Every day, it seems either a spiritual teacher gets exposed as a fraudster or they find an inspirational motivator corrupt. You need not rely on dubious gurus with lifestyles that do not match their teachings to support and grow on your spiritual path.
You are your greatest spiritual teacher. Your own wisdom is more valuable than books, teachers, and gurus when you can trust your intuition and practice self-awareness practices. Yet, there are secrets to accessing this wisdom. It takes some tools to get to consistent radical self-trust and get to the guidance hidden in higher consciousness.
Like many people, you’ve likely learned to distrust yourself and ignore your instincts, intuition, and insights. Since childhood, they taught you to disregard your inner wisdom and doubt yourself. The first time someone said they weren’t sad when you could feel they were, they implanted doubt. Through these types of instances, you felt you were more often wrong than right. Your young self placed trust in the wisdom of your elders over your own insight. Adults who wish to hide their feelings must control an intuitive child, and this becomes a pattern into adulthood. Later in life, you could be subject to manipulators who often target sensitives and psychics, using doubt as a tool against them. The result of this is that the more psychic you are, the more doubt you may have.
I have found that lack of trust in self affects every part of our interactions with others.
We are susceptible to manipulation, deception, and fear-based actions if we do not trust ourselves. Not trusting ourselves makes it impossible to trust in a higher power, like divinity or the universe.
Undoing that kind of programming requires understanding your operating system. It takes time, patience, and specialized tools. Ancient spirituality had ways to seek the truth within and heal the wounds of doubt. There are also new tools for spiritual guidance coming from higher consciousness that we may feel called to use. Following the ways of the masters, sages, and avatars, new and old, will make trusting yourself much easier.
Trusting oneself is the keystone to a better life.
With self-trust, it is easy to address and heal insecurities and low self-esteem. Fear or doubt cannot manipulate you from centering your life on your own innate wisdom.
Trusting yourself is knowing when your doubts and fears have merit and when they are unconscious responses to old wounds. Knowing which they are allows you to be empowered in your decisions and actions. Doubts and fears can become stepping stones to self-awareness and inner wisdom. Instead of forces that drive you unconsciously, they become forces to heal you consciously. Ignoring, suppressing, or denying fear and doubt is not trust, but arrogance. Arrogance is the weapon of the ego that is damaging if not quelled.
Authentic trust in oneself is the foundation of a wise, insightful, inspired, and empowered journey through life.
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Janet Kadow 