Speaker B: 100% agree. In fact, and this is actual neuroscience, it's not intuition. The opposite of fear is trust. The same neural networks that drive the sense of fear are the neural networks that drive the sense of trust. So in reality, fear and trust are the same thing with different intensity. If you feel trust at a very low level, the experience of that low level of trust is what you call fear, but it's trust. It's absence of trust, if you want.

Speaker C: Right.

Speaker B: So, yeah, fear does not exist in reality. We call fear the sense of not trusting, the feeling of not having trust. And the most fundamental form, or at least one of the most fundamental forms of trust that exists, is basically what you said before, which is the fact that if you feel that you want something and you're not getting it, you trust that it's because you don't really need it, because life is always providing you what you need to fulfill your purpose. So maybe your mind is telling you, this is my purpose, I need that, and you fight to get that and you try hard and you don't get it.

That's a sign that life is telling you that's not what you require to fulfill your purpose. Right? Trusting that this is the case is fundamental. That's, I think, probably the most basic level of trust in life that you can have to live a life of purpose.

Speaker C: I really appreciate this definition of fear being a lack of trust. And then it sort of moves us to a space of how do we then strengthen the trust muscle as a way of combating so much of the fear-based reactivity and decision-making and gripping and hoarding.

Speaker B: And actually, now that we're on this topic, just to wrap it up, it's interesting the role that courage plays in what you were saying. How do you get to that virtuous circle? Courage, feeling fear is natural. There's nothing wrong with fear. The question is, how do you develop trust? And you don't develop trust by saying, I'm not going to feel fear, because if you're in a state of fear, you're in a state of fear. And it's not an intellectual process that gets you out of there.

Speaker C: Right.

Speaker B: So if your intuition is telling you that you should do that, but you fear following your intuition, you cannot just trust like that. But what you can do is be courageous, right? You can say, okay, look, I'm afraid of doing this, but I'm gonna do it. I'm just gonna follow my intuition.

And that takes courage. But courage is the frequency that takes you to the level of trust, because when you experience the results, the outcome of being courageous by following your intuition, that generates an increment of trust that helps you make the next decision. The next time you need to trust again, you still need courage, but every time you need less and less courage. You get to the point that you don't need courage anymore because you are in a state of trust.

So courage is very important. We should not underestimate the importance of courage in this process.