There is an age old term that has now become more relevant.

That word is triggered.

When someone says they're triggered, it means I was here, and though I was here physically,

my mind, my spirit is snatched back to an experience that I had that most of the time is traumatic.

So most of us have two different angles at how we handle our triggers. I could

avoid the trigger or I could dare to turn around and confront the trigger so that the trigger

no longer dictates who I am. Sometimes God allows us to be triggered not because he wants

to remind us of what we went through,

but because you have a testimony now that you did not have then.

Some triggers are meant to help you go back and get the pieces of yourself

that you thought you would never get back again.

There are some moments where in order to truly heal, you do need to avoid the triggers that keep pulling you back

What I learned is that a trigger in the mechanical sense is a mechanism that actuates the function of a ranged weapon,

such as a firearm, air gun, crossbow, or spear gun.

The trigger is a mechanism that actuates the function.

So when we look at it from the psychological standpoint, and we look at it from the psychological standpoint and we look at it from the

mechanical standpoint, what we have is that a trigger actuates the function of my past experience

into my present. It actuates the function of that experience. The fear connected to it is now activated because I have been triggered.

Whatever you experience, whatever function it had in your life,

when you're triggered, it actuates that function.

That's why you're defensive and nobody really said anything that bad to you.

It's just that it actuated the function of that.

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