Little Triggers, Big Shifts

I share about this often, but I have found that takes time for people to really take it in, raise their awareness, and truly implement it. But then they do, it’s a game changer.

It’s about taking advantage of your triggers, even the small ones, because like the tip of the iceberg analogy, these triggers are showing you a small bit of what is suppressed and blocking your peace. Since triggers are connected to more than what is happening in the moment, they offer you access to a chunk of negativity below the surface that has gone unprocessed and unhealed.

Therefore, triggers are an invitation to heal. Unfortunately, many of us ignore the invitation, especially if it’s a “small trigger”, meaning that the disharmony passes relatively quickly. But I’m here to encourage you to notice and process these triggers on the spot, because triggers don’t have to be big to help you heal significant negative programming and blocked energy. They can be small ones that you often overlook. If you develop the habit of looking into the small triggers, you might be surprised what can happen.

The first step is to increase your awareness for when you are triggered, even slightly. This will take practice. In truth, many of us notice our triggers but we don’t practice our willingness to step back and take a look…. take responsibility for it. We are attached to the emotion or judgment in the trigger, or we are more willing to keep it than to inquire and process it. It’s easier to let it fly. It takes determination and practice to get past this and implement the sincere pause. Do I really want to keep this?

Once you’re aware and implement the pause, take a moment to acknowledge the feelings or thoughts that you want to brush off. Anything that upsets us, even the slightest bit of irritation or judgment, is something we can take responsibility for and transform. No matter the circumstances, our reaction is totally on us, and if it isn’t even keeled and kind, or if it has caused us any disharmony, we have work to do.

Next, when you take the time to notice your feelings and thoughts, touch them not just with your awareness, but with your heart. Give them love and gratitude. Treat them like a visitor with a message. Upon acknowledgment and appreciation, you can aim to transform what lies beneath it. Often, just this step of connecting with your heart and giving love will instantly transform things. But if not, you can do a silent practice.

Whatever triggered you, practice love and forgiveness. Any type of judgment with a charge comes from having this pattern in the information field of your soul. Call in a higher frequency field, such as Divine Love or Light, a saint or angel, or your Heaven’s Team, to help you. Take a moment to close your eyes and silently chant, pray, or meditate a little bit. Visualize the light in your heart.

It may sound like a lot to do, but you may be able to do this in as little as two or three minutes! The reward is that you could transform a significant chunk of negativity that you don’t need. For me personally, there have been times when sizable shifts were made this way. In fact, a couple of times I was stunned by the enormity of the shift, but even small shifts help you in significant ways.

In the game of life, the key is to continuously build your positive field while releasing the negative fields. Healing, transformation, and success are all about this ratio…. As your positive information, energy, and matter accumulate and your negative information, energy, and matter decrease, you gain the power you need to create positive outcomes in your life, such as good health, relationships, finances, and more.  The more you clean your slate along the way, you are reducing your burden and increasing your power (not to mention that you are mastering your emotions and increasing your wellbeing)!

Now, I know that we are not always in a position to stop and go inside to process things. But when we can, we can (and I propose that we can a lot more than we may be willing to admit).

Also, if it’s a more significant trigger — one that really can or does distract you, but you can’t process it in the moment, you owe it to yourself to reconnect with it later, hopefully that same day, when you have time. These things can be recalled in all their glory – we can easily conjure up the circumstances and feelings, and the process can take place then. In truth, there is no time or space, so just do it.

The bottom line is that triggers are messages from your soul to pull the weeds — to clear out the negativity — to heal and transform. Wouldn’t you like to have more peace and fewer triggers? Wouldn’t you love to transform the roots of your triggers as they pop up?

Develop this habit! You have nothing to lose except a few moments or minutes of your time and unwanted negative information and energy! The result is a happier, healthier, more peaceful and productive YOU.