Post 16: Trusting the Process
When you are unsure of your next step, when you find yourself in a place of uncertainty and unsure of what to do, it can be hard to stop, pause and take a few steps back to contemplate.
Life mostly has taught us to do more, be more, employ decisive action. To look for the solutions, the answers, to get clarity and take action. You can listen to 100’s of podcasts, watch countless seminars on motivation and success. A lot of what we do to satisfy the external cravings are in fact to fill the void of our internal sense of lack. If I just have more, do more then I am a success.
The “trappings of success” can look alluring, but you have to ask yourself a deep and fundamental question. Why am I doing what I am doing and what’s my core intention. How does this serve me and is it for my highest good. Is my energy expenditure in congruence with living to my values or those of a learned system I was brought up in. Am I doing this for me, my soul, or for my ego?
This self inquiry if done with an open heart and genuine intention can give you some deeper clarity and answers as to what is most important for you, your life and your soul's mission.
So, here’s where trusting the process can help. You allow yourself to be ok with not knowing, for now. You allow for space if you are one to constantly be busy and distract from underlying behaviours that may be causing you to suffer. You allow for a genuine solution to unfold as you take the next best step.
Trusting the process is a continuous process of not knowing and turning inward to get in touch with your inner wisdom and compass. You know you best. But only if you have taken the time to truly know thyself.
In fact life is a constant process of not knowing. Within uncertainty lies infinite potential. The mind, the ego wants to know, be safe, be right. The heart wants what’s right but allows for guidance from the soul and trusts in the highest outcome without expectations of how that looks.
Being unsure can be an uncomfortable place to be. Life inherently is volatile and full of uncertainty. It’s natural to want to feel a sense of security and safety. Trust that you have this deep within your soul. Just like the waves on the ocean are ever changing, know that in the depths of the ocean there can be stillness and tranquility. And yet even within the stillness there is an ever present lifeforce.
Like all life, every situation is impermanent. I love this quote from Rainer Maria Rilke below. Trust the season you are in and embrace all of what it means to be human, the good the bad the ups and downs. This, too shall pass..
Rob Ipsen
“Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke