Offer to yourself a temporary time framework in which you genuinely allow yourself to be noticing automatic responses, not necessarily altering them or incorporating any different actions, but merely practice noticing automatic responses. In this, it matters not how insignificant any automatic response may be. In this temporary time framework it is significant merely that you notice, for this shall offer you a practice base, so to speak, in which it may become easier for you to be noticing some automatic responses that you would not necessarily be recognizing objectively. In some of these automatic responses, attempt to notice triggers, for this may be helpful to you also. For as you allow yourself to recognize certain triggers, you also may begin to evaluate what you are expressing within yourself in association with those triggers. ... Many times automatic responses are motivated by a trigger, so to speak. In this, a particular word may be a trigger for an automatic response, a particular movement, a specific action. There are many different triggers associated with automatic responses in which, as any of these triggers are expressed, you generate the same automatic response each time.