In this pertinent video Amma-Lee provides us with the necessary tools to learn to cope with triggers, while maintaining our serenity. In a simple 4 Step process she guides us through questions to help us understand ourselves, our triggers, and how we can empower ourselves to face triggers in order to feel centered in the present moment.
4 Questions to Reframe Triggers:
1. What triggers you?
2. How do you react when you’re triggered?
3. How would you like to behave when triggered?
4. What helps you to pause and reflect, rather than react, when you’re triggered?
© Amanda Lee
1. What triggers you?
Trying to figure this out has been the hardest thing for me. For the most part the flashes of memories that I get are very powerful and come at any given time of day and any given circumstance. Just when I think that they are getting weaker, the force that they come at me next time is more powerful. Not sure if that makes any sense to anyone, just my experience.
2. How do you react when you’re triggered?
For the most part the initial reaction is not good. They seem to be too powerful. What I mean by that is that I have good memories and they are easily accepted. But the flashes of memory that I have been experiencing is of a more painful kind and so they are mostly wicked and cause me to get everything from angry, sad, shameful, guilty, to even ruminating.
3. How would you like to behave when triggered?
I would like to be able to accept the fact that it is happening and move positively forward. But it never happens that way. The impact can drive me down a dark road.
4. What helps you to pause and reflect, rather than react, when you’re triggered
Prayer, Music (sometimes), reading, Writing, and researching what is going on with me
Pingback: 5 Steps To Discovering: Who Is Your Perfect Partner? – Terminally Forgetful