Trust as an Antidote to Fear (118)

Introduction

Lust, vanity and pride all work with images. These egos project images and desire that we fulfil or act out those images.

Being on the Ocean Shield

There was in the West Australian a photo of the Ocean Shield which is a large Australian scientific ocean going vessel participating in the search efforts, and I imagined myself being on that ship. Only a few seconds passed and I was feeling very uneasy. Being in the middle of the ocean with thousands of kilometres of deep blue water between land in any direction made me quite frightened actually.

Trust is the Remedy

The remedy to that fear is trust. In fact trust is a remedy to many of our psychological defects, especially where fear is mixed into those defects.

There are people are happiest on a ship in the middle of the ocean far away from land, they feel free without the slightest worry. Yet there are others who like me who get filled with anxiety and debilitating fear when on a ship just a few kilometres out to sea. The main reason why they feel so fine is because of trust. When the young Australian sailor Jessica Watson (youngest person in the world to circumnavigate the globe) was asked how she coped during storms she said something to the effect of: ‘batten down the hatches and trust in the boat”. So those people who feel fine on a boat in the middle of the ocean in a boat do so because they trust in the boat.

They trust in the laws of physics namely the law of buoyancy. They trust that that law will hold true and they trust in the construction of the ship, that it has sailed many times before and has been through many storms and has survived. So trusting in the ship’s track record and in the fact that the laws of physics don’t change we can relax and put our fears to rest.

Trust in Four Factors

We have to trust in these four things, which are: 1. Life, 2. The Work, 3. The Path and 4. The Being. If we trust in those four factors in each given circumstance of our life fear, anxiety and worry certainly abate. In each situation in llife will require that we place our trust in one or more of these factors.

Conclusion

Whenever you are scared remember trust. Trust in something belonging to these four factors that were mentioned above. Do it sincerely and and repeatedly until you feel the fear abate. It really works, try it!

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