It looks like I am about to take a leap. Entering the world of Blogs is what I am directed to do. First and foremost, join me and communicate with me. I need your help. When you ask me a question I will do my best to answer. Please note the subject I chose, read it and do not be afraid to comment on it. I ask that you to be patient with me, I intend to post on Tuesdays ––– I will be persistent and with consistency arrive at a work is progress. First I must wait for the Arizona summer temperature to change. I will be thinking of conversations to have with you.
Let me see where this one goes?
A few year ago I was asked about patience persistence and consistency, I had to think a moment and soon realized these words had meanings available to all of us. I am a doctor of medicine, some call me the Mother of Holistic Medicine. This, my friends, is a titled bestowed it does not make me who I am. I can tell you I am an old doctor of medicine, over 90 you know! I was born in India from American missionary parents. I studies and practiced medicine in the United States.
All this has little to do with the words above, though it took me patience, persistence and consistency to become a doctor. I learned about patience probably when my children were born. My patients also were teachers of patience.
There is not an hour or a day for patience, it is a conditional demand of life. I know as our life processes take us on various journeys at times we are required to be patient. I know patience is something that is not fast and it tests our expectations and judgements. We can become conscious and aware of these situations and exercise the choice to wait, and see. In other words become patience itself and watch and see… The effect of impatience; it is a waste of time and energy, it is unfruitful and it causes stresses that get us in trouble. When we get impatient, with ourselves, with our love ones, with life it self we send messages to ourselves. Our bodies respond, our blood pressure goes up, our anger builds up, our adrenal get exhausted and the thing we apparently fear the most, we age faster.
Do yourself a favor, be patient.
When I was a practicing medical doctor, I assisted mothers in the delivery of their babies. The fathers were outside the room, waiting for the arrival of son or daughter. I felt it was a good idea to have the father in the delivery room with the mother. After all they usually are present at conception! This idea took a great deal time to be accepted by the the community of doctors and the parents themselves. Twelve years later it became a reality. today if a father wishes to be in the delivery room he can. I had to exercise patience, I had to persist with every step I took and be consistent every time I expressed the idea that both parents be part of the birthing process.
Life is a miracle but living requires plenty of patience and persistence and when we aim we must be consistent to reach our target.
We have dreams, needs, aspirations, ideas and ideals. I observe often we forget that life does not happen immediately just because we wish or will it to be so.
To nourish our dreams, needs and aspirations, ideas and our ideals we must give them the time they deserve, gestation takes time and patience. We need to be patience with our soul, examine the objects of our fixation.
To reach our goal we need to do our best and take the steps that will take us where we need to be and influence the seeds to grow.
When we do these things, we begin to understand that life is a process that requires patience. We grow and life requires us to make changes at various levels. At times, the changes are physical, sometimes they are molecular, sometimes they are mental, we must be flexible. It takes patience, persistence and consistency to be a human. Divine laws demands these things of us.
Tuesday with Dr. Gladys 