Triggers to Move You
When working on our self-evolvement, we may have someone in our life who ‘didn’t get the memo’. This is someone who repeatedly frustrates or triggers us, taking us out of our peaceful ‘zen den' or it could be a difficult situation that we are not happy with but yet still we remain.
iS IT ME?
If we’re in this situation, it may be happening to teach us to be kinder to the other person or to see them and their actions as a reflection of ourselves, prompting us to look inward and do whatever it takes to be at peace in their presence, regardless of their current behaviour.
This works most of the time but if the situation doesn’t shift despite using every energy method or law of attraction process in our spiritual toolbox, it’s possibly a sign that a completely different message is trying to present itself to us.
Time to Follow Your Destiny
The message could be that we need to move away from this person or situation for one or two reasons
There’s something else we need to be doing but are avoiding due to fear, such as travelling, following our purpose or going full-time in a business. This was my situation before I left my last corporate role. I kept trying to see my difficult boss with compassion but things never changed and infact began to worsen. I’d been in that role for 10 years and so had he.
Whilst away for 3 weeks, following my dear mum’s passing, I finally decided I was going to resign when I got back to the office, so I could focus on my business full-time. When I returned I discovered my boss had resigned a week earlier!
It’s apparent to me that he was my teacher, there to ensure I followed my destiny and I honestly think I might still be working there if he hadn’t been so difficult. 😅
standing up for your inner child
The other reason why a difficult person or situation may persist, despite efforts to shift things energetically is that the lesson is more about us taking a stand for our inner child. By choosing to move away and no longer ‘people please’, no longer feeling fearful about life outside that situation or without that person.
If standing up for ourselves is something we wouldn't normally do, this is the teaching - and our previously wounded inner child receives the validation and priority in our life it’s been craving. What an empowering lesson! Whenever I’ve witnessed this happen with my coaching clients, they are forever changed.
So sometimes the purpose of someone triggering us is not so we can fix them or see them differently but to move us on. When we don’t move, things may worsen until moving is the only possible option.
With love and light
Gwen x
