Triggers

When you get triggered, it’s not your higher self losing it.

Your higher self isn’t dramatic.

It’s not spiraling.

It’s definitely not grabbing a shoe to hunt down a spider.

That’s programming.

For example — every time I see a spider, I still hear my mother’s voice in my head:

“Kill it! Kill it!”

See spider.

Hear voice.

Adrenaline online.

But here’s the funny part…

The spider didn’t trigger me.

The memory did.

That voice isn’t my conscious choice.

It’s an old script running automatically.

And most of our triggers work exactly like that.

Someone says something.

They look at you a certain way.

They don’t text back.

And suddenly your body reacts.

Not because of what’s happening now —

but because of something stored from before.

A trigger is just a learned association firing in your nervous system.

It’s fast.

It’s efficient.

And it’s usually outdated.

The moment you notice it —

“Oh. That’s old programming.” —

you create space.

And in that space, you get power.

Now when I see a spider, I can pause and go,

“Oh hey, little guy. What are you up to today?”

Same spider.

Different awareness.

Different outcome.

That’s growth.

You’re not here to shame your triggers.

You’re here to outgrow them.

Because once you stop reacting from old scripts —

You start responding from who you actually are.

It changes everything.