How many of you have certain things that trigger you? A situation, a smell, a word….that sends you into a spiral, a freakout or just generally takes you the opposite direction from your BE state? What do you do about it? You avoid it!!!

What is a trigger point? It's a fear (perhaps of failure, or of our significant other repeating a pattern of something an ex did, or a word that brings us back to a time that we were traumatized).

What triggers me? Having someone question my intentions (ignoring - cut them out of life). Criticism (become defensive). The last natural thing we do when someone hits a trigger point is dig a little deeper. We go into fight or flight (run from it or fight it….which end up being the same outcome).

• 1 - Why we need to stop avoiding our triggers and face them with trigger point training?

Trigger point training/flexibility - build connection to areas of your body so that you can key into a muscle and relax it deliberately (just like we contract it). It's a trainable skill, the ability to be so engaged that you can focus in on it and let it go.

• Translated: By facing those fears or triggers, we can build the strength to not let it affect us. Just like we can think about a situation and get mentally and emotionally keyed up, we also can build the ability to BE in a triggered situation and mentally and emotionally master our feelings.

• What does ignoring it do? Creates trigger point sensitivity - it makes the structure behave differently (hardware). Software - it causes the body to compensate around it by having muscles around it do things they shouldn't, or ones that should, stop working properly. You get more jacked up.

• What's working through it like? It is highly painful. Go slow. Embrace the worst areas, don't avoid the worst areas. In fact, search for the worst areas, because that is where the biggest global impact will be created, if you find the epicenter of these things and get them to release, you get bodywide instant benefits. You get them to release through repeated trigger point practice.

• The result? It's totally comfortable to put pressure on what USED to be trigger points. It just feels like a little pressure.

• End Goal - The goal isn't to have a trigger point free body to say you have a trigger point free body, it's that it ceases to impact how you move through life and how you feel.

HOW do you work them? You hire a professional who shows you tools to do the work. Just like with a trainer. In my real life, I hire the professionals. Coaches for years, and now I'm working with a fantastic therapist because there were a few triggers that I couldn't work through with coaches and self help books.

She's using tools (like EMDR - an interactive psychotherapy technique used to relieve psychological stress) and showing me how to use them myself, so I can break through those trigger points and build the strength to not let them affect me.

My end goal - not to say nothing triggers me….it's just to cease letting those old triggers impact how I move through life and how I feel.

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