Not Every Trigger Is About Programming

Triggers and programming.

Here’s the thing — the word “trigger” is not uniquely linked to abuse survivors who have been subjected to programming. It is a universal term for any stimulus that evokes the torrent of memories, physical feelings, and emotions of a trauma in its sufferer. Every PTSD sufferer has things that trigger them. This includes non-dissociative trauma survivors like war veterans, suvivors of a single adult rape, battered wives, and car accident victims — and it includes those who have suffered purely emotional traumas, such as a sudden death, a bitter divorce, or even a bad breakup.

Because what is perceived as traumatic is a purely subjective interpretation (i.e. what might traumatize one person might be taken in stride by another), it can fairly be said that every human being will suffer something they perceive as traumatic at some point in their life — which means that every single person we meet will have something that they perceive as a trigger.

It should therefore be obvious that a “trigger” does not necessarily point to programming. It does point to a perceived trauma of some sort, but not every trauma is caused by programming — not even for people who have been subjected to mind control techniques.

So it’s a little aggravating when “it’s programming” begins to be the refrain sung in response to every triggered response in a survivor’s life — especially when the responses being described have nothing at all to do with programming.

If programs were really being set off by every trigger to which that result is attributed, then the programmer had to be incredibly inept. Consider — how discreet would a real mind control program be if it could be set off by commercials on tv and random comments on the street? How controllable would a mind control program be if that were the case? And yet, the whole point of mind control is control. And it’s not control for any idiot who happens to say “ET phone home” or to make a commercial that happens to feature the concept of going home  — mind control programming is intended to give control to the programmers and only the programmers.

And no, the mind control groups are not infiltrating Hollywood studios or landing advertising accounts for major product lines so that they can manipulate the movies and tv shows and commercials with programming cues — if you believe this, then you are in desperate need of a reality check.

Believe me, the programmers do not have to go to such obscure lengths to reach the people they want. Such an idea is absolutely ludicrous. Why would they bother? If you are programmed and you haven’t done anything to address the programming, then they already know where you are and how to reach you. Someone in your system has already let them know those things.  And if they do still want you, then you probably aren’t nearly as far away from them as you want to think you are. They don’t need a cleverly constructed commercial to get to you. They have much easier — and more controlled — ways to do that.

Subsequently, no well-constructed program is going to be cued by what we see on tv or what the average person says to us or what we do in the humdrum routine of our everyday lives.

Programming is triggered only in response to something you have done (for example, don’t-tell programming), or in direct response to a cue from a programmer or a proxy for the programmer. Nothing else. And if it is being cued by a person, then it will require a very specific and very precise formula to cue it into action, something that isn’t going to happen just by chance. Some of these formulas are so complex and arcane that the programmers themselves need them written down in order to remember them from session to session.

The point is, the programmers do not want their programs being cued at any time except when the programs are intended to run. That is why programming doesn’t get triggered — it gets cued — and the nuanced difference there is intention.

I’m not certain why anyone would want to put more of their life, their responses, their behaviors, outside of their control than necessary — maybe it’s just a reflection of how out of control we can all feel at times — but it really doesn’t help us to start attributing more to programming than it fairly deserves. It doesn’t help us to throw away more control than necessary or to make the work of healing appear harder than it already is.

Mind control programming presents its own very difficult challenges to overcome — but triggers are a traumatic stress response, not a programmed response — and like the triggers created by any other type of trauma, our triggers are amenable to therapeutic intervention if we want to make a dedicated and consistent effort at working to defuse them.