Dallas Bragg explains how to resolve emotional triggers during meth addiction recovery by asking yourself one question: Is this life-threatening? Triggers like anger, anxiety, and sadness point to underlying issues. When your body reacts without real danger, it's your subconscious revealing limiting beliefs or past trauma that keeps you using.
Here's how I quickly resolve triggers in my life. So being triggered is also called emotional activation. And it's not necessarily referring to being triggered to use meth, like a craving, but triggered into anger, triggered into rage, sadness, anxiety, etc. Something happens and you are suddenly activated. Those emotional responses are hugely important clues for you along the recovery journey. They are pointing you to what is asking to be healed and most likely why you keep using. So here's the quick question to ask yourself once you've been activated. Is this life-threatening? You see, our bodies are wired to be triggered by life-threatening dangers from our earliest years as a species. So when you are triggered and there isn't a life-threatening circumstance in front of you, then that means that trigger is coming from the subconscious. And if it is coming from the subconscious, That means it is based on some limiting belief, some old trauma response, or stuck energy. That is your gift and your guide to begin peeling back the layers of that trigger, because at the core, you'll find out why meth is present in your life.
