^Trustful ~connection~

Figure

An arc on the path from Gratitude to Trustful, with a yellow fan blade tracking progress as we Trust: Feel, Act, Think.

Annotate

  1. ^Loom until ~trustful~. 
    1. ^Care for it. 
    2. ^Trust it. 
    3. ^Care ^Again. 
  2. ^Trust with ^Care until ~trustful~. 
  3. Navigate in ~truth~. 
    1. ^Give ourselves time to ^Connect and ^Feel ourselves and our surroundings. 
    2. ^Refuse, ^Undo or ^Accept in alignment to ^How we ^Feel. 
    3. ^Learn by ^Practice the pattern of ^Trust, which is to ^Act directly upon ^How we ^Feel (as a ~map~) and then to ^Think ^Later in review. 

Subject

^Trustful is a ^Super mode of ^Function for it is essential to higher functions and yet it may be developed without a deeper ^Foundation.  From this ~process~ of ^Trust and ^Care, ~knowledge~ is born. 

For those ^Who ^Know ^How to ^Dance and won't.  That's you!  And you got the right stuff, I ^Know it! 

To ^Work to be ~grateful~ and to be ~trustful~ are universal experiences on our ~PATH~.  Although we ^Want to ^Accept the lower ~foundation~ ^When it comes, that of ~humility~, ~fall~ and ~fail~, we do not typically ~benefit~ ^When we ^Seek it out.  However, we should allow ourselves a ~way~ to experience or ^Renew these concepts ~regularly~. 

To be ~trustful~ exists as a very special midpoint and frequently acts as our ^Start on our ~PATH~.  And it is at the core of a ~healthy~ ^Mind.  ^Imagine a ~time-and-place~ of insufficient ~opportunities~ to have ^Trust ~enough~ to ^Become ~trustful~.  We can reasonably infer that a ^MESS will ^Develop.  That's ^Okay!  It is to ^Protect us and we can ^Heal once we have both the ~strength~ for it and a ~time-and-place~ for ^Trust to ^Grow. 

We have ~shelter~ for our ~body~.  ^Likewise we ^Need ~strength~ to ^Become ^Trustful in ~mind~. 

As we ^Maintain a ^Connection ^Between ourselves and, others and our world, we ^Move towards ^Moderate ^Function among ourselves, others and our world.  So, ^Less ^Function from ^When it is at a ~maximum~, and ^More ^Function from ^When it is at a ~minimum~.  Do you ^See ^How? 

Target

Anytime.  Anytime it is missing.  Anytime we ^Notice we ^Feel ~less~ knowledgeable.  Anytime we ^Feel unable to be ^Honest.  Anytime we are ^Grateful and have sufficient ~strength~ to ^Try. 

Here is the thing about being ~trustful~.  It is an emotional state that we ^Create as we spend time to ^Let our senses and feelings ^Lead the ~way~ while we ^Move our ~excess~ of thoughts out of the ~way~.  But with experience we ^Learn we have many things that may ^Deceive us in some ~way~.  Those things may cause our ^Trust to ^Decrease.  Rather than ^Refuse ^Trust, we ^Want to ^Transform its ~direction~ or the criteria for which we ^Consider it ~acceptable~.  We ^Maximize ~evil~ ^When we cannot ^Trust to such an extent that we ^Refuse ~daily-self-care~ or any other essential ~mode~. 

I've been there.  For ^Empathy, ^Imagine mistrust developing in us due in ~part~ to dehydration yet ironically causing us to get ~stuck~ such that we cannot ^Trust any ~drink~. 

^When we or others cannot ^Trust our drinking ~water~, our only ^Focus should be to (re-)^Establish that ~trust~.  ^When anything becomes a ^Block to our ^Trust, our ^Refresh, or both, it is a ^MESS in ~progress~ and a crisis that demands our ~attention~ ^Now until we can ^Solve it ^Properly. 

^When ^Trust is challenged, divert it elsewhere ^When we can.  ^What I am saying is that rather than ^Refuse ^Trust at any ~signal~ of ~opposition~, ^Cycle it elsewhere instead.  And ^Explore ^Where it may ^Grow as soon as we ^Feel it ~decrease~ and ^Regularly. 

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