There are just things in my life that I want right now. No waiting. I want them.
I have heard people say that there is a perfect time for everything. That God's time is the right time. That we cannot appreciate the things we receive until we have the wisdom to receive them.
Yes, all is wisdom. All those things are probably true. Sometimes I even remember these things when I am impatient. Yet, most of the time, my mind is going "want now", "need now", "want now", "need now."
What is most frustrating about this is that I choose to be impatient. Yes I choose. I don't have to be impatient. I can train my mind to think about things in such a way that I do not go over the fact that I do not have them yet, over and over again.
It is this chasing after the thought of the absence of these things that brings impatience.
Let me say this again (because I only had to tell it to myself about 1000 times before I got it!).
It is this chasing after the thought of the absence of these things that brings impatience.
My mind loves to focus on the fact that I don't have something. That my life is missing something. My thoughts are attracted by this black hole of WANT, DESIRE like the last dregs of bathwater going down the drain. And that is exactly where my energy is going. Down the drain. It does nothing but agitate me. Make me high-strung, nervous, jittery, frustrated, and above all, impatient.
Yet, I know that I can choose to change my thoughts about things. I can stop feeling impatient. It is my choice at any time.
How?
Well, let us go back to that first statement.
It is this chasing after the thought of the absence of these things that brings impatience.
Now I change that thought a little bit.
It is the knowing that I can choose to appreciate all that I have, and to think about all that is already on it's way that brings patience.
I notice that when I am the most impatient about things that I stop appreciating the things that I have.
They no longer hold any positive attention from me, because I am convincing myself with my thoughts
that "I LACK!"
When I stop and appreciate all the things I have, truly recognize that they are truly valuable in my life, then I stop feeling like I lack something else. The emotion changes from one of frustration and impatience to thankfulness.
In this state I can then set my mind on the things that I desire, but to see them as already in my life in some small measure already. If they are there in some small part already, it means that I have already succeeded in attracting those things into my life at least once. If I can do it once, I can do it again.
It works for me.
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