When we stop resisting what is already true we can ditch our emotional baggage and lead a happier life. The more stress we have the more baggage we carry leading to less happiness. Acceptance does not mean what happened to you is fair it simply stops you from reliving the event perpetuating your grief, anxiety, and depression which is essentially stealing your existence from you. The first step to addiction recovery is for the addict to admit or accept they have a problem and only then can they start the healing process. When we accept what happens to us we are able to move on and get back to living. Studies have shown people who suffer from depression, trauma, or lost everything to drug addiction were able to make a transformation through suffering once they accepted their predicaments including all the bad things they had done and could not change. I myself had to accept my mother's health issues in order to function day to day and I chose to focus on all the good memories we made instead of her current condition. Practicing the power of acceptance is not easy and will not happen over night which is why we never stop practicing.