to rock the boat and question, civil rights would still be nonexistent, along with labor rights, and on and on.

HuffPo has writers from every walk of life, I'm not surprised at all by the article.

What I find troubling about the resist/persists thing is that it is not always the answer. The victims of the holocaust did not resist and they gained nothing and lost everything, the founding fathers did resist and gained everything (over the long haul)...I think there are too many universal laws and factors that come into play to sum up how we should act or not react to anything. Karma is huge, what wins out?

However, I do agree that positive thinking is best. I'm a positive resister, lildreamer. I think so many things, good and bad are going to shake out and hopefully we'll be the better for it in the end.
I'm looking forward to peace and love triumphing, and I've got MLK Jr's prophetic words ringing in my heart. :)