A viewer asks: “Does unintended erosion of FAITH hurt both the self and others, and if so, how?”

We have discussed many times that the truism "no man is an island" applies to every human being. You are not meant to be alone but part of a human community with relationships formed for many reasons, most importantly a life partner you love and who loves you. This keeps the energy flowing you most need in life because an effective life requires getting along with others, and that is best done through loving kindness and the common courtesies that are easy for someone in a high state of vibration, brought by divine alignment, because you will be open, joyful, high-spirited, giving of yourself, and not likely to convey a negative emotional energy of some kind that will be off-putting and interfere with a desired interchange that will help you or others. When you are not in a high vibration, you will be less beneficial and useful to others in any capacity and may well become more a liability than an asset for others to know you. So most states of mind of a negative sort will engender a lowering of faith in the divine because you are energetically moving out of divine alignment to be in that frame of mind to begin with. You may not be choosing to do so consciously but, in effect, if you let it happen it is your responsibility, and the Law of Karma will note this, and it could have negative consequences in harming others who depend on you, as well as lowering your own effectiveness, and then things will proceed from there, you will get less out of your day, and you might leave some harm in your wake, if not a trail of wreckage. The latter happens all too often when people are severely anxious, depressed, or acting out inner frustrations and anger and, in effect, taking it out on others. It will almost always be the case that when people have bad times and low moments like this, it will be preceded by an erosion of faith in some way or another, best described as "letting things get to you," because your normal high vibration has faded and you are thus more vulnerable and fragile, and that is when the bad things will happen and then mount because it becomes harder and harder to work your way back onto that high plateau you had previously. Every human being is somewhere on this vibrational scale. Some are varying wildly between extremes and for varying lengths of time. Others are more steady and more predictably within a narrow range around a certain level that is a kind of characteristic of their state of growth and wellbeing. Almost always there is room for improvement. This is why it is so helpful to work in cultivating stronger faith, both in the divine and in oneself. One of the best ways to do this is to make direct requests of the divine to help you with the task. At first hearing it might seem to be an incorrect notion, that if you have lack of faith due to an incomplete belief in the divine, you can ask the divine to get help for that very problem, but this is very much the case. There is much we can do to help you, in our usual indirect way, doing repair on many past experiences that have gone into your makeup and the current state of being you enjoy or suffer from, as the case might be. Never underestimate what the divine can do, and certainly, to get help with personal healing, will be dealing directly with that issue of your belief in yourself, in many respects, and all of the inner wounding that raises doubts you have about yourself will hinder divine intervention on your behalf, with healing. But this is more typical than not, as part of the overall package the divine must contend with to help people with their issues, so it is good to know you can have faith in us, even when that is fleeting, because something can be done. The key is applying enough intention for this betterment because that will be used as the fuel. It does not have to come from total belief in us but the desire for belief in us, if strong, can do the job over time. You have more power than you know, and this is a good illustration of the practical utility at your fingertips, but you must make the choice and be in the lead with all you wish to see happen.