Your nervous system is your first line of defense, sensing threats, scanning for information, and sending signals all throughout your body. The nervous system also holds a lot of past information and trauma, storing it as physical tension, emotional reactivity, and ingrained survival responses. This may lead to hyper-vigilance, strained relationships, anxiety, and sleep disturbances because the energy can become "stuck" in the body's protective mechanisms instead of being fully processed out as a memory. In fact, your nervous system remembers frequencies of events faster than you do, and it is always trying to protect you. However, the nervous system (via the amygdala) may be trying to protect you even when you don't truly need protection. Past traumas may make your system over-sensitive, and this puts the nervous system into survival mode. The goal is to come out of this and put peace at the core.

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This leads to feeling triggered and challenged. Triggers happen when the current situation, person, or event evokes an emotional response, usually associated with negative feelings such as anger, fear, sadness, panic, or anxiety. There may be hurt or pain at the core of the wound, and a feeling of wanting to 'lash out' may rise, as it often feels as though someone has done something to you. Fight, flight, fawn, or freeze may be involved, where the amygdala may perceive a threat where there isn't one. This activation happens with lightening speed, cascading off a domino effect throughout the nervous system and response time. This is because when a potential threat is perceived, the amygdala acts as your alarm system sending distress signals to the hypothalamus and throughout your body in preparation for fight-or-flight. Your nervous system may rev up and emotions may run high. In this space, one is not thinking clearly but it can feel as though they are. In fact, the response is coming from reactive impulses more than well-thought out understandings and clarity.

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This being said, the Navigating Triggers class aims to discuss:

• reaction times

• how to become more aware of our emotional responses

• looking at where you are holding onto the past in your nervous system

• how your nervous system is a map to your past experiences

• ways to slow down long enough to respond intelligently

• how to overcome impulsivity and,

• understanding the origin point of the triggers coming up

            so as not to bleed these emotions over onto others

 

We all carry wounds from our past and the beauty is to become conscious enough to understand where our pain is actually coming from. When you do this, you create the safe space for yourself that you have always wanted and needed. Instead of giving your power away to others and expecting them to show up in a healthy way, you begin to realize that this power to feel safe resides in you!

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