Name: Radical Acceptance & Dealing with Hardship in THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
Uploaded: 2024-05-30T23:20:36.000Z
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Jonathan Decker: Welcome to Cinema Therapy.

Emmy-winning director Alan Seawright will be

we are quarantined separately at the moment.

It's crazy out there, right? People are hoarding food,

fighting over food, fearful of the outside world,

afraid of getting sick, getting stir crazy, home alone,

Dr. Peter Venkman:  sacrifice, dogs and cats living together,

Jonathan Decker: So lately I've been enjoying

because if you're watching the theatrical cuts,

Boromir: One does not simply walk into Mordor.

Jonathan Decker: In fellowship there's this quote that I'm

seeing popping up all over my social media right now.

Frodo Baggins: I wish none of this had happened.

Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time

Jonathan Decker: Love it. Such timely wisdom.

sorts of memes right now. We all need these words.

But what do they mean for us in our current state?

craziness at the grocery store, stress from losing work,

or struggling in business, boredom, health concerns,

The answer lies in just how Gandalf’s words apply to Frodo’s

arc in Fellowship of the Ring and how Frodo’s arc

illustrates a therapeutic principle known as:

“Accepting life on life's terms and not resisting

Radical acceptance is about saying yes to life,

Radical acceptance doesn't mean that you just roll over and die.

OK, it doesn't mean that you stop fighting for a better life,

It simply means that you don't waste your

time and energy on things that are outside

You don't have to be happy about them but you accept them.

leaves you feeling helpless, hopeless, and defeated.

the changes you can make, the lives you can touch.

This concept is most famously exemplified

by the Serenity Prayer uttered in the meetings

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things

I cannot change the courage to change the things

I can and the wisdom to know the difference.”

to the serenity prayer is that it's not just about

but also accepting what you choose to change

This is the arc of Frodo who has no desire to be a hero.

dangerous the ring is which he's inherited,

like any sensible person he would rather not have

We never speak of it again. No one knows it’s here, do they?

Jonathan Decker: Of course someone does know

So the ring needs to be taken to the elves stat.

Frodo Baggins: But it cannot stay in the shire!

Jonathan Decker: When Gandalf explains that he won't

take the ring out of fear of the destruction he’d

Frodo squares up to the reality that's presented to him.

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