The absence of patience and persistence will lead to procrastination.
Patience leads to persistence.
Persistence is key to continuity and transformation.
When you get bored quickly, your patience and persistence levels are low.
You want to grow, but you are not ready to grow.
Wanting and readiness both look the same but are not the same.
You want to meditate and transform to become an artist, spiritual master, or healer.
Whatever you wish to become.
Wanting comes from outside influences;
You get motivated by someone on a shallow level.
You want to become like them.
It’s kind of like you just want to come out of your sadness or worries. Without accepting them, finding the root cause, and mindfully working with them.
You just wish for some miracle to happen to you.
You are more attracted to concepts and theory than to practice.
Any practice comes with some level of pain, but this is good pain.
Most of the time, you will not be ready to go through the pain, because you wish for instant benefits.
Your childhood habits. Deep-rooted family habits. Trauma. Subconscious influences.
Perceptions, and everything together, become your personality.
When you are “ready” for transformation from deep within, you always find a way to practice.
No matter if the situation is favorable or not, you will have persistence. You will not pass up any opportunity or possibility that will help you improve the quality of your practice. You will be so proactive and grounded to learn new things from others. You will improve the quality of your growth.
Having readiness is the soul’s purpose. Once you have it, you are unstoppable. No excuses.
There is good pain and bad pain
Good pain takes place because your body and mind are going through particular growth. During this process, your old conditions and habits will fight with new inputs. It will become a pain, but eventually, your body and mind will adopt the new process.
Ultimately it will lead to transformation and growth.
When you have persistence and resilience in your practice.
The bad pain takes place from your accumulated fixed perceptions, and opinions. Repeatedly being in your old patterns. Attracting the same old consequences again and again. This becomes bad pain. You are fighting and trying to escape from the challenges and problems without a mindful process.
When you start anything from wanting, you will drop in the middle (stuckness).
You will fall into ugly reasons and many excuses.
Finally, the practice you want for your transformation will become paused, stopped, or procrastinated.
The absence of patience and persistence will lead to procrastination.
When you are inhabited with instant benefits and comforts,
You will miss having these essential qualities
Patience, persistence, resilience, unconditional acceptance, conscious expression, and communication.
Your habits shape your life.
What is the reason you procrastinate?
Because of your habits and conditions that keep you in your comfort zone.
For some people, pleasure is their comfort zone.
But for some others, sadness is their comfort zone. Because they have been in a relationship with their sadness for a long time.
No matter whether it is sadness or pleasure, when you are in your comfort zone you will procrastinate.
In order to break your procrastination first you need to break your habits.
You need a nourishing environment for yourself to create new healthy habits and to break the old unhealthy ones.
It takes a minimum of 21 days to break a particular habit.
Once you start to commit practicing to something at any cost you must practice at least 21 days mindfully. After 21 days, there is a great chance your body and mind will start to adopt the new inputs and become aligned.
To continue building a habit, It takes at least 6 months in order to become ‘good’ at something.
The Art of working with your habits:
- Set up your environments to align with the habits you want to support in your life. Situate your environment, your space and people relationships, and immediately remove things that won’t support you anymore to continue your old habits. For example, if you have a habit of watching TV in your room, just remove the TV from your room. Whatever things provoke your old habits, remove them from your surroundings and nearby.
- Cut the people who drag you into your old habits.
- Be a minimalist. Live with minimal things, Give away anything in excess, and observe the lives of unprivileged people with compassion. This gives you an awakening sense of how much you are wasting your resources.
- Practice fasting (going without food for a period of time), Walk long distances and other conscious awakening challenges.
- Situate your day to use fewer computer and mobile devices, and spend more time gardening, doing the tracks, and being with animals. All these activities will improve your patience.
- Be open to listening to others’ life stories objectively which also improves your patience.
- Create a practice schedule and keep to the daily reminders
- Join retreats and courses that offer you a conscious environment to work with your patterns and habits.
Habits only break down through micro changes. So, don’t expect the result too fast. When you expect you will get disappointed with yourself. Be aware that everything is a continuous process and it happens from the micro level. When you reflect on the details with a master or mentor you will always be persistent.
When you are not able to practice alone, you must need a master or mentor who can give you a gentle push. A gentle push is necessary to work with deep-rooted habits.
Always meet and keep in touch with the people who are good at conscious habits that you are practicing.
Express to your family members about your new practice and that you are committed to coming out of your old habits, and prepare their minds to support your quality practice.
Expressing your decisions to your family members will give you a great release of ease. When you feel released you can practice better and deeper.
Readiness will clear everything that comes your way.
