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     Acceptance helps us to become empowered and self-aware, to communicate clearly, and to

understand kindness.  It is the thought energy that leads to compassion, because as acceptance grows,

so does compassion.    Acceptance is not submissive, it is wise and dynamic because it gives you the courage

to know when to accept things, events and people and to know when you have no power to alter them.

     We all experience such situations, they are a part of life.  Too often we fight against them, refusing

to accept what we cannot change.      The key moment of acceptance allows us to see when accepting a

situation is the wise choice to make.  Acceptance removes doubt and gives us insight into the history

of our lives.   It gives us the power to heal old wounds and to forgive those who have harmed us.

It elevates our inner nature and teaches us that all things are possible.

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The above excerpt is taken from: The Tibetan Art of Positive Thinking by Christopher Hansard.

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     Sharing an experience I had about 9 years ago where I used Acceptance (I didn't have this book then)

to deal with an unexpected debilitating illness.  I was already on the spiritual path then, being a devotee

of Sri Sathya Sai Baba and all the aspects of the Godhead, including Buddha.  I awoke one morning

to find myself paralyzed from the waist down.  I was not new to illness, having a chronic health condition

since childhood which did not stop me from becoming a nurse, and doing other activities.  But, this was

totally unexpected and terrifying.  My husband was still on Earth then, but frail with heart disease.

He could never push me in a wheelchair.  I chose to stay at home and my spirituality sprung into action,

immediately talking to Baba in my mind, saying that if it was my time to go, I accept it, but if it isn't,

I would fight this illness.   

     I was used to having some peripheral nerve damage, but nothing like this.  I immediately set out

to concentrate solely on dealing with it in a spiritual way, both mentally and with the playing of

Healing Buddhist Mantras on my CD player.  I played these mantras non-stop all day and every day, by

Lama Surya Das.  During this time of acceptance and total focus on the spiritual reason for this, I had

many, many spiritual insights.   I have heard that when one is very ill, or close to death, is the time when

spirituality is heightened.   I had my beautiful guides by my side, also Tara, my higher-self, came down

and was with me constantly.   When my spiritual body tried to rise out of my physical to leave, she would

gently place her hand down on my chest to stop me from leaving earth.  I knew then that what I was going

through was a very profound, deep experience.

     It took me up to 18 months to regain walking again without an aid.  My husband bought a wheelie-

walker for me to get around, even though I couldn't tell where my legs were when I moved them.  

I was determined to walk again.   I saw specialists who did test after test to try and find out the cause,

and put it down to a haemorrhage in the sacral plexus, therefore having no nerve supply for the

legs.   It does heal eventually when new blood vessels grow, and nerves start being fed again.  

An extremely painful process when nerves start coming to life and start firing their signals all over the

place........something I don't want to experience again !!

     Anyway, just sharing a time when I chose to accept the illness and treat it as a divine test and 

to build more spiritual strength and fortitude within.  All of these trials given to us can be used for

spiritual gain as well as strengthening one's character.   Also, I had to learn to give myself love and

compassion, a very important lesson indeed.   Thank-you for reading my story, Namaste and Love.

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