When Triggers Arise

This is a helpful meditative poem for those moments of feeling "triggered". It certainly happens to us all. The general protective habit is to externalize, to blame, shame, dream up revenge, or to get small and shrink away. This meditative contemplation is to serve as an anchor to revisit again and again, helping you to remember how to get back to gratitude when the moment gets contracted.

Background music by Bensound.com

Transcript

I'm right here,

Breathing,

Breathing in to this collective burden,

Exploring it from the inside out.

My deepest shadow illuminated,

Shatter the disillusion.

I bow in gratitude,

Breathing.

I bow in gratitude,

Softening.

I bow in gratitude.

I've asked to be illuminated,

So how can I not be grateful?

You've showed up through this triggering situation to illuminate my wound so that I may heal.

I bow to the faces who trigger me.

Thank you for helping me to heal.

I wish to heal.

No band-aids here,

Really healing now.

To breathe in to this pain,

To offer love to this pain in my body,

In my mind,

To offer space,

To offer self-compassion.

Tripling out from truth,

Healing truth,

Healing betrayal,

Healing disconnection,

Healing greed,

Healing disgust,

Resentment,

Revenge,

Offering space,

Offering breath now,

Offering my life,

This life,

This moment right now.

Here I am.

Here I am.

Here I am,

Breathing space,

Offering all that I can offer my life right now.

My presence to this pain,

To this wound,

To heal in myself and to heal within the collective.

May we all be freed from this suffering.

May we remember.

May we bow in gratitude to one another for illuminating where we're still disconnected and suffering and stuck,

Offering this moment,

Breathing space into the body,

Bowing in gratitude for the mystery of life.

Thank you,

Life.

I wish to remember wholeness.

Reviews

Really good today just relax before getting ready for bed

Thaank you 🙏🏻 you have a voice or an angel ✨ I felt your words deeply.

Hands down the best guided meditation of the year. So happy to find a beautiful way to pause in the day. Love the music. Grateful to find this excludes a sound bowl. More of this PLEASE 😍💞😁💞🙏 Sooo soothing. Thank you.

That was so beautiful. What a great tool to keep in your back pocket.

This one left me feeling powerful, it challenged my way of thinking and in turn will help me grow. Thank you for being exactly what I needed to hear today!

Incredible, my inner child heard your inner child and smiled to know she wasn’t alone 💗

I love it. This really helped me to become calmer during the aftermath of a stressful situation.

I pressed play because I liked the bubble picture. Lovely voice and sound, it was insightful. Thank you.

This hit me in a good way😊 thank you for this feeling of relief 🙏

It was good but I could hardly hear it over the cats outside but I liked it. It really helped me. Thank you

Loved this and reallllyy needed this after that full moon eclipse in Scorpio🥹💗

Beautiful- resonates so much. I will do this kneeling next time as I really enjoyed the bowing cues.

I wish I could fully express how much I needed that…. Deepest bow of gratitude xo

Very happy to find this meditation with the same approach I view triggers; so beautifully spoken, thank you🙏💕✨

Wow. This was so enlightening and powerful. Thank you 🙏

I have experienced much comfort from this meditation when triggers do arise (I’ve listened probably a hundred times) 🙏🏼

Beautiful and inspirational 🙏💕✨

This was beautifully written.

Thank you for this. Namaste. 🙏🏻

Thank you. Wonderful. A beautiful way to look at being triggered.