Kent Wayne

Musings

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I’ve swung from denying negativity, to accepting to it, to allowing it (allowing it, in my opinion, is different from acceptance in that it doesn’t immediately assign it a fixed quality or quantification, which is what usually happens when I accept. Allowance just lets it be, without intellectual categorization).

Allowing it, in my experience, expands my internal space and room to focus. At a certain point I can reframe it as I please–it’s a part of me, but it isn’t all of me. I don’t have to identify with it using my entire being, to the point where it consumes me with stress and pessimism.

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12 responses to “Musings”

  1. Mister Monster Avatar
    Mister Monster

    Honestly, that sounds healthy to me. A lot of things in life benefit from just letting them exist, without assigning a value to them.

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  2. Lori Pohlman Avatar
    Lori Pohlman

    Allowing does sound healthy! Like when I try to clear my mind or pray and various odd or negative thoughts pass through- I try to just notice them and allow them to go. Not sure if it’s the same. ☺️

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  3. Anthony Avatar
    Anthony

    “Allowance over acceptance”—that hit. Feels like the difference between holding something and being held by it.

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  4. lemuu-el Avatar
    lemuu-el

    I can’t change fans or haters. I keep on going, writing, doing Art, with the attitude of “Let them.” Let them disparage me. There is no blood. Let them critique me. I will learn from them. “Let them” adore my Art. Now we’re talkin’.

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  5. Siearra Frost Avatar
    Siearra Frost

    This is very true. There is a difference and allowing it allows the brain to work on it in the background leaving you free to see the good parts of you.

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  6. Vandana Joshi Avatar
    Vandana Joshi

    as someone who struggles with negative thinking, i found it really helpful. allowing the negativity to exist doesn’t mean we are accepting it, we are just acknowledging it.

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  7. Eldar Quotient Avatar
    Eldar Quotient

    Yoga, 5 mins a day. Doesn’t even have to be DDP.

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  8. madziares Avatar
    madziares

    I´m reading a book about the jungian concept of the shadow within us, “Meeting the shadow” by Connie Zweig. I have a feeling that you might like it

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  9. brennybear1964 Avatar
    brennybear1964

    What else is there? (that’s a joke)

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  10. Michael Williams Avatar
    Michael Williams

    great way to articulate this. i read somewhere in one of those asian spirituality books that keeping the negative feeling company is the way to essentially absorb and get rid of it. i like how you said it gives you a way of expanding your inner space and i feel like that’s precisely what’s needed. be well! Mike

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  11. bigskybuckeye Avatar
    bigskybuckeye

    Well said. When we respond to every whisper of negativity, we use up valuable energy and time.

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  12. Shauna Avatar
    Shauna

    I really like this one – thank you for sharing!

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