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Tonight we're going to be talking about what it means to be triggered and what to do about it

when we are triggered, what's going on.

To demystify it is always a very important idea because one of the issues with being triggered is that

we're suddenly in a very reactive, unsettled, distressed, threatened state, and we don't know why very often.

Triggers are not obvious.

And so the experience can be unsettling not just because of the physiological state of threat, but also because we're not sure why. We've suddenly gone from an engage approach where we're in a

physiological state of ease and comfort and suddenly dropped into a survival, panic, threatened mode.

So tonight we're going to talk about the mechanisms and then what to do about it

and then we'll have a practice that will help us prepare for

possible triggering events and help us develop adaptive tools. So in the earliest Buddhist Suitas there's a very clear teaching about being triggered.

The Buddha had this word Anusiah and Anusiah Nusia is etymology

that's a poly word and that's the language that the historical Buddha recorded the

darma was recorded in one of the ways it was recorded and a nusia means after sleep, something that's been sleeping and has awoken.

Anasaias, there are latent inclinations that under the appropriate conditions will rise as this really strong physical sensation known as pakiga, which is the sense of physiological overwhelm,

and it takes control of our actions and it leads to very regressive states of fear and craving and doubt and at times even clinging in

grandiosity and the Buddha had a very clear lesson on how to work with these triggered states and we'll circle back as we discuss being triggered from a clinical contemporary position.

So today, some 2,500 years later,

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