Patience is something no one appreciates until someone loses it. It can be frustrating when things don’t go your way, and you’re waiting to manifest things into your life. Still, this is a powerful tool that can help you in your life overall.
Patience obviously improves your relationships, it is a critical component of emotional intelligence. When you’re better able to manage your emotions and stay rational in a stressful situation, you’ll be better able to respond to challenges in an elegant manner. This will in turn help strengthen your trust, responding well to stressful situations is a key part of being emotionally stable. A very desirable trait.
Patience is also necessary for long-term goals. Something I like about Buddhists is they not only put focus on the goals but on the journey to the goals. If you can learn to enjoy the journey and the process, not only will you reach the goal sooner, but be happier. Learn to be happy with today, because it’s always going to be today, tomorrow will always be tomorrow.
Here are some tips to help cultivate patience.
- Remove all expectations
People are most often impatient and upset when something doesn’t meet their expectations or standards. If you don’t have expectations, there won’t be anything to be upset about. This doesn’t mean you don’t plan for example traffic on a commute. You’ll need to leave early enough just in case but expecting the traffic to be good every day is very unrealistic, even expecting the traffic to be good can drive you insane. If you don’t come in with any expectations, it won’t ruin your mood.
- Forgiveness
Letting negative emotions go is a critical part of attracting what you want. This in turn will help increase your patience with everything. The Hawaiian mantra; Ho’oponopono does wonders for forgiveness. Both for yourself and for others.
- Focus on positive aspects
Thoughts generally go one of two ways, negative or positive. When you focus on the positive aspects of things, you’ll rewire your brain to look for more opportunities and different solutions that may not have come otherwise. This is what some people call being proactive. When you focus on the positive in situations, you can head off negative situations because they become worse.
- Pace yourself.
No one does everything at once. Everything takes time and energy. While it’s easy to attempt to rush things or hurry with everything. After all, sooner is better than later. However, there is a proper order to everything, and that includes time. Trying to rush a timetable may break the project, stress people, quality suffers, and people’s emotions and well-being suffer. Often it becomes worse when rushed. Rushing progress fits here too. Don’t run faster than you’re able. Pacing yourself is not too slow not too fast, the Goldilocks zone is just right.
While cultivating patience is essential for attracting everything in life, from relationships to material goods. Wrath will attract nothing but negative things into your life. It will be unrelenting as well, there is nothing positive that will come from wrath. Having patience will help you keep wrath out of your heart, where it doesn’t belong. Wrath is such a powerful emotion that things can quickly manifest in the worst ways, patience is a good way to avoid it.