Navigating our emotions, and healing long term body tension and trauma

[PathWalker]

Greetings,

I am very much into emotional healing. Since it improved my health, life and family.

I just watched this video.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=F6oYxm6ESXU

Learn powerful new ways to approach negative emotions. Learn how Dr. Berceli's Tension and Trauma Release exercises can shift your physiology so that your thoughts and emotions improve.

This is important video to anyone interested in emotional healing.
The short video covers allot substantial information.

Synopsis:
1. Noticing internal energy level. 80% of how we feel is due to our physiology.
2. Chronic muscle tension blocks energy/chi flow in the body.
3. Chakras are indicators for blocked energy/chi flow in the body.
4. Listing place we hold our muscle tension. With related sickness.
5. Identified and describing the Psoas muscle = Fight or Flight Muscle.
6. If you feel bad, start changing your physiology.
7. 05:40 Introducing TRE Tension and Trauma Release exercises, tremors to release chronic tension from the body.
8. Describing the importance of gut feelings.
9. Our brain is constantly monitoring the gut and fascia to tell how to feel.
10. 07:35 Recommending TRE for all of his patients. Describing its effect on the body.
11. Past traumas turn on the chronic fight or flight response.
12. Evidence that TRE practice turns of the chronic flight or fight response.
13. Describe freeze is another option to fight or flight. Especially for young children.
14. Tensed frozen muscle may stay that way for entire life, affecting how you feel day-to-day.
15. TRE could be the ultimate form of energy healing. (PathWalker note: arrogance alarm).
16. As we unfreeze chronic muscle tension, it may bring emotional issues to conscious awareness.
17. Go slow with TRE, and be moderate.
18. 12:20 Start to notice emotions as raw sensations in the body, in this moment (without labeling)
19. Applying meaning to sensation
20. Feel emotions as raw sensation without labeling, without judging, without adding meaning
21. Analytic minds at work.
22. Stop trying to figure out the raw sensations that we call emotions.
23. 14:10 Referencing some other good teachers about the subject

Check out Dr. Berceli's website: http://www.traumaprevention.com
I am personally hyped by this TRE.

What is TRE®

TRE (Tension & Trauma Release Exercise) is an innovative series of exercises that assist the body in releasing deep muscular patterns of stress, tension and trauma. Created by Dr. David Berceli, PhD, TRE safely activates a natural reflex mechanism of shaking or vibrating that releases muscular tension, calming down the nervous system. When this muscular shaking/vibrating mechanism is activated in a safe and controlled environment, the body is encouraged to return back to a state of balance

Hope it helps you.
Joy and happiness
PathWalker

[PathWalker]

Greetings again,

I am still researching this TRE practice.
Here is a practical instructions video:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ScveyzSN1Pk

Also found this very useful page: http://integrative-energetics.com/St...HeartMath.html
With specific verbal instructions:

TRAUMA RELEASING EXERCISES (TRE)

Dr. David Berceli, PhD, is a former priest and has spent a number of years studying how people experience trauma in worn- torn countries, earthquake zones and countries that have experienced genocide. He has developed a system TRE to help people release trauma from their bodies.

Humans and animals the three same reactions to a traumatic event: Fight, flee or freeze. The body will then release massive doses of chemicals like adrenalin to assist the body with whatever response it has chosen to go with.

However where animals and humans differ is after the traumatic event.

Many animals will shake violently- this may look disturbing but they are actually releasing the trauma and extra chemicals from their bodies. Once they are done they will gone with their lives, trauma forgotten. Humans on the other hand, have lost this ability. Who of you during a traumatic event will put on a brave face, suck it up and resist the shaking that tries to happen? Unfortunately by doing this the traumatic memory is stored in our brains and in our bodies at a cellular level and this causes all types of problems.

Dr Berceli's solution to this is simple: SHAKE IT OUT. And he has developed a few simple exercises to help us do so. The main muscle that he focuses on is the Psoas muscles which is the gravitational center of the body. The first few exercises are all about stretching you hip and leg muscles then you have to lie on your back with your feet together, legs apart and that's when most of the shaking will take place.

Dr Berceli has traveled the world with this technique and has helped solders in Afghanistan and Iraq and has been to places where mass trauma has occurred. Originally TRE was design for PTSD but he found that it could be used as a relief from every day stresses and anxiety. It has been particularly helpful to people with depression.

Step 1
Stand with your feet hips-width apart. Roll your feet onto the outer edge of one foot and inner edge of the other foot. Put all your weight equally on both feet. Then role your feet to the other side. Repeat x10 on each side.

Step 2
Stand with one foot forward, put your full weight on that foot, using the foot behind for balance. Rise up on your toes, let your back foot leave the ground. Stand on your toe for a few minutes (you can hold on to something for balance). Repeat x10 on each foot.

Step 3
Stand on one foot, bend the other knee behind you in the air. Put both hands down on the ground, on either side of the foot for balance. Bend and straighten the leg that you are standing on. Repeat x10 on both legs

Step 4
Stretch your feet wide apart. Put your fists on the small of your back. Bend knees, push your pelvis forward and lean your head back and breathe. Repeat x3 times
Straighten up then turn and look as far as you can over your shoulder and breathe(legs still apart, hands still on back). Change and look over the other shoulder. Repeat x3 for each side

Step 5
Legs wide apart bend forwards, stretch your arms out with your fingers touching the floor. Bend one knee and walk your hands to that foot and breathe. Bend other knee and do the same. Repeat x3 for each foot

Step 6
Shake body out. Stand with your back against the wall, feet apart and bend your knees- you should be able to see your toes. Rest your hands against your sides. 5 minutes

Step 7- The crunch!
Lie on the floor, push the soles of your feet together, legs apart. Left pelvis about 1 inch off the ground and hold. 5 minutes or for as long as you can make it without pain!.
Drop pelvis, with soles of your feet touching lift knees 1-2 inches off the ground for 5 minutes, then 4 inches for 5 minutes and finally 10 inches for 5 minutes. Rest.

The trembling varies from person to person. Some people start of furiously trembling while others will barely feel a thing. The more you do it the more the trembling will spread, starting in your legs and hips, moving to your stomach, then chest and head. For you to see any difference you need to commit to doing the exercises every day for ten days.

I do TRE on a regular basis…..Most of the time I just do Step 7 because of time constraints and this one causes the most trembling for me. There is more info here: http://traumaprevention.com/

I am going to practice it for few days, and post my experience.
Joy and happiness
PathWalker

[ulli]

I'm reminded of bio-energetics.

The work of Alexander Lowen, MD, who got his ideas from Wilhelm Reich.


Bioenergetics is a dynamic form of therapy based on the teachings of Wilhelm Reich. It links physical pain, muscle tension, and postural disorders with state of mind, demonstrating that suppressed emotions, unhappiness, and anger can block energy flow and cause physical distress. Dr. Alexander Lowen, founder and prime mover of this revolutionary therapy, analyzes common complaints like headaches and lower back pain and shows how they can be overcome by releasing the muscular tension that creates them. Through bioenergetic exercise, physical pain can be dissolved and emotion released, leading to a new sense of confidence and well-being. Illustrated by many helpful diagrams, this fascinating book is the right step to a happier, healthier life for thousands of men and women.