05/26/2026
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Wanting vs Trusting
“Trust is hard to define, but easy to recognize when you finally surrender into it.” - Adyashanti
Ego: An individual's sense of self or perception of their identity.
Want: The feeling of absence. Deficiency; defect; the absence of that which is necessary or useful.
Trust: A willingness to move forward despite uncertainty
Control: The attempt to force certainty through management of outcomes, timing, people, or circumstances.
Indifference: A lack of intention or direction.
Wanting can be psychologically confusing because desire and lack often appear to be the same thing, yet they are fundamentally different states.
Lack is the perception of deficiency. It is the feeling that something necessary is missing. Often, lack is the psychological root of blame, anxiety, and fear. Lack often creates a desire for relief or resolution. Hunger creates the desire for food. Loneliness creates the desire for connection. Financial pressure creates the desire for security.
Desire can emerge from inspiration, love, imagination, purpose, curiosity, or vision. It can also emerge from lack. The problem is not desire itself. When internal stability becomes dependent upon the fulfillment of the desire, lack and its energetic imprint are present.
This is where wanting creates captivity, as the ego seeks control in the pursuit of wholeness, safety, or validation.
The ego seeks certainty because its stability depends upon maintaining its current identity structure. Control is the ego’s attempt to force certainty in an uncertain world. Yet control is ultimately an illusion because it creates the feeling of safety without ever eliminating uncertainty.
Trust is the willingness to remain internally aligned even when external evidence appears contradictory. Perhaps this is why trust and faith are so deeply connected. The highest form of faith is not belief when circumstances are easy. It is the willingness to remain rooted in belief even when visible conditions suggest otherwise.
Control attempts to dominate uncertainty. Trust enables movement through uncertainty without psychological/vibrational collapse. Trust is the discipline of cultivating internally the peace, wholeness, and stability one once believed could only come from external outcomes. Paradoxically, this may be the highest form of control. Not control over circumstances, outcomes, or other people, but rather mastery over one’s own state of being regardless of circumstances. Trust is the creation of the internal effect first, allowing external reality to reorganize around the state already embodied within.
The Frequency of Trust
Language
Those who trust speak differently, as though life is unfolding not withholding.
Emotions
Wanting often produces urgency, anxiety, fear, and comparison. Trust produces the steady sense that things are moving in the proper direction.
Time
Wanting demands immediate proof. Trust understands that movement is already occurring beneath the surface.
Decision-Making
Those trapped in wanting often force outcomes or panic when circumstances shift. Those operating from trust remain adaptive because their identity is not collapsing alongside temporary setbacks.
Control
Wanting attempts to create certainty through force and control. Trust allows movement without needing to dominate every variable.
Identity
Wanting says: I will become whole once this happens. Trust says: I am already whole.
Action
Trust is not passive. It is a disciplined action which emerges from alignment rather than emotional survival.
Attention
Wanting fixates on absence. Trust notices opportunities, relationships, ideas, and possibilities appearing along the path.
Inner Freedom
Wanting may emotionally chain the present moment to a future outcome. Trust allows the pursuit of meaningful goals without surrendering peace in the meantime.
“One must cultivate the state of mind that one wishes to experience, rather than waiting for the world to grant permission for it.” - Neville Goddard
On This Memorial Day
This Memorial Day, we pause to honor and remember the men and women who gave their lives in service to others. Freedom has a cost, and we are forever grateful for their sacrifice.
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