Building High Trust Relationships

Trust is little word with big reverberations, embracing us together in one morphogenetic field. The word originates from Old Norse ‘treysta or traustr’ meaning to make strong. As a quality, it permeates our wellbeing, feelings of safety and security and makes us feel more fulfilled at home, in community and at work.

Spiritual wisdom carriers and social research enthusiasts say trust grows over time, through relating consistently, and how it happens in small steps not giant leaps. It can deepen, be lost, regained and renewed.  Business icons talk about it as a ladder. To help the other up to the next rung and then share the view. Barging and cajoling to get to the next rung, visibly or disguised, causes many to give up on trust.

Toko-Pa, author, mystic and dreamworker, shares that pain from dishonesty revealed in your environment can cause you to try and wear thicker armour and expect less. Her invitation is to remain sincere and reassure the ‘native inclination of the heart’ as natural, simple and artless. She urges us to grow more open-hearted as this is what our culture needs more than ever now.

I asked my daughter Remy and she said: “Trust is one of the key things in relationships, funny yesterday we were learning about this in PE. It’s mutual, you respect each other for your differences, can tell each other anything and they won’t tell anyone. They will be really respectful of you and you need to do the same for them. In relationship you grow trust by getting closer and closer. You learn more about each other. You learn the good stuff and the bad stuff and some stuff you keep just between you two. You have deeper conversations about deeper subjects and you form trust that builds a bridge between you both”.

And so, I start the day with fresh inspiration and commitment to blooming an open-heart.. 

Thank you to Alex Shute from Unsplash for this image.