•  Developing a basic trust in yourself, your feelings, and inner resources.
• Trusting in your inner wisdom and intuition, even if you don’t always get it right.
• If something doesn’t feel right, honor your feelings.

As defined by Jon Kabbat –Zinn.

When I think about how Trust shows up in my life, I am reminded of so many different aspects of Trust and what they mean to me.

There’s trusting my gut level feelings about people, activities, environments, movies, restaurants…………there have been countless times that I either followed by gut-level feelings about one of these things and was able to confirm why I felt that way later – OR I didn’t trust or follow my gut level feelings and was sorry I didn’t.

I used to do psychic readings with tarot cards. In order for a reading to produce effective information or insight, I had to trust my gut level feelings and intuitions about the client, and their questions and concerns.

There is the kind of trust that shows up when you meet someone for the first time. You can get a feel for someone even though you may not know them well by trusting your intuition.

There is the general kind of trust of trusting life itself. That everything will work out – even if at the time it doesn’t seem like things are going your way, you still trust that you will be okay.

It’s like trusting that even if things do not turn out as intended, expected or desired, we trust the process. Perhaps we learned valuable lessons or skills even if we did not get what we thought we wanted

There is underlying trust that our bodies have the wisdom to do their job. Without our even being aware of the hundreds of processes that occur daily within our own body’s that keep us alive.

Have you ever noticed that people who seem to trust the process of life and have a basic trust in the goodness of people are generally happier than those who are distrustful of other people and themselves?

There is a fine line between blindly trusting and naiveté. So I guess we have to trust our own inner wisdom to discern the difference.

How do you experience trust in your life?