Recognize triggers

What are triggers?

Triggers are situations you encounter, or someone says something to you, that makes you feel uncomfortable. You're triggered. A trigger is a trauma. You're unconsciously reminded of the trauma. You often don't realize it because the trauma is deeply embedded in your subconscious mind.

If people don't acknowledge the trigger, they'll ignore it or project it onto someone else. You'll then cause the other person a great deal of pain, while the other person triggers you to release the trapped trauma.

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Lorie Ladd: Everyone gets triggered. We all get triggered. What a trigger does is allow you to feel a trauma that hasn't fully healed. This is a trauma that hasn't healed within the body.

Trauma is consciousness or energy stored in the body that has never been fully felt and healed

Consciousness is energy and is designed to move. It's stuck energy that simply needs to be released so you can hold more high-frequency light.

The entire human collective is being triggered again and again, because this is part of how the entire human collective evolves. We must allow the triggers to reveal exactly where our traumas are located, so our bodies can undergo a shift.

So a trigger is a wonderful opportunity to clear your mind and also to come closer to your awareness. It takes a lot of courage to acknowledge your triggers so you can see and feel the trauma. Most people don't want to admit this.

So they simply continue projecting their unresolved trauma onto humanity. They project their own trauma onto others. The only way we evolve as a fully human collective is if we begin to take responsibility for our traumas. There's nothing wrong with trauma.

Here are some steps you can take to recognize the trigger:

Step 1

Recognize that you're being triggered. And feel that you're being triggered. I have a kind of shock reaction. The shock reaction comes from something external. Someone says something or does something that triggers your trauma.

Example 1: You're a mother or father, and your 20-year-old daughter comes to you and says: When I was younger, I often felt ignored by you. I didn't feel like you were there for me. You never listen to me. You were often absent. And so on.

A trigger will cause you to have an immediate shock reaction, and that shock reaction will literally throw what you feel, think, or believe back at the person. So you might feel anger or sadness. You might blame your daughter. You might say: "I don't know what you're talking about," "I'm a good parent," "This isn't true," etc.

The shock reaction will reject everything. You don't want to feel this. You tell yourself, "No, this isn't me." And you throw everything back at the other person. The parent will blame the child.

Example 2: You hear or see something on social media. Suppose they say something that triggers you. You have a shock reaction and become angry , hostile , start arguing , belittle the person , put them down , etc. These are typical shock reactions to a trigger.

Something triggered you. You simply throw that belief, thought, or emotion that makes you feel uncomfortable back at that person. So the first step is to recognize that you're being triggered. Traumas and triggers consist of layers. The first layer of trauma you'll feel is what the trigger first shows you. That's anger, rage, being wrong, belittling, throwing it back at the person (projection), blaming the person. So this is the first layer.

So, if you frequently exhibit this behavior in your life, it's a layer of trauma you don't want to feel. This first layer is a kind of protective layer. This shock reaction has become a kind of habit to protect yourself so you don't have to feel anything. When you're triggered, you react to that first layer of trauma with an initial shock reaction. When you try to recognize that you're being triggered, you can notice it when you bounce things back at the other person. You also notice it when you get angry about what they say.

Step 2:

How do you know you're being triggered? You ask yourself if you're not doing something projects onto another. Try to recognize this behavior. Whatever you reflect back to the other person, the bad feeling you have has nothing to do with the other person, but with you.

Step 3:

What trauma within me is asking to be felt and healed? What keeps playing inside me that makes me angry? If you dig deeper into your past, you'll find things that hurt you. Were there things that ever happened that made you feel unworthy?

You may have memories of being ignored, neglected, invisible, having no time, etc. These are traumas you never wanted to feel or work on. This is because it's too painful. You've closed it off.

A trigger is something that allows you to feel and recognize the trauma. So if someone says something that makes you angry and you project it, you recognize that you've been triggered. You can feel the trigger. You feel bad because of the trigger. Something must have happened in childhood.

You probably desperately want to be seen, heard, loved, and accepted. Perhaps you were never seen before, and you're traumatized by it without even realizing it.

Think carefully about how you feel when you experience these triggers. What exactly do you feel? Can you connect it to things from the past? Why do you feel so bad when you experience the trigger?

Step 4:

Hold yourself in compassion. Allow yourself to feel the trigger and the trauma. Don't dismiss it, but feel it. Try to feel it, no matter how painful it is. Let it sink in. A trigger is a moment for personal growth.

Develop yourself and expand fully into who you are. Release the trauma in your body. Become aware of it. You will feel more of what others feel and you will become more empathetic. You will feel liberated. You will be happier.

If you unconsciously have a shock reaction to something someone says, learn to recognize this trigger. Do something positive with it. Everyone has triggers. Everyone has some kind of trauma. There's nothing wrong with trauma and triggers. You shouldn't be ashamed of them.

Just let it happen and recognize this feeling. By recognizing this, you will reach a higher level of awareness. You will grow personally. You will feel happier.

I love you all. Bye bye

Sending you all a virtual hug wherever you are in the world.

Lorie Ladd (America)

Spiritual teacher, meditations, lessons in awareness. She reminds humanity of who they are and the power of their Light so they can grow personally. She teaches about the evolution of consciousness and connecting with your family and loved ones.

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