Aaron DoughtyAwareness Mastery, Awareness Mastery, Awareness Mastery, Awareness Mastery, Awareness Mastery, LLC · Spiritual Teacher and Educator

Why you get triggered (it's not them)

2 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment, Aaron Doughty explains that each person possesses an energetic field surrounding the body that stores the patterns of past experiences and interpersonal interactions. When we interact with others, our fields intermix, and a perceived trigger actually activates a pre‑existing pattern within our own field rather than being caused by the other person. The common misinterpretation is to blame the external individual, overlooking that the trigger resides internally in our energetic field.

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We all have an energetic field that goes around our body, and within that energetic field carries with it the patterns of our past experience, the patterns that we experience between us and other people, and it stores inside of our energetic field. And when we go out into the world, we are literally enmeshing in each other's energetic fields. Now, what can happen is when someone else triggers us, what is actually happening is there is a form of thought form, there's a form of pattern within our energetic field. Someone does something and then it activates that within our field, then we feel triggered. And the normal way of looking at that is we look out into the world and we say that person is causing the trigger, not being aware that that trigger exists within our energetic field.