Acceptance
Every Ascension Attitude takes the mind into the Ascendant, into the pure unmanifest potential, and the beliefs and the structures of the mind that have been set in place by previous choices start to relax and melt. As we let ourselves go with this simple process we will begin to have an experience beyond the subtle programming of judgments in our mind. This is where true acceptance begins to unfold. By dipping your consciousness into the Ascendant by repeating the Ascension Attitudes effortlessly in your mind the reality of the Attitudes will manifest. True acceptance is built into every Attitude because that is the nature of reality and the nature of what we are.
When there is still stress in the body and the mind runs on many of its habitual patterns of judgment it is very difficult to really accept ourselves, others and the experiences that we have in our daily lives. The mind is very subtle and many of the patterns of thought are running without us really having an awareness of them. Someone who is so loving and caring toward others on the surface may be an extremely harsh judge of him or herself on the inside.
Ascension Attitudes bring us to the present moment, which is the only place where we can fully experience life. When we are not caught up in the thoughts of the past or the future we settle into what is actually happening now. Learning to live in this way is a way of accepting what comes to us as part of our creation. Not something that needs to be pushed away through judgment, but something that is an integral part of our world.
The deeper our experience is of the Ascendant One, the easier it will be to find acceptance for our own self, for others and for everything that has ever happened. Only a shift in our consciousness can release us from the
bondage of false perception and judgment. Every Ascension Attitude will do that and regular practice will open us to our greatest Good.
Nataraja Ishaya
Universal Acceptance
Ascension is Universal – those of any religious background can and do learn this practice. The Teachers of Ascension uphold all religious traditions and honor all religious leaders, past and present. Any and all attempts to grow toward the Ascendant is beneficial; any and all past attempts have contributed greatly to human life. We honor all and condemn none, for we know that everyone in deepest essence is a spark of the Divine Flame. The external differences that are so apparent in the Earth-life are quite superficial compared to the Infinite, never-changing light that underlies and permeates all of creation. This inner light accepts all, flatters none, condemns none. How could it? It is the essential Reality of everyone, of everything, everywhere, always.
The attitude of universal acceptance can be artificially cultured – it is, after all, only a mental habit that leads us to condemn others. Any habit can be changed. If it is possible to think without judgment about ourselves and others, it is certainly possible (and definitely easier) to think without judgment, with perfect acceptance of ourselves and everyone else.
MSI, Ascension!
Miracles happening to me
when I accept others as they are.
“When I accept others as they are, they change. When I accept myself as I am, I change.”
--Carl Rogers
On a glimpse on this statement very lately, some thoughts of mine were coming out.
When we teach Ascension, we always deliver that what we hate in others are actually our unconscious judgments displayed in others. Only when we totally accept ourselves, including our shortcomings, can we accept others. Though I understand the truth, yet I still cannot stop judging others. Said the other way, I still cannot accept myself as I am.
Nevertheless, lately I found it’s easier for me to let go my attachments and now more realize the above statement and am practicing it. I truly realize I don’t need to fix others; only I change and let go my habitual patterns, others will change. Said more specifically, to give an example, this idea just came to me recently that if I want others to be generous, I change myself to be generous, and then others will change. I’ve been practicing this – accept others as they are and change my habitual patterns – and feel my life easier.
Yeah, Ascension works!
Sharada Ishaya
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
Brendan Fancis
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
C.G.Jung
Sometimes when we are Ascending we have many thoughts and sometimes we have just a few. It depends on the state of the mind and the body when we Ascend.
After a heavy meal, as an example, you will find there are more thoughts in your mind because of the activity in your body digesting food. Perhaps after a busy day at work the mind’s activity is experienced as many thoughts while Ascending in the afternoon.
When the body relaxes as a result of Ascending and there is not much healing or physical activity the mind also settles down and we experience peace and calm.
Both kinds of experiences are part of Ascension and we never judge our Ascension by the types of experiences we have during it. We just do it.
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Foundation
for change and growth
Since most people unconsciously look at their lives and the world they live in through their perceptions and thoughts and judgments, this leaves little or no room for change to something greater. Yet, the world around us is constantly changing. The cycles of Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall attest to regular change, along with the fact that no two of them are ever the same. And although we live in this world of change, we rarely change our thinking or our beliefs, which stymies our creativity and Hearts’desires. Why? Habit. By continuing on with the same ways of thinking and acting, we continually create the same results. This should come as no surprise to anyone, but it does. Instead of celebrating our results as creators, we bemoan our fate as victims.
Acceptance is the foundation for change and growth. Accepting what already is relinquishes judgments, and allows us to move beyond what we may think or feel is our fate, thereby creating more opportunities. In reality the opportunities are always here, always present, always available. It is simply up to us look anew, to see beyond, to recognize
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different ways, to make a different choice and then act accordingly.
But none of this happens by complaining or grumbling. That only keeps us locked in the same muck. It may seem like a paradox, but it is only by recognizing and then accepting where we are that we have a platform from which to change. We can then make a conscious different choice. Then there is no one and no situation and no circumstance to blame. We move out of the boundaries of victims to the unlimited possibilities of creators, and avenues we never saw before open up. The blinders come off as we see more clearly.
It is with the regular practice of the Ascension Attitudes, Praise, Gratitude, Love and Compassion, that our consciousness expands, and the perceptions and thoughts and beliefs of limitation and failure and doubt fall away. As we let them go, we develop a new habit of thinking and acting, and become more attuned to our birthright to live in Joy, Peace & Harmony right here now.
Nandisvara Ishaya
Acceptance and application
I stand at the Door of your consciousness, knocking. If you will only turn toward me, emptying yourself out to receive my Spirit, I will pour so much Light into the reservoir of your heart that it will run over with goodness and mercy all the days of your eternal life.
By the power of this Light your subconscious reservoir of feelings can be lifted up to its original purity, thereby exalting your reactions, causing you to put on the living crown of life, to receive the face and the fashion of a new person, to open the Door in consciousness which has been closed to you. When this happens the old order of life will pass away, the sub-created web which seemed as invincible as enclosing bars of iron will melt and dissolve before you. This renovation does not depend on time or place but solely on your acceptance and application of the truth that you are really created in the image and likeness of your God.
Ruby Nelson, The Door of Everything
Praise
The Praise Ascension Attitude corrects the fundamental stress of the modern world, that something is wrong with the individual life. This Attitude by itself is sufficient to generate full enlightenment, but because of most peoples’ life-long habit of strain and divided minds, more techniques will usually be required to perfect growth. Nevertheless, the first Attitude is sufficient unto itself and will usually prove the most useful for transforming the grossest levels of beliefs and judgments about life. This Attitude above all others can be used any time of the day or night when it seems that individual life is not progressing as well as it could. MSI
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