Using Triggers To Heal Your Past
The most commonly-asked question by potential clients is the following: “but how can I heal my past if I hardly have any memories?”
And my answer is “even if you were to have no memories whatsoever, and even if none were to emerge during the course of my 12-week programme (which - by the way - has never happened), then we can use your triggers to access what is ready to heal.”
So, what is a trigger?
Triggers are events in the present that take you back to an earlier time when you felt the same emotion.
They transport you to an experience in the past that was not processed properly.
You were unable to do so probably because you were too young and not psychologically evolved enough, which meant that this memory was never fully integrated.
How do you know when you have been triggered?
when you find yourself reacting to an event in a disproportionate way
when your reaction takes over you physically (and you can feel an overwhelming ‘charge’ going through your body)
when the emotion feels ‘out of control’
These are all signs that your inner child is in charge.
And her (over)reaction is showing you that she is ready to integrate the root cause of this trigger.
The thing is, the psyche wants to reach balance. It wants to integrate everything in order to work efficiently.
So when earlier events are brought back into consciousness - through a nightmare, flashback or trigger - this is a sign that you are ready to heal what caused it.
How can you do this?
By going back to the original event and consciously releasing the feelings that you weren't able to process at the time
By doing so in the loving presence of an older, wiser, unconditionally-loving ‘Other’ or version of yourself
When you relive the traumatic experience without feeling alone or powerless (as you did the first time), the self-limiting belief that was created at the time is shown to be invalid.
And the result is, when you next experience something that points to the same root cause, it no longer triggers a disproportionate reaction.
In other words, the root cause of the trigger has been healed.
So pay attention to your triggers, mama!
And reflect on which events they are pointing to in your past.
It is not for nothing that you are reacting in the way in which you are.
It is precisely this reaction that holds the key to removing that particular wound from your past forever!