Trust Yourself

"Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live."

--Goethe

Seems simple enough. Just trust little ole you. But can you? You've misled yourself, not to mention others, many times. You've fooled yourself, feigned ignorance, played small, copped out, and told yourself innumerable lies, tall tales and rationalizations. At least, I have.

But in spite of all that, even through all that, there's a place where you and I both know the Truth, a place where we can completely and implicitly trust ourselves. The trick is in doing a figure/ground reversal so that the deep, honest, trustworthy part of yourself, comes to the foreground, and the less than righteous, icky stuff fades into the background. Once you are able to do that on a consistent basis, once you are able to live from Deep Truth rather than merely respond to passing situations, you can trust yourself to show you how best to live.

At that point, you will not need the 10 Commandments, the letter of the law, or the latest self help book to govern your actions. You will know what to do, and know it at such a deep level, that you will do it spontaneously, without reference to external codes of conduct.

So, just for today, let's play a game. Let's pretend that we already know how to live. If you totally trusted yourself, if you already really knew how to live, what would you do today?