02-07-2022, 01:59 PM
(02-07-2022, 08:07 AM)Patrick Wrote: So how do we help healing the trust issues?
I find trust here: each of us is trying to do our best in making choices. And, walking around with a sense of trust for myself and others, seems to lighten the walk. It leads to more acceptance about what others choose to believe/disbelieve, to say, to do, though it may be different than what I have chosen or may choose. It inspires me to have more openness when listening to my own and others' perspectives.
Perhaps, when we feel that our voices are heard and accepted by others, whether there is agreement or disagreement, a seed of trust is planted between two beings.
Such trust is hard for me to envision at the societal level, and easier for me to imagine on an interpersonal level.
When people scream at and do nasty things to one another, I hear: you're not the boss of me! And I agree with the content, whole-heartedly. It's a message of free will.
Yet the vitriol seems to detract from the content of the message. It screams "I'm terrified!" to me on an energetic level.
Also, the heart-felt pleas such as - do this or that to save yourself, your family and all of us - seem to have a similar "I'm terrified!" tone to them.
There seem to be so many layers of energies to what we are saying and doing. And for me, not all are visible.
I find that a sprout of trust seems to arise within me when I can hear what one is feeling underneath what one is doing. There, I find that we have more in common than it may seem.
And, I've had conversations with people when our choices are quite obviously different, but underneath those, we are similar.
This is just what works for me in planting the seeds of trust between me and others. And, I find that before I can experience trust with others, I first experience it with self.