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116. Building Trust in Yourself and the Divine to Navigate Life's Challenges
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In this episode of the Spiritual Fitness podcast, Eric Bigger delves into the transformative power of building trust in yourself. He describes his early doubts and inability to trust due to the violence and instability in his surroundings and personal relationships. He highlights the significant role these experiences played in shaping his perception of trust.
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Key Takeaways:
- Eric discusses how growing up in a violent neighborhood and facing unreliable personal relationships can affect one’s ability to trust.
- Trust evolves from being ego-centric to more spiritually aligned, emphasizing the importance of trusting a higher power.
- Eric offers practical steps like listening to intuition and following inner knowing to enhance trust within oneself.
- Trust is crucial for the success of any relationship, surpassing even love in its importance.
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Introduction to the Spiritual Fitness Podcast
00:00:06
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Welcome to the Spiritual Fitness Podcast. I'm your host, Eric Bigger, and each week we will explore powerful practices, inspiring stories, and expert insights to guide you on your path to holistic health. By blending spirituality and physical wellness, we support you in strengthening your body and soul. Whether you're a seasoned spiritual seeker or just beginning your journey, the Spiritual Fitness Podcast is here to help you unlock your inner potential and live your most vibrant, purposeful life. It's Miracle Season.
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Trusting One's Spirit and Building Self-Trust
00:01:06
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from my podcast. So check them out, sign up and maybe, you know, have a call and see if they can help you be more visible. Ah, but yeah, here we go. So today's episode, it's about trust, trust in your spirit and how do you build trust within yourself? So one thing to be mindful of, trust comes from your heart. Trust comes from your body. Trust is actually ingrained in your spirit, right?
00:01:35
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When trust goes into the mind, that's when trust is shaky. So, I'm going to give you an example of how trust was built throughout my life. And it's something for you to think about, like, I want you to take yourself back as you listen to me tell you my story round up. Where was trust? discombobulated, challenged, or not certain in your life, because this is where your trust story starts, begins, or changes, right? This is your charity of trust. So growing up in Baltimore City, the city was extremely violent, a lot of crime, a lot of drug dealing. So a lot of negative things going on. And so growing up in an environment, you always got to be on point. Spidey senses are on, you got to watch out. You know, you can't be in certain environments and neighborhoods too late.
00:02:21
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What does that do? You don't trust me because everything is programmed in you because of fear, because it's bad, it's negative, violence might happen, somebody might rob you, something bad, that's just always been a paradigm and that time's brought up. So my trust from that point on was a little jaded just outside of myself, right? That was one example. I also remember when I was asking my mom to do something for me and she said she would do it or come to my games and she would come It would never happen. So my trusted gamblers challenge where that's what my love language of access service was built because I didn't believe words. Like when someone told me they was going to do something and they didn't do it, it didn't honor my trust. So those are two examples. The environment was negative. So I didn't trust the environment. My mom told me something she didn't. So therefore I didn't trust people, right? So there we go. The environment I didn't trust, people I didn't trust.
00:03:20
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Now here we go to like the next part of trust within your life is yourself. So I trust myself more than anything, right? More than anything, I put all the trust into myself. And yeah, last time at least I trust in God, but I'm gonna really make these two make sense. So trusting myself kept me in my ego more than it should and allow me to fear people in an environment to trust myself But because I didn't trust the environment or people, I tried to control a situation with subtle manipulation, like people, please, right? Or not letting people do for me the way I would do for them because I'm afraid you're not going to handle me with care or I'm not going to feel safe or something bad is going to happen. Because of trust. You see how everything comes back to trust? But it started as a child, an enabler with my mom.
00:04:11
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Right? So then I took trust into my own hands. I trust myself. I don't want to wait on no one. I'll do it myself. I don't trust that they're going to get it done. So when you don't trust, other people can get things done in your life. When you don't trust people, guess who you attract? People are not trustworthy. So I'm over here trusting myself, or you don't attract people who can get it done when it's time to trust someone. So that also challenged me when it came to asking for help. I didn't know how to because I didn't trust anyone. Unconsciously, I didn't trust anyone. I didn't even trust life. I just trusted myself. So with that paradigm in sight, I was living from my ego mile, which was fear and protection. I was afraid that the worst would happen and I was protecting myself from the worst that happened, right?
00:04:55
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And I just thought I could do it on my own. But literally, I know I couldn't. In times and times and times, I burnt out. I failed. I hid from myself. I never wanted people to see me weak or vulnerable because I didn't trust people. So then there was a play where, yeah, I had to trust God. I had to trust in something great. I had to trust in something outside of myself. And so when I would pray, right, I trusted the prayers I would pray and actually all the prayers I prayed for manifest. So it's interesting how trust plays a factor in our life, but we don't know where it starts and where it
Practicing Intuition and Inner Guidance
00:05:30
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comes from. So right now, as you listen to this, think about it. When was the first time in your life your trust was challenged, altered, or you changed it?
00:05:42
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where there was a lot of uncertainty. Because we got to go to the beginning to get to the end or get to the now, right? So trust is such an and important ingredient in all of life, for yourself, for your relationship, for your business. You know how people say, don't trust that person. I don't trust that, you know? And I was like that with drugs, alcohol, everything. I didn't have my first drink until I was 21. I've never smoked weed a day in my life. But now because I'm older and I'm more evolved and I trust life more and I trust myself, I'm not afraid of any. It's no fear. Because when you trust yourself and you trust in something greater, your God consciousness, the God evolution of life,
00:06:19
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You just let me flow live You live in alignment of your soul assignment. And that's where I'm at today. But I had to go through all these battered, burdened moments of trust. You know, not trusting people in relationships, not trusting people in friendship. Because you got to understand, I said in the beginning, it trust is in your body. It's in your heart. Trust is in my body. So when you trust someone or something, it's in your body. You don't feel it, but you just feel at ease. You feel relaxed. You're well, you're safe, all budding. You don't trust something. I remember when I had to jump an ocean from the person, I was, oh, so tense, like, because it's in my body. Trust is not in my body. you muslim and Trust is not in your body, and it's in your mind. You're trying to control circumstances, outcome, the worst thing can happen. We have to build trust within in our body, within our spirit. And this is why prayer is important, getting around people you can trust and teaching yourself how to trust yourself.
00:07:14
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Right? So there's two things I want you to take note on and think about in this moment. To build trust within. It's very simple, but it's not all easy. The first one is, when your intuition gives you a hit, I want you to really practice this. Really be aware. When your intuition gives you a hit, it could be something as simple as call your mom. Call your mom. Like listen you to your intuition. And then every time your intuition gives you a hit and you follow it, I want you to take note of what happened. Was it true? Or did you create it because of fear? Because a lot of us don't trust our intuition. So I want you to trust your intuition to trust yourself, to trust life. So when you get that hit or when you feel something that's telling you that it's not a good business ordeal, this might not be a good partner, trust it. Don't allow more experiences of time go by for you to, I knew this was gonna happen a while.
00:08:09
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So when you get a hit from your intuition, it can be something slight, like call someone, go downstairs and get the mail, whatever. They seem to wait. And they seem to wait. Like really listen and take action on your intuition. So number one, take action on your intuition when you get the hit. Write it down. Two, very simple. When you feel something strong in your body, like a hell yes, and you just know it without evidence, Trust it. A lot of us be knowing things, but because if we're afraid to say something or we're afraid it doesn't make sense. There's no logic involved, that it's wrong. No, it's right. Your sixth sense, your higher self is picking up on something that you don't need logic to trust enough. I want you to trust that. And that could be information about getting something, doing something. Give me an example. You know, you might know you need to leave this and fire it or where you're living it.
00:09:09
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And it's like, something doesn't feel right. I know I need to leave here. Leave it. You might know you need to leave your job. You might know you need to follow up with that client to get them to come into your business. You might know that you should have this person you dating. Why did they kiss you like that? oh What was that about when they text you that instead of like brushing over because you don't want no confrontation, follow it, trust and know. Whenever you get something, you get a hit out of nowhere or you know, like in your mind and your body, go for it. So take action on your intuition and follow your knowing without question.
Trust in Relationships and Personal Reflection
00:09:52
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Just do those two things and just practice it. We might not get it all the time, but just practice it because what this is going to do totally is build the trust and confidence within within yourself to trust what you know, to trust what comes up, to trust your self. Trust is why a lot of relationships don't last because people don't even trust themselves that had a conversation, photo am communication that needs to take place in a relationship. Relationships fail because people lack trust. I remember when I was in a relationship and I was driving a girlfriend at the time car, right? And she had a nice car, nice Mercedes, and we're just going down the street. And I'm just, she don't even know, I'm testing like her body language. She's so antsy, she's so anxious. She's like, no, don't do this. today I'm like, what's going on? Like, why are you acting like this?
00:10:44
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She's like, no, because I know my car. So, boom, trust what I know. In that moment, I realized she don't trust me. Granted, prior to that, I gave you a little bit of context. We broke up three months prior and we got back together. So when I saw that, she don't trust me. So that's me knowing people, body language. I'm your man, I'm driving your car. and you're acting anti, you don't trust me. So at that moment, I knew this relationship prior about the end, some form of fashion, I didn't think in that moment, but I could tell she didn't trust me because she was too anxious. So were you too anxious for something and you're too, I mean, you're lack of faith, you don't trust something. So that relationship didn't last. Trust was altered for a lot of reasons.
00:11:35
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And no matter what she could tell me, your body doesn't lie. The body keeps the score. So we don't trust ourselves first to speak our truth in a relationship. And two, we don't trust that if we do speak our truth, that we'll get what we want. So we won't even speak it. So both. Trust is everything. Honestly, trust is more important than love. is how many people that you love or love that you don't trust. You got family members that you love but you don't trust. That's bad. So you can't have a relationship if you don't trust. If there's no trust in a relationship, that's no relationship. I don't care how great the sex is. I don't care how great the vibe is when you guys hang out. I don't care what you have in common. If you don't trust a person, even if they don't know you don't trust. But something in your body is like, I like this person. Something just feels off if you don't trust them.
00:12:29
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So with all that going on, you not speaking to that offness, it's not gonna work. So people, listen to your intuition, take action on your intuition, follow you now. Listen to your intuition, follow your know, right? Take action on your intuition, follow your know. It's no question. Build the trust. You need to learn how to trust yourself so you can have trust in relationships and opportunity and circumstances and experiences in your life so you can be free and not worry or think outside of what you've been thinking about. So a whole few days of information helps, but trust yourself, trust in something greater is like I told you.
00:13:09
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It started with my environment I didn't trust. It started with my mom telling me something that she didn't do. It altered my trust. And I just started trusting myself. My ego took over. Then I had to trust in something great in God, but when I'm in between God and the ego, then trust is really altered again. So people, trust yourself with all the faith in the world, with all the love, and work on that trust. Build your trust. Test your trust so you can have a trust in life. All right, that's all, that's it.
Engagement and Self-Reflection
00:13:40
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00:14:04
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With all that being said, I love you guys, I love you so. Call me, share, subscribe again, engage. And the question is, I'm leaving with you today. Do you trust yourself? You gotta answer, just think about it. See you guys soon. Peace, bye.
00:14:23
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