Have you ever had a moment in your relationships, be it with your partner, a family member or even a friend or co-worker, where you have challenging communications?

A good question to ask is; what enables us to engage in these discussions?

At times, all this takes is patience. Patience to give ourselves the breathing space to understand and to gather essential information to move through it in a more casual manner. After all, good communication usually happens when we are more centered in our lives and connected with our inner knowing.

These days, when times are more stressful and people want results more instantaneously, it’s not always easy to cultivate that time. Too often we find ourselves shouting out our desires and irritations, causing more harm than good, well before realizing a better route to truly understanding our needs, or the needs of others.

I recently had just such the occasion to practice patience. And, what did I do instead…?

Well, you may be able to guess. I allowed that “Little Me” inside to run the show and now I have some repair work to do. Some forgiveness to give AND request.

Impatiently blurting out our irritations and jumping to conclusions may in a moment feel very powerful, yet it does very little to resolve a situation. It simply compounds the issues and pushes us away from solutions.

The next time I find myself in an ultra challenging emotional trigger and “Little Me” wants to blurt, I will…

• give myself a hug instead
• take a breath
• feel it through
• allow my True Self to speak for me

And, I am human, so I will forgive myself for my recent fopaux. It’s all about learning after all, and I can accept that sometimes I get to grow too.

Can you relate? Share with us all by commenting below.

Aspiring fearlessly,