79: Just...wait

How much do you love waiting? I don’t mean the fun, anticipatory waiting like for the start of a movie--I mean the finger-drumming, “when’s it going to be time??” waiting. I’ll admit, I’m not a fan. But I’m getting better at it.

In this week’s podcast, I tell a funny story about waiting as a fruit of maturity. I offer a releasing breath and calming mantra.

We do get better with waiting as we age, but maybe that’s just because we don’t really have to wait much--especially not these days (thank you, Amazon :). Most of us have been around long enough to know that with enough time and right effort, “good things come to those who wait.”

But how about some of that deeper stuff? How do you do with waiting for

• Your body to heal from injury, illness, or surgery?
  
• Anger to settle before engaging in an argument?
  
• Financial dips to rise back up?
  
• The right diagnosis?
  
• Clarity and wisdom in a difficult situation?
  
• Your estranged relationships to heal?
  

These are tougher. This is where we have to exercise that patience muscle.

Or do we? What if instead of requiring fierce determination and great effort, patience was easy and beautiful? What if it were there all along? What if patience were a natural outcome of your yoga practice?

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