Stressors - the gifts they bring
Dear ones ~
As we swim through the barrage of pain, suffering, overwhelm, and divisiveness, we can choose to stay as we are, or we can choose to find new ways to address our internal and external choices.
My preferred way - turning to growing as much as possible, so we can ever move towards love and integrity, in all parts of our personality in all possible ways.
This is part two in dealing with Triggers. I learned from a facebook friend that a better term is Stressor - trigger most applies to someone with PTSD and a serious reactive response.
Part 1 - Triggering Season
I know you care about the world and the people around you, and perhaps even those people you do not know or see. Your big heart matters, and your response to suffering matters.
The gift of these Stressors - they are not actually the cause of the emotions - but our reaction shows something's stuck. Emotional inflammation alert!
The invitation: look inward and find your personal source of inflammation.
This personal gift of inflammation-information, how is it able to help you?
Showing you a time in your life when you truly felt powerless – childhood for example – and today’s event is touching that button?
Or is it a mirror, to show you how some of your inner parts mirror the outer situation? (This rarely matches exactly, sometimes pointing to ways one does the same thing to oneself.)
Or a longing of a way to live differently, more in line with your deeper values and purpose?
What are your thoughts and experiences in dealing with stressors and triggers? How else do you experience stressors helping you?
I intend to send one more newsletter on this topic, exploring more of the power of the You-turn.
With love for our growing pains and big hearts,
Marta
These words by Cate Montana are a wonderful addition to this post:
"That we are at the time and place in history where it's imperative to focus on the only choice that matters: Expanding in consciousness to become the New Human, turning away from factionism, groupism and fear, manipulation and controversy, and, yes, poli-tricks and anything else that creates division, hatred and extremism.
The only way out of the trap that's been set for us is to follow the sage advice of Albert Einstein who pointed out that change cannot happen unless there is a change in the consciousness of humanity.
Divide and conquer is the oldest play in the book."
More about the You-turn coming soon as a way to opt out of the divide and conquer playbook!
