Inquires for When You’re Triggered
Approaching our burdened parts with inquiry, whether heavied by emotional overwhelm, difficult memories, or psychological confusion, applies a level of compassionate curiosity to parts that are normally treated with apathy, aggression, or disrespect.
The most skillful attitude we can adopt to parts of ourselves that get triggered is RESPECT, as this part is hosting a responsibility to take on some aspect of difficulty in your life and to process it or protect you from it.
With respect comes an earnest longing to learn more about this part.
Apply these questions with a softened, inquisitive heart- seeking to learn more rather than diminishing, villainizing, self-shaming or exiling our own uproars.
Take them in with a wide embrace, let them feel they belong in a safe haven where there concerns can be heard and hosted, and see what kind of wisdom they might bring to your system at large when instead of pushing them away, you attempt to get closer to them.
Next time you’re triggered ask yourself:
Can you access a little curiosity about something that is happening right now?
2. How are you feeling towards this sensation right now?
3. Why this part of my body?
4. Why this sensation?
5. What does it want you to know that maybe you haven’t directly known before?