Triggered & Spiralling?
- Georgina Joel-Russell

- Mar 31
- 8 min read
How ya doing? I can’t believe we’re at the end of March already, but at last the gardens are coming back to life, nature is springing back into action, and renewal is underway once again.
Talking about time, today I want to bring to your attention to the idea that you, the one sitting there right now, listening or reading this blog, are not what you think.
To listen to the audio blog just click on my picture above.
You are not one person; you are many, many, many versions of yourself.
You’re built upon layers of experiences, past, present, and future. Your energetic imprint is made from everything that you have ever been through and will ever go through, in this lifetime and in all of the other incarnations that you, as a soul, chose to live out, and it’s all happening to you in the very same moment.
That’s big, that’s really big! That’s a complex mix of realities, realms, dimensions, possibilities, emotions, focus, pain, fear, love, and joy, all rolled into one.
So why is this important to understand, and what does this have to do with your life right now?
Well, this perspective is probably not new to you, as you’re listening to the audio blog of a past-life regression hypnosis therapist, but I wonder how often you actually contemplate what this means for you. Whether you consider this when you’re feeling triggered, down, confused, or your mind is spiralling out of control.
If you’re anything like me, you’re probably aware of the theory, but can sometimes forget the impact that your multidimensional self can have on your behaviours, your belief systems or the way you move through your life in this current time-space reality, so today I’m here to gently remind you.
And to offer this understanding in a more human-grounded way, as you know, that’s how I prefer to work, I’m going to share an overwhelming experience that left me floored a few weeks ago. Actually, who am I kidding? Being totally honest with you, it resulted in 90 minutes worth of me crying and wailing in my therapist’s office, barely able to string a sentence together.
I’m fine now, I’ve been working through it, I’ve processed it all, and I’m feeling really, really good, but to get to this place, I had to do even more deep inner work. I also had to learn a new, very powerful statement that has been utterly transformative, and I want to share that statement with you today.
So, to offer some context for this short, but extreme recent breakdown or breakthrough, as I now like to consider it, it all started a month or so earlier, when I first discovered that my neighbours in the flat upstairs were moving out because the landlord had decided to sell the property. When I heard this news, my stomach turned, my jaw clenched, and a pang of fear shot through me. My heart started racing, my palms started sweating, and my mind went into full-on overdrive, and there was absolutely no denying that I’d been triggered. My body was responding to an idea in my mind that suggested the future peace, tranquillity, and security of my home might be threatened.
Now, this may sound like an unreasonable response to an idea that is yet to play out, but, as you well know, this is what a trigger is. It’s an anxiety of something which is yet to happen in this current timeline, but is based on various other lived-out experiences.
As Georgina in this life, I’ve moved 22 times, and I’ve been made homeless on several occasions. Fortunately, I’ve never had to survive on the streets, but I have found myself many times in situations where I’ve had nowhere to go. When I was 14, my parents moved our family to a different county, and then our new home was repossessed, and we had no money, no financial security and nowhere to live. When I was 21, after leaving home at 18, I was made homeless again, and this pattern of losing my home continued in my life for several decades, all the way up to 2019.
In various past lives, I’m aware that the security of my home has been breached, and in fact, during my life as a male member of the Essenes, my family were ripped from our home, tortured and killed in front of me before I was imprisoned and left to die alone and scared. I’ve been a slave girl in another incarnation, where I was torn from my family and sold to the highest bidder. And going right back to my initial experience after leaving Source, in a regression, I’ve watched my home planet explode due to interplanetary galactic wars. So losing my home is a huge wound that expands across many of my soul journeys.
But as you’re a wise and intuitive person, you’re probably listening or reading this blog and understand that one of my biggest lessons is to learn that a home is not a place, but a sense of belonging within me that remains regardless of external circumstances, and on one level, I know this too, but it didn’t stop the trigger. It didn’t stop the visceral fear response I experienced recently at the thought that things in my immediate surroundings were going to change; that the comfort and serenity of my home could be in jeopardy.
And this is exactly what I mean when I say you're everything you’ve ever gone through. Every memory, whether buried and out of sight or close to the surface, has the ability to affect your current version. It’s like an echo that exists as a shadow offering you the potential to uncover it and help it to heal. Every heightened emotion that has coursed through your body vessel, regardless of the timeline that you experienced it in, remains in your consciousness and energetic system and can be triggered at any moment.
So how on earth do you cope with this?
Well, I have something, a very powerful tool that I’ve recently been taught and that you can also use should you find yourself moving into an elevated emotional state just like I was, and it’s one single, solitary statement:
“This is not that”
These four words hold the frequency of the now reality. They bring your awareness back to a focused state and help you concentrate on the understanding that the emotions you are feeling stem from other events. That you are understandably upset because a part of you remembers the pain and the fear that it has experienced attached to other events in this timeline or any other timeline in motion, and you are terrified that it will happen to you again. But you are not that single other aspect. You have grown, you have lived, you have adventured, you have survived, and the trigger response is an opportunity for you to take care of that wounded, fractured part of you, to release the trapped emotions, to bring all of your parts together and to heal.
“This is not that”
These words are self-soothing and can be whispered internally or externally, but the moment that you repeat these words, your other aspects will be quietened. It might sound simple, but all of the best tools are, and when you’re in an elevated emotional state, you can’t think straight, so the tool needs to be easy to access, which this is. I couldn’t believe it myself when I first learnt the technique, but I’ve been using it a lot over the past few weeks, and it really does work.
In addition to using this statement when you experience extreme emotion, an integral part of the process is learning to be your own caregiver.
If you can imagine for a second that each and every painful experience that you have ever gone through and will ever go through has a different version of you attached to it. There’s the child, the teenager, the young adult, the adult, you in your twenties, thirties, forties, fifties and so on from this lifetime or any of your other soul journeys. You are created from layer upon layer of distinct characteristics and personalities, all shaped by your experiences. You are multidimensional, dynamic, complex, and you have survived and been through a lot.
But something very important to also be aware of is that these alternate versions of you have no idea about time. They don’t wear watches, they don’t have a diary, so, as far as they are concerned, all the upset, the fear, the uncertainty, and the pain have only just happened.
I’m not sharing this to worry you, because this is actually a good thing, because you, the version that exists right now, reading or listening to this blog, have the ability to take care of these other parts of you in the now reality. You can stop time. You can bring everything back to the now, as you have that level of power within you.
You have the ability to rise above the chaos and gently hold these other parts in your arms and in your heart, just as you would a scared kitten or a fragile child. You can remove yourself from everything that has ever been and will ever be, and instead attach yourself only to this now moment. You can remind your other parts that they are safe and that you are here to listen to their worries and concerns, to be the person they desperately needed but who wasn’t there. You can wrap your other parts in kindness and understanding, and allow them to express everything they need to, because you will not judge them, and they have full permission to say and do everything that has remained hidden until now. Your other parts can cry, scream, shake, and recover as you take care of them, and you will never leave them, as they are you and you are them.
I like to envisage these other parts of myself as they may have looked, and perhaps you can do the same. To see them outside of yourself, vulnerable, but willing to be cared for. Prepared to accept your love and your understanding so that you can help them to heal and to slowly integrate back into your now version. So that you can all be as one, whole and complete energetic resource of information and understanding.
I know that life can be tough, but I also know that you are brave, you are courageous, and you are reading or listening to this blog at this moment because it means something to you.
Please try to remember that you are a being of love and light, and each time you work through your wounds and your traumas, you release and dilute the effect that they have been having on you. Each time you allow your other parts to express their previously held-in emotions, you release the effect they have been having on you. With this release, your light shines even more brightly as self-love and self-expression accumulate.
You are here to experience life, to feel, to know, to grow, to encapsulate within your very being the knowledge that you are whole and complete just as you are and you are connected to the loving energy Source that can never abandon you and it’s power can never, ever be taken from you.
I hope this helps, and until next time, I’m sending you all of my love as always.
Georgina xxxx
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