Have Patience With Affirmations

To have patience can be a challenge at the best of times. Having patience in using affirmations can also be difficult- especially if patience is what you are trying to create in the first place.

The thing is, though, as effective as affirmations can be, they are not a quick fix. If you don’t have patience with affirmations, you will not give them time to work. If you are truly an impatient type- I can identify with this at times- call it something other than patience for the sake of the exercise. Or be impatient if that’s how you feel, but persist anyway.

It really doesn’t matter if you are ranting and raving because your affirmations haven’t totally changed your life in three days, so long as you keep taking breaks from the ranting and raving to continue using your affirmations.

Even if your schedule goes something like, ‘I am now creating a patient and trusting attitude in all areas of my life’ x 10, followed by ‘are we there yet? Am I patient now?’ that’s okay. As long as you are using affirmations enough times, and often enough, they can still overcome all the other mindless chatter that we persist with in between.

Most of us are, by nature, impatient. When we want something we want it now if not sooner. We don’t like to wait for things, and instant gratification could be a mantra for many.

The thing is that with making big life changes, you also need to make big changes in your thoughts, habits, and beliefs. These are things that are quite ingrained in most cases, and long-held habits take time and effort to change.

If you think about it, most of your beliefs were probably shaped in your childhood. If you have been convincing yourself over a period of 20, 30, or more years, that you are highly-strung and impatient, that is a lot of ‘programming’ to undo.

Basically that’s what affirmations do. They reprogram the beliefs that we have realized are making us unhappy. So, if you have told yourself thousands of times over the years that you aren’t worthy of happiness, it stands to reason that you will need to affirm a lot of times that you do deserve to be happy before you can override the old programming.

The good thing is though, that the reprogramming doesn’t need to take years, you just need to get those repetitions in. The more times, and the more often you use your affirmations, the faster you will be able to start seeing results in your life. If you are impatient for progress, put yourself on an intensive schedule of affirmations.

If you have really decided that something in your life is not going the way you would like it to, and that you really want to make a change for the better, then make a commitment.

Promise yourself that you will do whatever it takes to see the changes you want become real in your life. Accept that it will take time, and that you will need to have patience. If you are going to create a positive change in your life by using affirmations, then you need to commit to using them consistently, whether you ‘feel like it’ or not.

Sometimes you will feel lazy, impatient, and really not want to bother with affirmations. That is the time to redouble your efforts.

There is a huge difference between the horrible sinking feeling that comes from spending your life doing things you truly dislike, and the natural resistance that we feel about doing most things (even when they are things that can bring us in line with our goals). I would never advocate continuing to force yourself to do things that you hate, but I am all for giving ourselves a good kick in the pants when we need it (in other words, often!).

To change your life, dig deep within yourself to have patience to persist. Affirmations are certainly not the only way of changing your life, but they are pretty hard to beat. If you persevere, and have patience (even a little bit at first), you will see the gradual but amazing difference affirmations can make. And if you can’t manage to have patience, then go right ahead and be impatiently persistent. You will get there!

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