COULD TRUST BE THE DOORWAY TO SUCCESS?
An essay in intuitive awareness and direct experience. © Philippe Benichou July 30, 2013
During a recent phone conversation with a dear friend, I expressed to her that trust is possibly the doorway to success. It just came out. She really liked that and asked me to write an article about it.
Trust has never been easy for me or for my friend, we concluded together. Yet, I do see trust as a quasi-enchanted gateway to experiential knowledge—ironically, the only kind of knowledge I trust.
When I don’t trust I really miss myself; I feel vacant, anxious and irritated. I have known this for a long time but it doesn’t change the fact that trust is not easy for me. Hence, why I seek and welcome experiential knowledge.
As I reflected and contemplated further on trust, it dawned on me that lack of trust is a homogenized frequency. It doesn’t belong to anyone in particular and it speaks through the mind: don’t trust anyone, competition is rampant or it’s a “dog eat dog” world out there. Be number one! Succeed no matter what. Plan your work and work your plan. It’s you or me not you and me, etc.
There are frequencies that are very difficult to resist and being cautious or mistrustful is one of them. I feel that the fear of the future is a very strong conditioning factor. I like the word frequency because it gets to the essence of how futile it is to resist it. It passes through you like a hot knife through butter. Frequency penetrates and informs you and until you serendipitously begin to experience your own, you just keep on absorbing the frequencies du jour. There are so many.
A quote from my journal: “It is a pleasure, an honor and a kick in the derrière to be the natural and playful me everywhere I go. Sourced in my love, my appreciation and grounded in my breathing, I was born to be trusting, present and alert, not anxious, worried or irritated.” So, what happens when I am? I unwittingly buy into frequencies that inform me differently and I cease to trust life and what is happening. I stop being alert and then blame it on my mind or the circumstances. I become a victim, which comes as a bonus gift when you purchase the “don’t trust anyone or anything” bundle.
Mutation and transcendence have a price! The price is discipline and a professional attitude toward awakening. Yes, it is available but NO, it does not impose itself on you, which opens up a whole new can of worms about free will and choice, doesn’t it? Awakening, I am respectfully learning, is advanced beingness. Being is always relaxed and trusting and impossible to fake. It is practical and mechanical not a passing mind state filled with new-age refurbished concepts. You remember being by staying present to your moods.
A homogenized frequency is a foreign energy in my system, a sort of uninvited and unannounced parasite. You escort it out through recognizing its alien presence and breathing it out. My mind wants to “think it” out—absolutely useless and believe me, I have tried. It has come to my attention that when we breathe out consciously and professionally, we evacuate the unwanted neutrinos that have been bugging our internal system.
We are not meant to be homogenized—we are meant to be unique, differentiated and individualized. It takes time to evacuate conditioning out of our sensitive auras. It can be done but requires loyal and sustained alertness and a professional attitude. To me, being professional is not only to leave behind amateurism, dilettante behaviors and sentimentalism, but to adopt an impeccable code of conduct that is uniquely yours. The realm is surgical. A surgeon cannot afford to be sentimental while using a scalpel or the cut will be affected.
To be a professional is to be able to remove the falsely emotionalized or dramatized expressions out of interactions and completely focus on service through skill and appreciation. Who says you cannot serve yourself impeccably? In addition, there is no conventional role-playing or paper tigers in professionalism as it is an authentic and highly personalized creative act.
“My Spirit has Ways of Seeing that my Eyes cannot Comprehend.”
Copyright © 2014 Philippe Benichou
