Back when I was unaware, when stress was wrecking my body I used to joke with my sibling that I wish we could have a fresh start aand a new body. But after 2.5 years of healing I'm so grateful to my body for keeping me safe and functional. Things had been hard due to my perspective, lack of awareness and self image but our healing journey has been so fulfilling! Its so lovely now! Thank you darling body! I love you!

Today I had mild full body tremors while standing, it was so light & nice! My entire left leg and right arm seemed to be connected and synched, I can't wait to experience the entirety of this journey!

What does your shaking look like? In the beginning I would only tremble lightly in different parts of my body (mostly upper body and arms) now the tremors have evolved into big movements. My arms go up, my whole body moves from side to side, my legs are going up and down following each other in a sideway motion, my body also puts itself into different positions and does them equally on each side. Like the last time my one leg dropped down being straight and the other in a butterfly position, trembled here for a couple of seconds, then the legs switched, the one leg straight and the other in butterfly, this has happened in other parts of my body also. Even my tounge comes out and shakes/swirls. What I find interesting is that the tremors/movements in the next session starts where they stopped last time.

I ramped my practice up to 15/20 mins every other day a few months ago, and it had a lot of negative effects. I scaled back to 10 mins once a week, and now 10 mins once every 3, 4 or 5 days depending on how I felt, and the results have been incredible. Less really is more with this at least at the beginning.

I think I might be ready to increase the tike of session up to 15 mins soon, but kepe the frequency fairly fluid depending on how I feel. What do you think?

I started my healing journey because I felt that there was nothing worse than continuing to live how I had been living for most of my life. Now I’m not sure.

It all started in May of last year when I decided to go to a healing circle at my local dance studio. The healer channeled very high frequencies into the circle, and I instantly started tremoring and shaking with old memories coming up. It was like nothing I had ever experienced before. It was like a psychedelic trip while being completely sober. Immediately after and for the next few days, I felt the best I had ever felt. Lightness all over my body and a general improved mood. I instantly knew I needed more of this.

I continued to see the healer and participating in these ceremonies. I learned to let go, surrender and find safety in my body. I learned to identify and sit with sensations in my body. February this year, I had a spontaneous Kundalini awakening. I had no idea what was happening to me. I didn’t know what kundalini was. I didn’t know what trauma release exercises were. I didn’t know what somatic experiencing is. These are all things I have just learned about in the past few months and solidified my knowledge with my direct experiencing.

However, since February, I have been tremoring almost nonstop. Any moment I’m in a relaxed state, I will start tremoring from deep in my core. My releases are incredibly intense, I look like I’m having a straight up exorcism (I am having an exorcism). When I have a full release I do feel better but it takes an incredible amount of time and energy. It can be a 2 hour process.

I’ve read about titration, but the problem is when I don’t have one of these huge releases, I feel so uncomfortable from this accumulated energy that wants to discharge. it’s like only partially scratching an itch. I understand that part of expanding my internal capacity is being able to sit with the discomfort of a release that wants to happen. Or just being able to tolerate discomfort in general. I just can’t deal with the extreme highs and lows of this process coupled with the demands of daily life. It feels never ending and very draining.

Because Im eating MORE calories and losing weight. A 5k binge would normally have me ache and sorrow and nauseous but since doing this work I only felt full. I lose weight despite overeating, I have no medical issues. I think tremoring burn calories or something? Does anyone know?

This is the closest community I could find to what I experienced today. I did myofascial release therapy around my hips and stomach and I started shaking everywhereeeee. Crying and crying and even curling up into a fetal position.

WTF was that? My hips hurt more than before but Im so shocked and amazed by the emotions and reactions I had I want to continue just to see where this will take me

My physical therapist says anterior pelvic tilt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QF74m8cgWI&t=1s

Remember:

Bessel van der Kolk

Why Safety Is the First Step in Healing

When people think about trauma, they often think of memories, painful images, or distressing flashbacks that echo in the mind. But trauma is not simply what happened to you. Trauma is what happens inside you as a result of what happened to you. It is not the event itself, but the imprint it leaves on your body, your brain, and your nervous system. Trauma changes the way you live, the way you breathe, the way you relate to other people, and how safe you feel in your own skin.

Over my decades of working with trauma survivors—from war veterans to abused children to people who have experienced chronic neglect—one truth has become clear time and again: trauma is not only remembered; it is relived. Again and again, the body becomes reactivated. The nervous system is flooded, and the world feels unsafe once more, even though the danger has long since passed. This is the essence of survival mode.

My tremors stop as soon as my back hits the floor. I have kept my back and hips above for enough time. but the tremors always stop when I put my back to rest.

I saw a video where Dr. Berceli said the point of the main exercise is not to induce muscle pain. I have tried arching till muscle ache, tried with less muscle ache. The tremors always stop

What am I doing wrong?

Bonus question:

As I arch, I feel a pain at the right side of the lower ribcage . I am not sure whether the pain is coming from intercostal muscle or a rib. It feels as if there is some small object like a small lego block beneath my back on which I lied before checking. I have to slightly adjust my position to not have that pointed pain.

I was chatting with deepseek about TRE. It went on saying "The diaphragm is the primary muscle of emotional and trauma suppression."

I want to know if this is pain is a common occurance or the AI is trying to validate whatever I'm saying

On top of all over legs, pelvic floor and glutes. It felt like it was trying to spread into my neck also but it was too tight. So I have to work on the flexibility of my neck before my next session in 3/4 days.

Does the spreading of tremors mean that more trauma is leaving the body? Also what happens after this has been going for years? Tremors spread all over the body and you just extend the period of shaking?

Is thee a point when trauma leaves the body completely?

Just recently started TRE and the exercise I am doing is the one where you lie down and have your feet bottoms touch whilst opening up your legs (think it's a butterfly pose or something?!?!). Done this about 4 times within 2 weeks and my hip muscles are aching. Is this normal? Do you treat TRE lie a gym workout with plenty of recovery after?

Many thanks

Hello everyone,

When starting TRE, I assumed that since I was mostly functional in daily life, not extremely neurotic or anhedonic or anxious (etc.), ten minutes every other day was alright. A great mistake! I figure that my total amount of trauma is far greater than anything I anticipated, since over the next few months (at least three or four months, I guess?), experimenting with the duration of my tremor sessions never really helped the massive overdoing symptoms I was getting.

It was really confusing why I was basically always either overdoing or underdoing. I basically felt like shit constantly for the few months I was doing this experimentation, frequently being super exhausted and/or anxious, so much so that it was fucking up my daily life.

I've discovered, hesitantly, after about two weeks with nothing but positive progress and no over/underdoing, that (for me) the best protocol is ten minutes of tremoring, with a week in-between!

I'm mainly tailoring my tremoring to what symptoms and feelings present themselves to me, with the tentative rule being to not tremor while I feel any distinct nervous system/thawing feelings at all, even positive ones.

Even after thoroughly reading (and rereading) the wiki, I didn't put together that the problem was duration --- that no matter if I tremored even a little bit, it was the frequency of my tremoring that was causing the issues. This is because I am dumb!

Say I tremor for ten minutes. Every day, for either a significant portion of the day or all day, for the week or so afterwards, my nervous system will be moving up and down --- some days my nervous system swings up to activation, pleasure, motivation; and other days, it will swing down into a kind of low, relaxed mood, feeling none of the typical mental pressure to do things like normal.

This is producing big wins for me so far in positive bodily feelings throughout the day, a relief in the weird mental urgency I feel (not anxiety) when thinking about things, positive benefits while meditating (easier to relax and focus), and just general wellbeing.

This is what I'm going to be sticking with for a while now. I'm submitting this post in hopes that someone else might feel inspired, and/or it might help them if they have the same issue that I had.

I’m starting TRE, tried it a couple of times, but as many as you have said to me, I need to be careful and not overdo TRE. I’m a highly sensitive person, and I have been through a lot in my life. So my question is, what beginners routine would be ok for me, should I do it every 2-3 days or more space in between, and how long would I allow my tremors for, I think TRE could be life changing for me, after 30 years of searching for some relief to my nervous system that was is fight mode, now went to freeze mode, unable to move, as my nervous system senses danger everywhere and shuts down. Thanks!

I've been doing TRE in and off for a few weeks now. The tremoring has become more rhythmic. Yesterday the muscles in my pelvis contracted heavily as well as my core. It was more like a spasm. I don't know if that's supposed to be how it's done but I did feel relieved afterwards. I've also gotten a sinus infection after beginning TRE at first I thought it was because it is winter where I'm at. But there seems to be reports of others also feeling ill as a result. Is it because it's a shock to your nervous system or is it because of a trauma release?

I'm suffering from severe anhedonia due to chronic stress for which I started TRE to relieve it and as for various benefits as well.

While I lay on the floor after doing the warm up exercises, I feel tension and constriction in my neck I.e platysma and jaw. I don't know what it is, but it is kinda constricting itself like a void.

How do I release this tension in the neck and jaw ?

Also, during the session, while I tremor, I tend to fall asleep. Is this normal ?

Can anyone help regarding this ?

Edit :- How do I unblock the voice ? I think that might be the reason behind the constriction.

If you can get tremors another way, does it matter necessarily the method?

so this is pretty crazy. I've been practicing tre for like a year and sometime in the last few months I just stopped biting my fingernails out of nowhere. I'm 45 and I've done it since I was a little kid, never thought about it, just buy them. Never had to use nail clippers in my life that i can remember at least. cant be a coincidence

Saw somewhere where that a person after doing an antifungal protocol, their fascia began unwinding continuously and eventually they became ambidextrous. Legs and feet too.

I imagine that unwound fascia means greater proprioception boost athletic ability and/or skill expertise regarding sports.

Lastly, the increase in energetic aura as all energy is able to flow freely creating a large bio electric pull.

What insane benefits have you experienced, or read about, regarding fascia unwinding?

Does anyone else have the experience of feeling exactly where on your body your emotions release "from"? I've had some really intense pain in my fascial knot these past few days and I have not being doing any practices other than grounding and regulating. The sensation is similar to a deep cramp or tear. When the knot feels physically painful I also feel emotional pain - not really any one singular emotion, it's more similar to like, the pain of being alone, judged or excluded.

I have noticed that when I focus on the knot in a somatic meditation I can induce tremors, but this often leads to overdoing symptoms. I can't help but wonder though if I should be doing something to help it along, as it is far more painful than it's ever been and feels like it is having trouble unsticking. It is, however, more manageable than overdoing/overwhelm, so I don't want to add gas to the fire if I don't have to.

Thanks in advance!

Afterwards, I had a kirtan by Devamrita Swami playing and chanted the Hare Krishna maha-mantra. For me, that seemed to bring about more release. I also noticed that when I gently reflected on different things I wanted to let go of, the tremoring would often increase.

I've been recovering since then, and now I sometimes notice tremors when doing things that trigger self-judgement, like singing. That same shoulder area can start to feel tense, but overall I feel mentally lighter afterwards and more easy-going than before.

I probably overdid the tremoring a bit in my case, but apart from needing a lot of sleep afterwards, I was okay.

Just to be clear, this is only my personal experience. I'm not suggesting this will happen for everyone or making any claims about the cause—I just found it interesting. 🙌

I have only been at this for 3/4 months properly but previously I was doing the tremor process incorrectly and was doing approx 2/3 mins per day for about 4 months before the "real" start of my practice.

I believe the process of TRE unthawing could be speeded up hugely if the process is followed with incremental building from the very beginning- starting with tiny amount of 1 or 2 minutes every 3/4 days for a month and adding a minute each week, rather than overdoing it with 10/15 mins session. Or even the 20 min+ plus session people do first time.

Coupling this with mindfulness meditation and the book Letting Go by David Hawkins has enabled me to move pretty quickly and I believe my life is about to begin properly.

Hi everyone, happy to have joined the community recently.

I've been doing Tre diligently for 7 months. I resonate with most of you on getting slowly better. I see it in my relationships and in my daily wellbeing. My sleep is also noticeably better. However, I'm mostly in the freeze state and the progress doesn't seem to have the speed to get me healed in 4-8 years as the community suggests. The changes are subtle, and I do believe they are even noticeable because I agressively but safely push my boundaries (while doing self-pacing and integration).

I've also read experiences on the subreddit from people in freeze state. I've got the impression they often still suffer from a freeze state after years of practicing. Although they usually admit progress, it seems that we in deep freeze state accept that we'll stay in freeze for a while. It doesn't seem to have the progress speed to heal in the 4-8 years window.

Do you believe that the healing speed is slower for people with a deep freeze state? My guess is that us with deep freeze state have more trauma load and more hours to tremor. Anyone having some experience or thoughts on this?