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Patience Is Success

by Bert Oliva

Patience means waiting and waiting is not something most people can do, yet it is one of the best ways to cure illnesses of many kinds. Patience or waiting is synonymous with complete relaxation. Patience implies acceptance and surrender to the forces around us.

For some, patience means we have to sit back and wait for an expected or unexpected outcome which causes anxiety. Human nature urges us to want instant gratification.

The development of patience requires a solid, peaceful center. We must be free from anxiety and tension, from the worries of life and to be stable in the mind and body. Very few people can actually wait for the right time and place, for just the right moment to act.

People who tend to be impatient seem to always have a big grudge on their shoulders. Or are the ones that tend to lose their cool with everyone for the smallest of things. Being upset does take a whole lot of energy from you. In doing so you also forget to count your blessings and lose the ability to attain the more important things in life.

How do you feel when you are impatient?

Learn to increase your patience, here are some techniques to help you further develop your patience:

• Take life one day at a time. Remember, the world was not created in a day.
• Do not dwell on your past mistakes and failings. Do not worry about what you will become or how you will act in the future. Begin to live each new day as a fresh start.
• Break larger goals down into components that are short term goals and objectives.
• Accept, understand, and forgive yourself for being fragile, imperfect, and weak. Love yourself. Let go of the anxieties, concern or self doubt.
• Wake up to the realities of life around you. Everyone with whom you come in contact is busy working through their own struggles, weaknesses, setbacks, relapses, crisis, and obstacles to their personal growth and recovery. All of us are on the path to personal growth. There is no one exempt from this journey. It takes a lifetime to complete.

When we have patience, we act with precision and skill. We listen and talk at the right moment, say what we want and have a higher degree of freedom within our thoughts. Learning patience will turn every situation into a positive, growth enhancing moment.

Until next time.