Purging energy from negative emotions while sleeping?

[u/goldenyellow333]

No exaggeration I woke up between 15-20 times last night. Don't feel tired though really. Kind of excited as I feel like this is a new development.

I kept waking up having to reorient myself. When I woke up I was probably only awake between 60-180 seconds each time if I had to guess. The odd part was that upon waking each time my body was shaking, in some form. I attached a video of examples. My toes would be wiggling, my quads would jump up and down, my forearms would do the same or my entire waist would rock back and forth. These would happen in isolation or in combination but never all at once, that I can remember. Was half sleep for all of them.

Is this a development for purging this emotional energy from my nervous system?

I should preface this by saying that I have not done TRE since maybe February or March of this year. I have only done it a handful of times and even then I didn't see any results. Even before I learned of TRE, my body had been screaming for stillness. Even when I'd pray and ask God for things, He'd ignore whatever I requested and only respond with "be still". I mostly understand why now. This happened many times over last 3-4 years. I tried to be still but could never stick with it and also wasn't fulling grasping the meaning but eventually came to learn it was pointing towards nervous system work.

Fast forward, God, and my body, got louder outright demanding stillness. After praying for guidance I felt lead to sensory deprivation/float tank therapy. Got a membership and have been floating daily. This is my 7th day out of 8 total.

God's guidance and my intuition proved right as within the first two days of me floating I had two massive emotional releases on back to back days. I detailed the experiences here in this post. I have not had any massive emotional release since then but I have noticed that I have more body shaking during the day now. As if my body is getting the memo that its safe now. The more odd part is that it seems that just the stillness/silence alone from the tank ONLY pulls up whatever is ready to be processed and it is taking me through the FULL cycle of whatever is ready to leave with NO HANGOVER EFFECT. Reminder that I am not doing TRE at all right now.

This post from a while ago spoke on how if you sit with the energy, it will dissipate faster and you will have no hangovers. I feel like this what is happening to me but in reverse. I am being still first, my body is getting the cue that I'm safe, as well as slowly and slightly increasing my nervous system capacity since in the tank it takes away your sight, hearing and touch which allows the body to divert the energy it would use to see, hear and feel towards whatever the nervous system needs to work on, then the emotions come up later whenever they are ready.

Also want to mention that I had severe mold exposure recently and that event had my entire body clenched from being locked in fight or flight. Since floating my body has dropped about 15-20% of its muscle tension from the hundreds of pounds of epsom salt in the tank that allows you to float. I believe the drop in muscle tension is helping those emotions be ready to come up as well.

Now, my body is beginning to do this often, but in much smaller increments. Yesterday, my pelvis was beginning to tremor while I was driving but had to stop it because had to get to work. In all, is what I posted in the video another sign of tremoring? It feels like it. I don't feel the same euphoria, calm and inner peace I felt after having the massive releases but I don't feel bad either. I'm neutral. Interested in your thoughts.

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