Triggers 101

Triggers 101

Hey beautiful people! I’m Bridget. And today we’re going to talk about triggers… Oh the dreaded trigger. Lol  But don’t worry. I’m going to tell you what their purpose is and how to use them… Because triggers are actually a good thing!

At a certain level of self awareness you can start to recognize and utilize aspects of your reality for your own spiritual advancement and expansion. Triggers are a great place to begin. And paying attention to them allows you to kick-off the incorporation of your shadow sides (which is a topic for another day).

From an expanded viewpoint, triggers are gifts from the Universe. They are designed to bring aspects that no longer serve you to the surface to be recognized, loved, healed or transmuted, and released. They are part of your self healing mechanism. And they are a vital part of your growth at this moment in time.

What are triggers?

Ever have a day filled with things that people do which have you annoyed, irritated, pissed off, and angry? Well, those days are perfect examples of an overload of triggers.

Hint: You’ve received so many opportunities leading up to a day like this to address these issues. Basically, you’ve been given many a chance to handle them before they became an “in your face” experience. And after learning about this, you can choose to be aware enough to notice them. And let me tell you… Following my advice on triggers will help you alleviate so much tension, stress, and drama in you life.

But here’s the deal:  Triggers do not always include other people. Often they begin small, with situations that are simple and a part of your daily experiences. For instance, having a day where you drop things… everything, or just the right amount of things… to bring your attention to an annoyed state of mind. This often happens to illuminate a need for a particular aspect to be release, healed or transmuted. And it’s by giving attention to these small triggers that you will alleviate the larger scale trigger days.

How do you recognize triggers that do not include other people?

They feel like you are out of alignment. Things just aren’t going your way. Things are more difficult than they need to be. They are designed to bring about large, or sparked, lower emotions. They are created to draw your attention towards things that no longer serve you.

Once you are aware, what do you do?

That’s easy! Bring your attention to these moments as they occur. Ask yourself: What am I supposed to learn from this? What aspects am I ready to release? What are these experiences trying to show me? How can I move past this?

And above all else, relax. Stop fighting these moments. See if you can find humor in their magnification. By doing theses things you will release tension and resistance. And as we all know, resistance is not the plan when we’re trying to get out of a situation. Continuing to be in resistance perpetuates the triggers of that particular expression. So snap yourself out of the mode by bringing the light of your attention and sense of humor to these instances. Then follow the feeling or memory, feel it, look into why it exists, and heal and release any deep emotional responses it brings up in you.

Because at this point, running with the initial emotions brought up by the trigger (anger, frustration, irritation) is distracting and counter productive in most cases. The initial triggered emotional response exists to attract your attention to a deeper issue. It shows you what you need to release and provides details about that aspect. Once that has occurred, we are supposed to release said trigger emotion - regardless of what we’ve been taught. lol  Magnifying the initial trigger emotion, dwelling in it, and spewing it on others is simply a series of bad habits that have no real benefit in this particular instance. Basically, we’re addicted to these behaviors. Releasing them brings clarity and empowerment.

I find that I release the trigger emotions instantly after bringing my attention to the issue when I say to myself, “This frustration is unnecessary. What am I supposed to see from this experience?” Your system is designed to help you “see”. And you will always receive the answers to your questions once they are asked. The idea is to look into what the trigger is pointing out, not to live in the initial triggered emotion. Once you see that it’s pointing to a behavior or belief that reminds you of a trauma from an earlier part of your life - you heal and release that trauma and anything related. Because that’s truly what triggers are designed to do. They draw your attention to your vibrationally low hanging fruit that you are otherwise unable to see. Triggers are the great illuminators.They shine a light of focus on aspects that you carry around, of which you are unaware. And they do this for you to become aware of what you’ve incorporated into your being that no longer serves you, and release them.

What about the triggered situations that involve other people? What do I need to know?

I find these take on three forms which I have termed: instigations, reflections, and mirrors (projections).

Instigation:  Another person’s indirect behavior or verbal expression elicits a triggered response in you. These instances are not happening directly to you, but are still bringing up a response in you.

Ex: FB, watching others behave and interact brings out the rage. Perhaps you’re viewing them and their expressions through a judgmental lens? My suggestion is to release that judgment and look for the root within yourself. What is the underlying belief or opinion within you that is being triggered? Once you determine what your trigger is about, you can heal, release, or transmute that issue. This is where you can shine your light and love.

Reflection:  Your aspects are being reflected in another person.

Ex:  What they are doing while in direct contact with you is annoying the crap out of you. But what you haven’t realized is it is truly only irritating because it is actually your behavior being reflected through them and their actions. Basically, you both share this false belief, behavior, thought pattern, or emotional pattern that needs to be released. Meaning, their behavior is a match for something within you that it is time to release and rise beyond. In this case, I generally excuse myself from the moment and find a quiet spot to work through whatever is happening. There’s no time like the present to manage your triggers. Waiting too long often means you will forget about them and they will be on the list to repeat.

Mirror (projection):  Someone else is using you to reflect for themselves. The mirror is tricky though. Often you aren’t even expressing these aspects. But the other person is, and is using you to reflect it back to themselves.

This can leave you (the recipient) confused, often hurt, and offended. Mainly because most people are not yet self aware enough to recognize their behaviors - much less the purpose of mirroring themselves onto another.

Ex:  This particular trigger type can often arrive in the form of an accusatory attack. It helps when on the receiving end of one of these to remember that this situation isn’t as much about you as it is them. Often the part that is about you involves compassion, serves as a reminder of their trigger to see if you have anything remaining to release and heal, or as a simple reminder to remember who you are and that you have a choice regarding your response. Take the high road, it’s always easier. And regardless of how misguided their approach is, you are simply providing a service to them at that moment. (This is where all the time you’ve spent getting to truly know yourself, your intentions, and methods will be beneficial. lol) So remain in a neutral, loving space and allow them to realize that this is not about you. Hold your vibration. There is no need to meet them in theirs.

It is important to point out that you too can mirror your aspects onto another person. So, I suggest that you try to avoid doing this as it isn’t fun for anyone. It’s also unnecessary if you are paying attention to your triggers as they arise.

We receive signs and queues constantly to assist us in moving through our collection of traumas, false beliefs, and anything we’re holding within us that no longer serves us. So let’s use these reminders, nudges, and knowledge to actively walk the world in awareness. Because in all actuality, they are gifts to help us exist in healthy and balanced states of being.

So that’s it for this post on triggers. I love interaction, so… Put your comments, questions, and curiosities below!

Thank you so much for reading. So much love to you and I’ll see you next post!

Infinite Love.
 

Spirit Journey (Part 2 of 2, Bonus 3)

Let’s just call this a two for one… lol 

I originally intended to blog only about part two of the Spirit Journeys I received a month ago. I experienced them while doing back to back guided meditations. However, I did this particular meditation again a few days ago and received more information. So there are two experiences to share in this post! Yay!!

As I mentioned in a previous Spirit Journey post, I love guided meditations! I often journey, receive visions and detailed information from my guides, higher self, and Source. These experiences were filled with answers to questions I’ve been asking lately. 

I’m going to explain the meditation flow, then get right into what I received and experienced. So… In this particular meditation, they ask that I select two positive emotions such as love, happiness, joy, peace, bliss, compassion, etc. For the first one, I considered selecting compassion. Mostly because I’ve been pondering how we can assist people in increasing their compassion. As I was contemplating this, I heard my guides clearly tell me to, “Choose Love”. So I did! Then the meditation asked me to imagine how having more of this positive emotion (state of being) will change me. How will it affect my daily life? How will having more of it affect how I interact with people? And these questions begin my journey. In them, I view, feel and sense information and images and receive an experience in the form of a movie of my reality. It’s kind of like an overview. Here’s what I learned in the first experience:

Love is a catalyst and crux for happiness, compassion, empathy and all the positive emotions. (We learned positive emotions are actually states of being in a previous Spirit Journey. If you haven’t read it, check it out here.) The first image I saw was similar to a wheel, love was the center and the other emotions orbited it at the end of spokes. (It looked kind of like a Sputnik light or a dandelion. lol) After showing me this, they began to show me what happens as we choose to feel love. In those moments, we have a direct connection to our Higher Selves and God/ Source/ All. They showed me that we yearn for that connection. And we desire it so deeply because being so connected is a part of our true state, outside of our human existence. (We are currently filtered from the awareness of our deep connection to everything (including everyone), but we won’t be forever. lol) 

I was then shown that once we are in the state of love, we are impelled to offer it to one another freely and unconditionally. In doing so, the person receiving the love is also in direct connection to their Higher Self and Source/ God/ All. Basically, when we live with open hearts and choose to exist in the state of love, whether giving or receiving - we are connected to the divine parts of ourselves and Source/ God/ All. And receiving unconditional love enables us to pass it on, or pay it forward. They showed me that it starts with just a few of us who are choosing to live and connect in love. We are scattered here and there around the globe. We interact with the people in our daily lives and they too begin the choice of living in love. It spreads like a beautiful wild fire around the world. 

My second choice was joy! I was shown the exact same type of vision in this journey. Joy was the hub and fun, playfulness, peace, love and bliss (amongst others I wasn’t directed to focus on), were orbiting at the end of the spokes. Peace coming from joy was particularly exciting. I’ve been asking about peace and was pleasantly surprised to find that it is directly related to joy. That makes total sense if you think about people who embody peace, such as the Dali Lama. Love this! 

This journey played out in exactly the same way as the first portion. Through joy, we are directly connected to our Higher Selves, God/ Source/ All. Unconditional sharing of joy allows the recipient to also be connected. We continue to share joy until it has spread around the world. We only need one person to begin the process, and just a few to help move it forward. Interesting!

In round two, I selected happiness as my first experience. Happiness leads to playfulness, joy, love and gratitude (amongst others). Gratitude brings us in alignment with more things that bring more happiness. It puts us into the flow, which in turn, brings us peace. And when in peace, we maintain our alignment. We are held and carried within the flow, which is also our life’s flow. *Flow is a state of non-resistance where we manifest what we truly desire in alignment with our soul’s purpose, but do so in an effortless manner. Life becomes easy and effortless. I also experienced that playfulness opens us to more guidance and information from our Guides, Higher Selves, and God/ Source/ All. 

The second choice this time was peace. When I started, I realized I had a tiny concept of what peace is… but that I really didn’t know much. All of that was explained with ease. Akin to love, peace encompasses all higher states of being (positive emotions). In other words, living consistently, moment to moment in any of the higher emotions (states) will lead directly to peace. Once we choose to live our entire lives in balanced alignment, we are automatically living in peace and grace. Peace is being in and maintaining alignment, within the flow. Think of it as an easy, guided life. In particular, they showed me that it comes easily from love, joy, happiness and gratitude. And it enables us to stay within the flow. So that when things occur that may appear to be “negative” or “out of alignment”, we acknowledge and view them objectively. But we allow them to move past us quickly after the initial acknowledgment, because we are not directing any energy nor additional thoughts or emotions toward them. We immediately refocus on what we do desire. And while remaining in the state of peace, we continue to draw to us the other experiences that are in alignment with our true desires and soul’s purpose. (These messages are based on my current mental and emotional states and level of consistent manifestation, which is similar to where many of us exist now. I did receive information afterward with more details of this concept and will speak about it in another blog post soon.) 

My guides also explained that peace is free of tension, strife, struggle, stress and resistance. It is nearly effortless once we have established the positive thoughts and emotional habits. Positive thought and emotion habits are another way to describe the start of manifestation. My guides are really wanting to reframe our concept of what manifestation truly means… They say our view of what it means to manifest is misconstrued. lol So, we will now refer to this portion of the process as positive thought and emotion direction or habits. They want to reframe our understanding of how to make this (manifestation) work. 

Well, that’s it! I hope you enjoyed these vision journeys. Feel free to comment any questions or thoughts you have. I’m absolutely open to communicating with you about any of this information. If you need clarification, please ask. These concepts are a bit tricky to translate into English. lol I absolutely understand that follow-up questions may be in order. 

Do you have spiritual topics you want to hear more about? Comment them below and I will happily share what I’ve learned. And if you have additional information on this particular concept, please share! As always, your thoughts on these messages are welcome and encouraged! 

Thank you for reading. So much love to you… See you in the next post!