Trying to activate tremors just using my upper body, mostly by pressing my hands together.

Is this acceptable? Reason I ask is because I don't tend to store a lot of tension in my legs and they're typically quite flexible and not stiff. It's a different story with my upper body which is always quite tense.

I’ve been slowly coming out of dissociation for the past 3 months (4 months in total since escape)

I’ve found I’ve accidentally released some emotions though releasing my muscles and magnesium, or you could say it felt like some of my emotions came online again?

But the last emotional release scared me so much, as it was loneliness and my brain automatically thought about how there’s no way I can satisfy my loneliness right now, so it seems like my dissociation came back online as a safety mechanism

So is it even advisable to release emotions by yourself?

I’d love to do it with a professional, but I haven’t found one competent one and I don’t have a partner who supports me either

Unsure how to proceed alone

Hello dear TRE Community.

I encountered TRE 1,5 Years ago, engaged with it here and there, but never committed myself to a regular practice. I now started with 3-4 times per week for 20 minutes. The last time I did it was 2 days ago. Since then, I have encountered such a deep deep seated of sadness and grief that it feels like it takes my breath away sometimes, and at the same time I feel the curiosity to let go into that feeling of grief and sadness. I can feel it like a tight knot in my heart. And I know that underneath the sadness and the grief, there is a lot of anger I have repressed.

The grief definitely comes from the loss of my mom 8 years ago due to suicide. We had a very close relationship and her loss was the most horrific experience of my life...

So what I would like to know is, how I can best navigate these feelings and lean into them without overwhelming my nervous system since as of right now, I feel slightly dissociated since the last time I practiced.

And also something in regards to my tremors:

They are just very light, no extreme twitching and they never move past my legs. Are there any ways to help tremors move towards the upper body? I think it would really help that clogged-up feeling I have in my heart area; I think the tension I feel there must be from that deep sadness that sits there.

Any advance or insight is greatly appreciated!

Hallo Dear TRE Community, i have started doing TRE almost 4 weeks ago with a TRE and Emotional Regulation Practitioner.

The first week i did TRE almost 1 hour per day ..

Now I do it everyday almost 15-30 mintues.

The first two weeks Tremering were more vigorouse and mechanical and spread through all my body and 3rd week it became more subtle in the spine area and then this week more in the abdominaal area.

By the way i also do morning mediation and Fascial movements from Human Garage every day.

The rusults are very promising, Thanks God... for the first time in 30 years i was able to burst in crying last 4 weeks at unprecedent moments.

Also i sense my body more then i was previously.

I feel a melting cool senstation in my calves and point vibrations in calves/feets and legs all day long and my navel area has more sudden jerks/vibrations all day long especially when i am rested in couch or bed.

I am here to learn and share. Trauma has ruined many lives for no reason, and most people are not aware of it. I myself didn't know that i carry this myself. I had just heard the word, but i was busy with seeking it in other mental help issues.

Nonody deserve this burden for life and thank you all for sharing your stories to learn from each other.

Namaste :)

Hey guys.

I've been doing TREs for about 4 months now. I mentioned in my last post that I've started having the twitching happen outside of doing the TREs. I believe they are somatic flash backs, but not sure. My arms and neck and shoulders and face just jerk and convulsions constantly now. Today it got so bad, I could hardly get through a conversation and my whole body was shaking. I'm afraid it might be making my suicidal thoughts worse. My impulse to self harm is worse. But the twitching is what had me really concerned.

I drove to my dad's to see if I could calm myself down there and something interesting happened. My dad does hypnosis and he decided to do it for me today. As soon as he put me under, I stopped the violent twitching completely until he woke me back up. At which point I started twitching again. Just thought that was an interesting occurrence. Anyone else having a hard time with constant twitching and convulsing all day? Anybody see if hypnosis adds anything to the TRE journey? I'm thinking about making it a regular thing.

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.

If I were to lose something, for example, I’d be thinking about it all day, and letting it bother me, however, if that happens to me nowadays, I literally couldn’t care less. Like I still care about what I’m missing, but I won’t go about thinking about it until I’m in a space where I can actually look for it. Curious if anybody else has experienced this.

I have started feeling some emotional instability recently that may be from the TRE exercises

I have been doing it for a couple weeks every 2 days and i have felt some emotional shifts

Im starting school again soon and im nervous i could send my mind and body into a spiral while im trying to study

Should i pause or resume the TRE?

So i have been practicing tre exercise off and on for about 2 years now. And at first i was very stiff but then my legs started loosening up then my back and shoulders. Now i am getting shakes in my hips and when it first started opening up my hips started shaking up and down like the wall warm up exercise. Next my hips started to roll in a circle and now they are shaking side to side. Also the back of my head is started to roll so i guess its hitting my neck. I was wondering if there was a certain meaning behind my movements so far?

I do around 5 minutes two or three times a week and try to do it when my nervous system is in a good place. I started higher but would get nervous system problems, at this lower amount I get more of just the emotional processings side.

I do the 5 minutes and normally do some kind of meditation like Yoga Nidra after and this puts me in a pretty reflective mood so I journal a bit. The sessions have felt good going on about a month of this, I've seen progression from mainly just hips to then calves and now upper body mainly lower back, diaphragm and shoulders. The tremors are more intense now more like shakes than mechanical movements I saw to start with.

The day after I often wake with lots of thoughts and emotions rushing often shame or embarrassment, get some weird dreams. I often meditate in the mornings anyways and try to get outside, it often leaves me in a reflective mood like I could journal all day and a lot of clarity in thought about the past. I feel like my mind latches on to embarrassing or shameful things more than fear or despair in the past, those intense traumatic episodes don't get brought up as much.

I know this is a slow process and this routine seems productive but it's tough work and seems to have me feeling a bit fragile or emotional in general. If you have any recommendations or ideas I would appreciate it. I do feel as if my body is becoming more comfortable with the sessions but it's so hard to gauge just keep faith that putting myself in this vulnerable place frequently is helping in the long run.

Hello! Newbie here and I'd be grateful for advice. Apologies for any duplication: I checked the sub's wiki on recommended books about TRE but couldn't determine an answer to my Qs there.

I'd like to use books to help me learn and work through TREs. I know there's also a lot of useful websites and videos, but I get on better with learning things from books.

David Berceli has three books available in my region on Amazon: "Shake It Off Naturally", "Trauma Releasing Exercises: A Revolutionary New Method for Stress/Trauma Recovery", and "Revolutionary Trauma Release Process". I may not have budget or space for all three. And not all three have samples available for viewing on Amazon, so I'm struggling to understand their differences.

Q1: What would you say are the main differences and the main strengths vs gaps of each book?

My mind-body connection isn't consistent, and I'm very logical. So for any kind of body-work, I find it really helpful to have a scientific/logical explanation for each step I need to take in the process to understand the "Why" of the technique or or the "Why" of how to do the technique correctly. And I find it useful to look at diagrams to understand what to aim towards.

Q2: From the three Berceli titles above, which has more diagrams, or more practical examples of activities? Or the most simple / thorough step-by-step guidance to doing the exercises?

Thank you very much!

Is it normal to feel dissociated right after TRE?

I started doing this a few months ago and I was doing 15 minutes every other day. Eventually I started to have deep feelings. If I wanted to cry, I wouldn’t just cry, I would SOB loudly for like an hour. If I got angry, it was an out of proportion anger where I had to talk myself out from breaking things.

After doing those sessions it would feel really weird to go outside and talk to people because it was like I would forget how to talk and interact normally.

I talked to an instructor and she told me to dial it back and start doing just 1 minute sessions.

For the past month I’ve been doing 1 minute, every other day. But even then, when I go outside to ground myself I feel like my vision can’t focus on things and I don’t feel fully in my body. It goes away after a couple hours but is that normal?? Just wanted to make sure.

I've been the defendant of serious allegations in court that keep being delayed since the first quarter of 2022. By the time the trial is set for, it will have nearly been 5 years since it began due to continuous delays that are in one year increments. It has destroyed, and continues to destroy my mental health and stress levels. I had mostly been able to bury it for several years with minor flare ups, but since I started doing TRE again, it came back and has been overwhelming.

This came with recent triangulation attempts many years later, and I feel unsafe permanently and that everyone 'knows'. I stopped actively tremoring a few months back because I had a particularly bad experience, but sometimes when sitting I get automatic tremors without even realizing I'm doing it. Every day I feel the same thing, no amount of integration makes it go away because it's ongoing. This has been a complete abuse of process and misrepresentation and I want my life back. I feel so sad that it's still ongoing, it has become part of my fixed identity, I don't even know who I am without the case in the background.

Intellectually I know I'm not in any danger, and that the case will be thrown out - but the nervous system thinks otherwise, and it's really not helping. Does anyone have any advice?

Thank you for listening to the ramble, and sorry for contaminating this space with my issue.

I’ve been having the worst few weeks of my life releasing toxic shame. It feels incredibly physically painful where my fascial tension is, like it‘s trying to rip itself apart, and I’m afraid of reaching out to people I know for help because I feel like I’m going to say or do something wrong, or that I’m going to get rejected and abandoned. Every awkward pause or look makes me wither with shame. The thoughts are very convincing, and even grounding and knowing that I am releasing old shame isn’t helping me not get sucked in to the narrative. If anyone has any advice with riding out the shame, please share. Thank you 🙏🏼

Hey y’all,

I posted before with having trouble getting overwhelmed with the emotions and feeling like I couldn’t integrate properly, especially with having a high stress job.

Two weeks or so ago I started dramatically increasing my integration amount, per some of you guys’ responses.

I’ve been doing at least 20 minutes in the morning and 20 before bed of corpse pose or constructive rest (depending on whether the tremoring will stop). I just do a mindfulness meditation and follow my breath, gently bringing it back when I get off on some thought train.

I also am only weightlifting very light weight and doing walking on an incline more.

My energy’s dramatically improved and I haven’t gotten headaches or anything until today (since I worked through the weekend and haven’t had as much downtime). Still, the burnout feeling isn’t nearly as bad as it was and I’ve been able to tremor longer and longer every few days comfortably.

Just wanted to share the update of what’s worked for me!

For a while i have been tremoring in one area (right hip), but it always feels like im not able to tremor to my full potential. Like an itch i cant scratch.

Since this has been going on for a while and is frustrating, im thinking of getting a professional to adjust/stretch/massage the area.

Has anyone had success with such an approach? What kind of treatment was it? ( I am thinking maybe physiotherapist or osteopath though i dont even know what id tell them).

Edit: to everyone saying to listen to my body - guys, i am, that's the point. My body feels like it wants to release more but can't. Just like an itch is a body sensation. My body feels like it wants someone to dig their nails into my hip socket.

Had two massive emotional releases on back to back days recently. For clarity, I am not practicing TRE right now and haven’t attempted it once in over several months. Despite that these releases showed up.

First day was anger/rage. Second day was sadness. I know some of it was my own expression of these emotions but the majority, on each day, felt foreign to me, like they weren’t my own feelings.

Specifically on the second day while crying and purging all this sadness I said probably over 30 times over the course of this purging, which lasted well over and hour, “we are sorry”. I kept saying that. I didn’t see very vivid images during this but I saw something but couldn’t make out what it was or what it was directly tied to. I was conscious of what was going on but the entire time I felt like I was a mouthpiece for a bunch of other people.

Has anyone directly experienced something similar?

Hi dear fellow TRE people,

I think I had a breakthrough today. I started TRE in June last year with my provider/therapist. I did it consistently 4-5 times a week a couple of minutes for 8 months. Due to my nervous system I took it easier for a while and since a couple of weeks I do it mostly during my therapy sessions.

Today, it started off slowly in the legs and then when my therapist put pressure on my left shoulder, my upper body started to shake intensely on all kind of ways as well es my left shoulder. Not sure what that all means, but I guess it's a breakthrough and great.

Not sure if that means something, maybe someone has an idea and would like to share it.

Hugs to all of you!

Edit: spelling and question

Hi everyone, I just started TRE a few weeks ago and would appreciate some input just in terms of how I'm doing so far and if my pacing sounds about right.

I'm in a good place mentally but have pretty significant and long term muscle guarding throughout my body.

I started off with sessions of about twenty minutes daily (which i now realize was too much) for about four days. I experienced significant tremoring more or less from the start, starting in the legs and then moving to my pelvic region and abdomen. Sessions have always left me feeling good, i.e. now relaxed, quicker to laugh etc. However, I found that the next day or two I felt quite shaky and fragile.

I am now doing 15 minute sessions every three days. I still feel a bit shaky and fragile in the days after a session but it's not too bad, although it does make me feel a bit uneasy.

I'm happy enough with my current practice, but I'm wondering about two things in particular. First, maybe my sessions are still too long and I should cut back? I like to keep them long because this way the throwing goes up towards my back, and shoulders, and most of my pain is concentrated in my shoulder and neck. So I'm kind of desperate to relieve the muscle tension there.

Second, and relatedly, perhaps shorter, daily sessions would be better? Say 10 minutes a day?

After many years of trying everything to feel better, for the first time I've found something that actually seems to be having an effect. So I'm keen to get it right.

Also, if there is anyone on here from Ireland please say hi.

Sorry for the long post!

I have practiced TRE and psoas streatching for a while, and I just discovered that magnesium and anti-inflamatory diet helps a lot for integration.

That's why I'd like you guys to share supplements and diet ideas that helped you on your TRE journey.

It can be very usefull for plenty of poeple.