Hot Buttons carry a powerful
emotional charge that pushes
people to react unproductively.
You can control yours, but first
you’ll have to identify them.
Hot Buttons are part of everyone’s emotional fabric and:
- Cause stress or pain when they have too much control over you
- Manifest negatively below your level of conscious awareness
- Result in a pattern of beliefs, communications, behaviours and outcomes.
What are Your Hot Buttons?
Think of Hot Buttons as your emotional triggers—sensitive spots in your emotional makeup. When you hurt yourself physically, a weak spot or scar may develop. Something similar happens when you experience something upsetting or painful—only it’s an emotional weak spot or scar that develops.
How Hot Buttons Work
No-one wants to think negatively about them self. Yet at one time or another everyone does: “I’m bad,” “I’m guilty,” “I’m not important,” "I’m being disregarded,” “I’m wrong” and even “I’m unlovable.” These unproductive thoughts are examples of Hot Buttons. Fuelled by an emotional charge, such thoughts, or Hot Buttons, are powerful drivers of your behaviours, particularly behaviours that are negative and unproductive.
Diagnosing Hot Buttons
Third LEVEL coaches use a proven diagnostic tool to help people identify their Hot Buttons. With this awareness, you can actively choose to change your behaviour and approach to stressful situations. The best part: there is no right or wrong answer, only your truth.
Identifying and mastering your Hot Buttons:
- Brings awareness to your unproductive perceptions, beliefs
and behaviours. - Enables you to ‘own your part’ in situations, both professionally
and personally, when things go wrong. - Sheds light on your emotions by empowering you to see where
and how you create—and perpetuate—conflict or discomfort…
plus, what you can do to create different results.
Control Your Hot Buttons
When your Hot Buttons are pressed, your emotional over-ride switch flips on, your body goes into fight or flight and you shut down, withdraw or attack. You get backed into a corner, develop tunnel vision and are more prone to saying something hurtful or clamming-up even though you have something valuable to contribute.
By changing your own behaviours, attitudes and responses, you can influence those around you to respond differently. Instead of being at the mercy of others who know how to push your buttons, you’ll get the results YOU want. Third LEVEL is qualified to provide you with that profound Emotional Intelligence.