213 // Cultivating Patience

The Mindful Kind

Rachael Kable

Mindfulness, Mindful, Health & Fitness, Self-help, Inspiration

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Hello and welcome to episode 213 of The Mindful Kind podcast.

In this episode, I've answered a great question from one of my listeners about how to become a more patient person.

Here are my top 6 tips for cultivating patience:

Tip 1: Practice mindfulness! This practice can help you develop patience over time by letting go of rushing and appreciating the present moment.

Tip 2: Be self-compassionate - sometimes situations that trigger impatience can be really challenging. Give yourself space to feel impatience without judgement. If you would like some guidance in cultivating self-compassion, be sure to check out my Self-Compassion Meditation Album at: www.rachaelkable.com/shop

Tip 3: Let go of "should" statements.

Tip 4: Take deep breaths to alleviate the intensity of impatience.

Tip 5: Ask yourself if being impatient actually helps! You can also ask yourself if there's something more constructive you could be doing to help the situation, rather than just feeling impatient.

Tip 6: Change your expectations so you're less likely to feel impatient in the first place.

I hope you've enjoyed this episode! Thank you so much and I hope you have a wonderful week, Mindful Kind.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Mindful Kind podcast. I'm your host, Rachel Cable, author of the
0:08.9	Mindfulkind book, Mindfulness Teacher and blogger at Rachelcable.com. Each week this podcast will bring
0:15.4	meaningful tips, tools and strategies so you can manage stress and live more mindfully in the modern world.
0:24.2	Hello and welcome to episode 213 of the Mindful Kind podcast.
0:29.6	A little while ago, I received a wonderful email from one of my listeners and she wrote
0:34.3	that she'd love to learn more about cultivating patients.
0:38.0	Even though she knows patience often goes hand in hand with mindfulness,
0:41.9	she feels like she's struggling and she was curious to know if I had any thoughts or tips that
0:47.0	might be helpful. I've been thinking about this a lot and to be honest,
0:51.4	I think I've become a much more patient person since I started living
0:55.3	more mindfully. I'm definitely not perfect, but I'm much more patient in a lot of situations.
1:02.3	Just for example, when I was younger, all I wanted to do was get married and start a family.
1:08.7	I thought about it every day. I pictured it. I felt frustrated by
1:12.6	my own youth and I wished I could just fast forward until I got to that stage. I was so impatient
1:19.8	and I can clearly remember what that impatience felt like. It was kind of a blend between
1:25.5	frustration, anger, hopelessness, anxiety, longing, enthusiasm and
1:31.9	excitement.
1:33.2	I wanted the marriage in the family and I resented the fact that I had to wait.
1:39.0	There were a lot of nice moments that I missed down on appreciating because I was so
1:43.1	focused on the future and all the
1:45.3	things I couldn't wait to have. I spoke about this a bit more on episode 189 of the Mindful
1:51.6	Kind podcast called the Happy Later Fantasy, which dives deeper into the concept of missing out on
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