When you are reacting in this present moment can you connect it to your past?
Our experiences from our past can influence our behavior in our present life. If we have unhealed wounds from our childhood they will show up in our adult life in a messy way. Our past experiences also have a profound effect on how we view the world and our lives now. Each of us responds to certain situations based on our past.
Have you noticed how after you’ve been triggered and you have reacted, when you reflect on your behavior you might be a bit shocked? When in reflection after a behavior that you’re not proud of, you might feel as if you behaved like child. This isn’t a coincidence, because when you are triggered, it is from your past experiences when you were actually a child.
You may have certain behaviors when you’re triggered like
- Pouting
- Throwing a tantrum
- Screaming
- Throwing things
- Being a victim
- Blaming
- Arguing
- Sarcasm
Reflect on your behaviors when you are triggered and see if you can track it back to childhood.
It’s important to know your wounding as a child so that you can understand your triggers and shift your beliefs around them. This is the work I do in personal retreats to uncover limiting beliefs so that you’re able to shift them. Our limiting beliefs can play havoc in our present life. If we continue to react from past experiences this will affect all of the relationships in our life including the one with our self and our connection to our higher power.
If you have an understanding of why you get triggered you will be able to modify your thought process, start thinking through your higher mind instead of your little girl, ego mind. It is not easy to break these patterns and start responding differently. In my personal retreat you will learn what your wounds are, the old beliefs attached to them, how you get triggered and how to shift your behavior.
It’s important for our sense of self to learn how to behave from a higher place of being. When we act out of our woundedness, we usually have a lot of guilt and shame about our behavior. When we beat ourselves up about our behavior it damages our self-esteem. So the more we act from a higher way of being the better we feel about ourselves.
