How to Process Emotional Triggers Without Fighting Them

So before we get into it, what do I mean by a trigger? Let's start there.

So any time anything happens, and it can be in our internal reality or external reality, so in our internal reality, like a thought or a belief, or our external reality, an event, a circumstance, a person.

Okay? So something happens, and there is this response that we have within ourselves, and it's this mixture of this chemical and electrical surge, and it's meant to activate us.

It's meant to get us into action and to take actions that are possible to do and good to have done.

And we love this.

We love this because, say, there was a fire, and all of a sudden a big flame starts up and we get this chemical electrical surge [chuckles] or coursing through our body in the form of a trigger.

It activates us to put out the fire.

So that was good to have done and possible to do.

But say we leave the iron on and we leave our home and we were absentminded, and we leave and we go pick up our kids, and when we come back, our whole house burnt down.

So there was a spark and a fire started because we left the iron on.

Say a few days down the road, there's this electrical chemical surge that happens in the body because I shouldn't have done that.

I feel guilty, sad, um, there's blame, there's shame, there's anger, whatever that is.

And so there's this electrical chemical surge, yet you can't put out the fire that happened already.

And so where does that energy go? It stays within us.

So that's the type of trigger that we're going to clear because although it'd be good to have done, it's impossible to do.

And emotions or sensations in our body are not interested in making us feel good or bad.

They're interested in getting us to do something that has value for us.

And yet that part of the brain can't tell time.

So sometimes there's this reoccurring trigger and it's almost like somebody just poking you on the shoulder.

Um, "Go do this, go do this, go do this." And it gets louder, more repetitive and more intense with time because there's no action to actually take.

So sensations only arise, um, I believe, to come up, to come out, to be released and digested, metabolized, done, or come up to get us to do something.

So if there's nothing that is either good to have done or possible to do and, um, the brain misinterpretes that, that there could still be a chance that we could change, say, the past, it will keep on keeping on.

Okay? So that's the type of trigger that we will be clearing today with this meditation.