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Building Self Trust

Do you often find yourself worried, fearful, unclear, stuck, and unable to make choices?

Wouldn’t it be great to be guided every step of the way? To be clear and confident about your next step? Just think of the power, courage and love you would have! Just think how much more effectively you could help yourself and others.

Good news! We ARE being guided every step of the way! We simply have to learn to listen to and trust our inner knowing. Trust opens the doors inside of us to peace, happiness, abundance, power, love and meaning.

And how do we develop trust?

When we have had enough pain and discomfort in our lives, we will know it’s time to follow our own guidance rather than be a pawn of outside influences. Before we can connect with higher guidance, though, we must first be present and conscious within ourselves.

We must STOP and PAY ATTENTION. We must get in the habit of taking ourselves off of autopilot. We must take time to stop and reflect on what we are thinking, feeling and doing.

As we learn to pay attention, we begin to notice how our thinking colours our perceptions. We being to notice subtle emotional responses we’d missed before. We begin to pick up the deeper messages and meanings of what’s happening. Our understanding of ourselves and others grows.

Here are some steps to notch up your awareness and sensitivity:

• Watch your thoughts and inner dialogue. Are they constructive or destructive? Do they focus on what you want or on what you don’t want?
• Honour your own feelings and experiences and then let them go.
• Become aware of when you resist your experience. Practice releasing resistance so you can move into allowing.
• Let go of judgments. Things, events and people are neither good nor bad, they just ARE. Experience the peace that comes with acceptance.
• Watch your motivations. Explore why you do what you do. Are you seeking attention, manipulating, getting even, pretending, avoiding...?
• Learn to discern between your ego’s desires and your soul’s innate needs.
• Look for deeper quality, meaning and purpose.

Once we stop and pay attention and become more aware, we begin to experience how life supports our learning and growth. We begin to spot the silver lining with every black cloud. And when we see this happen repeatedly in our lives, we begin to trust that we are safe. We also begin to trust in our own ability to know the higher way.

To anchor this growth more quickly and fully, keep a journal and write down your thoughts and experiences. This heightens awareness and allows a deeper level of integration.

When we become aware of the wisdom and love inside of us, we go to another level of trust. At that time, we begin to know:

• Each of us is a spiritual being.
• There is a bigger picture, a plan for humanity and our planet and we are evolving with that plan.
• All is unfolding perfectly and all are acting out their dramas the best they can, just as you have been.
• There is a law of cause and effect (karma) and a continuous balancing of energy and actions.
• Everything that occurs has meaning and purpose. There are no accidents.

When we adopt this larger perspective, fears and anxieties ease. We can take our place with confidence, being assured that this is indeed a loving universe and that we have a unique and valuable role in it. Our ego can willingly surrender to that higher guidance that always speaks within us. Ultimately, we learn to trust that the next step is the right action with the right person in the right place at the right time for the right reason.

We are all on an inner journey – a journey to soul, to higher consciousness, to expansion. Everything we need for this journey is already within us. When we can trust this, we discover a brand new level of peace, joy and meaning in our lives.

John and Patrice Robson
Higher Awareness  (https://www.higherawareness.com)
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