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Surfing requires acceptance

Acceptance of What is vs. Changing What You Don’t Like.

By Acceptance, Mental Health

Ever learned how to surf? Surfers will tell you it’s about being patient and accepting the ocean just as she is. You have to be present to the moment if you are to be ready. To ride the next wave as it changes energy and crashes to the shore you have to be open to accept what it is, as it is. Today we are looking at how to use self regulation to bring acceptance to the moment you are in, not the one you wish was happening.

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standing and looking down at arrows in both directions

Working with Ambivalence … the parts of you that want to change & the parts that don’t.

By Acceptance, Activities, Cultivating Calm, Goal Setting, Mental Health

Ever wonder why it is so hard to make big changes … or even small ones for that matter? It is often because we have what is known as ambivalence. This concept that part of us wants to change and part of us does not. We have a small war going on inside ourselves between the factions of staying the same and playing it safe and the part of us that wants something new and different … aka not as safe. Below are 3 ways to work with your own ambivalence and get those changes to take hold for good.

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