How Our Emotional Triggers Can Actually Be Great Gifts
100% of your feelings of worry, anxiety and insecurity are generated from within you, even when it seems like they're coming from an ‘adult teddy bear’. The same goes for your feelings of peace, security and comfort. The teddy bear is always neutral.
Jamie Smart • Results: Think Less. Achieve More
Triggers and warning signs are invitations to become aware in the moment and make the (admittedly difficult!) choice to take a different path. Luckily, this gets easier and easier the more you practice it.
Nick Trenton • Calm Your Thoughts: Stop Overthinking, Battle Stress, Stop Spiraling, and Start Living (The Path to Calm Book 2)
that all your upset feelings are self-generated through your Saboteurs.
Shirzad Chamine • Positive Intelligence: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential AND HOW YOU CAN ACHIEVE YOURS
How do you find out what your own triggers are? A good way to think about this is to look at past behavior and try to understand what’s reliably caused distress for you before. This takes a degree of awareness in the moment, but can you notice any patterns in what occurs immediately before you become emotionally overwhelmed?
