Author: manabunnow4zph

What is the deeper meaning behind situations where we find that we are impatient with what is happening, whatever the situation might be.  There is a good chance that underneath impatience is a thought form.  That thought form is,

“There is not enough time.  There is not enough time in the day for me to be able to do what it is that I need to do and that I want to do. 

I call your attention to the reality that is simply your own thought form. There is plenty enough time to do whatever it is that we set our intention to do. If we think that there is not enough time – if that is the thought form that we hold near and dear to our hearts – then of course, guess what?   There won’t be enough time to do what it is that we would like to do and we want to do.

There is a companion issue associated with being impatient.  If you are impatient with a particular task or many tasks during the day, it is often the case that we think to ourselves,

“I’m ready to be done with this because I have something much more fun and much more interesting that I want to do right now.  I don’t want to run out of time so that I can’t enjoy the task I really want to do.”

For example,  let’s say that as you are washing the dishes after dinner you find yourself rushing through because there is a video that you are craving to watch.  You have been thinking about watching this video all day long.  You want to get the dishes finished quickly because you want to be sure you have enough time to watch that exciting video.  The thought is,

“Washing dishes really isn’t very much fun.” 

In other words, you are not present to the chore of washing dishes.

The reality is, everything we do can be a fascinating experience even if we have done a task 1,150 times (which would be washing the dishes for most of us!). Each task is an occasion to have a new experience.  If  the chore involves – as in my example – washing the dishes, then,

• Feeling the water of over our hands. 
• Feeling the texture of the soap. 
• Watching the dishes change as the soiling clears. 
• Placing the dishes in the dish drain as they form a unique mosaic. 
• Listening to the sounds that surround us as we wash the dishes. 
• Smelling the dish soap.
• Watching the bubbles.
• Feeling the texture of being present in the moment as we feel our clothes nestle against skin. 

Enjoying each and every moment of that experience means that each time we wash the dishes it winds up being a totally new experience which keeps us endlessly interested, attentive and mindful.

There are no experiences that are boring in themselves. We only make them so with our attitudes and with our thoughts.  We impose a static label of boredom.

If we’re rushing to get through an activity because we want to go to another, we are living in the future.  We are projecting out on something that is about to happen.  You know as well as I that when you get to the next activity oftentimes it does not meet our wonderful expectations of how interesting, how pleasurable and how engaging it will be.

If we actually reflect back on that previous activity that we had declared to be routine and boring – something we have to do because we have to do it – chances are we might actually recognize that doing that previous activity was actually interesting. We just didn’t spend enough time on it.

It is easy to be impatient when chronic symptoms present themselves; impatient that they vanish, impatient that those symptoms resolve quickly.  When we’re in the moment, all of that rattletrap in our minds suddenly  vanishes.  We occupy our thoughts, our emotions and our feelings to what it is that we are experiencing now.

As you have observed the extent to which you have been impatient over the past several days, have you found you are impatient more frequently than you had acknowledged previously (as was my case)? What was your answer to the question,

“Now when I get through with this, what next?” 

How many times did you find yourself asking the question,

“What next?” 

You know and I know that the ultimate final answer to that question is death.  Are you really rushing then as fast as you can to that end state of death?  Is that what this is all about?

Slow down!
Be present in the moment. 

I can assure you that as you monitor the degree to which you find you are impatient, you will be able to more mindfully be present to each and every moment.  Stress will be reduced. When stress is reduced, symptoms will dissolve like a snowball in the summertime.

Robert

© Parkinsons Recovery

What have been your observations from this mindfulness exercise this week which invited you to be more observant of your hands while you talk and the hands of others when they talk?  Here’s my observation.  If you’d asked me before I invented this exercise,

“To what extent do I use my hands when I talk?”

I probably would have reported I don’t use them very much. I prefer to use my big mouth.

The truth is, as I observe myself, that I use my hands a great deal when I talk.  I’m not even aware of the extent to which my hands facilitate my ability to communicate meaning to others.  Has that been your realization too?

Perhaps you have not learned a lot about how you communicate as much as how others communicate. Perhaps you now know much more about how somebody who is particularly close to you expresses themselves through their hands?  Perhaps you never realized how much that individual uses their hands to express their feelings and their thoughts?

Our bodies are just like our hands when we talk.  The reality is our body is always functioning without our awareness; we don’t need to turn on or off any switches.  We do not need to consciously coordinate the pumping of the heart or the exhalation of our breath, or the circulation of our blood.  Think of what a monstrous task that would be. It would surely require the participation and the input of an entire population of a very large country to control the physical function of just our single body.

The body is a miracle and yes, we’re not aware of everything that it actually does nor do we need to be.  Our body knows how to heal itself.  All we have to do is to honor that incredible ability.  The right side communicates with the left side, the top communicates with the bottom; the body is always in a continuous state of adjustment, always striving to maintain that golden place of balance.

Yes, sometimes our body does need to have some help from us.  It is possible that there are so many toxins in our body it is unable to discharge them; it’s simply too much to handle.  If there’s a lot of trauma in the body it’s possible our body cannot function and come back into balance because the body is continuously frightened and frozen in a state of perpetual fear.

There are many reasons why the body gets out of balance.  The presence of bacteria, fungus and viruses; all of these interruptions can influence the ability of the body to function.  And yes, we certainly can help the body become all that it is.

Know in your heart and your soul and your mind that the body really does know what it’s doing and know we’re not really aware of what it does or how it does it.  You see, it’s all a miracle.

Most of your body, my body and everyone’s body who is alive today is actually working perfectly.  There are some functions – especially if you’re listening to this mindfulness exercise – that may not be quite in order.  Yes, there is work to be done in the form of therapies, in the form of coming back into balance and centeredness, in the form of doing regular meditations, in the form of reducing stress.  All of that is important and it is certainly important to discharge, release, remove and eject all negative thoughts that are not in our best and highest good.

Yes it is possible to come back into that golden place of perfect harmony, balance and wellness.  That you see, turns out to be the deeper meaning of the exercise this week of noticing your hands.  They do what they do and we’re not even aware of it.  How magical is that?

Have a magnificent time the rest of the week as you even more closely and meticulously watch what your hands do from moment to moment. Watch others as they communicate with their own hands.  And most importantly, celebrate the miracle of your body which is working perfectly.

Robert

© Parkinsons Recovery