Patience’s Purpose
received by Julie Miller
Precious Bright Hearts, how pleasing it is to share with you today a subject that has left many feeling overwhelmed and frustrated.
Everything as you know has purpose, but have you pondered what the purpose of patience is and why it is so necessary?
Well, quite simply, patience delivers you to pure happiness, improved relationships and encourages a higher success rate as you work through life’s challenges whether they are personal, professional or spiritual. Of course in order to exercise patience, you must put a little determined effort into it.
There is not a soul among you that has perfect patience. They may appear to be perfectly patient, and maybe for the time being their patience is solid, but there will always be an experience, a situation, circumstance or event that will challenge your patience, make you question your values, beliefs and who you are as an individual.
Understand Precious Bright Hearts that patience is not something you were born with, it is a skill that you develop. Just like anything else, some people are just more skilled at being patient than others, doesn’t mean they were born with it.
You know this as you watch two different babies, one baby will scream for food or attention until their face is red with upset, while the other baby, sits there happy as a clam, smiling at the world, waiting patiently for their needs to be satisfied.
To be truthful, in order to play an instrument, learn a new skill, or even hone a current one, you don’t become better without practice and practice requires patience.
When you are applying patience to anything you are doing, you are more focused, you tend to be more kind and accepting and less judgmental and critical of yourself through your thoughts and feelings that have been known to be drastically sabotaging of any goals you had planned to accomplish.
There are some dear souls that are considered professionals at being patient. They assist others on how to become more patient through the trials, tribulations and irritations life often presents you with.
Learning to develop more patience though does not require you to seek professional help, but to tune inward, training yourself to slow down the mental chatter and listen; bringing yourself to a state of calm even while waiting in a long line at the store or in traffic.
Take those moments as moments to release, to breathe and allow yourself to relax into the situation instead of fighting it.
Precious Bright Hearts, it is a personal responsibility to understand your addiction to reacting in haste, in irritation or any other energy draining response. Just like any habit, responding with impatience can be changed for the better.
There’s a part of you that wants to have your way, like a spoiled child. You know this cannot always be the case as some situations are best if you rise above the situation that has caused grief and upset.
Turning the other cheek is very hard for some people…they always have to have the last word, or so it seems. You are not required to respond back and by not responding you are not appearing weak, but actually appearing strong and in control of your emotional and mental faculties.
It is the older part of your brain that has you reacting impatiently and that is your indication that it is time to let these out-dated ways of living and being go for newer, more positive ways of living in.
You can’t always allow your ego to protect you from living a peaceful life that is also filled with fulfillment and satisfaction. There comes a time when you must take a stand and make some positive changes and be patient with yourself as you work your way through each step until you achieve your goals and ambitions.
To understand why you may be impatient is to understand what is making you frustrated or angry, why you might make excuses, pass blame or feel ashamed.
What we have seen Precious Bright Hearts is that much of this is due to one feeling discomforted when things are going a different way than originally planned. Instead of going with the flow, you may tense up and react through rants and retorts that have been known to be unkind and irreversible.
This is a clue dear ones for you to pay attention; to help improve the situation by changing your thoughts towards the situation to being more positive and if you cannot be positive right away at least be neutral.
You may not always believe this, but you have already what it takes to move beyond your sudden rages and upsets that is derived from becoming impatient.
When you are faced with discomfort and unease when things are not going your way, think of your discomfort as a calling card to find newer solutions that will work better instead of falling back into the habit of impatience that is fueled by anger and irritation.
When you find new solutions that work for you, use them without wanting to change the other person. Don’t incorporate new ways of dealing with impatience by hoping to change the other person if the impatience is your issue.
Refrain from going astray from your own personal purpose to gaining more patience, instead exercise what you have learned often, advancing this skill to new heights, enriching current relationships and possibly forging new ones.
Your busy mind has a tendency to overthink and over-analyze regardless if things are going good or bad. And it is your busy mind that determines what you like or dislike, therefore it is in your mind Precious Bright Hearts that causes you to feel discomforted to the unfoldment of the situation, not the situation itself.
When you are upset and irritated, your mind tries to find ways for you to cope and to reduce what is distressing you and sometimes what is revealed is impatience through your words and actions and through your choices that are derived from your thoughts and feelings.
You can increase your ability to reduce your impatience by becoming more aware of the workings of your mind and by choosing to react and respond more kindly.
Dealing with impatience requires you to look inward as soon as you feel yourself becoming upset and your emotions and feelings become imbalanced. Your feelings and emotions towards any situation are your warning signals that something needs your attention, not your reaction.
Don’t ignore the fact Precious Bright Hearts that being irritated will not bring you comfort—snapping at someone for cutting you off in line, will not make the situation any better, nor will it lighten your mood.
Only you can do this dear ones, by becoming interested and exploring what is actually happening from the inside instead of focusing primarily on what has occurred.
Don’t fall into the habit of being critical or judgmental with yourself when things are not going the way you expected if you can turn your thoughts around in a more positive light before you respond.
By learning to turn your attention to what is going on inside of you, you resist the urge to react in anger and frustration and you exercise patience even for a moment.
What tends to happen Precious Bright Hearts, the moment something goes wrong or a situation unfolds before you suddenly, as if out of nowhere, your mind automatically creates a story.
The story it creates is not correctly detailing what is actually going on. Many times it is the situation that makes you feel vulnerable and for many people when they feel vulnerable they fuel their story with images, thoughts and self talk that is harmfully negative and untrue.
You have felt this way with people you are close to such as your partner forgetting something important, a friend who hasn’t kept in touch for a few days, etc.
Remember dear ones, sometimes what you assume isn’t what or how things truly are. Be patient and allow things to play out before you jump to conclusions.
Remind yourself often if necessary that each experience you encounter, regardless of what it is, it is there to teach you and to help you grow.
No matter how many negative things you may feel from a situation, there are just as many positives to embrace as well.
Yes, it is understandable that things happen, but how you choose to react and respond will make a impactful difference to your outlook and you will be more tolerable of not only your own flaws and imperfections but of the flaws and imperfections of others.
Precious Bright Hearts, we realize that many wish there was never again a rushed moment, or another feeling of irritation felt within you towards another dear soul or with yourself.
But just think without such experiences how would you practice patience? How would you learn to tolerate certain things with your loved ones or the people you work with?
Patience has a valuable purpose. It is understood to be one of the hardest virtues to achieve and sustain, but worth every effort as exercising patience and displaying patience brings you closer to others when they need you most because when someone is in need of you, somewhere inside of you also needs them.
And so it is…
I AM Archeia, Lady Patience, also known as Shekinah, Divine Complement to Archangel Sandalphon through Julie Miller
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