How do you change emotional triggers?

These are some of the specific psychological and spiritual tools to help us respond, rather than react, to our own triggers.

1. Name it.
2. Seek the source.
3. Be aware of projection.
4. Notice hyperarousal signs.
5. Don’t fight the inner voice.
6. Practice knowing and showing your emotions.
7. Take a breather.
8. Try an echo response.

How triggers can affect the emotional response?

A trigger is a reminder of a past trauma. This reminder can cause a person to feel overwhelming sadness, anxiety, or panic. It may also cause someone to have flashbacks. A flashback is a vivid, often negative memory that may appear without warning.

What triggers your emotions?

Emotional triggers, also called mental health triggers or psychological triggers, are things (e.g. memories, objects, people) that spark intense negative emotions. This change in emotions can be abrupt, and in most cases it will feel more severe than what the trigger would logically call for.

How do you get rid of triggers?

1. 1) Learn your stress signature. The first step is to recognize that you are being triggered as soon as the signs start in your body.
2. 2) Calm the body.
3. 3) Label your emotions without judgment.
4. 4) Do not give into avoidance.
5. 5) Correct your thinking about the trauma.

How do I stop reacting and start responding?

Put Yourself Together Let your initial emotional “reaction” pass and then address the situation again to see how differently you respond this time. If you don’t feel up to it emotionally or physically, you can put off deciding until you’re in a calmer state of mind.

How can I train my mind to respond to not responding?

Training mind to ‘respond’ and not ‘react’ to situations is important to taste triumphs in one’s life….HR Professional

1. Take a pause. Having negative emotions, pain or stress during unfavourable or unpleasant times is a general human behaviour.
2. Watch your ways.
3. Be Attentive.
4. Think big picture.
5. Provide apt response.

How do you stop emotionally responding?

Here are some pointers to get you started.

1. Take a look at the impact of your emotions. Intense emotions aren’t all bad.
2. Aim for regulation, not repression.
3. Identify what you’re feeling.
4. Accept your emotions — all of them.
5. Keep a mood journal.
6. Take a deep breath.
7. Know when to express yourself.
8. Give yourself some space.