From the author: Note: Irina’s comments and her questions are structured in a special way; from the outside they seem somewhat strange, sometimes they don’t sound quite “Russian”. This unusual approach promotes movement “in depth” and high-quality awareness-insight. The dialogues are given in abbreviated form. Dialogue on the topic: I don’t trust anyone. I-Irina, S-Interlocutor. S- I don’t trust anyone. I don’t trust. And - You don’t trust anyone, you don’t trust. And what does “you don’t trust” mean to you? S- It’s as if I always wear armor, I’m afraid that I’ll be deceived, well, for example, they’ll cheat me out of my money. I- You wear armor because you’re afraid that you’ll be deceived. And how do you like “this”? S- Well, it’s kind of creepy. Even stressful. It’s as if I always have a security program running in the background, by default. That is, I carry around such heavy armor and am also regularly forced to release a certain amount of energy to fuel my defense... It would be possible to direct it, this energy, to something interesting... If it were not for fear. And-and when such not light armor and still need energy to fuel it, what do you want to happen? S- I would like to take off this armor. But I'm afraid. And-You would like to take off this armor, but you're afraid. And when you take them off, what will happen? S-Then I will feel defenseless and vulnerable. And I'm afraid that they will hurt me very much then. My shields protect me from pain. And-Your shields protect you from pain and they are not easy and require regular replenishment of energy that could be directed towards something interesting... and the fear of pain. And when all this happens, what would you like to happen? S-I want to walk without shields and not be afraid J)))) And-without shields and not be afraid... And what will happen then? S-well, I don’t know. It will probably be scary at first. But something tells me that the vulnerability I was talking about is more like a figment of my imagination. If I think I'm vulnerable, then I'm vulnerable. If I think that I am without shields, but inside I myself am strong as steel, who will hurt me? JI-if you think that you are as strong as steel inside. And can you think so? Yes, I can. At least I'll try. A-and what will happen to the shields then? S-I don't need them. I’ll hand it over to the smelter. And yes, you’ll hand it over to the smelter. And then what will happen to your fear that, for example, they will scam you out of money or hurt you? S-Yes, somehow now I’m not particularly scared J Somehow I even feel better :). I think that because of my distrust of people, the number of deceptions will not decrease or increase, and my vigilance will not improve due to my shields. I enjoy being relaxed, but at the same time, oddly enough, I don’t feel vulnerable. Which is nice :) I feel better. And you don’t need to allocate energy for protection and... what interesting thing will you direct the released energy to? I think it’s to develop your goodwill :) I somehow realized now that mistrust is fueled by fear, faith is fueled by goodwill. Thank you Irina.