# Forehead Acceptance

By [jer979](https://paragraph.com/@jer979-2) · 2025-07-11

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There are how we want things to be.

And there are how things are.

For me, the physical manifestation of my unwillingness or difficulty in reconciling the two sits in my forehead.

It’s as if someone is sticking their finger or placing their palm against me and all of the force of their effort, like some martial arts master, is concentrated on that one location.

This is a force that is holding my progress back.

But, that force is imaginary. It’s not really there.

Which means that just like I imagine it is there, I can also imagine it sliding right through me ,like the proverbial hot knife through butter.

All I need for the hot knife to do its thing is to say,

> “I may not like the way things are, but I accept fully that this is how they are.”

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*Originally published on [jer979](https://paragraph.com/@jer979-2/forehead-acceptance)*