When we’re triggered emotionally, we experience extreme emotions. And if you follow my videos you’ve heard me talk about the fact that your thinking is also triggered into extremes, or black and white thinking.
You know from past experience what happens next. A sense of, “I have to fix this—I have to change this right now!” takes hold. You feel powerless—utterly compelled to act on these extreme emotions in the moment.
Because you're not able to pull yourself back into a middle ground with regards to your thinking and feelings, (which is very understandable once triggered) it’s even more important that you stop and think very realistically about the action you’re about to take.
Right. I just got done talking about the powerlessness to stop yourself once triggered so...how to “stop” would be important. Here’s the thing: feelings are 100% normal. They’re a barometer—a message from your soul—even a connection to spirit. So how can they be wrong? Well, they aren’t wrong—they just are. The problem comes when we draw “logical” conclusions from them in the heat of the moment. It’s the thinking piece that lights the fuse to act. Once lit...there’s very little time to turn it around.
Again, I want to remind you—with extreme feeling comes extreme thinking. Sounds like a bit of a trap doesn’t it? Yeah...so now what? We cannot, nor should we try to change or ignore our feelings. They give us important information—sometimes that can save our life.
But guess what? This has been the cycle, the trap you've been in all along. You’re reacting from a place of extreme emotion, therefore extreme thinking, and the truth is, if you honestly look back, you know this.
And here’s the part that screws everything up—the big problem in communication at a time like this: You will want nothing more in that moment than to be seen and heard—you want the other person to “get” how you’re feeling.
And you’ll get the opposite.
Think about it—if you approach from extreme emotions and thoughts, the one you’re trying to get to hear you goes immediately on the defense.
Even worse: Now—they only want you to see and hear them—because they’re triggered by you. Neither is seeing the other—they’re both blinded by their extreme thinking and emotion.
Now I want you to ask yourself something: How long has this pattern truly been going on for you? Because this is the hamster wheel—the pattern you fall into—the Merry-Go-Round called denial. And it’s at least one big piece of what keeps derailing your life.
And here’s the kicker: it’s not even the real problem—it’s the pattern you’ve developed to cloak the real problem—the true issue that’s driving you, underneath. This is why going layers deep to reach the true issue is the only way to break the pattern and finally move past it to the life you want.
This is where the buck stops. When you finally reach way in there and pull it out into the sunlight, now you’ve got the real problem and you know where to start.
The light also goes on in your head as you clearly see the other behavior pattern as nothing more than superfluous distraction from the pain around the buried truth.
But this is the gold. Because this buried truth turns out to be the buried treasure you’ve been searching for outside of yourself. It’s the crystal that holds your superpower. Take a breath here—read that again. Now really take it in.
That’s what I want for you—I want you to join those who are stepping into their power and their brilliance—and to know your true value, because you’re at least ten times bigger than you currently know—and you’re missing your life.
Your life is waiting for you—how much longer will you choose to stay on the hamster wheel now that you know there’s a way off?
The Art of Sacred Wisdom by Siobhan risingVibe111@gmail.com