Inner Practice: Trust

Trust is the foundation for everything we do. Trust is the belief that there is a better version of us around every corner. 

What builds trust?

Empathy

People just don’t believe that we are mostly in it for them and they believe that we are too self-distracted. And it is no wonder we are all so busy with so many demands on our time, it is easy to crowd out the time and space that empathy requires. And for us, if we have too much to do, we may not have that time. But that puts us into a vicious cycle because without revealing empathy, it makes everything harder. Without the benefit of the doubt of trust, it makes everything harder. And then we have less and less time for empathy, and so it goes for trust.

Authenticity

Each person here has the beautiful luxury of representing difference in some context in your life. But with that privilege comes a very sincere temptation to hold back who we are. And if we hold back who we are, we are less likely to be trusted.

How to build trust?

Identify where, when and to whom you are likely to offer your time and distraction. That should trace pretty perfectly to when, where and to whom you are likely to withhold your empathy. And if in those instances we can come up with a trigger that gets us to look up, look at the people right in front of us, listen to them, deeply immerse ourselves in their perspectives, then we have a chance of having a sturdy leg of empathy.

Be you. Wear whatever that makes you feel fabulous. Pay less attention to what you think people want to hear from you and put more attention to what your authentic, awesome self needs to say. Set the conditions that not only make it safe for all of us to be authentic but make it welcome, make it celebrated, cherish it for exactly what it is, which is the key for us achieving greater excellence than we have ever known is possible.

 

Trust is built.

Make an effort for it.

Because it’s worth it.

Basics of TCM, TCM(Traditional Chin Med), Inner Practice, Being HumanXiang Jun LimDr (TCM) Xiang Junacupuncture, healing, tcm, inner practice, meditation, arts, spirituality, trust