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How to Develop Self-Trust

When people excessively start talking about themselves, they’re given the title of a narcissist. A trait not many admire.

Which is why most people prefer to hide themselves and their emotions. And try pleasing other people more than they’d please themselves.

Trust is, similarly, a very beautiful yet hard trait that us humans possess.

What’s beautiful about trust is that it brings people closer and creates a bond almost nothing can alter.

However, what’s hard about it is the fact that once it gets broken, it’s very difficult to build it back.

But, the strangest thing about trust is, however, that we’d trust someone else very easily. In just a few conversations, a few meetings, and a few promises, we tend to trust the next person.

Yet, it is so difficult for us to trust ourselves. Honestly, it is not rocket science, still, people don’t have enough faith in themselves.

Be that as it may, building self-trust is not an easy thing to do. It takes ages for some people.

But that doesn’t mean it’s impossible.

Here are five simple ways of how you can develop self-trust.

Get to know yourself better.

As much as people complain about how people can separate themselves from social life, there is nothing wrong with that.

It’s a good thing to have friends and social life. But that doesn’t mean that people who don’t are disturbed and mentally ill.

You can take it as a defense mechanism that most people use in order to protect themselves from having their trust broken.

And many-a-times spending time by yourself means you get to know about yourself better.

When you’re alone, you’ll learn about your priorities and things that matters and makes you happy. And most importantly you’ll get to know who you really are.

Therefore, spending time by yourself is a crucial process in developing self-trust.

Honor your Emotions.

Emotions are very valuable. They can tell you a lot about a person.

One thing a lot of us do is we try to make sure that we don’t drain other people emotionally.

Emotions play an important part in building us as human beings. It is basically our root.

While embracing other’s emotions, we often forget about our own.

We forget that with us being emotionally strong, we can’t help others out.

Thus, we ignore the fact that as important as other people are, our emotions should also be equally important.

And in order to develop self-trust, it’s important for us to honor our own emotions.

Since our emotions play an important role in our life, it’s necessary for us to take proper care of it.

Practice Self-Care.

It’s easy for us as humans to be worried about the people we care.

It’s not that hard for us to take a step ahead when it comes to taking care of other people.

But in this process, we tend to easily neglect ourselves. We tend to forget that it’s more than important for us to take care of ourselves as well.

Because, let’s admit it, no matter how much you do for some people, you’ll never be treated the same way you treat them.

Therefore, self-care is important.

It not only boost our own confidence, but it also helps us be open and trust ourselves.

Respect yourself and your opinions.

Respect is very important to us all. If someone respects us we have no problem respecting them.

Similarly, opinions are also very important to us. It helps shed light to a lot of problems hidden in plain sight.

And we, as humans make it a point to respect other people and their opinions. This is what makes us a better human being.

But one thing we forget is how important it is for us to respect ourselves and our opinions.

Honestly, if we don’t value ourselves, who will?

When we respect ourselves and our opinions, we trust ourselves to know the difference between rights and wrongs.

Thus, by respecting ourselves and our opinions, we take a step in developing self-trust.

Avoid Negativity.

Rapper Jay-Z who recently became hip-hop’s first billionaire once said in an interview that he achieved his goals by avoiding people that project their fears onto you.

Negative people are not just ruining their lives, but also dragging your energy down.

You might know a hundred people, all of them with their own opinions.

While it is a good thing to respect their opinions, it’s not necessary that you get all worked up over what they think.

You start doubting yourself when negativity surrounds you.

The vibes negative people have will only drain you and your confidence forcing you to trust yourself less.

So, in order to develop self-trust, it is VERY important that you stay away from negative people and negativity.

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Priya

Talks to self, more than others. Watches "the Office" all night and quotes Michael Scott all day.
"I am Beyoncé, always."

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