Iyanla Vanzant: Mastering the 4 Essential Trusts
OMTimes: What is Trust?
Iyanla Vanzant: First of all, trust is a noun, not a verb. Trust is a way of thinking, being, and living that grows from experience, desire, and choice. Trust is a demonstration of hope, courage, and perseverance that moves the mind, heart, and body beyond what is known into the realm of what is possible. From the time you get out of bed in the morning until the time you fall asleep at night, you are functioning, operating, and depending on something or someone you trust. For some strange reason, we have come to believe that trust is something that we can do or not do. The truth is that trust as a state of being and a state of mind develops and unfolds in response to our willingness to be alive. That is right! Just staying alive is an act of trust. If you do not believe it, exhale and try not to inhale . . . If you allowed your body to take that next breath, you were trusting that it would happen, that you could do it, and that everything would be fine until you were ready to do it again. You were consciously exhaling, inhaling, and trusting.
OMTimes: What are the essential aspects of trust?
Iyanla Vanzant: The absolute necessity of trusting yourself! Trusting yourself is the prelude to and foundation for trusting everyone and everything else. There is a process and practice to trust. Life gives you the process through your experiences. People provide you with the opportunity to practice. You will also find it easier to trust if you understand that what you put out will come back to you. Trusting life is easy, but it requires that you understand and embrace the laws of life. Cause and effect, correspondence, vibration, attraction, love, and forgiveness are all concrete laws that govern the movement and unfolding of life. It is unfortunate that we are not taught these laws in school. It is, even more, unfortunate that we do not pay attention to how we do what we do because that is how the laws are made practical and personal for us.
