When we are triggered by someone in our life, we think the problem is with the other person.
We look at what they did or how they are as the issue.
Yet if we take it more as an opportunity to learn, we can get great insight about ourselves.
That little annoyance can reveal quite a bit about ourselves if we’re willing to look.
Why are we getting so bothered by that action or those words?
Who does that attitude remind us of?
Is there something in ourselves that that person reminds us of?
Lots of times the things in others that bother us the most are the aspects of ourselves that we don’t want to acknowledge.
Can’t stand someone else being cheap? How are we being cheap in our own lives? Perhaps with ourselves?
Don’t like how that person is talking to you? Who do they remind you of? Perhaps a parent or sibling?
The people around act as mirrors for us to see ourselves.
What we see in them, what we like and what we don’t like, says more about us than it does about them.
Being triggered by how a person acts, how they look, or what they say is great!
The more we are triggered the more we can come face to face with our own issues.
So let’s face our triggers, not with anger or annoyance. Let’s face them with curiosity and enthusiasm!
~ Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant
