Trust

Exercise:

This is a guided meditation exercise designed to lead the participants through various situations to explore trust.

What they may discover: During this exercise, the students may discover that they do trust, maybe more than they thought. Or they may realize that they actually don’t trust nearly as much as they had thought. They may realize that they can trust intimate experiences but not transcendental or expansive ones. Or the opposite may be true. The purpose of this exercise, for the teacher, isn’t to analyze the students’ issues with trust. The students can do this on their own, or not. The real value of doing this exercise is that it gives the participant some experience of Trust, whatever it is for them. And this gives them the opportunity to develop the feeling of trust and to practice it.
Remember, the feeling of trust is the feeling of physical/emotional/mental health. It is worth practicing. Here is an outline of the guided practice. Feel confident that this is just an outline, just a suggestion, and that it can be changed.
There is no wrong way to do this, as long as it guides the participants to experience, explore, or understand the feeling (or lack of feeling) of trust.
The more time you can take with this exercise, the better. I will offer examples of two versions below, a super-speedy version, and a much longer version will be given first, and then a super-speedy condensed version, taking elements of the longer version. You may decide to take some of the element, and even make up your own, and match them to make a different version.