— DR. CRUSHER. SYMBIOSIS. Stardate Not Given

Sounds too easy, doesn’t it? Just trust yourselves and everything will magically take care of itself.

And of course it isn’t that easy. But not because the doctor’s advice is mistaken or simplistic. It’s because we seem so unwilling to believe there’s a resource within us that we can trust to guide us and give us answers.

Furthermore, some of us have tried “trusting in ourselves” and we know better than to do that again! The results have been disastrous, or at least not encouraging.

The problem is, trusting in that inner guidance is a learned skill. It’s natural to get “mixed signals,” mentally speaking. How do we separate the messages our hormones send us from the counsel of our rational mind—and finally from the intuitive urgings of our Higher Self?

But remember: A four-year-old can’t just hop on a bicycle and ride it the first time, either.

Remember also that, in trusting “ourselves,” we don’t rely solely on the limited, fallible resources of our own conscious “ego.” The Self we must learn to trust is linked in some subconscious, hyperspace-like way to the wisdom and power of The Universe itself. Through that Self we can access a perspective that harmonizes our own needs with others, that guides us through life’s obstacle course to our goals… that trusts us even when we don’t.

I respect my own guidance. I am learning to trust myself even as The Universe already trusts me.

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The above meditation is taken from Going Boldly on Your Inner Voyage © 1999-2004, IF Books.

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