A trick to increase trust and belief in the beyond
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I'm sure many find themselves, as I find myself sometimes, very concerned with a deep rooted feeling of skepticism, mental islands of distrust in god, in spite of all experiences and miracles we have seen, the mind still guards his control by repeating this conditioning of not believing, of skepticism.
So what is the solution? Well, the same universal solution that we keep forgetting about (actually that the mind keeps forgetting about): Accept!.
Most spiritual teachers respond to such a case with the command: so trust! so divorce skepticism!... Very nice, if I could do this just like this, I would not need you as my guru... This command only increases the conflict and the disappointment and thus just breeds the mind which in its turn increases skepticism, one of its fundamental building blocks.
So what is the solution? Well, the same universal solution that we keep forgetting about (actually that the mind keeps forgetting about): Accept!.
Simple, yet so few of us remember to adopt this approach.
In our terrified search for cure for skepticism, in our blunt trial to abolish skepticism, we merely reject it, do not accept it and the skepticism in response just increases, as everything in our mental world does when we reject it, it gains strength.
Yes, accept it, don't mind so much about this skepticism, let it be for god sake. Yes, I am skeptic right now, so what? let this skeptic energy be there (admit it, you currently have no choice anyway, right?) but... beware not to identify with it, just accept and observe it as an object.
What will happen is that after some time of no rejection, you will suddenly find that you are not the skeptic entity anymore, the subject has receded into something more delicate and sublime, something that does believe (otherwise this "I" wouldn't have been so preoccupied by the skepticism...). The "I" that will be there then, the subject that you will be identified with at that point will be in enormous trust, actually you will be in a state of not caring: trust or mistrust will not matter much to you, this is the divine connectivity with the beyond, you will feel it.
Try it and always remember: accept "whatever is" is the only door to progress when we deal with our tricky mind. By fighting, by rejecting, by forcing, by imposing conflict you only strengthen your mind.
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I totally agree about the skepticism. We need to believe that things will get better when it doesn't seem like they will at the moment we are being skeptical. Easier said than done. My husband is like this. He is such a skeptic but is such an uplifting person when it comes to other people, just not himself. With all the miracles and such, you would think that people would be more accepting. I blame what is going on in the world. People don't seem to think their voice and actions matter as much. I could write lots more on this, but I won't for your sake.
I will start to accept more and maybe more people will.
Kath (dekeydoker)
But beware not to fight your skepticism
Kath -
As you imply, we face this internal "I" that many times is skeptical and hopelessly want so much to abolish it (as you write "easier said than done").
This is the delicate point where most people take the wrong path, they try to impose trust on themselves with force, and this does not work, we all been there, we all tasted very well this frustration; this resistance approach only enforces skepticism. As I wrote before at this point the miraculous path is to... accept! Yes, to accept our skepticism wholeheartedly, to pet it with inner compassion, to make peace with it, to observe it rather than to suppress it. Then it just vanishes... This is the most important issue when coping with distrust in the universe/god and so many people, religious as well as atheist, so many people fail at this point... And it is so easy to walk in this path, actually it is the easiest path...
But our mind gives value only to hard paths... Hardship gives value of achievement to the ego, plus, we were conditioned to value hard work, resistance, will power, and other pedagogic ideals... So, no matter how many miracles we are fortunate to witness, our stubborn mind will return to its old habits and conditionings of skepticism. This is the point where we must apply acceptance and forgiveness, not to resist!