ACCEPTANCE: It Just Is

Several posts ago I wrote about Acceptance. It is such a critical action that it needs more attention. In session 164 of the Elias transcripts Elias says this about Acceptance:

“Acceptance, within your language, should be the largest word that you possess, encompassing more letters than any other word within your language. It is the largest and most difficult concept for you each to be accomplishing. You are taught to not be accepting. Therefore, you automatically are not. You also hold the duplicity of self, which reinforces non-acceptance of self. Therefore, how may you be accepting of another?”

In session 390 Elias says:

“Holding the remembrance and acceptance of belief systems are two of the base elements of this shift in consciousness, which allows you to widen your awareness and subsequently allows you to be accomplishing your creativity more fully and realizing your abilities more fully.”

Belief systems and the individual aspects each system contains are not to be eliminated, but rather, they are to be accepted. Acceptance does not mean eliminating beliefs, for beliefs cannot be eliminated. They are an integral part of the blueprint of this reality. Acceptance is the absence of judgment and includes a lack of expectation. Tolerance, on the other hand, camouflages itself as something positive and always includes expectation and anticipation. With Acceptance Elias uses the expression “It Matters Not.” With tolerance we tell ourselves it does matter. I’ll tolerate your dog barking at all hours of the night, but only for so long. There is usually a time element to our tolerance because what we are tolerating has not been accepted.

Tolerance is not bad. It is also not good. To see it as such is another form of non-acceptance. Let’s look at a brief example of tolerance to see how it disguises itself. The Anti-Defamation League’s mission is to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment for all citizens alike. On the surface most of us would agree that this is a “good” and “worthy” mission. It aligns with our intents and our preferences and desires. But, if this was truly a statement of Acceptance then the fair treatment of all citizens would include those who defame the Jewish people. Acceptance does not mean you have to like anti-Semites or bigots or terrorists or anything else we place on the “bad” side of the ledger. Acceptance also does not mean non-action. It simply means non-judgment. The bigots and racists of the world are no more, nor are they any less acceptable than those we place on the “good” side of the ledger. Both good and bad are ethical judgments, heavily influenced by the religious belief system and reside in the web-like belief system called mirror expression of ourselves.

In session 510 Elias says: “Those areas, those behaviors, those expressions that you deem within yourself to be acceptable and right and good, those are mirrored in your expressions of tolerance. Those areas of self that you deem to be the “dark side” of yourselves, those are unacceptable and not tolerated, and these are expressed outwardly to other individuals in an expression of a lack of tolerance.”

When Elias says, “It Matters Not,” non-Elias readers have a tendency to equate those words with “nothing matters.” This is not what Elias is intending when using the expression, “It Matters Not.” I understand, however, the potential for confusion. I’ve taken to using the expression, “It Just Is,” and I’ve noticed others using it as well. I was with a friend the other day and he bumped into an old friend of his. My friend’s friend was about 50 years old and told my friend that he just had a new baby. When my friend asked how he felt about it he shrugged his shoulders and said, “Hey, it just is.” To him it wasn’t good and it wasn’t bad. It was a “Just Is” kind of thing. It Mattered Not.

Each one of us is unique. There is no other exactly the same throughout all realities and all dimensions of consciousness. This being the case then why should we ever compare ourselves to anyone else or demand that others change in order to be more in alignment with our own preferences. Everyone is on their own path. Our action of comparing actually discounts us. Through Acceptance we let go of the action of comparing. There is nothing about yourself or your reality that is broken, and this includes other individuals, situations, circumstances, actions, feelings, emotions and thoughts. It is only our non-acceptance and our constant penchant for focusing our attention outside ourselves that causes us to label some things as good and some things as bad. This being the case, there is nothing within our reality that needs to be fixed, and this leads to the realization that there are no mistakes or victims. Each and every action by yourself and others has a purpose. We may not hold an objective understanding of all these actions, but they all occur within our subjective agreements.

With this in mind, “It Matters Not,” what anyone else does. What matters is how we receive their projected energy which we create through our perception into physical manifestations. The important factor is how YOU take in that energy and that you recognize that within each moment you have choices. No other individual creates your reality. There is no co-creation. You create your choices, your responses, your emotions, and your thoughts. We always hold the choice of how we will configure energy that is projected toward us. Acceptance of ourselves and of our belief systems are critical to our ability to create what we want.
Bill Marshall

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