Accepting Openness

AA said: Vu comme ça c’est presque facile d’être malade 😉

BB said: Dein mail  über ACCEPTANCE hat mir so gefallen, dass ich ihn mir auf einen Zettel geschrieben und mir an die Wand gehangen habe. Es hat mir geholfen.

Accepting Openness

Let your body become like open space, with plenty of room for unpleasant sensations to arise and dissolve, fade and intensify, move and change. No holding, no tension. Inhabit the sea of awareness, and let any painful sensations float in an accepting openness.

                                                           Tara Brach: Radical acceptance

Returning from a visit to Italy I brought home a heavy cold. Sigh! As much as I longed for long, wintry hikes in the freshly fallen snow up here I had to stay indoors and cure it. With the three Swedish V’s: Värme, Vila & Vänlighet; Warmth, Rest, and Kindness. No holding, no tension.

My head was aching. I had a sore throat, my nose was running, and I felt a little miserable. How silly! Even a day of sickness can be beautiful if you just accept the situation.

So I relaxed. The sun lightened my room, warm thyme tea with essential oils (tea tree, pine and peppermint) eased the throat pain and I finally got to finish off a knitted present for a friend. In the end I spent a lovely day at home, just letting the disagreeable sensations “float in accepting openness”. And being so very grateful that it was nothing worse than a cold.