“How can you trust others if you can’t even trust yourself?”

In this episode, I talk about how you can build on trust, not only in yourself, but with others. How can someone who has no trust in their capabilities build on that trust? If you truly believe you are unhealthy and unable to get better, how can you begin to break these beliefs? Below, I list the key points talked about in todays podcast.

• As you move out into the unknown, your conscience will begin to develop. In other words, the patterns that you break with other powerful patterns will shift your internal programming. We see that in Pinocchio. The cricket is as underdeveloped as Pinocchio at the beginning of the movie, but by the end, the cricket develops and improves in character along side Pinocchio.
• In order to build that inner trust, you must show yourself that you can be more than you are. Anxiety sufferers avoid and shrink their world down small diminishing their tolerance levels. But if they challenge themselves to those uncomfortable situations, they will prove to their inner primitive brain that they can be in this pain/fear and not die. Trusting yourself comes when you begin to push through the dome of what’s familiar into the unknown.
• I wanted to show myself that I didn’t need others for comfort or substances like caffeine, weed, porn, beer, and junk food to cope. I was so dependent that I obsessed about being independent.
• Harry Potter did not tell his friends about being tortured by their new defence against the dark arts teacher Delores Umbridge. He was aware that by telling them what was happening in detention was only going to make facing Delores even more difficult. His friends would only comfort him and their concern would only soften Harry. This was an internal battle to stay strong in the face of chaos. The point is, others are not going to make you into that strong confident person, you have to carry the cross and voluntarily confront the situations that make you uneasy in order to prove your old self wrong.