What is it like to live in fear?

We can all probably easily describe the feeling.  It is uncertain, constricting, limiting, anxiety-provoking, tiring, and sometimes just plain scary.  Fear makes your world feel small, fragile, and that you could easily lose what you have.

What is it like to live in trust?

This one might be a little harder to answer.  If so, think back over your life to try to identify a situation where you lived in trust (childhood perhaps?).

Trust has a lightness to it.  You let go of the outcome.  You are willing to accept things as they are.  You are in the present, rather than worrying about the future. You have a basic sense that everything will work itself out and that everything is as it should be.  Think of any one particular situation you are currently facing and ask yourself,

“Am I living in trust or am I living in fear?”

Are you OK with where you are at?  If you are in fear and you want to be in trust, check in with your willingness.  Are you really willing to trust?  Or is the fear serving some other purpose which may cause you to not let it go?

Moving from Fear to Trust

Try reflecting on these coaching questions:

• If I were to be in trust right now, what would that look like?
• What would I need to do to get to trust?
• When I’ve moved from fear to trust in the past, how has that happened?
• How do I usually tap into trust?  Is it through connecting with my higher power? Is it through reading, writing, or reflecting?
• What support structures can I put into place which will help me shift into (and maintain) being in trust?
• What is this fear for?
• Am I willing to trust?

If you are really willing to connect with your sense of trust, trust that it will happen.