door. So these blocks can be things that may show up with the following symptoms or through the following symptoms, you may find that you cry easily, or you may find yourself drinking more than you decided that you would that night, you may find yourself isolating yourself from others sexually shut down or hypersexual and risky, you may find yourself binging or over exercising, or in my case, under exercising. The the idea behind the block is that it is something keeping you stuck and is a subconscious imprint of the past, as Amy noted. And these are triggers that the the evidence for our having some kind of a block is in the way we are triggered by different things. Triggers are a series of memories that are subconscious. And when we have a trigger, it makes it difficult for us to think and feel at the same time we typically feel flooded with emotions. And then we go into either hyper arousal where we're terrified or angry. Or we go into hypo arousal, which we may experience as numb or paralyzed or extremely withdrawn or isolated. When that happens, our prefrontal cortex, which is where our wise mind lives, which is where our higher functioning, our executive functioning lives, that part of our brain is shut down, and that there's not very much blood flow to that part of the brain. Because when you're in fight, or fight, fight or flight, what you need is you need blood flow to your extremities. So you need your blood flow to be going to your heart to your lands, to your fingers, your feet, that kind of thing. And unfortunately, our brain is not very astute at gauging true threat. So you can have somebody say something to you. And this can send you into a subconscious memory that then triggers a reaction in you. Oftentimes, what I find is that the reaction is less than ideal for myself and that when I'm calm again, I can realize that was not my best choice and that I didn't intend to react the way I had. So we have both conscious and subconscious triggers. One of my conscious ones is being in a crowded place. I don't mate this might traumatize some of you, but I hate Disneyland. Disneyland really freaks me out and overwhelms me so I'm conscious of that. Some of my subconscious triggers are when I have hear a tone of voice or when I see the way sunlight falls in the fall. I know that sounds a little odd, but it's associated with my seasonal affective disorder. And even though I may not be conscious of it, I I am aware later that my mind has been tracking the shorter day And so that can be a trigger for myself that is unconscious or subconscious that becomes conscious. One important thing to realize when we are doing this work is that our triggers and our reactions, those responses, oftentimes come out of a nervous system response that we don't have any will or volition over there automatic or autonomic. And it happens outside our awareness, we can find ourselves more short or crabby. But we might not notice unless somebody that we're close to says something to us. And when we realize that we have reactions that occur below the conscious level, and that those reactions can drive our behaviors and can fill us with emotions. We can understand that, even though we have triggers, we also have the power. In doing some of the work of unblocking, we have the power to reduce those triggers and to have more will or volition or agency over our decisions. Some of the triggers that can happen can be smells, or noises, a song, it can send our subconscious back to the place where we maybe had a difficult experience. And it can stall us despite our hard work. If you've ever had an experience where you've remembered something from the past or you've been triggered, and then it kind of overshadows you for a few hours as you work to get your nervous system recalibrated and more even keeled. These are also examples of triggers, one thing that we can do is we can take our frustration on our loved ones. Or if we are talking about a work environment, we can take our frustrations out on our team or our assistant. And we may not notice it, but we might notice the reaction of the assistant or team or our loved ones. And they tend to be kind of taken aback because they're a little startled by our reactivity. And that is something that we can pay attention to if we are also trying to track triggers. So one of the things that we love emphasizing is that we are not trying to keep people in the past, we want to be forward focused, we want to take a look at symptoms that we may have that are lingering from difficult experiences in the past. And we want to extend the idea that there is tremendous hope in resolving some of these things. That even though some difficult experiences can be layered, and can rest on us in in certain situations, we can find ways to help our brain and our body, this or D desensitize to those events or to kind of reorganize those events and give it meaning that is more applicable in our current current situation. And even if you don't identify with some of the traumas that you've had in the past, we are indicate we find through research that because trauma or past experiences can live within us subconsciously, that these can then inadvertently block us in the goals that we have or can block our true sense of happiness or peace.