Accepting Uncertainty

Your power and ability to be fully accepting uncertainty

Our power to accept uncertainty is being tested right now with many unknowns in the world.  The future has always been uncertain, we have just created a fallacy for ourselves that we knew what life was going to be like in 2020.  So really nothing has changed… the future is still uncertain like it always was.

Our ability to accept uncertainty is a powerful life skill.  While at times we might temporarily forget and become anxious about our ability to cope if we can return to a willingness to just let go and accept we are much stronger.

Our ability to accept uncertainty is tied to our belief in ourselves.  If we are not sure that we can manage anything which arises we can become anxious. The more we can let go the stronger our belief in ourselves becomes.

Quotes

I love this quote by Brene Brown about accepting uncertainty:

 “Choosing to be curious is choosing to be vulnerable because it requires us to surrender to uncertainty. It wasn’t always a choice; we were born curious. But over time, we learn that curiosity, like vulnerability, can lead to hurt. As a result, we turn to self-protecting—choosing certainty over curiosity, armour over vulnerability, and knowing over learning.” — Brené Brown

Also this one by Maria Rilke:

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

How can you hold onto curiosity and have belief in your ability to deal with whatever many come?  Haven’t you always coped?  Have a little faith…