Well... not exactly. What I strive to do is to accept my struggles... with compassion. However, having written that, there is a thought component to it as well. When difficult memories surface, in addition to accepting them with compassion, I also remind myself that these things are in the past... many of them in the distant past. In some instances, when I really think about it, it occurs to me some of these difficult memories involve things that occurred 40 or 50 years ago! So I think about how pointless it is to get all worked up over something that happened close to a half century ago. And likewise when I find myself fussing over things as they are now, or over things that could happen in the future, while I strive to accept those thoughts with compassion, I also think about the fact that present circumstances simply are what they are; & that those that have not occurred yet may never come to pass. But even if they do, worrying about them now, won't help. So certainly there is a thought component to the process as well. It helps.