Unconditional Trust

If you ask yourself honestly

Who do you trust the most

Yourself, the other or Nature

What would be your answer?

It seems like a simple inquiry

But, trust me it's not that easy

It's situational and contextual

May you say, but think deeper.

There is a basic architecture

A scheme of how trust works

How exactly does your inner code

Create the proper sense of safety?

Let's start by exploring the options

Unconditional trust in your own self

What does this concept even mean?

How can we recognize its frequency?

Is this about self-confidence?

Is it about the proper inner knowing?

Is it about the experienced wisdom?

Is it about the narcissistic naiveness?

Is it about the "fake it until you make it"?

Is it about the arrogance of naked soul?

Is it about the perfectly safe childhood?

Or maybe, it's about the absence of it.

Remember when you were a child

Who was the biggest bully around?

Who trusted the most in their powers

Who was showing extreme self-trust?

Was that the child from the nice family

With super caring and present parents?

Or maybe they had no choice to abuse trust

Because they had no idea what real safety is.

Maybe it was their strategy to survive

To have any chance to protect the inside

Since they couldn't trust their caregivers

They needed to learn what self-trust is.

But, how do you actually learn this

How do you build confidence in you

If you are still a child without example

Of how to be trusted and how to trust.

Does the school teach you this power

To trust unconditionally who you are

Do your teachers encourage you kindly

To believe in yourself no matter what?

Do they create a healthy environment

Where you can feel safe to be authentic

Can you honestly say that our children

Are learning the proper self-trust there?

If your answer is no for the school

If caregivers are not that safe to the kid

Where and how do you want them to learn

How to trust their inner power and essence?

Do you understand that a suffering child

Must trust himself to be able to survive

This innate ability is sometimes very fragile

It is very easy to destroy their self-confidence.

If the abuse and violence are the only way

They have learned to experience connection

They will have many chances to be angry

At the entire world for no particular reason.

For someone to develop a healthy inner trust

In their own capacities and personal power

They must have some exterior guidance

Be in environments where it's practiced.

If the only safe place to be themselves

Are some virtual platforms on Internet

And if this is where they learn how to be

Don't be surprised of what they become.

Safety and trust walk usually hand in hand

Each generation learns from what came before

The child who feels secure to be themselves

Is the wise adult who can later trust others too.

A wounded builds walls instead of bridges

While the nurtured heart seeks the connection

Our capacity to trust beyond our deepest fears

Is born from the safety we felt with others.

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The second type of trust is in the other

Some people trust themselves too much

But, they think that every human around

Must be a hidden criminal or psychopath.

They have the chronic distrust in people

They have been deceived so many times

They have been betrayed with cruel love

By those they probably trusted the most.

Everything outside usual feels like a danger

Especially people who seem to pretend

To be very trustworthy and super loving

While openly dreaming to abuse your soul.

Humans are cruel, this is not a surprise.

They have invented so many strategies

To lie, deceive so skillfully even themselves

Of how competitive our human nature is.

We have created the entire system

Based on the premise of innate distrust

The "danger" hiding in the ego of other

Is the main economic driver in our world.

So many useless things would never exist

If only we had the courage and some desire

To maybe learn how to better trust each other

Instead of investing in the safety & security.

Imagine if you could trust our dear humanity

If you knew for sure we are all doing our best

What if each of us wants authentic peace

What if we prefer the trust instead of fear?

So, if we all have the same values, virtues

If we all share the same deeper yearnings

Why do we keep believing others are cruel

Why do we prefer protection over the trust?

We've forgotten how to wait for trust to ripen

Expecting instant fruits from freshly turned earth

But the sweetest harvests come from patient care

From weathering storms and droughts together.

Do you think that learning how to trust

Will be more expensive than protection?

Do you think safety & security is cheaper

Than healing your heart to trust the other?

Imagine what you could accomplish here

If only you knew how to trust the humans

Imagine how much fun our reality would be

If you truly believed we are all trustworthy.

To trust everyone, you still need to be smart

Yes, all are trustworthy, but not in everything

We all have the limits to our current expertise

We all have fears and stuff we don't yet know.

To trust fully someone, they must be honest

Even if their honesty is saying "I am scared".

Trust in relationship is a two-way street always

The authenticity is a required ingredient for it.

If you aren't authentic, you cannot be trusted

It's a very simple rule to remember and learn

Even if your inner truth is uncomfortably scary

You are still better to be honest than to pretend.

Sincerity is potentially the best self-protection

I know it doesn't always look or seem that way

I guess it depends on what you are really scared of

Of confronting your fears or to remain in danger.

If you want to protect the ‘’system’’ and your job

You are right, being authentic is the worst strategy.

If you dare to be fully yourself, tell your inner truth

The entire artificial system might simply crumble.

But if your goal is to protect the Nature

The essence of what makes us human

If you want to protect and nourish Life

You might consider to be more honest.

You might invest to learn how to trust

You might fund peace instead of bombs

You might spend your time to share love

Instead of over-protecting your fears.

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The third type of trust is about Nature.

Some people don't fear other humans

They think the Earth itself is their bully

She is the most scary and unpredictable.

Some people are scared of the forest

They see it as a wild, dangerous space

They are only safe inside their cold walls

Eating sterile factory manufactured food.

They fear less to eat man-made toxins

Than to learn what is growing around them

They are ok about investing in processed

But eating local natural food seems crazy.

They are ok to put their retirement money

To enlarge the castle of Kraft Dinner bosses

It apparently gives them a good, rich return

But, encouraging local farmers doesn't.

Some trust corruption more than Nature

And when I say some, I mean way too many

They trust the system of complete nonsense

More than the wisdom of what feeds them.

They are investing in geoengineering

They are funding the gene-modifications

They are growing bananas in greenhouses

They trust the science will maybe save them.

They don't seem to understand the full circle

How many natural, social and human resources

Have been abused, destroyed and simply wasted

For all that "research" to manipulate our Nature.

They are not scared to create a genocide

They are not scared to burn entire forests

They are not scared to pollute the oceans

But they are scared of Nature being mean.

The disconnect from the soil and land

The lack of collective trust in our Earth

The disrespect we show to our Nature

Are all contributing to our current issues.

If you need couple of mines and pipelines

To just ensure food provision to your people

You have a huge risky problem in your system

You fully depend on it to survive, not on Nature.

Do you realize that if there is no more Nature

Because we have abused her way too much

The ‘’system’’ probably also will die from hunger

Because it needs natural resources to survive.

Imagine you have a garden with some veggies

Suppose you consume half of what you produce

You have a choice where you sell your leftovers

In super clean biofuels or to feed someone else.

Do you understand that many "gardeners"

Prefer to sell the food to feed the airplanes

Some don't even care to destroy the soil

Because the system pays somehow "fairly".

Do you understand that we have such problems

Not because there is not enough food for all

But because we are already feeding the ‘’system’'

With most of our shared natural resources.

We have chosen national economic prosperity

Over local food security for our population

We invested our taxes and retirement plans

To enrich the engineers, to shame the farmers.

You trust more the scientists in the laboratory

Than the intelligence or wisdom of our Nature

You buy a rooftop tomato grown only with water

And, you call this the best way to eat "healthy".

You vote for politicians to fund new infrastructure

They don't care about if we really need it or not

They create more useless jobs and get more money

When you need industrial parks and cities to eat.

Of course, they will invest in innovative tomatoes

Of course, they will encourage or force you to buy it

Of course, they will make the process complicated

Because this way more people make some money.

Nobody seems to care or fully comprehend

That if we gave that money and empowerment

To our farmers and not to greedy businessmen

We would all live in abundance and peace now.

Nature can produce unlimited resources

But you need to respect her gifts and cycles

Feed the humans and animals before robots

Invest in natural before the high-tech miracles.

You panic now because some scientists

Are scared to lose their private villas

But you seem perfectly calm and fine

Knowing Nature is dying to "fund" them.

You seem to believe it's perfectly normal

That your farmers, nurses and teachers

Are paid such ridiculously lower salaries

Than your smart scientists and engineers.

You think it's normal that AI and robots

Have literally no limits in public funding

But our human health and natural wealth

Apparently don't matter enough to pay for.

You think it's normal to live in modern world

Where children die from poverty and hunger

But instead of creating gardens to feed them

We invest in sophisticated chemical products.

We create corrupted jobs to make artificial food

We can feed poor with our toxic industrial waste

And, we can make even more money by doing so,

So, why would we stop or make it more coherent?

Some people seem to believe a very silly thing

They think if their food comes from the ‘’science’’

It must be safer, nicer, smarter or more healthy

Compared to what Nature already offers to us.

Where is this distrust in Life coming from?

Who told you, who lied to you so absurdly?

Who dared to make you believe so stupidly

That our Nature is dangerous to Humanity?

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Do you understand the simple mathematics

You can very magically fix most of your problems

The moment you use your authentic, wild courage

To trust fully in yourself, the other and our Nature?