Explore ways to use triggers for awakening, including dealing with emotions, understanding duality, and managing triggers with compassion and mindset shifts. Learn how self-love and inner peace can transform triggers into opportunities for growth and freedom.
Triggers reveal past emotional programming and trauma, offering opportunities for growth.
Managing triggers involves shifting perspectives, practicing gratitude, and embracing triggers as learning experiences.
Deep dives
Triggers and Their Impact
Triggers are discussed as reactions to past experiences that elicit negative emotions in the present. The concept of being triggered is linked to ingrained rules and conditions from childhood, society, and personal experiences. Triggers often lead to strong emotional reactions disproportionate to the current situation, revealing underlying emotional programming and past trauma that influence present responses.
Dealing with Triggers
Common responses to triggers such as blame, denial, distraction, and rumination are explored. These reactions often involve deflecting responsibility, avoiding acknowledgment of triggers, and dwelling on negative emotions. Strategies for managing triggers include focusing on physical sensations, shifting perspectives, intentional state changes, and emphasizing gratitude to cultivate a more positive and empowered mindset.
Changing Attitudes towards Triggers
A shift in attitude towards triggers from resistance to acceptance and opportunity is proposed. Emphasizing the importance of self-love and understanding that triggers can unveil areas for personal growth rather than flaws is highlighted. Practicing awareness and embracing triggers as learning experiences are presented as effective ways to navigate emotional reactions.
Guided Meditation on Triggers
A guided meditation on dealing with triggers encourages acknowledging emotional responses, releasing self-criticism, and fostering self-love. The meditation guides individuals to recognize triggers as opportunities for self-compassion and growth. Embracing triggers with love and nurturing vulnerability are emphasized as transformative approaches to handling emotional challenges.
In this episode we talk about what triggers you, what we normally do with triggers, and seven ways to make good use of them on the path to awakening.
• Includes a guided meditation to use when you are triggered involving allowing the arrow of love to crack open your defensive armor and awaken the love in your heart.
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