Impatience: emotional and spiritual meaning

What impatience is

Impatience is the irritation of wanting something now. You become short in what you say and what you do. A little of it is ordinary. It becomes a pattern when speed is how you live, and other people, or you yourself, are always too slow.

The reading below listens to the stress under the rush.

The emotional meaning of impatience

The source reads impatience as inner stress, insecurity or tension that shakes you and affects the nervous system. You become more irritable, more abrupt in what you have to say or do. The questions are direct. Are you impatient with yourself, or with others? Why do you always need to go faster? It is as if you wanted to catch up with time.

When you feel a limitation, or that someone wants to curtail your freedom, it irritates you, and it shows in brusque acts.

The entry also points toward nervousness and toward low blood sugar. A real drop in sugar can make anyone irritable. That belongs with blood sugar, and with a doctor if it keeps happening. The rush itself is the feeling.

A gentler way to hold it

The aim is not to become slow for its own sake. The emotional perspective invites you to find what the irritation is made of.

• Ask who the impatience is aimed at. Yourself, or someone else.
• Notice the wish to catch time. Speed may be covering a fear of being limited.
• Take a few moments. The source offers that pause as the way to the source of the irritation.
• If you shake, sweat or turn faint when you have not eaten, check your blood sugar. Mood and glucose are not the same question.