ACCEPTANCE AND RESIGNATION

     More needs to be said about this.

     Acceptance is acceptance with expectation of vanishment.

     Resignation is acceptance with expectation of persistence.

     At the high tone level, acceptance is good and resistance is bad,
because resistance leads to persistence.

     At the human levels, acceptance is very bad, as it is apathy, and
resistance is at least an effort to fight back.

     Thus acceptance and resignation are higher and lower harmonics of
each other.  Resignation is a kind of enforced acceptance, you had
better accept this, because you can't get rid of it.

     Like the old prayer '...  Lord help me accept the things I can not
change.'

     Thus when you start talking about acceptance as a necessary part of
clearing, one needs to be VERY certain one doesn't get the preclear into
resignation, for the process will go nowhere fast.

     One does this by word clearing very carefully, acceptance with
expectation of vanishment not persistence.

     Homer

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On Tue, 6 Jul 2010, homer@lightlink.com wrote:

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>     The issue of acceptance and resistance goes deeper.
>
>     I used to complain 'somatics yak yak yak' and Speaker would go
> "Accept them and they will vanish".
>
>     That used to just cave me in and I finally figured out this was
> because it wasn't true.
>
>     PRIOR to the somatics was something that could have been accepted
> but was in fact resisted.  THAT then caused the somatics to turn on.
> All the acceptance of the somatics in the world will not vanish the
> somatics, they just turn on harder.
>
>    One needs instead to go earlier before the somatics to find
> the item that was not accepted that resulted in the somatics,
> THEN the somatics release.
>
>    Homer
>
> Clearing Archive Roboposter (roboposter@lightlink.com) wrote:
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>>    I find a semantic problem with the idea that one one needs to accept
>> something in order to vanish it.
>>
>>    If something is persisting, then it is being resisted.
>>
>>    What is there to accept?  Once it is accepted, it is gone, there is
>> nothing there to accept.
>>
>>    Thus if one finds oneself 'accepting' something, one is clearly
>> still resisting it because its persisting long enough for you to
>> be 'accepting' it.
>>
>>    Acceptance is a state, its not a transitive verb.  You don't
>> accept THINGS, as there are not things in the state of acceptance.
>> If the thing is there to be accepted, then its there because
>> its persisting and is being resisted.
>>
>>    Resistence is transitive.  You resist SOMETHING and it persists.
>>
>>    Acceptance is non transitive.  You are in a state of acceptance
>> because all things have vanished, not because you 'accepted them'
>> but because you stopped resisting them.
>>
>>    Not resisting is not the same as accepting.
>>
>>    Homer
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