How I Set Myself Free

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2:02ass masterclass. If you want to get it for free, you can go to get off your assclass.com. Once again, get off your assclass.com and you can get that lesson and workbook absolutely free. Today, we're going to be talking about acceptance and that doesn't sound very sexy. But we're going to talk about what I believe is probably the main problem with the majority of people in the world including myself. And this is something that I have been working on for a couple of years now. It has completely changed. First off, the way I feel every single day. But second off, what I focus on in my journey of self development. You know, I found in self development, the journey of personal growth and transformation. It's filled with tools and strategies and books and routines and all of these things that you need to quote unquote do to fix yourself.

3:02It's all about fixing yourself. For me, I would say the first 16, 17 years of me being into personal development was me trying to fix my problems or what I perceived as my problems. And I was trying to fix myself and I'm broken and I'm not perfect yet and I need to fix myself. And if I'm being honest, the most profound and transformative approach that I have found in 19 years now of working on myself, it is not something to do. It is more of a state of being. If you look at it, you're not a human doing, you're a human being. And the approach we're going to talk about is the practice of acceptance, which is already triggering to some people because you're like, yeah, but I want to change this thing. I hate this thing. I don't like this thing about her. I don't like this thing about him. I don't like this thing about myself. I don't like this thing about the world. It's this state of trying to get to radical acceptance. And acceptance is the key to unlocking this feeling of freedom of peace, of fulfillment. And now I get it. It's too basic.

4:07It's too easy. There's literally a part of me that's like, it's too basic. Let me refer in that. It's not too easy. It's actually not very easy at all. But go with me and let me show you how this will help you have more peace in your life. When you look at Michael J. Fox, who has Parkinson's disease, he says this quote that I love, he says, acceptance doesn't mean resignation. It means understanding that something is what it is. And there's got to be a way through it. Like I love that because you're looking at somebody who could fight and say, I hate that I'm this way. And I hate that I have this disease. And I hate I have Parkinson's. But what he says is acceptance doesn't mean resignation. It means understanding that something is the way that it is. And there's got to be a way through it. And so, you know, religious or not, you can take this serenity prayer. And you can kind of see it and hear as well. So there's a serenity prayer. It says, God grant me the serenity to accept the things that I cannot change, the courage to change the

5:09things that I can and the wisdom to know the difference, living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time, accepting hardships as a pathway of peace. And so really, what's disturbing your peace is not the situation that you're in. What's disturbing your peace is that you're resisting that reality is the way that it currently is. And that resistance is what is what is causing you to be disturbing in your peace. Do you see that? It doesn't mean that you don't change your circumstance or that you don't work to make your life better. You can and you definitely should, but it means that in order to do all of this, you must first accept it before you can change it. And if you accept it, at least you're at more peace while you're trying to change it versus being at some internal resistance or internal turmoil. It helps your mental health way more than you know. And so when you understand the nature of acceptance, the first step towards embracing

6:14acceptance is understanding its true nature. It's my belief and you can take this belief if you want to or you can hate this belief. I'm completely cool with it. It's my belief that everything in this universe is absolutely perfect. Now, when I say that it's perfect, I do not mean that everything is as I want it to be. There are many things in this world that are not the way that I want them to be. Many things that are happening in this world and happening in governments and happening to people that are not the way that I want them to be. But I accept that I am not intelligent enough to understand why things are the way that they are. But I do trust that it's all happening as it should right now. And eventually it's all going to work its way out. You know, if I look back on my life for some sort of wisdom, there are many things that I did not want to happen. How it happened. You know, like I didn't want my father to be an alcoholic. I didn't want him to go to jail multiple times and as a kid. I didn't want him to get drunk and forget about me. I didn't want him to die.

7:19I didn't want to have to go through all the hardships of after him dying. I didn't want to have to go through all the hardships that I went through to get to where I am in life now. But now that it's been 24 years since my dad passed away, I do see how everything was perfect. It wasn't what I wanted at the time. But now that I've gone 24 years since all that stuff happened, I can look and I can go, oh, I can now see the perfection in it. It's like you they always say you can't connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect the dots looking backwards. Right. I would not do what I do now. I want to have the life that I have now had all of that stuff not happen to me. I would not have the strong desire to help people out of their suffering. How if I had not been in my state of suffering in my own mind? I would not be able to teach people how to get out of their suffering if I did not have to do it myself. You know, if you fast forward long enough, you can see how it all works out to be perfect. The problem is we as humans, we think too much in the short term and

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11:29at im8health.com slash mindset mentor. These statements have not been evaluated by the food and drug administration. This product is not intended to diagnose treat cure or prevent any disease and now back to the show and these are the the the mental and emotional blockages in our lives that restrict this free flow of life. You know our past experiences and judgments and likes and dislikes all create this constricted version of ourselves that limits our ability to fully experience life as it is. And if you can't get past those blockages in what you want to actually happen in your lack of acceptance you can't become the greatest version of yourself you're only going to become the greatest version of your limited self. And so when you recognize that you're the one that's blocking all of these different flows in your life because of this resistance here and this resistance and wanting it to be this way and thinking that it should be this way and being pissed off that they're not acting this way and being pissed off that that person didn't do what you wanted

12:31them to do. Then you have to recognize that all of these little blockages and you understand the impact that they have all of them if you just decide to accept it's a little bit less weight on your shoulders. So all too often people when I talk to them and they talk about their life experiences and what they're going through and things that are their hardships right now it's almost like their bodies in a straight jacket like they're just their mental state is so tight that their body reacts to it and you can see that they're just ready to burst at the seams. But the problem is almost never the situation the problem is almost always the way that we're thinking about the situation. There are many people in this world who have been through what you've gone through and what you might be going through that didn't have near as much stress and anxiety when they were going through it and maybe they accepted it better. If they can accept it can you accept it? I want you to understand one of my favorite quotes comes from one of my first mentors when I was

13:34younger and he said the amount of stress and anxiety that you feel will be in direct proportion to how much you are resisting the way that the world is. Think about that quote for a second there's so much wisdom to it the amount of stress and anxiety that you feel will be in direct proportion to how much you are resisting the way that the world is. You cannot change anything until you fully accept it first and when you fully accept it you can breathe a little bit easier and so we've got to learn to accept the present moment. At this moment the only thing that we ever have is a present moment. All of your past moments were once a present moment and all of your future moments that will come to you will be a present moment and yet we often find ourselves this conflict of like what we want versus what we currently have and how we think things should be. And this conflict creates this resistance and this suffering within us and so if we can practice more acceptance acceptance of the present moment we a lot ourselves with reality and we can actually

14:36start to work through it. And this alignment brings this really deep sense of peace like when you can really actually feel you know what I'm just going to accept this this isn't the way that I want it to be but I'm going to accept it and if I want to change it I can change it and when you do that it brings this sense of peace because you're no longer fighting reality you're kind of jumping into the stream and getting into alignment with reality. So many people are just fighting reality right now versus accepting it going with the flow of life and making a plan to change it and to take action. Fighting is what causes this internal tightness it's like this mental straight jacket that you're in and it manifests in physical ailments and it can be sornous it can be tightness it could be your body at dis ease and so I want you to understand you're an incredibly powerful being like you're way more powerful than you could possibly comprehend I believe that humans are probably

15:42a million times more powerful than we actually think that we are and when we use this mental and physical energy to resist and we're resisting something that we can't change in this moment but when we like think about that we're using so much mental and physical energy to resist what is and when you do that you're blocking and restricting all of the stuff that you could create and so what I want you to do is I want you to notice your mind's resistance sometimes in the mind it has all of these different patterns it has all of these different habits it has all of these different preferences and it it wants to restrict and in resist change and your brain might argue against the practice of acceptance oh this isn't going to work you don't want to accept it like he doesn't know what's going on in your life though but it's essential to recognize that the resistance is just another pattern of the mind and so you have to learn to challenge your thoughts you know in cognitive behavioral therapy they teach to test the validity of your thoughts if you have a

16:46thought come in test the validity of it if you're thinking negative is there a chance that there might be a positive way of looking at this but you're just not allowing yourself to see it is there a chance that you're focusing on getting data that you want to prove yourself right versus there actually might be some other scenarios your mind will find whatever you're searching for and this is really important your brain I always say is like cosmic Google if you go online right now and go to Google and type in is coffee bad for your eyesight there is a ton of articles that say coffee is bad for your eyesight if you go on Google and say is coffee good for your eyesight there's a ton of articles that say coffee is good for your eyesight which one's real I don't know but whatever you go in and you type into Google you're going to find the answer to so if you go into your brain and and type in how you're not good enough how you're not smart enough how you think the world should be

17:48different you're going to find all of the reasons why everything should be different why you should be pissed off about somebody doing that or why you should be pissed off about the way the government is the current state of the world because that's what you're going into your mind and typing but if you go into your mind and type is there anything to be grateful for right now is it possible for me to accept and feel good in this moment accepting my circumstances but then also deciding to myself I will take action to change because what I'm talking about is not about just once again resigning to the way that the world is what I'm talking about is how to feel more at peace right now in this moment most of us are not at peace because we are in constant battle with what we want reality to be and what I like to do is just can you pretend that you're on the debate team and once you notice a thought that is not accepting can you go on to the other side of the debate table and debate the

18:49opposite of what you're thinking reminding yourself how everything works out perfectly how many times things were not what you wanted to be but now that you're 10, 20 years, 30 years down the road you can see the universe did make it perfect I usually think too much in the short term but now that I'm looking more long term this makes sense in the long term might be longer than your lifetime we might look at reality and say this is not what I want it to be but in 400 years it might be exactly what it should be even though it's not what we want it to be we can still accept in this moment and so that's a challenge that I have for you today is it possible for you to embrace total acceptance what would it look like for you to just accept everything and let nothing piss you off you know if somebody cuts you off of the middle of the road hey okay no big deal total acceptance I don't need to honk I don't need to try to run them off the road I don't have to make them feel bad about themselves they cut

19:51me off no big deal so I'm going to say I'd say take the last croissant when you wanted that last croissant hey no big deal total acceptance because what we're usually doing is we're usually fighting reality aren't we we're usually fighting it and so this strategy of just total acceptance is what would it look like for you to just totally accept everything just as a practice and see how it feels for the next 24 hours if you hate it you can write me an email about how much you hated it but just try it out because acceptance is like a muscle it gets stronger the more that you work at it you just might have a very weak acceptance muscle right now you might have a really really strong resisting reality muscle right now and this means accepting all areas of your life if you're going to try it out your thoughts okay I'm just saying I set my thoughts my emotions I'm going to accept them my physical sensations I'm going to accept them the external circumstances the way that I'm being treated at work the fact that I just got fired from my job I'm just going to accept it

20:53and in that acceptance because I'm not resisting and I'm not fighting reality in that acceptance is just a little bit more peace and by doing so you're allowing life to flow freely without all of these barriers of resistance and this practice if you can really start to master it can become transformative in your life and it can lead to a whole lot more peace and freedom and now instead of fighting reality and fighting life you're kind of in the flow of life it's going to help your mental health I promise you more than you can possibly understand and once again acceptance is not about being passive or just full on silent resignation it's about accepting this moment feeling better in this moment in the future still taking action towards creating the life that we want it's more about personal freedom in this moment it's more about peace in this moment that's what it's about and you accept this total acceptance and you accept the present moment and you challenge the mind's resistance

21:58and you can actually feel better in this moment than you've ever felt and you can make change in your future while still still feeling good in this moment versus having to feel like shit while trying to change which your future looks like and as we go on this journey of self-development why don't we just try to accept a little bit more and realize that acceptance is the real key to true transformation so that's what I got for you for today's episode if you love this episode please share it on Instagram stories tag me in it Rob Dyle Jr. R O B D I A L J R and once again if you want to learn how to stop procrastinating you can get my free in-depth video lesson and workbook called get off your ass master class it is at getoff your ass class.com once again get off your ass class.com and with that I'm going to leave it the same way I leave you ever single episode make it your mission to make somebody else's day better I appreciate you and I hope that you have an amazing day. When you partner with CDW you get more out of your network with solutions

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