Trust it with confidence. Push hands teaches us to be sincere in our desire to maintain balance. We learn very quickly in push hands not to be tempted to forcefully manipulate our opponent without cause. It actually reveals a weakness where we give up too much of ourselves unnecessarily. If we are not careful.
Strength hides in our ability to control balance.
It is a skill which is especially difficult to learn because we need to be patient and calm, yet consciously alert. In practice that means to calmly follow the changing situation, patient to move only as necessary without using force, continually alert to detect imbalance and disperse it into harmlessness. In any situation, take time to calmly weigh all the facts. Use the scale of yin and yang to measure the law of balance. Then make decisions based on what is important or not, react only to those issues which attacks our sense of security, and let the rest go.