Difficult Emotions: Developing Patience Towards Impatience

Inspired by the teachings of Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche and Pema Chödrön

“The reward of patience is patience.” — Saint Augustine

This meditation is an invitation to bring patience not to others, but to yourself — to your impatient, irritable, restless, miffed self. To meet the moments when your heart tightens, your body braces, and your mind rushes to defend or to fix.

Patience isn’t about putting up with what’s painful or excusing what’s unhelpful — especially if you tend to put others’ needs first. Instead, it’s about developing the capacity to stay with your own rawness, to touch the tenderness beneath the story, and to meet that vulnerability with warmth and space.

Through this practice, we’ll gently contact the energy of impatience and irritation in the body, and explore how turning toward it — rather than reacting from it — opens a doorway to tolerance, compassion, and wisdom.

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Thanks Adele. Good to have it affirmed that impatience is a human quality.
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