Getting our emotional buttons pushed can be a jarring and disarming shock to the system, leaving us feeling sucker-punched and triggering any number of reactions along an expansive scale of emotions. These moments remind us of how, no matter what we know, what we do, and who we Be, we are not exempt from being accountable for managing our human emotional experience. Only when we have taken responsibility for how these buttons trigger and influence our toxic emotional reactions do we develop the ability to rewire and reprogram them to inform healthy emotional responses.
Rewiring our emotional button panel requires that we rewrite our story about each button, the people who push those buttons, and our willingness to reconsider why our buttons are available to be pushed. If we want to create something different, we have to do something different, which requires, first and foremost, that we choose to intend something different.
We cannot change the facts of our past; what has happened cannot be un-happened. So, that’s the end of that. However, we can change our story about the facts, rewriting them to support a healthier, thriving version of how the data of the past informs our present and calls forth the potential of our future. I like to call this “Spinning fear into Love and living a thriving life.”
Some may say this is a form of denial. To that, I say, “Absolutely!” Hey, we’re always in denial of something: We are either denying our health or denying disease; we are either denying wealth or denying poverty; we are either denying Love or denying not-Love, etc. So, if we’re always denying something, why not do it consciously and intentionally in favor of our health and wellness? This choice is not complicated; however, it will take everything you have to shift , claim, and sustain the rewired, rewritten, and reprogrammed version of yourself and your buttons.
People may push your buttons, but remember … you installed them.
