| With the focus on thoughts, we are much more | | | | appreciate the silence beyond your thoughts; you |
| aware of time. When our awareness goes beyond | | | | need a habit that is associated to no understanding. |
| thinking, we enter a timeless moment where the | | | | If you just create the habit of breathing into silence, |
| Wisdom of the Body choreographs our life. The | | | | that simple comfort justifies your effort. To many, |
| frustration of waiting is our resistance to letting go of | | | | understanding justifies our actions, but sometimes |
| our habitual habit of focusing on thinking. Imagine if | | | | understanding limits you. When you want to go |
| waiting opened the door to creativity and spirituality. | | | | beyond thinking, understanding that justifies your |
| If that happened, waiting would be a gift that was | | | | actions limits you to focusing on your thoughts. |
| not resisted. | | | | It takes faith to develop a habit free from |
| We often say "wait a minute" as a subconscious way | | | | understanding, but it is possible. To the person who |
| of entering that state of mind, but when it comes to | | | | habitually focuses on their thoughts, being aware of |
| us without choice, frustration often arises. Just think, | | | | this inner silence seems impossible, but when you |
| if a simple breath transported your awareness to | | | | look at the highlights of your life, you are naturally |
| that beyond thought inner reality. Waiting could easily | | | | aware of this reality. We do not remember the |
| become the break your deepest wisdom desires. In | | | | beyond thought reality because there were no words |
| fact, in a way that inner wisdom is always striving for | | | | there to capture our memory. |
| completion, if you are ready to accept it with | | | | True love exists there. For why does a parent love |
| openness, waiting is a gift. | | | | their child so much or do lovers bond together? Logic |
| So let "wait a minute" be the trigger that stops you | | | | doesn't answer that question, but we accept it when |
| focusing on thoughts and connects you to the | | | | it happens. Why cannot simply waiting trigger that |
| Wisdom of your Body. Then, when your daily flow is | | | | depth? If neural pathways were developed to |
| interrupted, you could create the habit of completion. | | | | connect you to the silence beyond your thinking mind |
| When you stop at a red light or wait for a doctor, | | | | and you accepted that, waiting could be a profound |
| instead of ego being suspended in nothingness | | | | moment. |
| causing frustration, wisdom embraces the moment to | | | | Of course, these neural pathways are not the |
| complete you. | | | | easiest to develop, but is that a reason to ignore the |
| Now let us look at impatience. That is when your | | | | art of waiting? If we developed habits that celebrate |
| awareness has no comfortable place to land. Maybe | | | | silence and felt comfortable there, waiting would |
| you were expecting something, but there is nothing | | | | automatically take us there. Unfortunately, for most |
| comforting to land your awareness on. Let me | | | | of us, the thoughts in our mind are more valuable |
| propose an alternative; you do not have to look to | | | | than the comfort of silence and waiting frustrates us. |
| thoughts to comfort you. | | | | In the same way waiting does not attract modern |
| If you developed a habit of having your awareness | | | | man and silence seems like nothing, our thoughts |
| and breath entering the silence beyond your | | | | have the power to cover silence and exclude us |
| thoughts, your wait would find a comfortable place | | | | from inner wisdom. A simple breath has the power to |
| to land. You do not have to be a philosopher to | | | | change that. What are you waiting for? |