Learning to Embrace What Is

06/08/20 • 20 min

On today's episode, we're talking about a lesson I had to learn in order to show up for all that was happening around me. Here's the lesson - we can learn to embrace the good with the bad, the happy with the sad. It's not either/or. When we learn to hold both simultaneously, we can fully experience our life in bigger and better ways.

I used to try and ignore, deny, and suppress the parts of life I didn't like. The problem was that I spent so much time and energy fighting off the bad, that I didn't show up for the good either. When I finally stopped trying to ignore the bad and instead made space for it in my life, I found that the bad would pass so much faster.

There are three steps I've identified to move from a place of pushing away anything I didn't want to embrace, to fully embracing all that life offers.

Awareness - This is step one and all about making space for what is. Without awareness, life is happening to you instead of for you.
Acceptance - We think if we avoid the bad and hard, then life is full of good and happy. 100% BS. Ignoring something doesn't make it not real. You have to learn to accept whatever is happening to you and around you.
Allowance - The final step is learning to fully allow whatever's happening in your life. If we try to push away the bad, it will resurface at a future point, but if we learn to allow it in our lives, it often moves through us and away from us much faster.

If you want to show up for your life completely and create results that matter, you have to learn to embrace ALL that is. You can do this.

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There are three steps I've identified to move from a place of pushing away anything I didn't want to embrace, to fully embracing all that life offers.

Awareness - This is step one and all about making space for what is. Without awareness, life is happening to you instead of for you.
Acceptance - We think if we avoid the bad and hard, then life is full of good and happy. 100% BS. Ignoring something doesn't make it not real. You have to learn to accept whatever is happening to you and around you.
Allowance - The final step is learning to fully allow whatever's happening in your life. If we try to push away the bad, it will resurface at a future point, but if we learn to allow it in our lives, it often moves through us and away from us much faster.

If you want to show up for your life completely and create results that matter, you have to learn to embrace ALL that is. You can do this.

Let's Connect on a deeper level:
WEB/ www.gentrylusby.com
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Your Participation Matters

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Let's talk about why you need to show up.
Have you ever stopped and wondered why things don't work out for you the way you hoped? Maybe you have an idea that you can’t get off the ground, a relationship you want to start, or a business you’re trying to build. Maybe you're like I was and you’re struggling with the basics - getting out of bed every day and into action that matters.
I hear you. I feel you. I've been there.
Today's episode dives into some of my journey and the process I had to go on to learn how to show up for myself in ways that matter and created the results I want. You'll hear about my failed attempt at moving to LA to become a famous movie star and how that led me into a downward spiral that lasted for years.
Listen, if you aren’t getting the results you want in life, you probably aren’t showing up in ways that matter.
It’s important to be fully engaged with your life because what you have to offer matters and who you are matters. If you aren’t engaged, then you are robbing the world of the incredible gifts and resources and whatever that you have to offer.
It’s never too late to start showing up. Tune in to hear more about why you need to show up and participate in your life.
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The First Choice To Make If You Want to Show Up For Your Life

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Today's podcast is all about one important choice you have to make in order to change everything. What's the choice? Whether or not you take radical responsibility for your entire existence. Yes, it sounds simple, but trust me, it's harder than it seems. And here's the catch, once you know about this choice, it's going to be hard to ignore it.

If you want to take radical responsibility, you have to start with your external existence, both the situations you create and those created by other people. If you aren't taking radical responsibility for your external experience, you're most likely playing a victim. You’re knowingly or unknowingly giving yourself permission to put all of your problems, pain, grief, anxiety, depression, and challenges onto someone else, which is basically the opposite of responsibility.

The second component of taking radical responsibility is taking responsibility for your internal existence. This is your mindset, thoughts, self-talk, limiting beliefs, and the story you're telling yourself. A lot of people don’t question what’s happening inside their minds. They think the thoughts they have are the ultimate truth. They take no responsibility for their thinking and all the other aspects of their internal existence.
If you want to show up in ways that matter, you must decide if you will take responsibility for both your internal and external existence. The external is all about the situations happening around you, both that others created and that you created, and then how you’re responding and reacting to it. Your internal has to do with what’s happening in your mind, your thoughts, and the way you react and respond to what is created in your mind. You have to choose to take responsibility for both, if you want to stop playing the role of victim, and start showing up in ways that matter.

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