1. To understand that a trigger is nothing other than a perfect starting point on a journey to more peaceful, more harmonious, more tranquil ways of life – is crucial to get started.

2. Triggers are an essential part of change.

3. How can I shift the way I feel after being triggered:

a) I innerstand* that I charge the collective consciousness with my reactions. Here, a quote to myself: “Be the change I like to see.”

b) I find the origins, the causes, the reasoning behind each and every  trigger and neutralize their negative charges (see “Programming”).

c) I understand that triggers can sidetrack me from working on solutions to the “why” I am triggered (see “Circle Work”).

d) I know that triggers never resolve underlying issues.

e) I work on tolerance, forgiveness, and love (even for people nearly impossible to love – including me). 

4. When triggers are used as a starting point and a journey of recovery has begun, physiological reactions will show up and point to addictive tendencies, behaviors, and routines. I understand that every recovery is filled with pitfalls and temptations – I will stay on target.  

5. I will not forsake my attempts to becoming a better person than I was yesterday. 

Stay the course and know that nothing is built to last, everything is cyclic and we all are going to die one day. 

6. I’ll work on balancing incongruencies within my mind, answer reoccurring questions, and restrain myself from having outbursts that do no longer serve me. 

7. I refuse to be sidetracked from finding and neutralizing the origins why I’m triggered. 

8. Only the uninitiated allow themselves to be triggered repeatedly by the same issues. Henceforth; I consider myself initiated and refuse to engage in worldly events designed to corrupt my mental and/or my emotional responses.