Whenever we react to something, it’s a trigger, we have a wound somewhere, we are reacting through a filter of old pain. Whenever we are able to respond, and not react that is coming from healing, a place of self-love. It takes much time, patience, effort and healing to get to this place. Even when we can start to manage or calm our external reactions, we may still be reacting internally. This is where radical honesty with ourselves in our self-development journey is so important. Our healing is for us, not anyone else. How we feel is always more important that how we appear. When we react, when we are triggered (even if just in our minds) it is an opportunity to get curious. Why does that bother me? What is the real reason? The more we dig into the pain of the reaction, the more likely we are to be able to start to resolve it, address it and heal it. Over time we can turn our physical reactions into responses, this becomes easier the more we do it. It is possible to do that same with our internal reactions, we just need to practice. It takes time, it takes effort it takes honesty, but it is possible. When we react it is because of pain, when we respond it’s from a place of self love.

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