Getting Triggered Can Help You Grow — Here's How

If you want to learn how to use being triggered to grow,

Keep watching.

Before we get into the details of this,

I want to say something that's really important.

Self-compassion is super important.

This isn't about going out non-purpose trying to get yourself triggered so that you can grow and evolve.

This video is about how to use the natural instances in life where you happen to get triggered by something to rather than shut down and be contracted,

To grow,

To evolve,

To use it for fuel for your spirituality.

This next bit is important.

You never feel anything for no reason.

So that means when something happens and you have a strong emotional response to it,

There is absolute gold wisdom being communicated to you by that upwelling of emotion,

By that energetic whoosh that you can sometimes feel when you're in a place of being triggered.

The reason this is so valuable and so important is because we can try very hard to use our affirmations and our expanded ideas about what it's best to think and what it's best to feel so that we can move forward and be our best self.

We are all guilty of kind of doing that in a way that silences and diminishes the parts of us that are not yet on board to that.

But when you're triggered,

When you get that whoosh coming up of emotion,

Of energetics,

It's trying to get your attention.

It's trying to let you know that something here needs you.

It needs healing.

It needs integrating.

It needs you to focus on it.

It's literally coming up specifically to get your attention so that you know it's there,

So that you can address it and heal it.

So if something happens to you and you feel triggered by it,

I'm not saying that you necessarily need to emotionally deal with that in that specific moment.

It might be that the best thing you can do is take yourself away and do this process later and that's fine.

But if you take a moment to sit down,

To be in your own space and disconnect from distractions and really tune in and go inwardly into yourself and inquire what happened,

When we're triggered,

The temptation is to go,

They did that,

They did this.

The temptation is to take the energy outward.

But that energetic swell and emotional swell that came up is actually trying to guide you inward.

So take the time to go inward.

You have got the answers inside of you.

You have got the answers inside of you.

And so take the moment to build the muscle of learning how to hear the answers.

Because if you're not hearing them,

It's not because they're not there.

It's just because you need to develop that skill set more.

These occasions of being triggered are the perfect opportunity to come in,

To be quiet,

To get away from the hustle and bustle of life and the distraction,

To connect inward and go deep with yourself.

Find out what is really there.

Find out by asking and being open to the answer.

What did this triggering experience bring up for you?

What are you carrying around that is a match to that?

What feels familiar to what you've just experienced?

That you're holding inside of yourself?

What previous experiences have you had?

And what is it that you needed in those experiences so that you can give it to yourself?

So that you can give it to yourself and heal the part of you that is walking around with a big target.

Bullseye to get triggered as you do that work of finding out what it really is for you with brutal honesty,

With total self-compassion and self-love and self-support.

As you do that inquiry and you find out what that part of you needs and you start to meet those needs,

What you'll find is that that bullseye is going to get smaller and smaller and smaller.

And over time,

You'll get triggered much less by things because there'll be less wounding that's active in you for the trigger to be bullseying into.

So do not go looking for triggers.

Your energy system and the universe are co-creating to bring you so many opportunities for expansion.

You do not have to try and find them.

They will come to you when your consciousness is ready to deal with the next level and the next layer of stuff that wants your attention.

So follow the wisdom of the universe,

Follow the wisdom of your energy system and use the opportunities when the big emotion is present and there and literally trying to get your attention,

To give it your attention.

What you'll find over time is that you'll start to meet your own needs so much more regularly.

You'll go inward so much more and you won't be looking out here and out here and out here and out here for them to give you what it is you need.

Being triggered can be a fabulous opportunity for growth.

Provided you come to it with self-love.

Self-acceptance,

Self-encouragement and inquisitiveness.

Be curious,

Be curious about what's really going on for you and then do whatever you can to meet the needs of the parts of you that are trying to get your attention by showing you their bullseye so you can start to reduce it and reduce it and reduce it.

See you in the next one.