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Trust“This Week” by the Bahrain Meditation Centre Trust Trust is the key ingredient in communications and negotiations, that is, successful relationships. With it we are able to achieve greater success in a shorter time and without it no one truly wins. To not trust, means to doubt and many a great empires have fallen due to doubt and mistrust. People have the need to trust – an ideal is to “trust until proven wrong”. Spirituality reminds us that trust is innate however from our experiences most of us trust conditionally. Which direction should we move in? We are constantly employing trust consciously or unconsciously and need to continue to do so if we are to bring any significant change within ourselves and in our world. Thus, trust is a journey unto itself. We all start off by trusting – as innocent children we trusted everything and everyone. As adults, we tend to take the side of caution and trust based on a condition. So what changed? What caused us to digress from the pure feelings of trust? Trust never comes alone; it is always escorted with other qualities such as humility, respect and forgiveness. Spirituality advocates a trust filled with love and compassion also. Those harsh realities that knocked our trust need to be reflected upon from a spiritual perspective, a place within that is safe and secure, where I trust myself. The question that will then arise will be, not whether I can trust others but whether I can trust myself. To trust does not mean to lose control; rather we work with a greater confidence in ourselves and others, understanding that our efforts together will indeed bring about success. Too much trust in the self turns into an ego trip, in which no one wants to accompany me. And too little makes me hopeless, again another lonesome journey! Calculating the right dosage of trust seems to be our daily challenge: How much to trust myself, others, the universe, the brotherhood, the environment, the animal kingdom etc.? In fact trust need not be measured. We either trust or we don’t; there is no mid-way house. When we send out the energy of trust into the universe, it reciprocates bountifully and funnily enough, we start to trust ourselves once again! Om Shanti (I am a peaceful soul) Bahrain Meditation Centre is administered by B.K.W.S.U. (visit: www.bkwsu.org.uk) Tel: +973-17-712 545, meditate@batelco.com.bh, www.bahrainmeditationcentre.org
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