Positive Triggers

[scout86]

Yes, I can see it from here.

I've had a couple of jobs that involved being outside late at night. There have been 2 occasions when the lights went all the way to the center of the sky. It was amazing! On one, really memorable night, I was done with work for the day. It was a time soon after my best friend of all time had died and I was missing him. I wanted to watch the sky for awhile and one of the cows, who was sort of a special friend, was laying in a place where I could sit next to her. While I leaned against her and watched the aurora, the other cows left the hay and went for water. When they came back, they gathered around where I was sitting with my cow friend until we were completely surrounded..... It was a very special feeling and is one of the things that the aurora always brings back. :)

 

[shimmerz]

But it's hard to eat cookies with mittens on!

We have special maple-eating mittens here. Don't you guys? :rolleyes:

 

[Ronin]

it's hard to eat cookies with mittens on!

Hard you saaay? *puts down the cookies while looking at them suspiciously* *gets down the gloves too* Okay okay, I take it, probably just hard in Canada, with specially delicious maple cookies. Piece of cake elsewheres. :happy::hug:

 

[Recovery4Me]

"A trigger is a symptomatic reaction from one of the five senses (sight, sound, touch, taste and smell) based only upon a direct connection to an actual traumatic event experienced." Stressor vs. Trigger - What Is A Trigger?

With that being said, (lest a newbie reads this) I can offer that so many of us have had multiple trauma, that a source of comfort can be weaving some association from those neutral or good enough fragments -back into a positive pathway that allows integration to the mainstream. <<per my therapist. So after the bah and hum bug rebuttal to a previous post...here I go~

Continuing a daily habit that evoke my senses can be my grounding into the positive footwork. My textile artisan cup that holds my morning roast of coffee allows me a presencing within the steam, smells, warmth to the touch and familiarity. I use an old time chrome coffee peculator to assist with the sounds of past into my present... and as I wait for the brew to be complete... I search my heart for one thing to be grateful. This often opens the next step to find another, & yet another quiet positive appreciation of the daily beauty that continues around me.

Awesome thread Shim ((((hugs)))).

 

[Keming]

"Positive Reaction" anecdote: thanking the town planner (w/ an anonymous note) for setting up a genuinely pretty/subtle Christmas display. Because feeling good about things is allowed, sometimes. Because the thank-you post-it will make someone feel a little appreciated/happy, and I did that. a moment of being myself without the misery that comes with.

thanks, shimmerz. feeling good matters.
thanks, anon. feeling bad matters too, and being able to communicate that is vital.

 

[EmmaOwl]

@Bloomy - my electric toothbrush is running out of battery so I just use it like a regular brush.... Hmm... Already anxious about dentist in the New Year, maybe I can fix that up and feel accomplished, too!

 

[Deleted member 541]

If this place becomes like Tumblr then I'm seriously out.

Is this a threat, or just empty words? I so hate the anonymous thingy.

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I love the way my perfume smells

I love the way it feels to get into my bed when I change the sheets every Saturday. Ummmm. Clean sheets.

Chocolate as it melts in your mouth. So sweet, smooth. The texture of silk...

 

[EmmaOwl]

fine, I'll go with 'that's things that produce any reaction' and not get nitpicky :p

Sheesh, Ronin. Don't do anyone TOO much of a favor. :P

Communication. Finding new ways to communicate & how to uphold the old ways & how to smoothen up the old ways so they're something else than what they were for originally, but still applicable and useful and useful for moving forward.

There we go! Back on track. Good job :)

 

[Bloomy]

@Allie D. If battery runs out on mine Ill have to by a new one since It became clear Im uable to brush teeths the right way my self. As I said in first comment I brush to hard or I brush to loose or I just dont know how to do what my electrical friend do so well. To have such clean teeth is a luxury I need. And hopefully save expenses to dentist too :rolleyes:

 

[Bloomy]

From the forest poet Hans Børli :inlove::inlove::inlove:

One thing is needed

One thing is needed - here
in this difficult world
of houseless and homeless
to inhabit yourself
go into the darkness
and brush soot off the lamp
so that people on the roads
can glimpse the light
in your inhabited eyes

 

[EmmaOwl]

Finishing a crossword puzzle. That makes me feel accomplished in some small way.

 

[ladee]

@shimmerz. Thank you for this 'self seving' thread. Smiled at the replies and felt sooo good for us to share good memories.
A Thread of Hope. And we got to know each other a little better.
Thanks again!