Faith

Posted on August 1st, 2009

“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”  Rabindranath Tagore

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Faith is that deep inner knowing that you are on the right path, you are being divinely guided, and everything will work out. Faith is crucial when going through difficult times, but it is also needed when it’s time to embark on an adventure; start a new business, quit a job to follow your passion, leave an unhealthy relationship to start fresh on your own, invest your time and energy or money in a new project.

How do you have more faith when it’s most needed?

Faith requires us to let go of fears and worry, and trust our higher selves and the universe to guide us and take care of us. When we are in touch with our inner wisdom we access our intuition and we know when it’s time to take a step forward, when to turn here or there, and when to stop and wait. We feel an inner nudging and the glow of enthusiasm when we’re headed in the right direction.

No one else knows what is best for us. We have all our own information and when we put faith in ourselves we transform from crawling caterpillars into dancing butterflies.

Insights on Having Faith

♦ On a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being low and 10 being high, what is your current level of faith regarding the general direction of your life? How much faith do you have regarding specific areas of your life such as work, finances, health, relationships?

♦ For the areas where your faith is 5 or below, what gets in the way of having faith? What would it take to raise it a notch or two?

♦ For the areas where your faith is above 5, what supports you in having this amount of faith?

Inspiration to Increase Your Faith

♦ Identify what blocks your faith - look at any pessimistic thoughts, limiting beliefs, past experiences or doubts from people around you. Ask yourself what’s true and false with each of these. Often, faith is blocked by insecurities and lies in your space. With awareness you can shed light on your truth and release false beliefs.

♦ Identify what supports your faith - what thoughts, beliefs, and past experiences uplift you into the place of trusting yourself and having faith that everything will work out? Use these when your faith drops below 5.

♦ Faith is an inner knowing and feeling that you can tune into. Close your eyes, relax your body, and turn inward. From this centered place, touch into the energy of trust and faith. It may just be a glimmer, but let it grow within you until it flows throughout your whole body.

 

What supports you in having more faith? Please leave a comment and share this article with others if you feel inspired.

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2 Responses to “Faith”

  1. Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen Says:
    August 2nd, 2009 at 1:02 pm

    This is very meaningful for me right now, as I’m writing my sample chapters for a potential publisher…and am in a very “whatever happens, happens” headspace! I’m doing the best I can, but I’m not getting swept up in an ultra-faithful “this is the right thing” or “this has to happen!” mentality.

    It’s a very free place to be — not to have expectations, or any hopes, even. Just acceptance and flow.

    Maybe it comes from the faith that whatever happens is fine. There’s good and bad in almost anything that could ever happen to you (except for a free lifetime supply of gourmet organic dark chocolate, right Gini? that’s all good ;-) )….so there’s no point in getting all fixated on one and only one possible outcome.

    I don’t know where that puts me on the faith scale of 1 to 10…either I’m totally faithful, or completely faithless!

    Thanks for this, Gini. Good stuff to think about.

    Laurie

  2. ginigrey Says:
    August 4th, 2009 at 12:19 pm

    Hi Laurie - it sounds to me like you are in a high space of faith right now. Trusting that “whatever happens, happens” can be such a place of ease and faith - knowing that whatever happens will be okay, trusting that the outcome will serve you for your highest good. We can’t always see what is best for us ahead of time, but if we can surrender to the best possible outcome and have faith that it will arrive, it usually does. It may not be what we originally wanted, but in the long run it will be perfect for us.

    I love what you said about there being good and bad in almost anything so there is no point in getting fixated on one outcome - so true. Reminds me of a parable about a man (I won’t write the whole parable here, just the point of it) who has something happen to him and the community says “oh, what good fortune”. But then it leads to something not so good happening and the community says, “Oh, what bad fortune”. Well, of course, as life has it, this thing leads to something even better happening and on the story goes.

    The Buddhists believe in equanimity and non-attachment, as suffering comes when we get attached to certain outcomes etc. so it sounds like you are in a peaceful place Laurie!

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