Stress leads to Distrust….

Difficulties inevitably arise in everyone’s life. Many of us react to them by wondering what the heck is going on, and so we end up asking: “Why me? Why now?” The only trouble with this reaction is that it spells out just one thing – distrust. We do not trust that there can be a good reason for this event, let alone a good outcome. And so we fall into distrust.

But what, in fact, are we distrusting? We may think we’re doubting our luck, our God, or fate. Actually we’re doing just one thing. We’re distrusting ourselves. We distrust that we can handle this new event, and so we disempower ourselves before we even start. What’s happening is we’re not trusting our ability to deal with what is, and we’re also failing to recognize that everything that comes to us has the potential to help us learn. And so distrust is, in fact, the triumph of the wounded and hurt parts of our damaged egos, the parts that want someone else to come along and make it all OK for us, like a toddler crying for its mother. That’s what distrust is, at its core.