What is Patience?

Patience is a revealer of paths, a healer of time, and a clearer of obstacles. It is the letting go of the attachment to gratification. It is the freedom you give yourself when you completely turn over your wishes, intentions, desires, and expectations, regardless of whether or not you attain that pursuit immediately or are left unsatisfied. It opens opportunities and your receptiveness to new heights beyond any limit that your fears would impose.

This persistence challenges your level of faith when faced with difficulties, for they happen to teach and test your trust (especially in yourself). You can use this experience to test yourself by staying strong and becoming closer to your Higher Self, or you can run the risk of always being dissatisfied, upset, and angry at yourself for your lack of change. Being patient means steadfastly affirming to yourself that there are benefits behind every misfortune and that calm is ahead, allowing you to sit back and wait for an expected outcome without experiencing anxiety, tension, or frustration. It means displaying tolerance, compassion, understanding, and acceptance toward those who are slower than you in developing maturity, wisdom, or coping skills.

Patience is about supporting a relationship when trouble arises that may take some time to resolve, allowing you to understand and believe in the concepts of permanence and commitment The lack of it sacrifices friendships and relationships prematurely because the other person is not changing as quickly or as thoroughly as you desire, ignoring all of the positive gains you and others have made on the road to recovery and growth, and only concentrating on what has not yet been accomplished.. It is about learning how to accept that there is no need to rush yourself or others while facing the challenges of emotional development, and realizing that overnight reformations are rarely long lasting… gradual change and growth have a much greater resilience in the end.

By displaying impatience, you easily lose control of yourself. You have outbursts of anger, grief, and blame on those who are slow to change and grow. You waste energy worrying about how slow things are changing, instead of channeling that energy toward the changes you desire. Impatience is greedy and snide; urging you to go against your word because you do not see an immediate pay off for your efforts. It pushes people away, turning off the others in your life who want to support you… those you offend by accusing them (when change is slow) of not helping you enough. You burn yourself out in the pursuit of your goals and lose hope and motivation when you become overwhelmed by the large tasks ahead of you.

When you are in such a hurry that you neglect to count your blessings and see how far you have come, you lose the ability to find any level of success or attainment, discouraging your pursuit of growth.

Ultimately, learn to be tolerant with all things, especially with yourself, and come to know that patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.


Love,
Kacki