Compassionate Acceptance is a powerful tool for engaging your mind and heart during Mindfulness practice, particularly when strong emotions arise. Developing Compassionate Awareness and Acceptance of your current experience assists with healing through painful memories, emotions, and triggers of distress.

Compassionate Acceptance of your emotions and present-moment experiencing connects you with your intuition, allowing you to step back from your experience and emotions while remaining mindful of what is occurring or has occurred in the past. This creates space in your mind and your heart to engage with your experience in a new way, potentially allowing for new perspectives and relationships to develop with your pain. Remember that trusting your intuition is a process that takes time and patience. It's normal to feel unsure or hesitant at first, but by taking small steps and following your intuition in daily choices, you will start to see the positive impact it has on your life. Trust that your intuition knows what is best for you, and be open to receiving its guidance with an open heart and mind.

Key Lesson Concepts:

•   Engaging Compassion—heart-focused witnessing
•   Accepting Resistance—compassionate response
•   Acceptance and Change—dual processes, dialectical awareness

Lesson Summary

Compassionate Acceptance is essential in mindfulness practice, aiding in dealing with strong emotions effectively. By fostering Compassionate Awareness, individuals can heal from painful memories, emotions, and distress triggers by being present in the moment and connecting with their intuition. This practice creates mental and emotional space, allowing for new perspectives and relationships with pain to emerge. Trusting your intuition may be daunting initially, but small steps and daily choices can show its positive impact over time. Embrace your intuition with an open heart and mind to receive its guidance.

• Engaging Compassion—heart-focused witnessing
• Accepting Resistance—compassionate response
• Acceptance and Change—dual processes, dialectical awareness