In celebration of 12 years and 624 continuous weeks of writing the Angel Whispers, I am releasing the first post on Trust. I want to thank the angels who whisper, Beckie (my wife), Jenny Meadows (my copy editor), and all the whisperees who have followed this blog, sent in comments, requested topics, and inspired my dedication.
Thanks to Danielle for the suggestion to create a whisper on the word trust, a sometimes elusive feeling amongst a vast landscape of opposition (lol). I am merely referring to the challenges with trust, whether it is with your faith, other people or with one’s own self. By definition, trust means to have confidence or faith with reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing. But what if that trust connects with optimism to form illusions?
In my quest for answers, Google held 300 million possibilities (tee hee). But here is what I found at ChangingMinds.org: Trust is both an emotional and logical act. Emotionally, it is where you expose your vulnerabilities to people by believing they will not take advantage of your openness. Logically, it is where you have assessed the probabilities of gain and loss, calculating expected utility based on hard performance data, and concluded that the person in question will behave in a predictable manner. In practice, trust is a bit of both. I trust you because I have experienced your trustworthiness and because I have faith in human nature. We feel trust. Emotions associated with trust include companionship, friendship, love, agreement, relaxation, comfort.
If a person who is trustworthy commits an act that displays the opposite, does that mean we should no longer trust that person? And what if that person is looking back at you in the mirror (tee hee)? My brain is hurting, and that is my sign that it is time for a whisper from an angel on trust:
In the grand scheme of things, trust is an essential ingredient to the enjoyment of life. Like anything else that appears to be lost, trust can be found in the most unlikely places. If you are lacking trust in general, that could indicate the need to address issues relating to self-worth, lack of faith, the fear of failure, or some sort of limiting belief about yourself, your environment, or the world in general.
You are constantly bombarded by a variety of energies that individually may be very subtle, but in unison, these energies can create feelings around the distrust in the world. It is important to separate yourself from actions that manifest distrust. Second-guessing yourself, seeing the world or the human journey as being without hope, living with damaging, false, or negative emotions, or belief in an ideology that does not align with your true essence can support the emotion of distrust.
Building faith, supporting your spiritual growth, self-forgiveness, surrender to a higher power, and a willingness to let go of things that do not serve are all ways to build trust. Giving through sharing always builds trust by spreading throughout the world like ripples of water across a pond. If you could elevate your heart to extend trust to someone who might not have earned it, you are teaching that person the value of trust. In order to accomplish this act and then feel the rewards, you might view it as sharing your trust, and in that way you are not giving up a part of yourself as much as you are moving loving energy through the Cosmic Heart!
Learn ways to trust yourself first in order to experience trust with others.
Bring joy, ease suffering and create beauty, then dance like you mean it!
Blessings, Russell
“I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you’re going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.” C. JoyBell C.
