10/10/2025
Patience...
How do we master being patient?
Short answer...we don't!!
Speaking as a guy who experiences frustration at times (usually with myself!), I totally get how upsetting and unbalancing a moment of impatience can be ! Honestly, I'm speaking from the heart.
I think the answer is that there is no quick fix to this. Our patience gets tested sometimes when we least expect it.
Very often when we . undergo a sense of extreme failure and that can cause more Impatience!!
Rather than focusing on being a certain way from this moment on...why not try a meditation technique called Noting?
Noting is a simple principle whereby if we experience a moment of impatience we just quietly make a mental note of it. We can gently release the feeling by just calmly letting the feeling go and forgiving ourselves.
Over a period of time, if we practice the technique of noting..we will learn to recognise the feeling we get just before our moment of impatience. This obviously takes time and discipline to achieve. Everyone experiences moments of impatience, it's part of the human condition, it's also how we recognise when we've reached a boundary and maybe when a new attitude or new approach is needed.
The really important bit to realise is to remember we are human and we are prone to making mistakes, that is how we learn. It's better to be gentle, and try again.
Times of impatience will always test us, we will all go through this challenge. I believe the answer is...we may not become totally patient people but we will handle our impatient times with mental flexibility and gentle acceptance.
Our greatest healing often comes from laughter, if you can laugh at ourselves whilst accepting our faults.. we're half way there! Learning to be at peace with ourselves is the greatest love .
Once we accept who we are , good n bad, then we love ourselves unconditionally and that includes our sometimes impatient side.
At this point the energy of the feeling of impatience softens and we learn to be softer and more relaxed in our minds.
It's all a journey of learning, and that never ends.
Thanks for taking the time to read this and I hope it helps us to be better souls
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