Finding Trust in a Broken World
Fascia as a Coherence-Conducting Matrix
Waking up to even-more-terrible news today, that yes, he did it, and the way he did it and that now he unleashed dark forces like we cannot fathom, I am shaken. I am feeling unglued. Last night's raid was also a direct hit to our most powerful ally, trust. Nothing breeds fear like a rupture of trust and like slave-owners, autocrats and serial killers have known forever, fear equals control.
Trust is the glue that creates relationships between partners in marriage, parenting, friendship, neighborhoods and nations. Trust builds cultures as much as it brings cells together to form the organs and organisms of life.
In a process of cell fusion, known as syncytium, multiple cells unite into one cell with many nuclei, for various things such as coordinating your muscles and forming the placentas for all mammals.
Forging bonds of trust is nature's glue. It's essential to our thriving but, trust is also an emergent property. It must be built and maintained for stability through many interactions or it dissolves or is broken. Without a stable sense of trust, creative thriving is not possible.
Research into establishing trust focuses on 3 factors in creating social trust: authenticity, logic and empathy. I experience the real (authentic) you. You exhibit sound judgement and reasoning (logic). I believe you care about me and my success (empathy).
What happens when these factors are broken? What glue holds us together while we restore cohesion? Well, you may be surprised to learn that you have actually come equipped to build the internal capacity to feel safe and establish bonds of trust while engaging in rebuilding your life and fighting for democracy.
Embodiment, reclaiming the body's natural stability and flow, joy, slowing down and feeling, and all kinds of expressions of creativity are not only revolutionary acts of self and other trust-building, they remodel your fascia and shape-shift your psyche as well as your body.
Trust is a frequency that has a stabilizing effect on your living liquid crystalline matrix. It helps you maintain a steady-state of coherence, which makes your fascia superconductive.
When fascia becomes a superconductor, you do not brace, collapse, or dissociate in resistance. Your living web meets compressive forces. Adapts in a symphony of triangulating microfibrils and informs them from a unified point of view. It balances out the compression across lines of the tension of polarity, uniting the forces in a more complex structure. We have more ease, faith and agency. Trust is essential to establish a sense of safety that allows us to land in the body as an ally and in this moment as an opportunity to shape our environment accordingly.
Let's build our capacity to heal with our largest nervous system, fascia's sensory system, where you can explore reviving your fascia to function as a coherent wave and restore movement, the stability of embodied trust, and the sense of safety we all need for personal and collective trauma healing and growth.
How and why humans trust:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10083508/
Syncytium, a fascinating biological phenomenon that plays a crucial rolein many biological processes.