Q:   Why are triggers so important?

A:    Triggers are the root of all conflict. 

Think about it; every time I’m triggered, my mind is flooded with images, thoughts, memories, feelings and so on and therefore, I reexperience a system overload resulting in fight, flight, freeze or worse. And, you are going through the same all-or-none reflexes as I do when triggered.

More important than being triggered is: WHY. 

Is it:

• Fear / Anger / Insecurity?

• Lack of respect?

• An injustice?

• Crossed boundaries?

• Words with a negative charge attached?

  o   This is a dangerous one; for words are just descriptors of stories that are attached to them. Often, we haven’t even attached the negative charges to said words ourselves but repeat what is being echoed by the collective.  

Why are triggers so important?

Because humans are psycho-somatic beings – or better; this author has learned that every ill fortune experienced within the human condition has considerable parts of its origin in the human mind. Hence psycho-somatic; psyche first – soma (body) follows.  

Any trigger negating peace and tranquility is therefore dangerous for one’s health (wholeness). 

Instead of being sidetracked by what triggers elicit, how about staying calm and understand that every issue has more than one way of thinking about it – then, focus on actions to counterbalance each negative with positive.   

Why are triggers so important?

Triggers show me what outside program controls my memotional* peace.

Triggers are the most effective feedback mechanism we have.

Triggers are my friend – whatever anchored the triggers in my mind, is not.

Triggers show us most accurately where we must start the journey of unraveling mental as well as emotional constructs having led to this marginally effective symptom: The Trigger.  

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