How to trust yourself

I’ll be completely honest here, I’m still learning how to trust myself. I think it will be an on-going journey. You think you’ve got it sussed, then someone or something betrays you and you have to reassess and recalibrate. Were you wrong in trusting yourself in this situation? Should you have chosen a different route or was this the right route for you but it included a lesson you had to learn?

Perspective is a big thing here. In reality, we could argue that no matter what happens, we made the ‘right’ decision, because either it will go well, or it will go badly, and we will learn a lesson that will bring us closer to our truth. Does that make it easier to make a decision or to not beat ourselves up when it goes wrong? Probably not.

If you were hoping for a post with a step by step guide of how to know your intuition better, I’m afraid that’s not this post (I do offer an intuitive mediation course through which does look at this). This post is about being OK with trusting yourself, regardless of whether or not you can be sure if your decision is the ‘right’ one.

Let me say that again, because it messes with your head: the key to trusting yourself, is to trust that even if you make the ‘wrong’ decision, you were guided in that direction because of a lesson you needed to learn.

Then, in reality, the ‘making the right ‘choice” part becomes irrelevant. Yes, we all want to be enlightened beings for whom life is easy and joyful, but that might take a while, and in the meantime, it’s good to know we’ll always be able to learn something from our journey.

My own studies have reassured me that, in whatever situation, if I look at it through the eyes of love and compassion, it’s a whole lot easier to deal with. That doesn’t mean I don’t get hurt, cry or get my heart broken, but it does mean I can see a bigger picture and can use my experience to help me grow, and help others.

Look at any situation you’re beating yourself up for right now and, instead of going round in circles feeling bad, work on forgiving yourself and whoever else is involved and ask to see what lessons you can learn about yourself from it. It can be scary looking in to that mirror, but it’s worth it, I promise 🙂

I’m Emma Brooke. I work with beautiful, intelligent, compassionate and spiritual ladies who have somehow stepped away from their true selves and aren’t entirely sure how to get themselves back again. In my signature program, I take you step by step over an eight week period from overwhelm and emotional numbness to self-assured and guilt-free – knowing what you want, what you need and how you can make yourself and those you love feel fulfilled and complete. Find out more about what I offer.