Take your hand off the trigger

Have you ever noticed when you are moving through something (emotionally) if it has been triggered? Now, we all have these triggers, things that we encounter in the present that bring up remnants of emotional pain from the past, some of us have these episodes happen a couple of times a day or, if you are lucky, a week. How do you know? Usually you over-react to a situation, place, or person. This is because this person, place or situation has brought up residue that you haven't really dealt with. Naturally, the feelings are overwhelming and produce a very emotional response from you. How can we better move around these unpleasant feelings? For one, lets recognize that something was indeed triggered and you aren't reacting to the situation at hand, but it is bringing up some thing or things. You don't have to talk about what is occuring at the very moment, but just bring awareness to it. Now, you've recognized this, what do you do then? The next time this happens, try and just allow whatever is occuring to occur, whether this is something you want to happen or not. Be still. Don't react to what is happening. Life is perfect and everything is unfolding perfectly (yes, even those things that we don't want to happen). We make things what they appear to be. So, lets just bring love to whatever it is. And just be. Still.

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