ABSTRACT

Faith, belief, hope, dependence, reliance, confidence and solidity are words that come to mind in relation to the notion of trust. Being able to trust another person, situation, group, animal or object is a very precious thing in modern world. Although it is a completely revolutionary idea for most of the clients, the good news is that the body can be trusted. However, such relearning takes time. It means turning around and questioning family and cultural belief systems. Learning to trust in oneself is not, then, a simple matter of trusting one's instincts or intuition, and instantly following them. It is a negotiation between the different parts of oneself, between thinking, feeling, sensation, instinct and intuition, as if these aspects form an internal 'committee', giving one different pieces of information. Colonisation, through domination of nature and our nature, does not achieve trust.