You Can Accept Without Understanding

Your brain may tell you that you have to understand to accept something.

That if you only “understood",” you could accept how another person is behaving.

Its possible and often healthy to accept without understanding.

Very likely other people don’t understand you and why you do and say things.

Very often they can’t understand us. Very often we can’t understand them.

Noncontingent acceptance is not caring less — it is caring more.

It is putting the integrity of a relationship first whether that is with a human or the practice of medicine.