Is Your Patience Running Thin?

Are you more easily frustrated by your loved ones right now?

Of course, you are.  

Pandemics do that...

Patience is running thin and irritation is rising in many of our relationships right now.  

A few common themes keep coming up. 

As usual, mindfulness and coaching tenets offer some relief.

Manage your expectations- 

The more expectations we have of others- especially unconscious ones, the more disappointment and hurt arises.

Giving up expectations of how others “should” act and respond isn't about letting them off the hook, it is about making things better for you. 

Just like You-  

Your partner or mother or child may feel similarly but respond differently. 

Take a moment to notice how your loved ones are "just like you." 

When your partner, child, mom does that annoying thing again, ask some questions.  

How are they "just like you" underneath?  

"What are you making it mean?"  

"What if it doesn't mean that?"

Accepting But Not Liking- 

You can accept things/behaviors/actions even if you don't like them.

Accepting does not mean agreeing.  It just frees you up to find solutions.  

If something has already happened, you can't change it.  

You can change what you think about it. 

Can you accept it for your own peace of mind?  

Forgiveness -

Is for you.

You are responsible for your own happiness.  This is freedom.

Feeling love -

Comes from inside you --not from what someone else is doing, thinking, feeling.  

You get to choose what their actions ``mean.” 

Why not decide it means something good rather than bad? 

Why not choose it means “love.”

You can get so much more out of these tools by doing the work on your own mind and your own relationships with a guide.

Set up a consult to talk about how you can get started with either 1:1 coaching or by joining Mindful Love.