Patience is a rich subject to explore. There are many avenues to take and paths to discover.
Patience is truly an ever-evolving art form in my life. Yes, art form.

Every situation in which patience is needed looks different, feels different or stirs a unique response. Regardless, the bottom line is knowing my enoughness and accepting myself exactly as I am in the moment I am living. Sometimes that is much easier said than done.

• Patience includes allowing our current sense of enoughness to be enough.
• Patience invites allowing the moment to unfold rather than trying to control anything or anyone outside of our circle of control.
• Patience encourages us to open to wisdom within ourselves.
• Patience asks us to pause and see a broader perspective.
• Patience nudges us to be in this moment and this moment only.
• Patience supports us as we sit with the discomfort we feel within.
• Patience guides our acceptance of the emotions that stir and come to the surface.
• Patience requires breath to connect our minds and bodies.
• Patience reminds us of our divine connection.
• Patience opens us to trust ... mostly trusting ourselves.

In addition to inner peace, wisdom and spiritual growth, mindfulness and being present also require patience. All of these attributes support and foster the other.

Patience includes a healthy dose of trust, trusting in the Divine timing of all things. When you are being mindful of what is around you, you shift your perspective to seeing that you don’t always have to be rushing. When you take the push out of your process, there is inner calm.

Being mentally present invites you to enjoy what is in front of you right now, not five minutes, five days or five weeks from now. When you are with each moment, your inner drive gets to downshift. Time goes by quickly enough on its own. There is no need for you to step on the gas and miss the magical moments as they unfold in front of you.

Ann Ruane is a local Wisconsin author, pianist, composer and certified energy practitioner at Lux Eterna Healing in Pewaukee, Wisconsin. If you’d like to dive in more fully with patience, you will find a chapter dedicated to it in book three of her inspirational Fall in Love with the Whispers of Your Heart series. Visit her Patreon Link to Theme of Patience at Patreon.com/collection/595426 or visit Amazon.com/Author/AnnRuane. 
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