Examine your thoughts carefully. See if those thoughts are totally congruent with your actions. To say “I believe in a healthy body” and to practice eating in unhealthy ways dissolves trust in yourself. Congruent thought, emotions and behavior are strong indicators of your self-trust. And keep in mind that when you trust in yourself, you are trusting in God at the same time.When you are incongruent with your thoughts, you are showing a lack of trust in the divinity that is your essence. Be honest about any incongruency. Identify it and trust in your ability to transcend it, and the energy that you need for this transformation will be attracted to you. But if you hang onto the incongruency, thinking one thing but behaving in disingenuous ways, you will sabotage your ability to trust in yourself and in the infinite wisdom as well.
As you practice surrendering, acknowledge your fundamental richness rather than bemoaning the imagined poverty of your being. When you practice spiritual trust you are surrendering your ego, and all of its hallucinatory beliefs, to a higher power. You are just letting go and knowing that divine guidance is always with you.
• Begin a meditation practice of contemplating the supreme principle that is beyond the pettiness of this world. Yes, it is in this world, but it is not blemished by this world. The mind needs and craves serenity. Meditation is not merely making the mind think that it is meditating. Meditation is, literally, the embodiment of truth and trust. It is in the purification of the mind that liberation reveals itself.
The practice of meditation is a powerful tool in my life. As a writer, I sometimes write for hours and everything flows magically. Then a time comes when there are no more words. I want to write and nothing happens. No matter how hard I want to write, there is no writing taking place.
At these moments I have learned to leave the typewriter and to sit quietly, closing my eyes and surrendering. I don’t know what I surrender to, but I simply let go and attempt to purify my mind. Then, after some time of simply surrendering meditatively, I seem to tap into something that is a source of inspiration, and I write page after page with no idea where it is coming from. This process of closing my eyes and becoming serene gives me the ability to tap into that source of inspiration. And the word “inspiration” comes from “in spirit.”
This is trust. This is grace. It is knowing that I can literally confront myself in a spirit of serenity and that what I seek will be attracted to me. This is the energy of manifesting, and it comes most frequently when the mind is quiet. It is the quiet mind that comes in contact with the truth.
When we meditate, we come into contact with the part of us that is truth. The surrendering process helps us to use this truth in our daily pursuits. It is the same with trust. Surrender to it through your quiet moments of serenity and you will know the truth of this principle.
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