An Introduction to the Colors of Trust and Faith
In the Life Artist color palette, there are three Primary Colors—willingness, courage, and curiosity.
There are three colors that activate Trust —inspiration, vulnerability, and learning.
And finally, there are three colors that activate Faith—dreaming, gratitude, and remembering.
I’ve written about the three primary colors in my most recent posts, and today, before moving onto the colors of Trust and Faith, I want to provide some context for the role they play in cultivating your Life Artist awareness.
Similar to the Primary Colors, the colors of Trust and Faith provide pathways to engage your Whole IQ—your Spirit, Heart, Mind, and Body intelligences. However, they also develop and ground your ability to see where you may be living in “blind trust,” or faking faith, or perhaps taking “leaps of faith” that generate more fear than thrill. As a Life Artist, when you learn to embody trust and faith, you are more fully expressed and less attached to certain outcomes as “proof” that your experiences is valid, or that your success is dependent upon an immediate answer from the powers that be.
The colors of Trust and Faith require a higher level of risk than the Primary Colors because, as we give and receive them, they require more transparency in our relationship to ourselves, others, and the Universal Intelligence.
Trust erodes when we unconsciously or consciously expect things from relationships. We can start betraying ourselves by forgetting to nourish our Spirit intelligence with inspiration; we can refuse to open our Heart intelligence with greater vulnerability for fear of getting hurt; we can disallow our Mind intelligence from sharing our learning because we might be judged or rejected.
The colors of Trust (inspiration, vulnerability, and learning) open up the channels for greater trust to flow, but trust doesn’t grow from having them flow freely with everyone! Trust requires discernment. It grows through understanding where we need to be accountable to ourselves and not expect a relationship, job, or place to fulfill us when it can’t. This may mean ending a relationship, or experiencing it for what it is to increase trust.
The colors of Faith (dreaming, gratitude, and remembering) are the most risky for a Life Artist because they attune our creative consciousness with that of the Universal Intelligence. When we seek to collaborate with the unseen forces, we must let go of attachment to outcome, or manifesting what we think we need. Dreaming, gratitude, and remembering are not about our ego dreams, saying a polite “thank-you,” or noticing how great our memory is or isn’t. These colors are about opening ourselves up to a deeper connection with the Universal Intelligence.
We open our Spirit intelligence up to the muse and the unknown with the color of dreaming—unplanned moments of being fully open and present to what wants to happen. When we are filled with an embodied sense of gratitude, it is not about what someone has done for you, but how your Heart intelligence is full from feeling how deeply something has served the evolution of consciousness on the planet. When your Mind intelligence is relaxed enough to engage the color of remembering, you experience a moment of inner and outer relatedness by bringing the fragmented parts of yourself back into greater wholeness.
While the colors of Trust are a grounding resource for healing and inspiring our earth-bound relationships, the colors of Faith provide a way to connect to the greater cosmic healing and inspiration that we can influence and receive from the collective consciousness through our individual awareness.