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Today I'm going to be talking about why you get triggered and how to stop being triggered.

And I want you understand what we usually say

is something along the lines of this person is triggering me.

Right, have you ever said that before?

I'm being triggered, That person's triggering me.

This, when someone does this, it triggers me.

If somebody is triggering me, just if you look at the sentence of the way that we say the

sentence, if they are triggering me, it is making me the victim of that

situation. I am the victim of my circumstances is basically what we're saying.

But if we switch it, even though it's a tiny little shift in our words

from I am being triggered to I am triggering myself

or I am allowing myself to be triggered, it takes it from being a victim to putting it into my control.

I am being triggered, I am being triggered by this person makes it kind of like oh there's nothing I can do about it

they're triggering me but if I say something like I'm allowing myself to be triggered

then that actually means that it's in my control.

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