Now, let’s build on yesterday’s “soft river-ing.”

Some people are naturally patient. My father is. My husband is. 

I am not. 

Like, at all. 

I hit my limit, I flip my switch, I lose my cool, so so so quickly. 

I typically want everything figured out or finished by now.

Or — better yet — by yesterday. 

My default is to rush.

If I’m not careful, I hustle. I wear myself out. 

Which is why my practice (and what I teach) is how to sloooow down.

How to be with stillness.

How to stay. 

How to pause long enough to cultivate, gradually, presence and patience. 

It's what I'm practicing each day, working out over this lifetime (among other things...). 

These wise words from Rainer Marie Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet helped me tremendously in my practice of patience when I first read them about 15 years ago.

I still need them today, so I thought I'd pass them along to you. 

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”

I’ll see you right back here tomorrow,
Cath

Meditation: Keep going with Nadi Shodana below. You can safely and wisely keep edging your way into more rounds and cycles. Remember, there’s 3 cycles of 9 rounds for 20 minutes of meditation below. Go at your own pace.

Reflection: What questions am I living my way into right now?