Trust begins at home
- Ruth Smethurst
- May 25, 2018
- 4 min read
Trust begins at home!
Actually it begins even closer than that.
It begins with you.
When there is a distinct lack of trust in yourself, your instincts, your choices, your feelings, your emotions -there is a deep down disconnect from other people that happens too.
You may think that you are trusting of others because you give yourself over to them easily, allow yourself to be lead or joined to who they are without reservation -
And if you are lucky you will only have gorgeous, generous, caring people in your life who will never do you wrong.
But if they do happen to
offend,
hurt,
or not live up to your expectations -
you will end up blaming them for how you feel.
In this life, how you feel and respond to anything is YOUR choice.
Taking responsibility for ALL these choices is in essence
Trusting yourself.
Knowing yourself.
Being yourself.
IF you don't trust you abilities.
You will live with that niggly beastie called Imposter Syndrome, eating away at your confidence and ability to take action on the ideas and dreams you have.
The best way to begin to build your trust in your abilities is COURAGE.
Start taking action and doing what you deep down know you can do. In using your abilities you learn and develop them even more. You also learn how to tweak them and make them your own.
BUT hark! What if courage is small and elusive?
This is where trusting your feelings pays dividends.
IF you don't trust your feelings.
You will doubt the messages from your soul.
You will look to others to give you permission to feel things because you have not valued your feelings,.
Allow yourself to explore where your feelings come from and how they help and define you in life - without judgement of good, bad, useless, pathetic, strong etc.
BUT hark! What if you 'can't' allow your feelings to surface and be expressed?
Perhaps because:
You just weren't raised that way.
You are embarrassed by what might come out.
You don't believe feelings are useful in the 'REAL' world of getting things done.
This is where trusting your decisions, and tenaciously believing in the choices you have made allows you to have a fail safe when you are unsure of your feelings.
IF you don't trust your decisions.
Your monkey mind will take over your every thought. A pervasive self doubt will creep in each time you are faced with choosing.
No matter how much willpower you apply, the lack of clarity and certainty will drain your very life force.
BUT Hark! What if you are already too far down the confusion rabbit hole to decide anything with certainty?
Then being connected to and knowing yourself
Honestly
Openly
Lovingly
Compassionately
Will be the foundation from which you can re-build the processes of trust.
IF you don't trust WHO YOU ARE.
It is time - NOW - right now.
Not in a years time when you have tried everyone elses solutions first.
Not in a months time when you have got that big deadline out the way.
Not in a weeks time when you have finally hit rock bottom yet again.
Now is the time, as you read this, to CHOOSE
To know yourself
To trust yourself
To honour and respect yourself
Even if you don't quite know what that looks like, feels like, or what action to take just yet -
CHOOSE IT NOW
DECIDE IT NOW
And allow yourself to accept that choice. (That is the faith bit).
What have you got to lose?
NOTHING
And you have everything to gain.
The journey inward will require courage, and a lot of self love and compassion. It is worth it. You may not see the whole picture right away, but you will begin to feel and know that you are safe, on track and capable.
Which will then grow into a dynamic energy and courage to begin to Play life on your terms and experience life more fully than ever before.
Oh the contentment of knowing what feels right for you and finally giving yourself permission to do, be and feel it.
It is as simple as choosing it!
GO ON - You are worth it.
For those who want to feel this deep connection to trusting themselves and their ability to LIVE life fully, on their terms, in a way that brings deep joy - BUT have doubted for too long and think/ feel that they are too far gone...
HARK NO! You are never too far gone. Ever!!!!!!!
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You'll trust your body like never before and wonder why for all these years you've thought about it the way you have.
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Those who have read this and just know that this is how they are but don't know where to start to change it - Take a chance on you - invest in you
Take a journey that you will not come out of the same person as you began.
Change will happen.
Action will be taken.
You will finally begin to life YOUR life your WAY.
Ruth will hold your hand, open your heart and support and champion you as you in turn learn your own processes to continue your journey beyond our work together.
It is a choice - CHOOSE YOU!

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