I. On a scale of 1 to 10 how would you rate your ability to accept what cannot be changed?
2. What difficult situations in the past have you coped well with because you were accepting?
3. How have you lost out in the past by failing to accept the inevitable?
4. How does lack of acceptance cause you to worry about future events not turning out the way you wish?
5. What situations that you cannot change do you presently fail to accept?
6. If something already went wrong, do you tend to keep talking or thinking about it even though nothing can be done to correct the situation?
7. In what ways would you gain if you were more accepting of difficult and unpleasant situations?
8. What prevents you from being more accepting of what cannot be changed?
9. Are you afraid that if you accept what cannot be changed, you might not change what can be changed? ־
10. How do you tell the difference between what can and what cannot be changed?
11. When have you been accepting of situations when it would have been more appropriate to try to make beneficial changes?
12. What inner resources would help you to become more accepting?
13. When something goes wrong and you accept it, do you feel pleasure because you are growing in the skill of acceptance?
14. How would greater Trust in the Almighty (Bitachon) help you accept more easily what cannot be changed?
15. How would greater humility help you to become more accepting?
16. Who could serve as a good model for you to learn how to accept what cannot be changed and how to take action when action could help?
17. Do you make it a regular habit to imagine yourself accepting whatever cannot be changed?
[R' Pliskin - Gateway To Self Knowledge]
