What ought to we do once we get triggered — particularly by different individuals? After we get “plugged in” — instantly reactive, upset, or overwhelmed — it could really feel like one thing has gone incorrect inside us or between us and others.
The excellent news is that we might be skillful with reactivity: taking accountability for our interior expertise, staying related to others with integrity, and discovering rising freedom via centered consideration, open consciousness, and deep acceptance.
On this discuss, I speak about how mindfulness, centered consideration, open consciousness, and non-clinging assist us handle reactivity, scale back rumination, and relate extra correctly to ourselves and others.
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Discuss: Utilizing Mindfulness When You’re Triggered
Timecodes & foremost subjects:
- 00:00 – Reactivation and stress responses — together with fawning/appeasing — and why they come up
- 02:16 – Proper speech, unilateral advantage, and navigating affect vs. intent
- 06:17 – When others are triggered: private accountability vs. asking others to alter
- 09:22 – What mindfulness truly is (and isn’t): sustained present-moment consciousness
- 14:01 – The Satipaṭṭhāna directions: diligence, clear figuring out, and non-clinging
- 21:50 – Targeted consideration vs. open consciousness — and when every is useful
- 28:21 – From steadying the thoughts to opening and releasing it
- 36:30 – Vacancy, love, and the deep freedom of being “lived by all issues”
A Meditation: Feeling Grounded, Peaceable, and Openhearted
If you’re feeling triggered, reactive, or on edge, this guided meditation helps you agree the nervous system and are available again to a way of fundamental okay-ness. We floor within the physique, soothe the “gentle animal” inside, and gently quiet psychological chatter via breath and sensation. From there, we use consciousness to open to the guts, permitting kindness and calm to switch bracing and defensiveness—so experiences can circulate via with out overwhelming you.
