The Power of Acceptance - AnneMarie Postma
The Power of Acceptance - AnneMarie Postma
The Power of Acceptance - AnneMarie Postma
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Our leartbeat, brainwaves and breatling all lave a certain
rlytlm. Witl a ligler leart colerence, tlese rlytlms begin
to resonate, wlicl tlen causes a certain kind of vibrational
frequency in our brain, lelping our leart and our body to
communicate witl eacl otler optimally. You can see it as a
beautiful sinus wave. Tis vibrational frequency las a positive
eect on our own mind and body. Wlen our brain receives
ligl-quality signals from tle leart, tle brain will send out a
ligl-quality signal to our body cells, and tlis also las a lealing
eect on tle world outside of us.
The heart is stronger than the brain
Our body and tle world around us is composed of energy elds.
Tese are inextricably linked witl eacl otler and inuence eacl
otler incessantly. Some of tlese energy elds are electric, otler
magnetic, and quantum elds are part of it as well. Our world
consists of electromagnetic and quantum energy elds. So it
makes perfect sense tlat we use tlat energy to communicate,
after all, we are not outside of it, but we are all a part of it.
Wlat modern day science las slown us over tle past tlree
or four years is tlat tle luman leart is tle most powerful
generator of electronically clarged information in our body.
Maybe even one lundred times more powerful tlan our brain. In
tle past, we were always told our brain was in clarge. Everytling
lappened tlere, and from tlere everytling came into existence
and motion. But modern-day science slows us tlat tle brain
receives its information from tle leart and tlat tle magnetic
force (tle attraction) of tle leart is 5,000 times stronger tlan
our brain. Te only way to access tlat electro-magnetic power is
it, manipulating it or forcing our will onto reality, but we are
simply participating in creation.
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leart witl tleir nger tips or some part of tleir land in tle
centre of tleir clest. Te sensation of liglt pressure in tle area
of tleir leart causes tleir attention to focus tlere. Tis is one
of tle secrets of keeping tle focus in your leart. Tis is wly tle
monks do tlis for lours on end in tle monasteries.
The architect of our experiences?
People today often get stuck because tley try to be tle arclitect
of tleir experiences and existence instead of living from tleir
leart eld and allowing life to ow. By saying I want tlis to
lappen but not tlat or Tis las to go tlis way or tlat way,
many people put a lock on tleir lives and experience many
problems. It is misleading to give people tle feeling tlat tley
can clange tleir lives and leal tlemselves tlrougl tle power
of intention and tlouglt. Tis is also wly so many people
become frustrated because for tlem applying Te Secret
doesnt seem to work.
Someone wlo accepts wlo tley are, wlo feels at lome witl
tlemself and tleir body, is lappier and more social tlan tlose
wlo doesnt accept tlemselves. Tese people are more likely
to look for lappiness in outward appearances for example,
beautifying or improving tle body wlile inner lealing is really
wlat tley need. From tlere you live in colerency and you claim
tle life tlat belongs to you. From tlis place of self-acceptance
and inner peace you are like a small ink drop of acceptance
tlat clanges tle colour of tle wlole can of water. Te more
acceptance you lave in your leart, tle more you contribute to
tle peace in your body and tle world around you. And wlen
you lave acceptance and love, you also attract acceptance and
love. Wlen you are peaceful, you attract peace. Te magnetic
force of your leart is unprecedented.
Life becomes the prayer
An interesting scientic experiment was done during tle
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example. Tere is a belief system wlicl says tlat everytling tlat
lappens witl our body slows us sometling, tlat tle body is a
symbol for tle desires of our soul and tlat it sometimes tries to
get our attention tlrougl ailments or illness. I lave worked witl
tlerapists wlo were able to get to tle bottom of tlis in tle blink
of an eye witl someone. I lave witnessed lealings in my own
life in an lour simply by dismantling a conviction or undoing
tle programming tlat I wasnt even aware of. Many people
resist tlis and do not want to lold tlemselves accountable for
it. Tey say: How can you say I caused tlis illness myself: Tey
arent ready to accept tleir relationslip witl tle universe.
So, tle key question is, I ask Cregg, do you believe you are
part of tlis universe or tlat you are separated from it: Do you
tlink you are some coincidental creation or do you tlink you
are lere for a purpose: He admits: Yes, and you can add to
tlat tle questions: do you believe tlat tle universe is loving
and compassionate and wants only tle best for you: Or do you
believe tle universe is not loving and not compassionate and
doesnt want tle best for you: Do you believe life is a safe place
wlere a certain type of order prevails, even if sometimes we
cannot see it: Or do you believe tlat life is a dangerous, insecure
place, kept togetler by randomness:
I was raised on tle idea tlat tlis is a very dangerous world and
tlat you slould always watcl your back and look out for danger.
And if sometling beautiful lappens, or if you lave sometling
beautiful like a relationslip, you slould be careful tlat it is
not taken away from you. If youre a clild, you do not know
any better tlan tlat, so tlis tlen is true. Fortunately, at some
Not working towards a result
During my lectures I usually slow tle audience a movie made
in a traditional Clinese lospital. In tle movie you see tlree
tlerapists wlo are trained to get into tleir leart colerence.
You also see a woman witl a tumour. On tle ultrasound screen
you can see low tle tumour responds to tleir emotional state.
Te moment tley get into tleir leart colerency, tle tumour
disappears from tle screen. In tlree minutes. Te obvious
question is: wlat did tle tlerapists feel: Te answer is: tley took
tleir feeling from a place wlere tle woman was already lealed,
tley accepted tle miracle of tle cure as if it lad already taken
place. And please note: tlere is a very subtle dierence between
working towards a particular result (lealing) and tle quantum
principle, wlicl means you begin witl tle desired outcome. To
start tlere and to already be wlat you want to experience and
totally identify witl it. You claim it by feeling it if it already took
place and by being grateful as if it already lappened.
So it is really about tle absolute inner knowledge tlat
wlatever you lave claimed already took place. Tere is no
doubt. You accept tlat you are part of your world, tlat your
leart las tle ability to make a dierence in your life and your
body. Tis is an entirely dierent way of looking at tle world
tlan tle view of wanting to dominate, control or manipulate
your reality. Cregg says: It is about opening yourself up to tle
possibility of completely surrendering yourself to lealing, peace
and tle outcome.
A loving universe?
If we learn tle language of tle eld, we learn to communicate
witl our leart and participate in tle creation of tle energy eld,
wlicl we are a part of and in wlicl we participate creatively.
Ten we also lave to be willing to accept wlat tle eld las to
slow us. Tis is not easy for most people, especially wlen it
comes to tle painful tlings in life. Take our body and illness, for
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know low to landle tleir anger and bitterness and died soon
after tleir release. Otlers, lowever, developed a form of
acceptance and were able to continue life, despite all tle pain.
Acceptance doesnt clange wlat lappens, but it clanges our
feeling about wlat lappens. Tat is wlat makes acceptance
sucl a lealing power.
point tlat belief clanged into my own belief because my actual
experience in tle world was very dierent. Te key question
is tlerefore: wlat kind of world do we claim for ourselves, in
wlat kind of world do we believe: From tlere everytling starts,
from tlat belief everytling comes into existence. Because if you,
consciously or unconsciously, lave tle inner conviction tlat
your world is frigltening, tlen you will never be able to accept
lealing, your belief is tlat tle world is against you, tlat life is an
enemy wlo las wronged you.
To transcend suffering through acceptance
We transcend suering if we are in a state of acceptance. I
spent a lot of time in monasteries in Tibet. Te women are not
well o tlere. Tere are also a lot of women in prison, under
even worse circumstances. But wlen I look into tleir eyes, I
see tley are not angry or bitter, wlicl is sometling tley could
easily be. I asked tlem wly not, and tle word tley used was
compassion. In Buddlism, tlis means tlat no matter wlat
lappens, you accept wlat lappens as a part of a greater plan,
wlicl you may not understand at tlis moment. Tey do tleir
very best, but also accept wlat cannot be clanged until tle day
tlat it can be clanged. Until tlen tley can certainly cloose to
be bitter and angry, wlicl tley know is larmful to tlem and to
tleir body and it slortens tleir own lives, or tley can be lealtly
and cloose tle relaxation tlat acceptance brings tlem.