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This week it’s all about change from within - and how the emotional experience of being triggered can both benefit from our willingness to change AND be a beautiful tool in enabling it.
| 6'15” | Even the things that trigger us offer an opportunity for growth and learning. The key is always about how we bring our conscious observation to the fore - and what we take from that.
| 7’45” | When you face into behaviour from partners, children, colleagues, family members that makes you unhappy, it’s an opportunity to look at what it triggers within you.
| 11’25” | If we don’t learn how to recognise and respond differently to our triggers, the danger is that you’ll keep getting ambushed on your journey through change. You’ll respond in the same way you always have, rather than navigating the trigger and responding in the way you want to.
| 13’07” | The need for safety often underpins our emotional response when we are triggered
| 15’40” | When you know what triggers you, you can take steps to avoid them. Of course, we can’t always control things, something may happen that ambushes us - a trigger out of the blue - and that’s where doing the Work to create a more conscious, measured response is so useful.
| 19’35” | The only thing we can control fully is ourselves, and our response to the stimulus around us
| 21’45” | This quote helped short-circuit my own triggered responses to stimulus. Viktor Frankl “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom”
| 25’00” | Without a willingness to change, very little can change
| 26’03” | It’s through learning how to accept and love ourselves that we are better able to love others, with mutual respect
| 31’28” | Your response to what triggers you is your response, and doesn’t belong to anyone else.
| 32’45” | “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself”. As usual, Rumi puts his finger on the heart of the matter.
| 33’33” | Naming what triggers us gives us the opportunity to create the space within us that allows the physica
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