OVERCOMING IMPATIENCE

It is possible when you learn to become aware of your own thought processes because awareness is the first step to self control. Impatience is the reaction of your system, when you sense that another person or the world itself is proceeding more slowly than you want to. You can possibly overcome your impatience by discovering your trigger points for it and by deciding whether to calmly speed up the other person's leisure pace, or to accept it and flow with it.

Overcoming impatience needs an inner conviction that calm patience as a preferable option. It is a problem not a solution. You need to refocus your life, concentrating on a few achievable goals, while systematically discarding those where you do not enjoy district advantages. With the desire to overcome your impatience, you have already travelled far on this road and be aware when impatience strikes. A Buddhist monk said "one may wonder what people do in retreat, sitting for eight hours a day. They familiarize themselves with a new way of dealing with the arising of thoughts" When you start getting used to recognizing thoughts and anger as they arise, it's like spotting someone you know in a crowd. That helps you to avoid being overwhelmed by this thought. "Self awareness is a powerful method of controlling your mind", but it requires a willingness to attribute difficulties to internal causes.