Soul Inspiration – Emotional Awareness

Have you ever been triggered by an event which caused you to react in a way that you didn’t like who you were. Perhaps you found yourself responding in a way that was totally out of character for you.

What I’ve found is emotions are triggered faster than thoughts and you cannot control your emotions, however you are always in control of how you react and respond to your emotions.

Research shows that sometimes your brain can trigger an emotion unconsciously. This means that your brain might notice something in your situation and trigger an emotional reaction, all without you even noticing it. In fact, scientists have found that our brains do lots of things that we don’t notice. These are called unconscious processes.

Now some people may put this down the being a highly emotional person, like I did. What I’ve recently discovered is, yes I am a highly emotional person, I cry often and sometimes over silly things. I cry when I am happy, I cry watching movies or a T.V show, I cry for other people, I cry with other people, I cry when I’m sad and sometimes I can’t explain why I cry.

In light of a recent experience I found myself triggered by emotions which lead me down a path of behaving in a way that I didn’t like who I was. Instead of using my words I allowed the emotions to consume my thoughts which then influenced my behaviour (there were a million thoughts running through my mind at this point). I didn’t speak at all, I didn’t make eye contact, I held back the tears but my body language said it all for me.

Upon reflection, I’ve realised that something unconsciously must have triggered me that lead me to behave this way. What I know is, the way I behaved is not the person I am or who I want to be.

I am human and most certainly not perfect so sometimes there will be things that trigger me. Learning from this event will allow me to recognise my feelings before reacting or responding so that I can choose a more appropriate way to behave.

As I write this blog I keep asking myself different questions to get to the root cause of what triggered the emotions that influenced my behaviour. What I believe may be the cause is a fear of rejection, which really comes down to fear of not being enough and not being loved, an old belief that raises it’s ugly head every now and than, a belief that can lead to self-sabotage, perhaps on an unconscious level this is what I may have been doing.

You see we all have an internal thermostat of how much love, happiness, success or money we think we deserve or allow ourselves to enjoy. When we start to exceed that level, unconsciously we will do something to sabotage ourselves, causing us to drop back into the old patterns of behaviour where we feel secure.

Your thermostat is usually programmed in early childhood, before we can think for ourselves. It keeps us in our comfort zone and prevents us from living in the ultimate destination of our journey.

There’s a great book by Gay Hendricks called ‘The Big Leap’ He talks about this internal thermostat and how once we are programmed our upper limit thermostat setting holds us back from enjoying all the love, abundance, success and happiness that’s rightfully ours.

For me moving forward from this event is, learning to make a conscious effort to be aware of my triggers and the emotions that ride along with it, to choose a more appropriate response and clear the unconscious mind of this old limiting belief.

My intention as always is to write this blog to inspire my readers. For me, writing allows my to be a little bit more vulnerable and share my experiences so that you are inspired and empowered to make positive changes in your life. If you need support please reach out and we can cry together.

Live with passion xx 💋

Tracy