Cultivating Calm When Feeling Triggered

CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf

Dr. Caroline Leaf

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever felt triggered, ready to react, but wished for a guiding hand to pull you back to calm? In this episode, Cultivating Calm When Feeling Triggered, we explore how you can become that guiding hand for yourself. Packed with science-backed strategies and personal insights, this episode will empower you to respond thoughtfully instead of reacting impulsively.

Highlights include:

"Isn't This Interesting" Technique: Learn how a simple 60-second pause can create space for calm and insight, turning triggering moments into opportunities for growth.
The Power of Immediate Gratitude: Discover how practicing gratitude for even the smallest things can shift your mind into healing theta and learning gamma brainwaves, rewiring your perspective.
Trigger Sips: A breathing technique designed to soothe your nervous system and bring clarity in moments of distress.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Breakthroughs with Pfizer UK, the podcast where Pfizer invites experts from across the pharmaceutical industry to discuss the most pressing healthcare topics.
0:10.7	What is the biggest thing that saved the most lives in terms of public health ever? It is clean water. And the second thing is vaccination.
0:18.3	The science is really exciting because we're still learning about it all the
0:22.8	time. As you are tricking the body's immune system, listen and follow wherever you get your
0:29.3	podcast. Hello everyone and welcome to my podcast, cleaning up the mental mess and today we are going to talk about something that is so helpful and so useful and something I use all the time and that is cultivating calm when feeling triggered.
0:50.5	Okay, we all know what feeling triggered's like and how do we cultivate calm when we're in that moment and why should we do that?
0:56.7	Well, let's dive in and find out why.
1:01.4	Okay, so think back to a time when you've been triggered.
1:04.7	I'm sure you can think of multiple times.
1:06.6	I can think of today at least three.
1:09.4	And so being triggered's common, okay?
1:12.0	And you wanted to react.
1:13.7	You just wanted to like snap back, get irritated, or you felt that irritation rising up
1:18.8	and you say something or you send up that text or you send off that email or you get
1:23.7	that look on your face that just closes whatever it is, whatever the reaction is.
1:28.2	And what would you have given to have a helping hand in that moment to get you to that
1:34.4	crisis?
1:34.7	Because it literally, that triggering creates a crisis in you and the relationship and the
1:41.2	other person and persons or whatever.
1:43.7	It creates a negative toxic
1:45.9	energy and crisis moment and it can often spiral into worse arguments, worse feelings about
1:51.9	oneself, all kinds of negative stuff.
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