All humans have emotional triggers: a trigger is a reminder of past trauma. Somebody says something, we read an email, certain types of events happen and your current mood switches in a flash. We feel upset, out of balance, irrational and overrun with emotion. Triggers can give us clues as to what is unresolved
Category: Mind
Anxiety is on the rise. A side effect of the uncertainty of modern life. Uncertainty alone does not produce anxiety, but sets in motion the right growing conditions. Have you ever felt troubled by anxiety? It feels unsettling, challenging, exhausting, and we believe we gain control by blocking the feelings. Some think anxiety is bad
Dissociation is a term that covers a broad spectrum of experiences from mild, ordinary moments to more intense, distressing trauma related incidents. Every single person you meet has dissociated at some time in their life. Dissociation makes it difficult for us to stay present and occurs when we feel stressed or overwhelmed. Its a natural
What we pay attention to shapes our world and can make a radical change in how we view our reality; altering our direction and changing how we experience and move through life. We may focus only on the negative if we live in an automatic, unconscious way. We start to see mainly negative people and
Life is a crazy, unpredictable journey of ups and downs. Pain is a universal experience that we all face at some point. The trouble is we go to any length to avoid pain, pretend it’s not there: anything to make it vanish. Based on Buddhist philosophy of samsaras, emotional pain is divided into two groups: