Written by: Michall J. Medina, Executive Contributor
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Here’s the 1 thing that holds people back from being able to shift and resolve their triggers completely: they view their triggers as a setback and not something to grow from.
Your triggers that come up for you are actually a gift because they are bringing to your attention something within you that’s ready to be shifted and resolved. The trigger itself is a doorway to your next level of personal growth. The key is to use each trigger that comes up as an opportunity. When we get triggered and we don’t see it as an opportunity to look deeper within ourselves and ask ourselves “what is this really about?” then we end up coping and managing the trigger only to have it come back again and perhaps even stronger the next time.
Everything in life is happening for you, not to you. Even in the difficult moments and the frustrations and triggers that come up, they each happen as an opportunity for your own growth. We are here on earth to experience and evolve, and if we keep ourselves stuck and never use our difficult experiences to grow from, then the struggle gets harder, and the pain keeps coming back.
So, how do we use our triggers as an opportunity to grow?
Here are three steps to resolving our triggers when they come up:
Find a quiet space where you can be alone and undisturbed
Shift your attention from the top of your head to the center of your chest – this is your heart center, and in this space, as you move out of your head and into your heart, you drop the analytical part of your brain and can effectively process your emotions
Allow those emotions to come up, and as they do, keep your focus here in the center of your chest. If you notice your attention shifting back into your head, acknowledge that and then gently guide your focus back to the center of your chest.
The reason this process is so effective at processing emotions is that in your heart center, you’re not attaching the story and the thoughts and judgments to the situation – you’re just feeling raw emotion.
Because your left brain is not engaged, you can then begin to process the emotions and reach a shift in perspective. Emotions are only the product of thoughts, and thoughts are the product of a subconscious belief or in other words, a perspective. Once we’re able to process those emotions by not engaging the left brain, we’re able to shift into a new perspective, thereby resolving the trigger.
Once our perspective has shifted, we view the situation in a different light and no longer feel an emotional reaction. We can then be in the same types of situations and feel totally neutral. That’s how you know you’ve resolved the trigger.
There is a lot of advice in the personal development world that tells you to feel your feelings, but that is only part of the picture. If you feel your feelings while you engage the left brain which is responsible for thoughts and analysis, then you’re only maintaining the same perception that is at the core of those emotions in the first place. In this sense, it is impossible to reach a shift in perspective while engaging the left brain because you’re continuously reaffirming the same perception. That’s why connecting to your heart center is so effective because it allows you to shift your perspective and resolve the trigger permanently and completely.
Michall J. Medina, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine
Michall J Medina is an award-winning spiritual and mindset coach and an international bestselling author and speaker. She helps aspiring heart-centered visionaries to claim their true calling without waiting to feel ready, by amplifying their ability to intuitively attract opportunity. Before she launched her business, Michall had trained in over seven different healing modalities in search for a cure for her anxiety. As a former electrical engineer, she brought her analytical skills to the world of healing and spirituality and developed a ground-breaking method of resolving the core root of any struggle and shifting it into expansion and freedom. She now shares this method with her clients to help them to access clarity, ease and flow as they connect to and embody their true calling. Michall has been featured for her work in Yahoo Finance, Fox News, International Business Times, Wall Street Select, and Digital Journal. Originally a Texan, she now lives in Israel by the forest with her beautiful cat Stella.
