Phase 2 Week 2: Your Brain on Triggers
One of the key aspects of Emotional Intelligence is the ability to self regulate, which could be described as moving from compulsion to choice. We can think of mindfulness as helping our thinking brain and our emotional brain communicate more clearly with each other, so they work better together. You can think of mindfulness as increasing the bandwidth between the "regulation" and "emotion" areas of the brain so that we get better information flow between them.
Triggers are when a seemingly small situation causes a disproportionately large emotional response in us such as receiving an email. Or when a dramatic, challenging, emotional situation occurs such as a confrontation or a disagreement.
Examples: _Ask for examples of being triggered… in life… at DBC. What happens when people are triggered? How do they know they are triggered? What happens in the body? What are the em