Defining Patience

1) Emotional patience is a state of not only the absence of negative feelings like stress and unrest but of a positive acceptance of the situation.

Example: Being caught in a traffic jam, but never getting upset and in fact feeling a sense that you are okay with the waiting. 

2) Decisional patience involves making a decision to try to be patient.

Example: Telling yourself that you are not going to act upset about the grad school acceptance letters you’re expecting any day, but finding yourself still stressed and impatient. 

In the box below, share examples for both emotional and decisional patience.