One of the advantages of getting old is that it comes with wisdom. "Knowledge, intuition and experience combine to guide us in our everyday decisions and choices". After 50 years of living I/we have accumulated an abundance of knowledge and experience, good and bad decisions have been made, consequences suffered and lessons learned. Our short-term memories may be fading but our brains maintain the intuitive power to provide wisdom if we give it some time.
A face full of Wisdom!
Taking out time and being patience is not a skill that comes naturally to me. I want answers to problems and I want them now! I feel the need to figure out and clearly understand all the details and then find a solution. We are all busy and it is human nature to react quickly and many times to over-react or react in an inappropriate manner. In this next stage of life I am going to start practising patience, listening more and giving myself time to reflect. I have spent 50 years without this skill so I will need to be patient with myself in practising patience before it will become a habit; awareness is the first step. What I am learning is that sometimes less is more...listen, wait and have faith in other people to solve their own problems. Be humble, you don't always know what's best.
Sunrise in my tree house abode, Bali.
"Sleep on it", as the saying goes, this is an easy way to practise patience. Let your mind rest and retrieve the wisdom that is buried to come to the surface. You may choose to meditate and ask the question for which you are searching an answer, or perhaps you could pray if that is your belief, but what ever method you choose, rest your mind so that it can do its job.
