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Trusting yourself is a phrase that is thrown around often. Here, we mean trusting the silent observer inside, your intuition, and your ability to understand yourself at a level that lets your truth come out. This is a self you can trust and rely on. Understanding the emotional roots of your choices was step one. Now that you can analyze your thoughts and emotions, it is time to trust yourself in terms of trusting that the questions you have, have answers, even if you cannot know them right now. Trust in your need to explore these questions and others as they arise. Trust in what draws you to want to know more. And trust that your journey will take you to a beautiful place. Trust that your destination is unique but your journey is ancient and well tested. Trust in you inner guide to get you there.<\/div>\n
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To learn to trust yourself in this way, start by recalling times when your intuition was right. Maybe you ignored it, or maybe your followed it, but it was right. Recall times when you were drawn by something deep inside you to take a certain action, and it was right. Can you recognize the difference between being compelled from a deep place of intuition versus impulse from the animal brain? The animal brain can often steer you wrong but your intuition never will. Practice recognizing the difference by thinking back on your past choices. Take your time and find as many examples from your past as you can, from simple to complex. Write them down and categorize them as intuition versus animal brain, or true self versus monkey mind. Analyze as many examples as you can find and then look at your list. How often was your true self wrong? Not often, I bet. See the proof that you can trust your true self. Now that you can discern between compelling from the true self and impulse from the monkey mind, you can trust your human mind to see the difference and follow the path of the true self. This is not a blind trust, but a trust built on a track record of leading you on the right path.<\/div>\n
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From now on, when you feel drawn to do something, take a moment to note how it feels. Does this feel like a compelling from your soul? Or does this feel like impulse from the monkey mind? What is the emotional root of this? Take your time and train yourself further. As time goes on, your ability to discern between impulse and compelling will grow stronger and only increase the trust that you have in your true inner self.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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