Week 29: A Year of Mindfulness – 52 Weeks of Focus
It’s a big one this week, ACCEPTANCE. I am hopeful I’m not the only one who has this issue come up often. I certainly don’t consider myself a control freak – and I asked my husband – he doesn’t either. But acceptance sure is a hard pill to swallow when you want and expect things to be a certain way.
Interestingly enough (or is it) I have a current issue I’m trying to accept, though it’s difficult because I DON’T WANT THINGS TO BE AS THEY ARE. After organizing a Facebook Group for our Yoga Girls Meetup and getting my husband to request time off to go, he found out he couldn’t. There are just too many projects and we just got back from a week long vacation at the beach. Plus we have a few other plans for later this year and next.
I asked him to go, though, for a few reasons that I FEEL ARE IMPORTANT. Yes ME – all important ME. Why doesn’t his work get that? 
Interesting, huh? They are:
- Airfare is going to cost roughly $300
- If I fly, I cannot justify a costly hotel stay as well, just for a weekend jaunt
- Driving the 9 and a half hours there by myself makes me nervous
So, I’ve been extremely bummed these last few days trying to figure out what to do. I had a nice restorative yoga session then took a long walk yesterday and contemplated it all. It isn’t the end of the world. I’m just disappointed. I think I’ve settled on flying in and out the same day. I can afford that and really want to make connections with all of these girls I’ve come to know through Twitter, Facebook and our blogs. It’s such a warm, loving Kula and I love being part of it. In fact, its made me think of all of the trips I definitely can make on my own to visit some of the girls who will not be there. Maria, Laurie, Anna, Melita and the two Megs in PA (if not going to NY), consider yourselves warned!
Acceptance.
I practice it each time I go to my mat.
I can do this pose. I cannot do that at all.
I wish I could go further in this pose.
I wish I could relax more.
Breathe.
Choose to accept, to BE exactly as I am.
I am accepting this situation as well.
Perhaps life is giving me exactly what I need.
Perhaps.
What about you? How has the lesson of ACCEPTANCE been presented to you lately, and how well are you dealing with it?
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aw, I hear you… It will probably be very hard for me to go too b/c of elf demands the weekend before the first day of school. Eternally my desires are set aside to tend to them and other aspects of family life. While I chose this path (motherhood) some days it is VERY hard to deal with accepting that I can’t drop everything and do a month long 500H, spend 2+ days at Wanderlust or do every workshop I want to do. Choices we make show up when it is the hardest to accept them, yet accept them we must. The times when things are easy and not asking us to give up something or balance are when we see how amazing our lives already are. So we miss our trainings, trips and adventures because we accept our choices with love and sometimes a bit of sighing too. xo