How To Be Patient
Posted on August 7, 2008
Filed Under Embrace Your Highest Path and Purpose, Manifest Your Desired Outcomes, Releasing Limiting Beliefs, Spiritual Development |
The overwhelming message I’ve recently received through several different life situations is: “Be patient.”
Yuck.
I don’t like being patient. Really, who does? To me, exhibiting patience means sitting and waiting for life circumstances beyond my control to unfold. In other words, I find patience highly disempowering. I am the conscious creator of my experience, after all, right? Sitting and waiting for anything very much goes against that concept, and will drive me nuts in no time.
The message came over and over again. So I finally had a little chat with my Guides about this concept of patience.
The “sitting and waiting” notion of patience is indeed one that arises out of lack consciousness. It implies that there is something we don’t have or can’t have right now. And of course, that there’s nothing we can do about it but sit tight and hope for the best. Like I said before - yuck.
So here’s the revised concept of patience I received from my Guides.
There is not a single thing we are lacking right now. We already have everything. If we really get down to it, everything is available to us right now - which means there’s nothing that we possibly need to sit and wait around for, right? There’s nothing that we’ll have in two weeks or two months or two years that isn’t ours right in this moment.
Not only that, but if we ask for a desired outcome that aligns with our highest good, we will receive it.
Patience is about embracing this truth, and then getting the heck out of the way of the manifestation process!
If there’s something to be patient about, we’ve already expressed our intentions and desired outcomes to the Universe. We’ve already said that we want that new job, that we want to find our dream home or that we’d like to be accepted to a certain college. We’ve already taken as much action as we can.
Now, it’s time to hand things off to the Universe. But not in a passive, “sitting and waiting” kind of a way! Instead, we now acknowledge that our will has already been done. We practice receiving our desired outcome, right now. How do we do that? We create the energy of our desired outcome in our lives, right in the present moment.
For example, if we’re waiting to hear about the outcome of a job interview, the best possible thing we can do is create the energy of already having that dream job. So if getting the job means “success” we need to cultivate that energy, right now. Because “success” is available to us right in this moment. It is an energetic state of Being that is independent of any outside physical circumstances. We are successful when we create that state. It’s entirely up to us.
In this way, we focus our attention on the present moment. We detach from the outcome because we are already receiving it, right where we are. Patience becomes an acknowledgment that our energetic state of Being sometimes needs a little time and space to manifest itself at the physical level. That acknowledgment, however, takes nothing away from who we are right now. There’s nothing to wait for, because everything is already here.
Blessings,
Andrea
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Hi Andrea,
You’re absolutely right about being patient - yuck, LOL! It’s the sitting and waiting that kills me, really. We need to learn to just say our prayers, have faith, and then GET ON with our lives. Getting busy sure takes away the “waiting” time and yucky feeling … before we know it, our prayers are here, on a silver platter. Thanks!
Patience is definitely one of the main things I’m here to learn!
Probably the hardest part for me in the process is detachment. I get really curious about how an intention will manifest. I don’t necessarily want to control the process, I just keep wanting to observe the process in action (I find it fascinating!). I have to remember that the universe does its creative work best when I’m not constantly peeking over its shoulder asking questions
” There’s nothing that we’ll have in two weeks or two months or two years that isn’t ours right in this moment. Not only that, but if we ask for a desired outcome that aligns with our highest good, we will receive it.”
These are such profoundly powerful and inspiring statements. Yes our energetic state is independent of the situations we are experiencing and we get to ramp up the juice to make sure that it is. I’m off to raise my vibes, thanks!
Your guides are sharing an important message for sure. I’m needing the same wisdom too. I cannot profess to be patient in desiring things to happen fast! I dislike the idea of sitting around and doing nothing. Thanks for letting on that there really is nothing to wait for.
Love this post! Stumbled!
Evelyn
I think that patience is very difficult for many people (myself included) and is not helped by the fact that we live in a “grab it now” attachment society. The key is to put in your request to the universe and then let it go. You can’t influence the outcome, so just get on with your life. Easier to say than to do, though!
Andrea,
When it comes to manifesting, it helps me to feel the things I may be “waiting on” in the context of an Invoice to the Universe. I’ve already placed my Order and it’s on its way. I think about a book I may have ordered from Amazon, or when I order food in a restaurant — I know at least intellectually that flagging down the waitress and ordering again isn’t going to affect the speed at which my original meal is prepared; ordering something online multiple times doesn’t make it arrive any faster, and I might just end up being double-charged.
So, what to do in the meantime? Anticipation can actually be quite delicious and enjoyable. Part of the pleasure of a planned event or a trip is daydreaming about being there, which is a way of experiencing the near future in the present, putting yourself in the power seat of Being outside of linear time. Daydreaming may sound like a simple notion, but when it’s attached to something you know is coming to you, it’s a great way to Practice the power.
Wow, I’m new to your blog Andrea and I’ve to say, that this post is very inspiring and touches one of my chordes, because I’m very impatience, kinda “I want it all and and now“.
Thanks also to Slade for providing an even clearer image with your metaphors.
ciao
alexander
Good post, although I somehow sense the energy of impatience coming . . .
I like what Mags had to say. Detachment is key, but for the curious within us, isn’t that hard. Not that I don’t trust the Universe — not at all — but I want to know. And yes, I know the chef has a few secrets — good ones, of course — so I might as well stay at my table and wait rather than peeking into the kitchen ^_^
Wow, I think this is one of the most challenging aspects of being human.
What’s challenging for me is what I see in front of me may not be what I asked for or want from the Universe.
I think being patient is trusting the Universe is bringing us exactly what we want and get out of our own way and let it happen.
Thanks Andrea
Jodi
Patience…. I’ve heard of that before. Can’t remember where….
I’ve found that just about any desire can be handled rather simply by staring at the desire squarely and then sitting. Waiting. Just allowing all of it to be what it is. In a sense, this is patience. It has a lot of do with allowing.
Irene - My sentiments, exactly! There’s a difference, though, between just getting busy distracting ourselves and staying in conscious creation mode … it’s a fine line that I’m still researching!
Mags - I always use the analogy of the watched kettle that never boils! It seems that we have to reach true detachment before anything really starts bubbling, doesn’t it?
Tom - I think that’s the crux - our state of Being is not dependent on our circumstances. Rather, we create circumstances through our state of Being, right? Here’s to high vibes!
Evelyn - Nothing to wait for - exactly! Once we have that experience (not just the concept … the actual experience) then we never “sit and wait” again.
Slade - I’m with you in that daydreaming - as long as it’s with a hefty dose of detachment - can really put us in the vibrational state that we’re after and we get to experience what we want right in the present.
Alexander - Welcome!!! I like to joke that I’m not impatient - I just want what I want when I want it!
And why not, right? Hee hee.
Akemi - Well, I’m not saying that I’ve perfected this practice! But I’m getting better …
Going back to Slade’s awesome restaurant analogy, I think it does matter what we do at that table while our meal is being prepared. We can sit and wait, or …
Jodi - I’m going to throw a wrench in that thinking - what appears before you is ALWAYS EXACTLY what you asked for. Some of that asking is just probably unconscious. Remember, you create all of it, all the time - we’re incredibly powerful that way. Sometimes, that can work against us!
If you’re consistently manifesting what you don’t consciously want, it’s time to look at the “hidden” energies you may be broadcasting. Don’t wait! The Universe is getting your exact order, it’s a perfect feedback mechanism that will not simply resolve itself with time.
Tom - Oh, I don’t like the sitting or the waiting! Although I’m with you on being with the desire until we recognize that the desire is an illusion of lack in the present moment …
Blessings,
Andrea
Hi Andrea,
In the most recent time frame in my life I have experienced the most radical shifts. No two minutes ever seem to be conducive to having any peaceful ones. So it has seemed I have all but lost my patience. But if I look to the overall, one of the gifts I know I was granted was the gift of patience.
Since a very little girl, I can remember hearing the same internal message over and over, everything comes to he who waits. Not as a reminder to be patient, more like a reward for the majority of situations requiring the most patience, seeing to it that my patience was in the forefront. It often was the most trying scene/chaotic event or in the imparting of difficult or difficult to understand information that I was able to be the calmest, wait for things to play out.
Thanks for the post. It activated a piece of my own big picture that I probably needed.
Thank you Andrea and your guides for the clarification.
I can be impatient too, although it has changed over the years, it is still at it’s core impatience. I’m taking the hint from your guides to get out of the way as now I feel like I’m good at waiting, but while I’m waiting I’ll just do this…. and that….. and this…. and that…..
So probably not waiting at all LOL!
In love, light and abundance x x x
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