What are triggers?
Compiled information by House of Healing Den Bosch NL
Triggers are self-undermining and / or disempowering mechanisms.
It is possible learn how to dismantle them.
On the last page is the procedure to
form new neurological links.
Have you ever had the experience that left
you feeling overwhelmed and dominated by certain emotions, causing you to say
and do things that you later regret?
So, a trigger has nothing to do with
demons, but with a link of an unconscious memory to a strong emotion.
The definition of a trigger mechanism:
1. It is a commonly occurring reaction
pattern associated with a traumatic memory.
2. It occurs under one of the following
conditions:
(A) extreme emotional state
(B) repeated circumstances or trauma.
If you are going through a traumatic
experience, where your mind and your body are strongly involved, and
where a particular impression is encounter, (such as a place, person,
smell, sound etc.) then these associations are linked neurologically to the
emotional state of the past traumatic experience.
When a similar impression,( the trigger),
is encountered, it automatically and unintentionally results in the same
traumatic emotional state, without the person in question being able to control
it.
In order to be able to get rid of the trigger
mechanisms, we must recognize that past trauma is that those memories are
stored in the amygdale portion of the brain, not as verbal processes but
as raw emotion.
If something occurs, which resembles the
emotional pain you once suffered in the past, then the full range of emotions are relived
and brought up from the subconscious to the conscious.
The human soul is extremely complex. The
soul is referred to about 350 times in the Bible. The human spirit is referred
to only 47 times.
Many Christians are not free, as their free
will is hindered, either by demonic spirits or triggering mechanisms that
regularly impede them in functioning normally.
Luke 11:35-36 Make
sure that the light you think you have is not actually darkness. If you
are filled with light, with no dark corners,
then your whole life will be radiant, as though a floodlight were filling you
with light.”
So, although a trigger is not demonic,
demonic spirits can manipulate your emotions and bring about thoughts and
emotions and cause a certain fear of a particular situation.
If you recognize this type of emotional
response, then triggers should be broken.
It is possible to develop good habits and
attitudes. The subconscious need and inner motives can be reprogrammed for a
positive influence.
You must allow the Holy Spirit to resolve
for your emotional problems. Ask the Holy Spirit to show you when and where
these emotional problems, you are experiencing (ex. fear), first started.
Romans 12:2 NLT
Don't
copy the behavior and customs of this
world, but let God transform you into
a new person by changing the
way you think. Then you will learn to
know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect. (God transforms our thinking through revelation.
By revealing to us what He wants us to know. Jesus revealed God to us as a
Father who is 100% Good all the time IN every situation.)
The
procedure
Ask the
confident to relax and close their eyes.
Say out
loud:
Holy Spirit, take
___name___ by the hand, back to the memory of the
original trauma.
Say: Now try and experience how you were emotionally
feeling at the time of the trauma.
Ask
the confident : Slightly
raise your hand when you are experiencing the memory.
When the memory
of that event, as an image appears in the mind of the person being helped, they
will then begin to experience the emotion of the traumatic event. Maybe they
will cry or feel the extreme emotions associated with that experience. If their
eyelids begin to vibrate or other emotional reaction occur, (as the hands
making a fist). Have caution not to leave them in
reliving their trauma too long.
Then the
team leader should clap their hands loudly and say:
"In the
name of Jesus, I break any neurological link and any emotional reaction that is
associated with this experience. And I place the Blood of Jesus between these
memories and emotions."
Put
your hand on their head and say:
"I
command, in Jesus’ name, that these
memories be broken from all emotional experiences and form new neurological connections by the peace of
Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit. "
Ask the person
to open their eyes and ask them how they feel.
To
test whether the negative emotion has really diminished:
Ask the
confident to again relax and close their eyes.
Ask the Holy
Spirit to bring the person back to that experience again, to see if the negative
feeling is still there or not.
By the removal of
the negative neurological connections, the involuntary reactions are broken
and all the emotional pain, that was connected to the traumatic memories,
should be erased!
Why does a “loud clap” separate a
traumatic memory from a emotion as opposed to just talking about it?
The reason we cannot just unlearn to be
triggered by incidents that remind us of past trauma is that those memories are
stored in the amygdala[1],
not as verbal processes but as raw emotion.
I have found that many people have found release from triggers by allowing
themselves to feel it, then to bind and break its power with a clap (it opens the reticular formation giving an
escape for the trauma-really [layman terms for what happens]) followed
up by prayer for new neural pathways to be formed. I have seen this work with
both Christians and non-Christians in a powerful way. As a psychotherapist it
is a technique I sometimes incorporate into my work. It is a technique I
learned from Dr. Aiko Hormann who combines brain science with
Biblical principles to bring about inner healing. Barb Long
Barbara Long is director of Spiritual Vistas
Counselling and Services
[1] Studies show that emotionally arousing events activate the brain's amygdala,
the almond-shaped portion of the brain involved in emotional learning and
memory, which then increases a protein called "Arc" in the neurons in
the hippocampus, a part of the brain involved in processing and enabling the
storage of lasting memories. The researchers believe that Arc helps store these
memories by strengthening the synapses, the connections between neurons.