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Mindfulness Gives Me Patience
Practicing one enhances the other
Patience, couldn’t we all use a little more? It’s not easy, especially when everything happens at once. Your credit card is lost, which puts you on hold with security at the bank. Throw in the pandemic. You are frustrated at the very thought of all the inconvenience before you and you still have to work, eat and sleep.
How can we ever have enough time?
Is there ever enough?
How can you make this one moment expand to feel like much more? We all only get this one moment. Use it well. Use it to grow your patience.
Here’s how:
- Stop and breathe
- Tell yourself exactly what you are doing
- Focus on all 5 your senses, one at a time
- Repeat
Using these basics, I have given myself the gift of knowing each moment more fully.
Have I gotten more time? Absolutely not.
Have I felt less rushed and as if each moment was more significant? Yes, without a doubt.
Getting ready for work is always a scramble.
Change my clothes, pack my lunch, brush my teeth, eat something…I allow myself to start an hour ahead of my expected leave time, and yet I struggle not…
