Lori Harder talks about why suppressing triggers keeps them stuck. Instead of thinking better thoughts, lean into the feeling. When you let an emotion run its course without resistance, it dissolves and transforms.
Everything in our world and everything in our life from traffic to social media, it's really easy to get triggered and taken out.
Triggers are not bad, they are messengers. They are there to show you that there is something inside of yourself that you were priorly unaware of that you are now bringing up to the surface. So many of us get a trigger of something that happens. We don't let ourselves feel it, we tuck it away. We need to think better thoughts and this isn't about thinking better thoughts, this is about observing that the thought or the belief is there and letting yourself feel it. And the interesting thing is is when you let yourself feel it and you don't resist it, it naturally runs its course and that many times will just go away. It's cleaning the trigger and it allows that energy to dissolve and to transform and taking responsibility for it and then bringing love to it, bringing presence to it allows it to naturally clear in a very powerful way.
