RELEASING EMOTIONAL TRIGGERS

Someone says or does something. You get triggered. You know the experience. You respond, and they, in turn, react to your response.

- Angela Legh

This cycle can continue as the behaviour escalates between the two of you. Emotional triggers happen when the behaviour of someone else evokes a response in you as if you are personally hurt by their words or behaviour. Sometimes, their behaviour has nothing to do with you and yet you still react strongly. This reaction happens when the words, actions or behaviours of someone, match the emotional wounding you received earlier in life, perhaps as a child. The odds are that you do not remember the incident, however, unresolved emotions from that time are still alive in you. It is not unusual for all of us to react to the behaviour of someone in a way that is out of proportion to the triggering event. The question is: What can you do to release latent emotional triggers?