Self-acceptance seems to be a word that is used often yet lacks specificity and meaning at the same time. It's easy to say or think that you should accept yourself more when you are faced with patterns of anxiety, insecurity or inadequacy, but how do you then practically live self-acceptance? How do you change self-acceptance from being an ideal to it being something that is a real part of you?
When it comes to practically living something, the first initial step is to investigate and understand what it is that you want to live. If we take self-acceptance, we'd need to look into what the definition is of the word since that is what will form the bases and foundation of how we'll end up living it.
Finding the definition of a word starts with looking at the dictionary definition, which for the word self-acceptance is:
"the act or state of accepting oneself : the act or state of understanding and recognizing one's own abilities and limitations"
(Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-acceptance)
Let's read that again. So according to the dictionary, self-acceptance is "the act or state of understanding and recognizing one's own abilities and limitations". Do you agree with this definition?
Read "Living Self-Acceptance: Continued" to find out the next step in how to practically live self-acceptance.