Trust — A State Of Being

In self, in God, in others, in life.

Peter Middleton
Hello, Love
Published in
14 min readJul 31, 2020

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Trust is one of life’s most rewarding and testing of aspects. It’s curious to me that life’s most rewarding things often lie within the realm of the most testing things, that speaks to me of YinYang. Trust seems to be constantly calling us forward to expand our practises of love, forgiveness, compassion, and understanding; our connection with our own inner selves, and the environments that we live in. It’s a choice to embody trust.

I’m really fascinated, and deeply grateful for, the work of Brené Brown, I’m currently exploring her book called ‘Rising Strong’ which explores the idea of choosing love over fear, courage over comfort, and to live an authentic life “In The Arena”.

This is interesting to me because I feel like what Brown talks about is the cultivation of a trust in one’s own life path, which might not always be pretty, and clean, but that’s always authentic and aligned with your sense of purpose, and always leads you to achieve a higher sense of fulfilment; a richer life experience. Brown’s style of combining research with storytelling is inspirational to me, and I believe it speaks to a really mature, and integrated, approach to life.

Trust also deepens our practises of boundary setting within respectful relation, feeling our emotional processes, empathising and reflecting back someone else’s experience, allowing and surrendering to the messages that emotions have for us, the energy that wishes to move through us in that state. Quite simply, if we have trust, we are more relaxed, and we’re existing in the rest and digest state where connection can be cultivated; our hearts are open.

The other thing I love in Brown’s work is the notion of strong back, open front, and wild heart. More on that another day though.

The way that Western philosophy has encouraged us to think and be is to consider life as a constructed thing. Individualism has taught us that we are consecrated beings in opposition, or comparison, to everything in our surroundings. This speaks to me of a search for a harmony within ourselves, which I see as a good thing, except for one really big caveat: we are relational beings, and we can’t know ourselves without community, also comparison is a trap.

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Peter Middleton
Hello, Love

Here to serve the shift in human consciousness.