Self-acceptance doesn’t mean you stop striving to be better or to lose weight. It just means your motives for change are different. Self-acceptance is a radical act. It says, “I’m ok with who I am, warts and all. If I seek to improve myself, it’s because I want to fulfill my potential and evolve as a human being,
not because I need to gain anyone’s love and approval.”
Change from this place feels less threatening because it’s something you truly want with your heart; it’s not coming from a place of fear, self-judgement and “should.” In other words, it’s coming from a place of allowing and receptivity, instead of something you’re forcing yourself to do.
When you’re in a state of allowing and receptivity, you’re aligned with your true Source nature, and there is a sense of effortlessness and flow because you’re not desperately struggling against the current of life. Life is carrying you.
Self-acceptance of your whole being, your weaknesses, as well as your strengths, is what makes you whole.
When you’re whole, you’re a true force to be reckoned with, for you’re no longer at war with yourself. You are free to be your true self and freely share your gifts with the world.
