Self-Acceptance

In Maya Mandala's teaching it is the act of recognition — the levels of the life are seen (the parents, the other people, the spaces of the day) and the right to be living through them is given. The acceptance opens the space for the growth.

Because the growth without the acceptance stands on sand: what is not recognized keeps the tension in the body. The acceptance is the ground — the honest state, where the growth is possible.

Self-esteem is the valuation — higher or lower, depending on the success. Self-acceptance is the seeing: the day as it is, without the verdict. The valuation rises and falls; the acceptance is the ground of the changes.

Very much: when the mother and the father were not accepted, the acceptance of oneself in that position, in that role, becomes hard. The family grows through the acceptance — and the accepted role becomes the accepted self.

The images: the expectations, the acquired pictures of what we should be. They may shine and still be out of tune with the soul. The practice distinguishes what is true from what was taken on.

It is a practice, and the practice is built in layers: the seeing, the recognition, the letting go — and the growth. The state of the day stabilizes with the daily work.

The anger is part of the honest picture: seen, acknowledged, given its place in the body. What was hidden keeps the tension; what is seen can be released — through the practice, the movement, the breath.

What is truly ours: the essence, the state of the soul — what the images and the acquired roles cannot replace. To grow into it means to understand what is true, what is imagined, and what was taken on.

It is the opposite of giving up: the honest state is the beginning of the change, and the change from it is a real one. Giving up abandons the change; acceptance is where it begins.

The psychological well-being model of Carol Ryff (1989) counts self-acceptance among its six dimensions — looking at oneself honestly, with the good and the wounds, and carrying what is seen. It holds where self-esteem rises and falls — the acceptance is its ground.

The day is the field: three minutes a day of attention — the body, the breath, the state of the day. Then the growth — the movement, the meditation, the honest seeing.

The images are met by the practice of seeing: the acquired ones are distinguished from the true ones, and the ones out of tune with the soul are released in the work of the day.

The patterns of the family — the role, the debts, the expectations — are the field of the practice. In the deep work of meditation and movement, they are seen and released, and the acceptance grows from the release.

When the judgment of oneself or the old wounds carry a deep state, professional support is the right foundation — the practice walks alongside it.

Start with the recognition: three minutes a day, the levels of the day, the body, the breath — and the right to live through it. The Basics of Life program works with self-worth and the ground of the practice, and Maya's free guided meditations are the natural first step.