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How to Accept Yourself, Your Life, and Your Reality

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One Methods:Practice Mindfulness

What do you do when you feel like the world has fallen? What do you do when you feel like all you ever worked for, aimed for, thought about, doesn't really matter? When you feel like there's no real reason to wake up to see tomorrow? What if this article told you that you could lose your self-doubt? That you could finally stop questioning your life? Read on and follow the steps that can make you see how beautiful life is.

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Steps

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   Learn to accept who you are. It's one of the hardest things to follow through on, but it's definitely most rewarding. It's so easy to look in the mirror and point out most of your insecurities. But, instead of counting all the things you wish you could be, try counting all the things that you are thankful for that bring out your natural beauty. Understand everyone has beauty, whether it be their eyes, their plumped lips, or their rosy cheeks. Make a list of all of these things, and hang it up somewhere by a mirror, and before you leave, look in the mirror and tell yourself you look good. Remember that it's your own opinion that really counts.
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   Realize your imperfections and then let go. Are you too bossy? Are you too critical of yourself? You're lazy, right? You don't have a lot of friends because you are shy? This could go on and on, but the point is that you need to find out what you aren't so good at, maybe what you don't have, and then let go of it. This is one of the most key steps to accept who you are.
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   Be honest with yourself. This is one of the hardest things for many of us to do. In many of today's societies that focus on the individual, we are encouraged to strive for success, and often we look for praise as the acknowledgment of that success. We take any criticism as a negative thing, so we shy away from seeing anything about ourselves that elicits that reaction.
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   Remember that you can't fix it until you can admit there is a problem and faith is the solution. Have faith in yourself, realize only you can change you, only you can control your destiny. Decide what is important to you and set your mind to it. Remove self-doubt and have faith you can become what you envision.
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   Recognize ineffective coping mechanisms. If you are experiencing any of the feelings described in the introduction, odds are that what you are doing to cope with the problems in life are not working. These things may have worked in the past, and are so ingrained that you don't even realize you do them.
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   Replace the old methods you used to deal with situations and problems with ones that will deliver or elicit positive responses and solutions. Changing old behaviors can be just as difficult as recognizing them because it takes time and determination to replace old habits and behaviors, but the payoff is worth it.
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   Make a short list. Once you have accepted yourself, with all your imperfections, you can change some things about yourself. Write out a list about what you want to achieve, what you can achieve, and how you will achieve it. Although, understand that no one is perfect, and sometimes you just can't change who you are.
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   Don't try to alter several things at once, this is a recipe for failure. Once you have your list, prioritize it. Decide what you need to work on in order of importance. Often changing one thing will cause other things to fall in line, like knocking over dominoes.
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   Avoid the common "Do-overs" It's your life and your reality. What happened in the past, happened in the past. You just can't change history. So avoid doing it over again because you feel like it's "in your comfort zone" and "you've been through it once, why not one more time?" type of excuse.
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    Learn that life is the way it is. You can only make it hard if your attitudes about life are pointed that way. You can't change who you really are either. Just be the best you can be, and live life with pride.

Practice Mindfulness

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   Set aside 10-20 quiet minutes each evening and/ or morning (maybe get up before everyone else in the house does) just for meditation time.
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   Set your alarm to go off in 10-20 minutes. Make sure it is set on a quiet and pleasant sound.
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   Sit upright in a chair and have good posture. Close your eyes to minimize distraction.
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   Observe your breathing (don't change it, keep it natural). Feel every aspect of your breath going in through your nose / mouth, down into your lungs and energizing your whole body. Feel the old breath coming up and out and sending some of your physical and mental tension away with it. Don't slump, but you might feel your body relax a little.
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   Count your breaths over and over from 1-4, or from 1 - 10 if you are getting better at this. Only think about your breath and your body. If you find yourself thinking about something else, accept that your attention wandered but do not judge yourself. Just gently bring your mind back to focus on your breathing.
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   Keep doing this until your alarm goes off.
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   Do this mindfulness meditation each day and gradually you will notice that you become more alert and accepting of yourself and your surroundings.
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   You can also do a more alert type of mindfulness meditation when you are walking by yourself. Simply focus on everything around you without judging it or analyzing it. Just observe.