What Pebbles are Thrown in Your Pond?
And What do You About the Ripples?
Have you ever dropped a pebble in to a pond?
After the rock hits the water, ripples move through the pond in ever widening circles.
Watching the pebble disrupt the calm surface of the water puts me in mind of a thought popping in my head and the ripple effect of the initial thought as it triggers a thousand more thoughts, a ripple effect of memories, fears and insecurities.
Experts tell us that we have around 60,000 thoughts a day and most of them flow through us as they’re meant to but there is often one or two that we get snagged on, the ones that cause the ripples.
What are you pebble thoughts? What triggers those thoughts?
Triggers
People are triggered by many different things. Some are triggered by a word or an image, some are triggered by events.
But the fact that we all have different triggers show us that the trigger itself isn’t the issue. If, for instance, an argument between two people in the street is a trigger for someone who has been in a domestic abuse situation, it wouldn’t be a trigger for someone who hadn’t had the same experience.
