Trigger
A Trigger in NLP is the external event or internal belief that starts a behaviour or response.
Who or what ‘pushes your buttons’?
So what’s that all about then? A simple enough question but one that can often be heard in the aftermath of a less than totally cool exhibition of behaviour brought on by a catalyst possibly something as simple as a spider or a bee.
The ‘trigger’ as when situated on a weapon like a gun, once pulled has an inevitable outcome, and it is also that fast.
So how do we install these triggers?
The brain loves a strategy; it is a massive circuit board and its only purpose in life is to find things that light it up like a Christmas tree.
How are our behaviours triggered?
This is the purpose of curiosity it keeps the brain firing up those circuit boards and it is our job when there is a less than supportive behaviour being triggered by external events or the stimulation on a limiting belief, to switch the signals, detour the train of thought to another area, lighting up a whole new part of the circuit board and giving the client a new way of dealing with an old problem.
You can see this happening everyday. There is someone in your life, you only have to hear their name and you respond with a big sigh and immediately your brow furrows and the whole day becomes grey, alternatively it could be the name of someone who immediately makes you smile and feel expansive and in love with the world.
The trigger is not the name or the person it’s the synesthesia that occurs due to the associations you have with this person.
It is also the thing that makes you shriek when you see a mouse, or a spider or a wasp.
A learned behaviour that can be unlearned, where would that come in handy?
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