Triggers & Glimmers

🖤♥️👉🏼👉🏼👉🏼 Exploring Triggers and Glimmers this week at yoga, and amazed again at how Yoga and Psychotherapy overlap so much!

🖤♥️ There’s a lot of research about trauma and our nervous system, and how we can get stuck in fight flight mode.  But we are meant to live mainly in rest / digest state- which is where us humans can do what we are here on earth to do - to connect (to love). When we get pulled to fight/flight, we disconnect, disassociate and feel defensive and unsafe.

🖤♥️ Triggers pull us out of safety and connectedness when something that’s said or done to us taps in to an old wound and causes pain again. The healing work of therapy and yoga is to learn what triggers us and why, so we can change our old patterns of response and build new ones.

🖤♥️ Glimmers are everywhere in life, they are the opposite of triggers - they pull us to that place of safety and connectedness - where our body is calm, we feel safe and we can experience contentment.

🖤♥️ The ancient teachings of yoga teach us about Santosha - a deep feeling of contentment and acceptance of what is. For me this feels like the rest / digest place, and it’s great to know that even 2000 years ago, the yogis knew that contentment is where we are meant to exist, whenever we can. It’s our divine right to have this as our foundation for life and all that it brings.

🖤♥️ I find daily glimmers in my doggies, my pots and flowers, in the skies, and small moments of love with my family. It’s lovely to notice the glimmers and stop to really feel them, even for a few extra breaths.

🖤♥️ Glimmers don’t stop triggers or worries, but they do give us the resilience and inner strength to manage them better, and to pull us towards contentment even when we are challenged.

🖤♥️ What are your glimmers? I’d love to know 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼