Trust & Safety

Another impromptu pod without notes. What I covered:

• Safety is a required component of Trust

• Faith & Hope being similar to trust, but missing the key element of safety (explained in a round about way (: )

• Rock Climbing story

  • Perception of fearlessness was me feeling safe and trusting my environment

  • Another example of a friend who didn’t trust her surroundings because she wasn’t in control

    • My observation that trusting your environment means trusting yourself to make good decisions about how you engage with your surroundings

    • If you don’t trust your decisions you won’t feel safe in contexts you’ve decided to be in

• Feeling secure in your body is directly related to trusting your decision-making

  • Emotions are messages of communication

    • Socially we’ve categorized emotions as chaotic experiences that can’t be trusted (I disagree)

    • Emotions are physiology; to identify an emotion is to recognize the feeling you have in your body

    • Emotions are the first line of communication, it translates where you are in relationship to your environment, next comes the logic of making a decision based on this information

    • If you can’t trust your “feelings” you become susceptible to trusting another’s direction more than your own

    • When you feel safe in your body, you can trust your emotions and then trust your decisions

• Primal instinct in men (more one this coming soon)

  • The providing and protecting mechanism creates a feeling of safety (for me personally)

  • Knowing there is an automatic action in an instinct is what feels reassuring

  • Observing the potential darkness in a man, conveys that he is equipped to handle potential darkness in another

    • Suspicions arise when anyone appears “too nice”

• Values of Security vs Freedom

  • Security is feeling safe in your environment vs. Freedom is feeling safe in yourself

  • Ideas on partnership being a source of security, which leads to freedom as a couple

  • Zone of proximal distance - also mentioned in my travel blog

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