Letting Go of Comparison, Trusting the Path of the Heart
Affirmation: I trust the unfolding of my life, and the goodness of others.
Trust is the quiet knowing that what is meant for you cannot be taken. It arises when the heart no longer views others as threats, but as mirrors, companions, and co-creators. To trust is to rest in the unfolding, to allow life to move through you without gripping, grasping, or guarding.
The fifth petal of the Heart Chakra reveals the transformation of īrṣyā (jealousy) into viśvāsa (trust). This axis moves us from contraction to openness, from fear of loss to faith in right timing, from comparison to communion. It is an invitation to disarm the guarded heart and remember that we are not in competition with life — we are part of its weaving.
The Shadow: Īrṣyā (Jealousy)
Jealousy arises when we perceive that another’s joy, success, or love diminishes our own. It is rooted in the belief in scarcity — of love, attention, worth, or opportunity.
Underneath jealousy lies a painful story: that there is not enough, or that I am not enough.
This vritti may express as:
- – Feeling threatened by others’ success or beauty
- – Comparing yourself chronically to others
- – Withholding affection or support out of fear or envy
- – Distrust in relationships, fearing abandonment or betrayal
The antidote is muditā — sympathetic joy — one of the four immeasurables (brahmavihārās). Cultivating muditā means consciously rejoicing in others’ success and happiness, training the heart to move from scarcity to abundance, from fear to open-hearted participation in the joy of all beings.
“If a person enjoys the happiness of others, they will always be happy.” — Buddha, Dhammapada
Trust, in this context, is a natural fruit of meditative awareness — a spacious, non-grasping state that arises when the mind is free from comparison and competition. It reflects the understanding of interdependence, karma, and the illusion of “mine” and “yours.”
The Evolved Heart Quality: Viśvāsa (Trust)
Trust is a deep, embodied surrender to the intelligence of life. It is not naive or passive — it is rooted, spacious, and wise. Trust allows us to open, to receive, to support others without fear of losing ourselves. It affirms: There is enough. I am enough. Life is on time.
Attributes of trust include:
- – Security: A felt sense of inner ground, not reliant on outcomes
- – Faith: A belief in unseen processes and unfolding paths
- – Openness: Willingness to risk vulnerability and intimacy
- – Sovereignty: Honouring your path while honouring others’ light
The Trajectory: From Comparison to Communion
The shift from jealousy to trust asks us to dismantle old scarcity scripts. It invites us to celebrate others as reflections of possibility, rather than threats to our worth. It asks us to root into a deeper knowing: that the universe is not playing favourites — it is responding to presence, alignment, and readiness.
This path includes:
- – Honoring your unique timing and soul blueprint
- – Blessing others’ success as an extension of your own field
- – Letting go of the need to “prove” or compete
- – Practicing openness even when fear arises
This is the heart learning to relax — into itself, into others, into the great orchestration of being.
“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
— Benjamin Spock
⟁ Esoteric Synthesis:
At its root, jealousy is a distortion of love — a contraction of the heart’s natural radiance into the narrowed lens of possession, comparison, and fear. Recognise that jealousy not as a moral failing, but as an energetic and psychological misalignment — a signpost that the personality is still caught in separative perception.
In the teachings of Djwal Khul, jealousy is seen as a glamour of the astral plane, emerging from the lower fusion of desire (kāma) and thought (manas). It anchors in the solar plexus, where the personality identifies with its wants, lacks, and wounds — generating emotional turbulence and inner division.
“The disciple must learn to discriminate between the desires of the personality and the impulses of the soul.” — Djwal Khul, Letters on Occult Meditation
The transformation begins when the soul starts to infuse the personality, particularly through the awakening of the heart chakra. Jealousy dissolves not through repression but through illumination — as the aspirant shifts from self-centered need to group-centered trust in divine order and soul interconnection.
Trust, in this context, is not blind belief. It is a second-ray soul quality — a luminous field of wisdomed love, born from the soul’s knowing that all is unfolding as it should. As the antahkarana is built and the personality aligns with the higher will, trust becomes the natural expression of right relationship.
To truly trust is to open the heart without fear — to rest in the current of a larger intelligence that connects all beings. It is the relinquishment of control, and the embrace of divine orchestration. In the light of the soul, jealousy fades — not because the outer world has changed, but because the inner lens has cleared.
🌿 Practice Prompt
As you reflect on this petal, ask yourself:
- What in me contracts when others shine?
- Where do I fear being left out, unseen, or unloved?
- What would it feel like to trust that there is a place for me in the great design?
- How can I bless others’ growth as a celebration of our shared soul journey?
✴️ Jealousy to Trust – An Alchemical Crucible
Jealousy is understood as a byproduct of the astral body’s entanglement with egoic desire, particularly when the “I” (Ego) has not yet come into harmony with the higher spiritual self. It manifests as an instinctual reaction to another’s brightness — rooted not in hatred, but in the unawakened soul’s fear of separation and inadequacy.
Rudolf Steiner teaches that such impulses are refined not through suppression, but through moral alchemy — the conscious transformation of lower instincts into virtues through spiritual discipline and self-awareness.
“He who wants to attain higher knowledge must train himself to rejoice in the happiness and merits of others… A genuine and heartfelt joy in the progress of others develops a power in the soul that leads it upwards.” — Rudolf Steiner, Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
Trust, in this light, is not passive belief, but an active soul force arising from the harmonisation of the astral body with the higher “I”. It reflects confidence in karmic wisdom, in the unfolding of each being’s destiny, and in the intrinsic goodness of the world when seen through spiritual vision: where the human being begins to act from a higher will in harmony with cosmic purpose.
This trust marks the maturation of the moral soul — the part of us that seeks not dominance, but right relationship; not superiority, but participation in a higher order.
“As we develop the capacity to trust in the divine within ourselves and others, we become worthy participants in the work of the spiritual hierarchies.” — Rudolf Steiner, Theosophy
In this light, jealousy is a test of the moral imagination, a crucible in which the soul must learn to reshape instinctive reactions into conscious virtues. Thus, the journey from jealousy to trust is a refining fire — where the lead of comparison becomes the gold of spiritual fraternity, and the heart becomes an organ not just of feeling, but of truth-perception and inner peace.
“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A Chinese Medicine Viewpoint
In Chinese Medicine, jealousy arises when the Liver and Heart fall out of harmony. Liver agitation disturbs the Hun, the ethereal soul, which governs vision, dreams, and the capacity to extend beyond the self — it is that which imagines possibilities and connects us to the greater unfolding of destiny that governs vision and direction. Untethered, the Hun drifts — manifesting as comparison, longing, or possessiveness. Simultaneously, the Heart’s Shen becomes agitated or scattered, and trust in the natural unfolding of life is lost.
Jealousy, then, is the shadow form of the Hun’s visionary capacity — a distorted yearning for something that appears outside of us. To transform this state into trust, the Hun must be gently returned to its proper home within the Liver, where it can be nourished and re-integrated. Through practices that restore flow, root the spirit, and cultivate quietude, the Hun no longer seeks externally but aligns inwardly with the Dao. From this settled place, trust arises not as a belief in others, but as a felt resonance with life’s deeper rhythm — a knowing that one’s path unfolds in harmony with a greater order.
The Spleen and Yi also play a role. — the capacity to focus, reflect, and direct thought. When the Spleen is strong, Yi is grounded, and the mind remains centered in clarity and inner sufficiency. When Earth is weakened, intention becomes obsessive or confused, fixated on what’s lacking. Jealousy takes root when the inner ground is unstable.
This emotional pattern scatters intention and erodes the ability to trust the flow of life. To transform jealousy into trust, the Spleen must be nourished and stabilized — through right nourishment, supportive rhythms, and practices that bring attention back to the body and breath. As Earth regains its center, Yi becomes clear and steady. From this foundation, trust arises not from effort or proof, but as a quiet confidence in the sufficiency of the present — a knowing that all true nourishment comes in its time.
To transform this state, the Hun must return to its home in the Liver, the Shen must rest in the Heart, and the Yi must find its center in the Spleen. Trust arises not from effort, but from flow — a felt sense that life is coherent, timing is precise, and what is truly ours cannot be missed.
When the Heart is nourished and anchored in Shen, trust emerges naturally. It is the soil in which love grows — not grasping love, but enduring, inclusive, sovereign love.
✨ The Yin Wei Mai: Deep Trust
The Yin Wei Mai is the emotional architecture behind the trajectory of this petal. It links the depths of memory, pain, and pattern with the higher intention of soul coherence. Jealousy is an echo of unmet soul agreements. Trust is the choice to stay in alignment even when outcomes are unclear. When the Hun follows the Shen, and the Heart is stable, the Yin Wei Mai becomes a bridge of grace — linking past emotional pain to present clarity and future fulfilment.
“Through the Yin Wei, the heart remembers what the mind has forgotten: that we are already enough, already on time, already whole.”
Yin Wei Mai Function | Description |
Emotional Regulator | Stores unresolved grief, longing, betrayal — not just personal but generational |
Temporal Integrator | Links experiences across time, helping one metabolize emotional imprint and karmic residue |
Heart-Kidney Harmonizer | Mediates the Shen-Zhi axis (spiritual vision ↔ soul will); vital for soul alignment |
Stabilizer of Inner Space | Prevents fragmentation of the psyche by “linking” yin energies into coherence |
Spiritual Cocoon | Protects the integrity of the inner world during transitions, crises, and initiatory passages |
✨ The Yin Wei Mai and the Alchemy of Trust
In the inner alchemy of Chinese medicine, the Yin Wei Mai — the “Linking Vessel of the Yin” — serves as a hidden thread that weaves together the emotional, ancestral, and soul-level layers of the heart. It stores deep Yin experiences: grief not yet metabolised, longings left unmet, and the residues of comparison and betrayal that give rise to jealousy.
When activated, the Yin Wei opens a chamber of integration, allowing these imprints to rise and be re-patterned through the heart’s wisdom. It links the Shen of the Heart with the Zhi of the Kidneys, and invites the scattered Hun to return home — no longer chasing illusions, but resting in the rhythm of the Dao.
Working with this vessel clears the fog of envy, heals trust wounds, and reveals that what is truly ours can never be lost.
🌿Affirmation for Yin Wei Activation
“I gather all that I have been, all that I have loved and lost, all that I have feared — and I return to the center where my heart remembers wholeness. I trust the deeper rhythm.”
The Mechanism of Transformation
🔒 When Jealousy Arises
- Yin Wei Mai holds submerged emotional pain — particularly the pain of not receiving love or soul recognition in the past.
- These undigested memories are stored in the Blood (Xue), and when stirred, they may express as envy, comparison, or possessiveness.
The Liver (Hun) pushes outward with longing; the Heart flickers in doubt; the Kidney (Zhi) may become frozen.
🔑 When Trust Emerges
- Through opening Yin Wei Mai (e.g., PC-6 + SP-4), these held imprints rise to the surface.
- With correct inner posture (e.g., “Shen leads, Hun follows”), the Heart becomes a radiant attractor field, and the stored pain is transmuted into resonant empathy and self-trust.
This enables the Hun to gather ancestral material and karmic memory into the Heart field — fueling wisdom, forgiveness, and soul continuity.
🕊️ Symbolic & Esoteric Role
The Yin Wei Mai is the soul’s inner sanctuary — a resonant chamber where the emotional content of lifetimes is held, purified, and transformed into virtue. It is:
- The womb of remembrance where the past is neither rejected nor clung to
- A bridge across incarnations — weaving soul fragments into a unified field
- The resonator of trust, especially when jealousy, betrayal, and disconnection distort the heart field
- A mirror of the Moon: cyclical, reflective, deeply sensitive, capable of invoking both shadow and redemption
“When the inner yin is linked, the soul can remember its wholeness.”
“Trust is the bridge between confusion and clarity.”
— Cheryl Richardson
The Hun Follows The Shen
In Daoist alchemy, this reunion is a crucial step in the refinement of the soul: when the Hun no longer chases outward illusions, but follows the inner radiance of Shen, the being becomes aligned with the Dao. Trust, then, is not blind faith — it is the Hun moving in rhythm with the Heart’s deeper knowing.
“Hun follows the Shen” means that the visionary, imaginative, and expansive nature of the Hun is guided — or should be guided — by the clarity, purpose, and centered awareness of the Shen. When the Shen is rooted, luminous, and calm (residing peacefully in the Heart), it becomes a stable light by which the Hun can navigate. The Hun, then, extends outward as a messenger or emissary of the Shen — projecting dreams, insights, and life direction in alignment with higher consciousness.
In Daoist and Chinese medical tradition, the Hun — the ethereal soul — is the winged aspect of spirit that dreams, imagines, and reaches toward the unseen. It is the part of us that leaves the body during sleep to travel the inner realms; that yearns toward possibility, beauty, and meaning. The Hun is what gives rise to our visions — of who we might become, and what might yet unfold. But without a center of gravity, it becomes restless, chasing illusions, comparing, grasping at shadows cast by others’ light. This is the root of jealousy: the Hun untethered, reaching out before returning home.
The sages taught, “The Hun follows the Shen.” The Shen — housed in the Heart — is our seat of conscious presence, the quiet flame of knowing that burns steadily at the center of being. When the Shen is disturbed, scattered by anxiety or inflamed by ego, the Hun has no light to orient itself. It drifts — looking outward, projecting stories, becoming entangled in fantasies of lack or longing. But when the Shen is calm, clear, and rooted in the Dao, it becomes a luminous guide. The Hun, drawn to this clarity, returns to orbit the Heart like a moon to its star — no longer chasing, but serving.
In this sacred alignment, jealousy dissolves. The Hun is no longer compelled by what others possess or achieve, but inspired by the unique trajectory of its own unfolding. Trust arises — not as something borrowed from others, but as a resonance with one’s own inner timing. It is the feeling of being carried by something greater than the self, of knowing that the life that is yours cannot be missed, delayed, or taken. When the Hun follows the Shen, we dream not to escape the present, but to deepen into it. We begin to see that true trust is not passive; it is a luminous act of alignment — with spirit, with truth, and with the great rhythm of becoming.
But when the Shen is scattered, agitated, or unclear, the Hun wanders aimlessly — resulting in fantasy, obsession, emotional volatility, or spiritual confusion. In such cases, the Hun can become “possessed” by external images or desires, leading to jealousy, longing, or envy — as it chases what it imagines will bring fulfillment.
The Hun, in turn, corresponds to the ethereal, astral, or imaginative aspect of the soul — the vehicle of dream travel, inspiration, and intuitive perception. In Esoteric Acupuncture, this is akin to the lightbody’s expansive reach — the part of us that engages with star knowledge, inner planes, and multidimensional grids. But for this outreach to be stable and spiritually valid, it must be organized around a coherent Heart field. This is what is meant when we say that the lightbody geometries must be activated from the Heart center, and not from the lower chakras or even the third eye.
✴️ Energetic Architecture of Trust: The Hun Follows the Shen Pattern
At the subtle level, the journey towards Trust requires more than emotional insight — it asks for a reordering of the soul’s geometry.
In Esoteric Acupuncture, the New Encoding Pattern known as Hun Follows the Shen offers such a recalibration. It is a lightbody activation grid that aligns the visionary aspect of the soul (Hun) with the divine directive of the Heart (Shen). Through a sequence of 22 points — spanning the crown, chest, spine, and ethereal field — this pattern creates a multi-layered geometry that brings residual emotional turbulence into resonance with spiritual timing.
In this way, trust is no longer an emotion — it becomes a structure, a resonance, a lived alignment.
Once these subtle channels are brought into harmony, trust emerges not as belief, but as felt architecture — the quiet, radiant geometry of a soul aligned with the Dao.
Hun Follows the Shen is not merely a healing sequence — it is a transmission, a structural map for the evolution of the soul-body interface. By activating this grid, one invites the Hun to cease wandering, the Shen to radiate without agitation, and the Yi to focus without grasping. Trust is no longer a hope — it becomes the geometry of lived alignment.
This pattern is typically used in contexts where the soul is undergoing realignment, emotional maturation, or purpose recalibration. The higher octave alignment of this pattern offers a pathway of lived experience of ‘Twin Flames Without’, and integration of the Guru Chakra and Higher Heart frequencies.
🌸 Simple Practices for Cultivating Trust
🌑 1. Scarcity Inquiry
When jealousy stirs, pause and gently ask:
What do I believe I’m missing?
Trace it deeper — beneath the surface envy, is there a story of lack? A wound of not-enoughness?
Then ask: Is it true?
Truth loosens the grip of illusion.
Trust grows where fear is seen clearly.
✨ 2. Celebrate Another’s Joy
Choose someone whose light you admire — not with comparison, but with reverence.
Speak or write words of true celebration.
Let their joy expand you. Let their success affirm what’s possible.
What you bless in others, you open in yourself.
There is room for all of us to shine.
🌿 3. Anchor in the Body
Trust isn’t just an idea — it’s a sensation.
Stand barefoot. Breathe into your belly.
Feel the Earth underneath you.
Let your spine lengthen, your muscles soften.
When the body feels safe, the heart can open.
This is where trust begins.
🌀 4. Daily Affirmation
Each morning, place a hand on your heart and whisper:
What is for me cannot miss me.
I trust the rhythm of my own unfolding.
Repeat until the words feel real.
This is not a mantra — it’s a map.
Let it rewire the very ground you stand on.
👁️ 5. Eye-Gazing with Intention
With someone you trust — or are learning to — sit in silence.
Look into their eyes for a few minutes.
Don’t pierce. Don’t perform. Just be there.
Hold the quiet intention: I choose to trust this moment.
Let walls soften. Let presence do the healing.
🪞Reflection Questions for Journaling
• 🧿 Where does jealousy still appear in my life — and what story does it uncover beneath the surface?
• 🌾 What might it feel like in my body, my breath, my choices… to truly rest in a sense of enoughness?
• 🔍 Where is trust most difficult for me — a person, a path, a part of myself?
• 🕊️ What simple act could I take today to lean into trust — just a little more?
Closing Thought
Trust is not the absence of fear, but the willingness to open anyway. Jealousy arises when we forget who we are, when we see life through the lens of separation and lack. Trust remembers — remembers our connection, our wholeness, our rightful place in the tapestry of life.
The fifth petal invites you to let go of the clutching, to soften your grip, and to know — what is real will remain. You can trust yourself, trust the path, trust love.
I warmly invite you to follow along with this series,
and to share with fellow seekers on the path of the heart.