Stress and Anxiety - The Role of Self-Acceptance
June 28th, 2009 | 
Author: It is understood that a great deal of self-acceptance is wrapped up in self-esteem but for our discussion, I’ll focus on self-acceptance itself.
The term accept is defined as to take on or receive unto oneself; to admit the truth or correctness of. Synonyms include receive, acquire, obtain, and welcome. Antonyms like give away, return, evict, expel, oust, deny, refuse, and reject, really help us grasp acceptance even better.
When we self-accept, we receive and welcome unto ourselves our experiences. If we do not self-accept, we are in self-denial, which means we evict, expel, deny, refuse, and reject ourselves.
Most of us believe that our lives are experienced through the mind or rational part of our being, but this is incorrect. We experience our lives through our feeling centers.
When we deny our feelings about a person, situation, event, or experience, we are in self-denial. Being in a state of self-acceptance means allowing ourselves to feel our feelings about any experience, but not necessarily act on them.
On the other hand, if we deny or reject our feelings, we deny and reject ourselves because they are a part of us. This then creates conflict on the subconscious level which in turn produces stress and anxiety.
This type of ongoing stress and anxiety exhausts the endocrine and hormonal system resulting in conditions like weight gain, hypoadrenalism, electrolyte imbalances, hypothyroidism, mood swings, menstrual irregularities, fatigue, type II diabetes, hopelessness, etc
Stress and anxiety cause endocrine and hormonal problems and hormone and endocrine problems result in stress and anxiety. In order to feel and be better, you must learn how to break this cycle.
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