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Acceptance, in
spirituality,
mindfulness, and
human psychology, usually refers to the experience of a situation without an intention to change that situation. Acceptance does not require that change is possible or even conceivable, nor does it require that the situation be desired or approved by those accepting it. Indeed, acceptance is often suggested when a situation is both disliked and unchangeable, or when change may be possible only at great cost or risk.
Acceptance may imply only a lack of outward, behavioral attempts at possible change, but the word is also used more specifically for a felt or hypothesized
cognitive or
emotional state. Thus someone may decide to take no action against a situation and yet be said to have not accepted it.
Acceptance is contrasted with
resistance, but that term has strong political and
psychoanalytic connotations not applicable in many contexts. Acceptance is sometimes used with notions of willingness: "Even if an unchosen, undesired, inescapable situation befalls me, I can still willingly choose to accept it." One might not choose to tell someone the same thing as he would tell someone else because of the loss of love, the loss of a relationship, or the loss of power over others. And then the other who was told something else has to decide if the person telling them something is being truthful or telling them something else so they can still profit or be in both relationship to reep the benifits of both.
By groups and by individuals, acceptance can be of various events and conditions in the world; individuals may also accept elements of their own thoughts, feelings, and personal histories. For example,
psychotherapeutic treatment of a person with
depression or
anxiety could involve fostering acceptance
either for whatever personal circumstances may give rise to those feelings
or for the feelings themselves. (Psychotherapy could also involve lessening an individual's acceptance of various situations.)
Notions of acceptance are prominent in many faiths and meditation practices. For example,
Buddhism's
first noble truth, "Life is suffering", invites people to accept that
suffering is a natural part of life.
Minority groups in society often describe their goal as "acceptance", wherein the majority will not challenge the minority's full participation in society. A majority may be said (at best) to "
tolerate" minorities when it confines their participation to certain aspects of society.
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Affection is defined by the Random House Dictionary as "disposition or state of mind or body." [1] It has given rise to a number of branches of meaning concerning: emotion (popularly: love, devotion etc); disease; influence; state of being (philosophy) [2] ; and
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aggression refers to behavior that is intended to cause harm or pain. Aggression can be either physical or verbal. Behavior that accidentally causes harm or pain is not aggression. Property damage and other destructive behavior may also fall under the definition of aggression.
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Hatred is an emotion of intense revulsion, distaste, , or antipathy for a person or thing, generally attributed to a desire to avoid, restrict, remove, or destroy the hated object.
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- HOPE Scholarship, in the U.S. state of Georgia
- H-II Orbiting Plane (HOPE), a wing type unmanned spacecraft program, researched by NASDA and NAL
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