JUMP OF FAITH

There are moments in life when the only thing left to do is trust and take risks. That step into the uncertain is known as a "leap of faith," where the rational mind leaves room for intuition and possibility.

Some examples of leaps of faith can be: making decisions about urgent and important aspects without knowing how things will turn out; accept an experimental medical treatment that seems to be the alternative to recover your health; go on an unexpected trip because you feel it deeply; leave a job you can't stand without having another one insured; encourage you to undertake something that you are passionate about; or make a turn in your life with respect to how you had been leading it.

A jump, in this context, is to throw yourself into the uncertain despite fear, distrust and lack of certainty. You leave behind your fears and dark fantasies, and you just do it, like a blank check that you give yourself, longing to fill it with that experience of freedom that you are looking for. Because in the jump there is something liberating: if it did not exist, the unstoppable feeling for doing it would be unfeasible.

And what is faith? According to the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, "it is the acceptance of ideas that are theoretically unprovable, although imposed by the indubitable reality of freedom." This means that there are times when you need to accept and act on the unprovable, with total confidence regardless of how the result concludes.

THE BLIND SPOT OF THE LEAP OF FAITH

When you make the decision to take a leap of faith, you go from an experience that you are living, to another completely uncertain. Sometimes it is the circumstances that are drowning you internally emotionally, materially, mentally or spiritually. And it is that limit state that leads you to give it.

Beyond the impulsiveness that the jump itself implies, right there the principle of faith appears in the face of a key decision since you don't know if it will be the right decision until you make it. And if you don't, you won't know either. It is a blind spot between one stage of things and another, which, you hope, will be better.