TRUST
Ra once said:
The Shadow and the True-Self
What you can rely on you’ve never relied on in your life. What you can’t trust you’ve been trying to trust all your life. What you’ve been trusting has never been you. What you’ve been ignoring has always been you. Try to trust what’s really you and see what happens.
RA URU HU| Founder of The Human Design System
This is not poetic. It is diagnostic.
Most people trust the wrong authority.
What We’ve Been Trusting
From childhood, we are taught to rely on:
Planning
Comparison/measuring ourselves against others
A strategy based on fear
Approval from the tribe
Roles that promise security
We are conditioned to believe that if we follow the model, study, work, achieve, and belong, we will arrive somewhere safe.
The mind reinforces this constantly. It measures, compares, projects outcomes, and anticipates risk. It tries to secure the future, and because this is what everyone else is doing, it appears rational. But what is being trusted in that process is not the individual’s design. It is conditioning.
The Cost of Misaligned Trust
When decisions are made primarily to secure validation, avoid exclusion, or meet inherited expectations, resistance builds.
The body signals it:
frustration
bitterness
anger
disappointment
internal tension
Yet instead of adjusting direction, most people double down on the plan. They trust the structure more than themselves. And over time, what was meant to provide security produces exhaustion.
What Has Been Ignored
At the same time, the body has always been communicating.
The sacral response that says “yes” or “no” or “wait”.
The emotional wave that requires time.
The splenic instinct that whispers immediately.
The inner recognition that something is correct or not.
These signals are often dismissed as inconvenient, irrational, or impractical.
The very intelligence that is uniquely yours is treated as secondary.
That inversion is the shadow.
Why Trusting the Body Feels Uncomfortable
Trusting your design feels unstable at first.
Not because it is unstable, but because it is unfamiliar.
You were not conditioned to:
sit with your feelings,
wait for emotional clarity,
withdraw from what drains you,
express yourself without permission.
You were conditioned to adapt, pretend or perform.
So, when you begin listening inwardly, it can feel disruptive. Even isolating.
Aloneness becomes confronting because the internal voice is no longer drowned out by external noise. But discomfort is not dysfunction. It is recalibration.
Trust Is Built Through Decisions
Trust in your design does not come from belief. It comes from repetition.
Each time you make a decision through your inner authority and observe the outcome, coherence increases. Not because everything becomes easy, but because resistance reduces.
You begin to see patterns. You begin to recognise what is correct for you. And trust grows from evidence, lived evidence.
The Shift
When authority is returned to the body:
planning becomes supportive, not dominant,
the mind becomes an observer, not a controller,
external structures lose their grip.
Life remains unpredictable. But it becomes navigable.
Trust, in this context, is not faith. It is alignment.
And alignment reduces unnecessary resistance
