Mindfulness Daily Check-In July 14 2017

Gooooodmorning everyone How is everyone doing today? I am well my brain isn't intact with nothing this morning Maybe more coffee! I have been seeing on 7cups how many are still struggling with "triggers". And that is ok- if you struggle to. I do sometimes

Our thoughts arise like waves in the ocean and are constantly in flux. Our psychic landscape changes from moment to moment. Thoughts reverberate as emotions, sensations, impulses, and other stimuli. Our brains are just something that is so active and alive on it's own. lol Often we push away our emotions choosing to avoid discomfort or pain.This makes total sense...why focus on something that is unpleasant or difficult?

But...what if we just "sat" with something that triggered us? A smell. A noice. A word. A person. Anything can be a trigger that makes us revert back to an unpleasant memory making our bodies and mind feel so bad. Hugs Can you tell yourself you are safe? Can you tell yourself you are not getting hurt now? Can you hold yourself and just know it is ok and this uncomfortableness will pass?

I challenge you to try and find a "focal point" It can be your breathing or your toes or a stuffed animal, or anything right there in the room with you. Focus on it even though we know our minds are on ALERT. How does the object look? How does it feel? How does it make you feel? Or as I shared in my grounding posts, when something triggers you right there and then tap on your thighs hard and fast. Kep it fast till you can find some peace coming back to you.

You can do this. You can learn to start telling your brain it is safe and no one is going to hurt you right now. The past triggers are past.

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