1Some triggers make no sense because the memory attached to them is long gone while the alarm is still wired in. A tone of voice, a particular shirt, the smell of dinner burning.
If you find yourself furious out of all proportion, look at the features rather than the story. What did that moment sound like, look like, feel like on your skin? People often cannot say why something sets them off, and that is not evasion. Once you know the feature, you can see it coming, which takes most of its power away.
Islamic evidence
If a prompting from Satan should stir you, seek refuge with God (Quran 41:36). The prompting is not explained or argued with, only met with a turn towards God.
“If a prompting from Satan should stir you, seek refuge with God: He is the All Hearing and the All Knowing”
Qur'an 41:36
Psychological evidence
A meta-analysis of imaging studies found that fear extinction, placebo and deliberate regulation of negative feeling all draw on overlapping prefrontal control regions. Old learned alarms are workable, and the same machinery serves several routes into them. Shared brain regions do not tell you which route will suit you, only that this is not fixed.
Diekhof EK, Geier K, Falkai P, Gruber O. (2011). NeuroImage · doi
Review detail
Why it works. An old association fires without needing your memory of where it came from.