(05-30-2012, 06:49 AM)Oceania Wrote: i think hands on experience with things of skill will bring trust in own abilities. there's another kind of trust which is trust in others. personally i don't really put much trust in others because i rely on my ability to read people intuitively and if i can't read someone i count them as untrustworthy based on that. i don't think it's wise to trust people without some sort of way to tell if they're genuine. but knowing oneself helps in that you know what sort of person you're gonna draw to yourself, to mirror you or teach you. also trust in the universe is essential according to law of attraction... i think. so yeah. i will try to find a story later but i dunno if andersen or grimm bros wrote stuff about trust.
What an interesting paragraph you have here, Oceania.
I think that at a certain point in life, one will hit the brick walls of Paradoxes. Which are only brick walls if we have to solve them.
Trusting others is trusting one's own vibrations. If you enjoy yourself with your hobby, and you trust that this is a good way to live for you, you will NOT be affected by the bullies at school - and they will stop sooner or later. Or they will be scolded by those that are drawn in after seeing your serene reaction to the things. I wish I could have told that to my younger self around those times, but even with that, I managed just fine - and I was bullied, hehe. Not like it matters, anyway.
There is blind trust, there is cautiously optimistic trust, there is balance, there is lack of trust, and there is paranoia. Paranoia is assuming that people are out there who are "going to get you". Blind trust is assuming that something CANNOT happen to you. Being balanced, for me, is in the knowingness that no matter what one encounters, it will help one in a positive way, no matter what actually happens. That does not mean one rushes out to the dark at midnight, seeking trouble, of course.
Law of Attraction, at one point, needs to be trusted. Just as you said: the universe brings us vibrations that are digestable for us. That we can interact with. Therefore, worrying about anything is a vibration-lowering act, no matter what we worry about. So the only thing we can do to actually get into the "outside" (which is nothing but a reflection of our inside, hehe), is to be as balanced as joyful as possible. Not "in your face style" happy, but content and balanced. That is an inner trust there, as trust issues usually always start with lack of self-trust.