Reiki, Acceptance, and Healing Our Relationship with Ourselves and the Earth Healing does not require us to approve of what happened. It asks us to accept that it happened, learn from it, and choose not to pass the pain forward. There is a profound difference between acceptance and approval. Acceptance acknowledges reality without continuing to argue with it. Approval suggests that what happened was right or should be repeated. Many painful experiences should never be repeated. Abuse, neglect, betrayal, manipulation, and violence are not made acceptable simply because they occurred. Yet until we accept that they happened, a part of…