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by Nathaniel Simha | Heart Advice
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Do you sometimes feel<\/h3>\n

as though your goals and aspirations can lead you to feel impatient or unsatisfied with the way things are right now?<\/p>\n

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Can you imagine how cultivating a deeper sense of patience would help you live in every moment with greater ease?\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Adopting patience as a spiritual practice means embracing the belief that we are exactly where we need to be. Patience requires trust and faith that everything will come to you in the perfect moment. \u00a0It means accepting that the present moment is the only place in which life unfolds.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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As such, we should do our best to<\/span><\/h4>\n

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be here, now<\/strong> <\/span><\/h4>\n

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instead of putting conditions on our happiness, by impatiently waiting for something else to come along.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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I have just three things to teach:<\/span><\/h2>\n

Simplicity, Patience & Compassion.<\/span><\/h2>\n

These three are your greatest treasures.<\/span><\/h2>\n

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– Lao Tzu<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Working with Goals & Letting Go of the Outcome<\/h3>\n

When we feel as though patience is required, it is typically because there is a goal we imagine realizing in the future. To some extent, although we are \u201chere\u201d, we may feel as though we need to be \u201cthere\u201d. The belief we hold about what should happen may have been chosen by us, or given to us by some outside source. However, this belief can keep us from truly feeling contentment and gratitude in our lives. For instance, when we fail to achieve a certain goal, we become impatient, and desire our reality to be different than what it is, making life seem so much harder. There are<\/strong>\u00a0an infinite number of forces that can potentially interfere with our ability to reach\u00a0our goals. We cannot control our reality, all we can do<\/strong>\u00a0is our very best in\u00a0<\/strong>this moment.<\/strong> If we attempt to manipulate the flow of life, at times we may feel successful, yet more often than not, circumstances will result in life unfolding differently than we had imagined. This may cause much unnecessary suffering. As the goal of life is happiness, the most important thing to remember is that regardless of the goal we are pursuing, maintaining our inner peace is our highest priority.
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Learn to See How Impatience obstructs YOur ability to trust & Surrender<\/h3>\n

Do you ever notice yourself becoming impatient? Perhaps it is because your goals were not achieved as quickly as you would have liked, or that you need to cultivate a deeper faith in order to wholeheartedly believe that you are exactly where you need to be. Impatience is the mind\u2019s way of living in the future. It is our way of closing to the present moment, and saying, \u201cLife, you are preventing me from getting where I want to be.\u201d Our desire to escape the present moment is born from our capacity to imagine a reality alternate to the one that we are experiencing right now.<\/strong> All activity that is taking place in the cosmos is in a constant state of flux. It is ever-changing and impermanent. As such, this moment is our only reality. There\u2019s nowhere else we can be, it is only the mind that brings us out of the perfection of this moment, for even when our environment and life situation changes, we are always in the here and now.
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Am I better off making up an alternate reality in my mind and then fighting with reality to make it be my way, or am I better off letting go of what I want and serving the same forces of reality that managed to create the entire perfection of the universe around me?<\/span><\/h2>\n

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– Mickey A. Singer, The Surrender Experiment<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The practice of Non-Resistance<\/h3>\n

When we become aware that feelings of impatience have emerged, we may ask ourselves two questions to regain clarity:<\/p>\n