Patience, The Gift to Enjoy!

Awwww a lovely morning in Weaverville NC outside Ashville. The views magical. The spot filled with wildlife, a humming bird came by this morning. What I have learned from my few days here is about patience. A trait that many of us are challenged by. In our fast world where answers are quick to come through AI and news flashes so much emergency, patience is a gift to cultivate.

As I travel the state, sell water filtration, visit nature  and discover new places, I am reminded of the garden pace. We want flowers to bloom as soon as we plant. However, the enchantment of watching it grow, nurturing it and then finally the flowers is the fun of it. Nature has a slower pace than the mind and our current world. It works cyclically, using the fibonacci form to unfurl. The leaves on a tree, the ways plants grow, the spiraling of water, all of it is progressing at a pace that is slower. The material world takes time to unfold. Living in it, why we think things are instantaneous is a story of the mind. 

The peacefulness of nature reminds me of patience. The mountains too. The big tall steady stature full of life has a feel of calm, settle, relax, allow, and take your time. Windy roads, big drops, nature flourishing, it is a place to take your time. Take our time. Wow, how often do we do that? I feel like this is a rarity. Taking my time is a powerful statement. First of all, it is my time, my timing and my rhythm? That is not others time, the worlds time or the timing of the mind. It is your time. Whatever that is. It shifts too. Sometimes faster and other times slower.

We are trained to reach for a goal, a destination and that we must get their efficiently, quickly and now! We put blinders on and go. We miss the things around us often, There could be side ways movement that seems inefficient yet that could be the path of greatest good. But our mind has its sights on straight and fast. Is that really the best way to go? Who's way is that? Is it yours or someone you heard or another's process? When you have your direction it works better to me. I know what I want and a path there but I allow the windy experience to unfold. I would miss so much if I just had my eye on the prize and missed all that went by.

I know there is a power to focus so I am not saying to be wishy washy. Soft focus is the best for your creating in your own way uniquely. Allow the world to work with you. It is not all your effort. When I was a grower that is what I learned so powerfully. Things are growing. With or without me, nature grows. I realized that if I added in here and there in the direction of the flowers I wanted, working with the cycle of life, I did far less than many growers trying to control the process. I interjected where I needed but didn't over nurture or panic that things weren't growing fast enough or blooming soon enough. I added where I could but it all was growing on its own. I let nature work.

I have taken this into life. I don't have to do all the work. Many times I am like all others thinking if I don't make it happen it won't. That is true on some level. You need to take action at certain points. It is not all action all the time. You get an idea in your head, you tie in your emotions and you align your physical actions with it yes. But is needs time for conditions to formulate. Our words and intentions are spells, they cast out ideas into the world. It takes a minute for this to be received and then orchestrated. Life is happening. With a few interjections here and there you steer. Not working like a ox. Timing is what it is and often you have no control like in a garden. No matter how hard I garden, the plants grow at their pace not mine. This is valuable to realize.

So we find patience is a key to all creation in form. This is a truth we all know. To get in shape, improve a relationship, build a business, get good at a skill, it all takes time. What do we do in between? How do we manage waiting? I have learned that this is where pleasure and leisure come in. Relax, enjoy yourself. See how things are moving forward and you have done what is necessary. Often we think do more, do more and yet more doing will not increase the cycle. It is larger than you, what you are working with and it has it's timing.

I know this is hard to hear to many. If things aren't how you want how can you relax and find pleasure? There must be something I can do to speed this up? There isn't usually. It is the feminine part of life that our production world has forgot. There is a rest in the work. There is playfulness between our work. There is nourishing that must occur so we can work focused. We can't work 24/7. We spend half our life asleep! There is a big clue. We need to use patience and enjoyment in our plan to create anything. 

Yes, when you feel "I need to be patient", there is your signal to enjoy life. This is time to count your blessings. Take a rest. Do something fun. Do something nourishing. Engage in fun. Take a break and giggle. It has taken a life of rushing to come to this simple answer I have heard so many times. My mind would fight it and say no I must make this happen, I must do something in the direction of my destination. Taking time out is doing something. It is allowing things to unfold like the garden. Be happy with yourself and actions and take an action to fuel. Woman are the agents of this refueling. We have forgotten our mastery of this. It is what we bring in. All so caught in production but we remember. We create the parties, celebrations, offer support and breaks, the listening, the giggles, the fun of life is brought in by us. 

It is called the rise of Divine Feminine .
Know one angle of this is to honor patience and enjoy yourself. Be merry as you must put down the doing and gather and enjoy. Maybe be alone and that is the pleasure. Ring out, take time, allow things to settle and find pleasure in that. That is what woman do. They take a mess and turn it into a celebration or some laughter. They fluff up the pleasure and joy as we all walk through so much crisis. We bring in the joyous moments while the mess is there. We take the reset, we provide the reset. So be clear within. When you feel patience is needed,  it is time for yin energy. Rest, digest, rejuvenate, renew, fill up and do that in whatever way you need in the moment. 

I am clear in this as I travel about looking for what town to live. I want to find that spot soon. Yet it is a project that will unfold and takes time. If I want the best choice, I need to visit and relax in places. See it and experience it. That takes time. I could just pick a spot and live there. But will it thrive me? Sure that is the efficient route. But is my heart going to sing? Sure I can have fun and adjust anywhere but why not have it be the perfect place for me right now at this stage in life. I can take time to use patience as fun to refuel and sense an area. Can I rest here? Can I refuel here? Are my people about? Is nature rich enough for me today? These things take time and I am taking it wisely.

I also believe a great force is with me. My higher soul, God, whatever name you use is guiding and creating with me. If I listen, I can be more like the paint brush than the painter. I can do my work but allow the world to adjust to my intention too. They call it divine timing. It requires patience. It requires enjoyment. We need more joy these days and it is build into the system. We just forgot. So let us remember the power of patience and timing. Your timing and the timing of the world. Let it evolve. Pray in the meantime or play. Whatever suits you. 

This is the power and fun of patience. I have often been put in patience and could do what I want and thought but I want to do and work. I want to be productive not rest or play. I felt like there is no time for that as I need this or that. All action coming from a fearful or hurry up energy. Recently it hit me. Play is the work in that moment. Stop and enjoy what is around you and find a way to enjoy yourself. After a bit, more action toward your goal will come in and then do it. Until then, relax. it is the recharge and the gift of refresh your energy so you have some for your work. Projector wisdom. I delight in it now. 

Use that desire to do, to do something fun and nourishing!

Reach out if you need support! We are in this together. I will be doing retreats later this year to support woman in this cultivation of using the divine feminine to rejuvenate!