{"id":60,"date":"2013-07-04T10:39:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T10:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maltibhojwani.com\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2025-08-05T21:56:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T11:56:43","slug":"what-words-really-get-to-you-we-all-have-emotional-relationships-with-certain-words-i-call-these-words-buttons-by-malti-bhojwani-professional-certified-life-coach-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maltibhojwani.com\/blog\/what-words-really-get-to-you-we-all-have-emotional-relationships-with-certain-words-i-call-these-words-buttons-by-malti-bhojwani-professional-certified-life-coach-author\/","title":{"rendered":"What words really get to you? We all have emotional relationships with certain words &#8211; I call these words &#8211; &#8220;Buttons&#8221; by Malti Bhojwani &#8211; Professional Certified Life Coach &#038; Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we have all heard, life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to what happens to us.<\/p>\n<p>We have emotional relationships with certain words. This is also true of many other things, gestures &#8211; someone pointing a finger at you, a particular tone of voice or sound.<br \/>\nI call these \u201ctriggers\u201d or \u201cbuttons\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the greatest blocks to communication is that some words are emotionally charged. They are words that trigger an automatic emotional reaction within us. To use a trigger word in an argument &#8211; a word such as controlling or manipulative &#8211; can turn a discussion into a battle instantly.<\/p>\n<p>Words like never and ever also do the same.<br \/>\nWe have an emotional charge attached to certain words because of our life experience.<br \/>\nWhen someone flings a trigger word at us, or we at them, it is like we have shot or hosed them down. It usually causes them to go on the defensive and start flinging some back at us &#8211; or perhaps go into some other defensive mode, many women would panic or cry and create waves, and often men would hibernate and go into their caves. (Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus \u2013 John Gray)<\/p>\n<p>As long as we are not willing to look for the cause behind our emotional relationship with a word we are still giving power to our past and whatever circumstance caused our emotional wound.<\/p>\n<p>These words bring about our UACs \/Gremlins\/Underlying Fears.<br \/>\nIn my coach training at ICA (International Coach Academy) we called these Underlying Fears\/Gremlins &#8211; UACs &#8211; Underlying Automatic Commitments.<br \/>\nIn simple terms, they are the things that you believe to be true about yourself and they then determine the basis for how you operate. It doesn\u2019t matter whether they\u2019re true or not, you believe they\u2019re true and so you make them your truth.<\/p>\n<p>We call them commitments, because a part us is habitually committed to reacting certain rehearsed and familiar way, that does not serve you anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Examples of some common ones are:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I am not good enough<br \/>\n&#8211; Noone loves me<br \/>\n&#8211; Will I ever be loved for who I am<br \/>\n&#8211; Am I a bad person?<\/p>\n<p>How to break the pattern of reacting to triggers that activate our UACs instead of from our authentic self and our true desires?<br \/>\nFirst things first. In order to respond from the \u2018our authentic self\u2019, first we have to decide who that is.<\/p>\n<p>Who am I?<br \/>\nMalti \u2013 no \u2013 that is just my name<br \/>\nDrishti\u2019s mother \u2013 no that is who I am to her.<br \/>\nA life coach \u2013 that is my vocation.<br \/>\nA woman \u2013 my gender<\/p>\n<p>So, who am I?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAham Brahmasmi\u201d is how I discovered &#8211; \u201cI am\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can find definitions of this in Hindu scriptures.<\/p>\n<p>I personally resonated very well with Deepak Chopra\u2019s definition in the first of his seven sutra statements described in his book, Synchrodestiny.<\/p>\n<p>Aham Brahmasmi:<br \/>\nTHE CORE OF MY BEING IS THE ULTIMATE REALITY, THE ROOT AND GROUND OF THE UNIVERSE, THE SOURCE OF ALL THAT EXISITS.<\/p>\n<p>See\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hinduwebsite.com%2Fhinduism%2Fessays%2Fmahavakyas2.asp&amp;h=HAQEiOxyS&amp;s=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/www.hinduwebsite.com\/hinduism\/essays\/mahavakyas2.asp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You could also try this:<br \/>\nInner Being 20 minute meditation:<br \/>\nFree download from here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.quantumcreations.com.au%2Fthe-path-of-dzar%2F&amp;h=eAQGBMOZq&amp;s=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/www.quantumcreations.com.au\/the-path-of-dzar\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Increasing your self-awareness is about living authentically and overcoming your fears. These fears include the ones we are consciously aware of like the fear of spiders for example, and some that we are not aware of, but these are the fears that cause us to react and feel a certain way about any given circumstance.<br \/>\nThe circumstance may be a problem or it may be an opportunity, our underlying fears will determine which.<\/p>\n<p>Increasing your self-awareness is a journey full of steps forward and regression. Searching for your identity is a process with no real destination. You&#8217;ll never be &#8220;done&#8221; because you&#8217;re always growing and changing.<br \/>\nLiving authentically and finding your identity involves dealing with your past and forgiving others.<\/p>\n<p>Noticing how we react to situations and the emotions that come up will help give you the key to what your underlying fears are. After the reaction, stop and look at the feelings and doubts that come up in your mind.<\/p>\n<p>When you find yourself afraid, panicking and resisting whatever is going on.<br \/>\nWhen you find yourself willing and praying for a certain outcome, you will be face to face with your deep-rooted underlying fear, which in my experience boils down to \u201cI am not good enough\u201d for many of us.<\/p>\n<p>To help you discover these underlying fears think of what the trigger was?<\/p>\n<p>We all have some triggers that would fire off the process of negative emotions.<br \/>\nI have some trigger words that get me going, I am sure you do too. It is that word or that assumption that often *somebody else uses on you that sets you off \u2013 and often to an uncontrollable downward spiral where you are reacting and reacting.<\/p>\n<p>Not realising that you are not reacting to just the current situation but you are reacting to the primary situation. The first time you experienced these feelings and associated them with these triggers.<\/p>\n<p>*Tat Svam Asi<br \/>\nThe second of Deepak\u2019s Sutra Statements in the Synchrodestiny:<\/p>\n<p>THROUGH THE MIRROR OF RELATIONSHIPS I DISCOVER MY NONLOCAL SELF<br \/>\nI SEE OTHERS IN MYSELF AND MYSELF IN OTHERS.<\/p>\n<p>So it is only in relationships that we get to see ourselves truly and how we react and behave, eventually through this \u201crelating\u201d we get to peel the layers and discover our real selves.<\/p>\n<p>So, what to do?<br \/>\nThe next time someone you are in any kind of relationship with pushes one of these buttons that triggers a negative emotion, stop, breathe and wait. Take time to respond rather than react automatically.<\/p>\n<p>When that trigger is fired, ask yourself, what behavior do you want to do instead?<\/p>\n<p>This can only be answered when we know who we are and who we want to be. Then ask yourself, if I have already been through my journey and have already discovered this self, this beautiful self, how would he\/she react in this situation? What outcome do I want here?<br \/>\nWhat am I committed to creating here?<br \/>\nTo fulfill and give more supporting evidence to my old negative beliefs?<br \/>\nLet this be another time I get to prove that &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll women are users\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cAll men are bustards\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThere are no free rides\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cPeople are always out to get me\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Or&#8230;.. do you want to create an outcome where you get to break the old patterns and reaffirm how you can live the life you desire and that you deserve to be happy?<\/p>\n<p>When we react based on our commitments (underlying or conscious),<br \/>\nWe will create an outcome.<br \/>\nThe key is to react based on the desired outcome rather than the limiting negative old belief.<br \/>\nPractice makes perfect.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever we learn a new response to a predictable old pattern, we have to practice doing it deliberately. The difference is, when you do it on purpose, you can accelerate the learning. Otherwise, you are left to the slow learning that comes from repeating undesired behaviors over and over.<\/p>\n<p>In the movie Yes Man, Jim Carrey\u2019s character Carl starts out as an extreme example of someone who has an Underlying Automatic Commitment (UAC) to \u201cNo\u201d. No matter what opportunities come his way, no matter what someone may offer him or ask of him, Carl is pre-programmed and ready with an excuse as to why he can\u2019t do it. Later in the movie, he is hypnotized into saying \u201cYes\u201d to everything.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, Carl finally learns how to say \u201cYes\u201d or \u201cNo\u201d authentically and with equal conviction, based on what he truly wants rather than an old negative belief that rendered him a prisoner of his own pre-programming.<\/p>\n<p>The old habit of living in the Underlying commitment only serves to give us a way to automatically come up with excuses and it prevents us from fully living and experiencing life itself. While when we start to create a new habit of responding to the situations based on our truths, not the bullshit we made up as we were growing up, we are present, aware, receptive, vulnerable and open to the uncertainty of the very next moment in time, being authentically who we are.<\/p>\n<p>Aham Brahmasmi.<br \/>\nMalti Bhojwani<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we have all heard, life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to what happens to us. We have emotional relationships with certain words. 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