Impatience is a common experience in our modern world. We become impatient when traffic stops or slows, when we or someone else is late for a meeting, whenever we have to wait and “do nothing.” Signals of impatience can be both physical; the rapid heart beat, tapping fingers, jiggling legs, tightness in chest or stomach …
This practice is about the art of waiting and pausing, checking your internal state and using situations, that in the past you may have found frustrating, to your own best advantage.
We are continuously bathed in sound, even in places we would call quiet. Our ears register all these sounds, but our brain blocks most of them out so we can concentrate on the ones we deem important. This practice is about stopping to listen to things that would normally pass us by, as way of increasing our sense of belonging in the world.