Well, it ain’t a horse!

Life sometimes feels like hard work….all the emotions that go through us each day can be challenging at times, but in truth, it’s the best kind of work there is…. because the reality is, it comes from LOVE. A trigger is a helpful nudge towards a lesson we have chosen to learn – sometimes over and over – and the emotions are a result of the trigger.

I can hear some of you saying it: “Yeah, right. I feel like when someone triggers me, and I get angry, or upset, my emotions ARE me, and I suffer from them. AND they are the ones who MAKE me feel those emotions!”

Well, it’s actually all an illusion. Our energetic “Emotional Body” is who owns and feels emotions, and when we resist the feelings, they tend to rear up and say “Hey! What about me!?”…and the triggers happen again and again to remind us to acknowledge our emotional body, and FEEL.

Here’s one way of looking at it. Emotions are like “window dressings” - the curtains hide the oops-I-forgot fact that YOU/we are truly powerful, divine and perfect. We’ve just conveniently created a small bout of amnesia and FORGOT that little detail. Emotions are NOT who we are, but in fact just a gauge for what is behind the drapery – which is your true power. And like I mentioned before, it all originates from Love.

Triggers are what motivates us to learn the life lessons we might be resisting – in essence we get ‘triggered’ (sometimes many times over!) by those we are in relationship with, from the bus driver to the teacher, from our soul mate to our children – and their ‘job’ is to remind us of what we came here to do in the first place – to Learn about ourselves. In truth, we are asking for these experiences to evolve spiritually.

OK…so what does this all mean? Well, it’s a new tool in our toolbox. If you know that you are ‘being triggered’, and it really has nothing to do with the other person, then sooner or later you’ll be able to make a different choice about how you wish to react. It will give you the opportunity to begin taking responsibility for your own Self, instead of blaming others. And lastly, its really just another perspective that helps us all on this great journey.

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