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What happens when we trust?

By Bamboo In The Wind

Trust is a fundamental fabric that keeps us grounded in near reality. When there is an element of trust in us, we are self-aware, confident, measured, and rational. The opposite of trust is insecurity. We are self-unaware, underconfident, impulsive, and irrational.

Trust has immense power to attract calm, understanding interaction from one end. Sending trust has a high probability that the other side with receive interaction without threat.

The chance of touching someone's insecurities is lesser when someone initiates conversations by embedding trust.

Trusting is a personality trait. It's inherent to who we are and how we view ourselves. Life experiences, our way of looking at our surroundings, and the way we apply ourselves to situations all go to develop a surplus in our trust account. We draw from trust accounts when we are challenged and need help.

Others are likely to come to your rescue when you have a trust surplus because of how you acted in various situations in the past. Trust compounds when we act in a manner that benefits us and others and without cause of concern or harm.

While we have the inborn ability to add to a trust account, replenishing it throughout is an important aspect.  A cognizant mind that has adequate emotional empathy knows this requirement to replenish our trust account through mindful good deeds while keeping others' interests in mind.

In other words, selfless acts add to the trust account self-centered acts take away from it to a point when we are required to draw from the trust deficit we might find to be in lonely company and without help.

How is your trust account?

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