How Did I Learn to Trust Life?
For much of my life I had a hard time trusting. I didn't have good models of what healthy trust looks like when I was growing up, and I had many experiences that taught me that it wasn't safe to trust--especially to trust that Life was for me. This led me to want to be in control of everything! My emotions, my job, my friends, my romantic relationships, it doesn't matter what it was, I wanted to control it.
The challenge with this way of being is that it's a lot of work. And it's not really effective. I learned through much trial and error that it's not actually possible, or even desirable, to always be in control.
The spiritual practice that helped me move my excessively controlling ways is visioning. When we vision, we go into a meditative state and seek to connect with that wise, loving, and knowledgable core of our being. Psychology calls this core of us the Self, with a capital "S". Spiritual traditions have called it the Christ consciousness, Buddha nature, nirvana, and so much more.
When we vision, we go through a defined process asking this part of us questions. This is where the trust side comes in. More than anything else in this practice, I have learned to trust that Life is for me, by learning to trust and act upon the wisdom that the Self within me was sharing when I asked it questions.
We will build this trust over eight weeks, starting tomorrow, April 29th at 6:30pm, in Visioning: A Way of Life. We will vision together, discover the desires and love of our inner divinity, and support one another as we grow in trust of our beautiful, wise core.
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I look forward to seeing you in class!
-Russ
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