How do you accept who you are?

How to Accept Yourself, Your Life, and Your Reality

1. Accept yourself. Acceptance is the ability to unconditionally value all parts of who you are.
2. Acknowledge your reality.
3. Practice radical honesty.
4. Identify your part.
5. Admit your mistakes.
6. Own your outcomes.
7. Don’t let fear get in your way.
8. Count on your competencies.

How do you cultivate acceptance?

Get proactive and use these techniques to begin cultivating acceptance in your life.

1. Cut ties with judgement.
2. Build an awareness of self.
3. Take responsibility for your reactions.
4. Be more grateful for what you’ve done right.
5. Forgive, forgive, forgive.
6. Put fear in its place.

What is acceptance and why does it matter?

Acceptance does not mean liking, wanting, choosing, or supporting. No one is suggesting you like, want, or support whatever it is that you’re accepting. But by struggling against the pain—by resisting and rejecting it—we create undue suffering. It doesn’t mean that you’ve chosen or endorse what you’re accepting.

How can I become more accepting of the past?

Try to focus your acceptance on the present, alongside an open and realistic gaze at the future. Focusing too much on the present can be counterproductive, as a large part of acceptance involves letting go of the desire that things will change—detaching from hope that, in some cases, creates suffering.

Does practicing acceptance mean you can’t change your behavior?

However, this doesn’t have to be the case. Practicing acceptance does not necessarily mean you won’t be able to make a change. You can accept your body and still change it, accept your emotions and acknowledge their impermanence, and accept your behavior one day when you might change it tomorrow.

Why is acceptance important in Buddhism?

Acceptance has been a key to happiness since Buddhism was born. The Second Noble Truth of Buddhism (of The Four Noble Truths) is that “desire (or craving) is the root of all suffering”. This is interpreted as wanting reality to be anything but what it is; in other words, a lack of acceptance.