On our journey into more expanded levels of consciousness, we will encounter a passage. To enter this passage we will need an essential companion: inner trust. The passage is the journey of creation. Inner trust is your ally.

Creation is ushering something from non-existence into existence. It is creating a goal from something that does not exist and building its reality in time and space. To accomplish this, we must have inner trust. To develop inner trust we must manage and keep our agreements.

An agreement is a structure for fulfillment. This structure, or agreement, is the avenue for an idea, which is unseen, to be made seen in physical reality.

Inner trust is essential because the world of physical reality that we move in each day is a world of agreement. It is the outer world of evidence. It is what has already been created, what has already been agreed upon. Most of humanity believes the physical world to be our only reality and all we have to draw on. Inner trust allows us to venture beyond the physical world to the inner world of creation.

Everything you see around you was once in the unseen world of ideas. Each thing exists because someone had vision. They decided to keep their word long enough, and without any evidence or agreement from anywhere else, until the agreement was a strong enough force to be an avenue of expression for the unseen idea to become a reality in the physical realm.

An example is the room you are standing in. If the contractor changed his mind (and therefore changed his agreement) every day regarding the size of the potential room, it would never have been built. It would have stayed in the unseen world of ideas. Making and keeping the agreement regarding the size of the room became the structure for fulfillment.

Many people make agreements. Few keep them long enough for something to actually get created. We lack inner trust for our own word, and therefore vision. We sell out because we cannot see beyond the conversation of our ego minds about how hard it will be to accomplish the task, etc.

If we have not demonstrated and developed our ability to manage and keep agreements, our inner trust is not developed or enhanced. I know of many wonderful ideas, plans, and goals that go unfulfilled primarily because the person gave up on their agreement. They had no vision.

Their inner trust was swayed by the reasonableness of the ego mind. They trusted reasons over their own word. They stopped telling the truth, going for results, and maintaining their freedom of choice over the egos excuses, and therefore sold out on being their word. And by doing so, they collapsed the structure for its fulfillment.

All we have is our word. If we do not trust our own word then a new idea that lives outside of the present realm of agreement has no chance of being born through us.

Inner trust allows us to risk and commit to goals that are outside of the safe world of what is seenin other words, what is already agreed upon as attainable. Inner trust enhances vision and allows us to stay committed to something that is not yet seen physically. It is the precursor to Faith.

We risk each time we make a goal that places us in an arena where there is no agreement. We then accomplish the goal by creating agreement for it. Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and women suffragettes created agreement for something where there was once none. They took their goal from non-existence and sourced it into being. They had vision.

The basic disciplines of Telling the Truth, Going for Results, Maintaining Freedom of Choice Responsibly, and Managing our Agreements with ourselves and others are essential to discovering, developing, and maintaining inner trust and vision. Once these disciplines are established, we release ourselves from the clutches of the ego mind and allow ourselves to have vision beyond its limiting sight. The next steps of Making Goals and Risking then become effortless. That is why the people at LifeForce are steadfast in teaching and assisting our clients in developing these skills.

Vision allows us to go beyond the egos limited thought systems. Vision is a function of inner trust. Inner trust and responsibility go hand in hand. Without this inner trust we will not experience the expanded consciousness of true responsibility, which is the very core of atonement.

Atonement is the opposite of the ego. It is our at-one-ment with, and our functional relationship to, the Universe, God, Self, Buddha Nature, Higher Self, or whatever term you may use. This melding with the Universe, the field of all possibility, pure potential, allows vision far beyond what seems possible when we rely only on the egos view of our past thoughts, belief systems and accomplishments. With vision, we can attain breakthrough goals that are life-changing.

Until true responsibility, inner trust, and vision are accomplished, we are tossed in the sea of emotion and outer conditions, purposeless, and directionless. Our goals are stunted and repetitious. The ego is in control and we only create goals that are not challenging. We become bored with life.

Inner trust bonds us with the higher realms of responsibility. It fosters vision where we are able to see beyond our own mind and thereby allow higher frequencies of thought to empower us. We begin to think of solutions instead of focusing on the problems. We can easily shift from breakdown to breakthrough. We no longer let the ego have the last word. Our freedom to risk beckons us onward and we begin to imagine results that, here-to-for were not only resisted, they were non-existent.

Without the inner trust and vision of true responsibility each new goal is a futile attempt toward a new life while clutching to and relying on old, outdated fears. With inner trust, each new goal is a delightful game to be played where obstacles become amusing challenges.

Inner trust and vision emerge by being responsible for our integrity. This means that we do not have to be chased or hounded or otherwise talked into cleaning up our messes. This is not a morality issue. We clean up our out agreements because we want to be counted on in the world and we want to trust ourselves to do what we say we are going to do. In doing so we cultivate the level of humility that allows us to risk. This humility is a basic principle that must be developed or we will stay stuck in looking good because we are too afraid of making another mistake.

We grow by risking and by being responsible enough to clean up anything that gets damaged along the way. Each time we humbly clean up a broken agreement we enhance our inner trust and increase our willingness to risk. We have demonstrated that we can be trusted even if we make a mistake.

Begin to develop inner trust and vision. By demonstrating these principles first to ourselves and then to others we can become beacons of hope for those who are still bound to the ego. And we can challenge ourselves to endeavor to reach greater and greater accomplishments for ourselves, for our families, and for this beloved planet.

Life is too big to be playing small. This is your life. Don't miss it.