: tending to regard different types of people and ways of life with tolerance and acceptance His parents are very accepting people.

Acceptance does not mean that we let people treat us poorly or take advantage of us. It just means that we don't get stuck in the thoughts and emotions surrounding our experiences. So rather than accepting that we're being treated poorly, we might accept, and therefore be able to let go of feeling angry or sad about being treated poorly.

Acceptance is a skill that can be trained. It is not something that anyone innately has or doesn’t. It’s the ability to face things as they are and to go with the flow without reacting to what’s happening around us, to accept who we are and who others are, and to embrace life just as it is for what it offers.

Acceptance is just like any other skill: it takes practice. People who are accepting of themselves and others have made acceptance a mental habit by continuously choosing a more accepting mindset over and over again. After a while, these repeated mental choices become habitual and natural and do not require as much effort.

Acceptance is the process of allowing things to be as they are without actively trying to change them. Much like mindfulness, it entails letting any experience—positive, neutral, or negative—simply exist in life without trying to alter, avoid, or deny it.