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Garth
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 Posted - 09/29/2009 : 08:07:46
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Originally posted by ZiB
I've been doing the TRE exercises for two weeks now and have found them to be very helpful in dealing with my TMS symptoms and it feels like some of my underlying emotional/physical issues are healing. I was just wondering if anyone else who is doing this is experiencing some of the same after effects. I find I sleep very deeply and dream very intensely after doing the TRE. The next day it feels like my brain chemistry has changed. I'm very spacey - this can last for a whole day. And my psoas muscle (on my bad side) is noticeably sore. This all feels like healing, but as I'm just working off a book and have no real guidance I feel a little out on a limb. Any thoughts?
Your body is going to respond to your unique energy. No two people are going to experience the same affects during or after the process. (This is in the DVD) If you have a sore muscle here or there.... there's a host of reasons why..... all them good. So ... no worries. The body is a magnificent creation ! |
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Judith Friedman
USA
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Posted - 10/04/2009 : 08:55:52
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| Sky and everyone else, thanks so much for the posts. I just got my book and did the TRE's for the first time. I got all kinds of tremoring, hard and subtle, the very lst time. Afterward I am feeling like I got a big dose of valium. I'm not used to feeling this calm. However long it lasts, I'm loving it. Will keep up with the TRE's. Books says to do them every other day. Do you think it's OK to do every day? |
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LuvtoSew
USA
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Posted - 06/05/2010 : 19:59:33
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Just wondering how the tres exercises are going for everyone doing
them, it sure makes alot of sense.
I remember times like when stuff happens to me or someone,
would say " I can't stop shaking". kinda like that bear on the
you tube video.
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RageSootheRatio
Canada
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Posted - 06/07/2010 : 14:43:14
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| I still do the TRE exercises from time to time .. kind of like a "maintenance program" now I guess. I think they were a fundamental part of my recovery from my severe hyperarousal symptoms. Can't say I sleep a lot better because of them (still have some issues to resolve before that happens, I suspect) but definitely would give them credit for the other significant improvements I have enjoyed. |
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nukedalush
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Posted - 07/10/2011 : 13:43:14
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| I am planning on doing TRE everyday for the month of July (15-20 min.) I'll let you know my results. Nukedalush. |
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nukedalush
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Posted - 08/24/2011 : 15:05:11
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| I am still doing TRE (every other day now). I have noticed that my hips and lower back are not nearly as stiff and my chronic tension in my stomach has lessened. It is a worthwhile technique. |
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RageSootheRatio
Canada
430 Posts |
Posted - 03/11/2012 : 09:55:04
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I just wanted to update this thread...
I stopped doing the Berceli TRE exercises quite a long time ago ... they just kind of drifted off as I didn't seem to need them anymore... UNTIL lately.
My work situation had a dramatic change (a good change) recently, but I still found it highly stressful, and the hyperarousal symptoms came back in a very severe way. I had "forgotten" about the TRE and so it didn't even occur for me to do them until about 2-3 weeks into this bad downswing.
So I started doing them two days ago and I have had a *dramatic* improvement in my symptoms. Not 100% but definitely 75-90%. Life is getting OK again! It is definitely helping my sleep--when I wake up in the middle of the night I do them and am able to relax again.
I have been doing the exercises when I go to bed; when I wake up in the morning and at times during the day if I am feeling really stressed. It really does seem to discharge all that pent-up energy from deep inside, which more superficial "relaxation techniques" do not really help. (A little yoga had been helping, but maybe only 10-20% or so).
It has become more and more clear to me that the hyperarousal I experienced was not really fundamentally something that could be "solved" by just *thinking psychological* alone. Nor was "floating through it" a la Claire Weekes very helpful (although I love her material and it has been beneficial at times). In this latest flare-up of my symptoms, it was that the stress of my new work situation actually started causing a "new baseline" (for adrenalin production) and as Berceli puts it: "Everyday stressors begin to elicit an exaggerated reaction!" Since doing the TRE the last couple of days, I am definitely feeling MUCH better and I feel that "everyday stressors" are now just eliciting a more "normal" stress response, rather than the over-the-top hyperarousal/hypervigilance that was happening.
Anyway, just wanted to say that I highly recommend Berceli's work and as Sky so aptly pointed out in his very first post which started this thread in 2009, "It's possible that these stress-related conditions can be cured not only with a mind -> body approach, but with a body -> mind approach." Sky, if you're still reading posts here, THANKS AGAIN for bringing Berceli's work to my attention!! |
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Wavy Soul
USA
779 Posts |
Posted - 03/11/2012 : 21:49:11
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I recently went to a guy who helps you do this stuff and also does a bit of "energy work" while you're doing it that feels helpful and soothing and makes the whole thing feel a bit less isolated.
I think it's an important part of healing. Berceli's book talks about how the human body has within it the means to its own unraveling of trauma, and as one who feels that my TMS is also major PTSD, this is very meaningful.
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lara
USA
101 Posts |
Posted - 03/25/2012 : 18:29:38
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Originally posted by RageSootheRatio
I just wanted to update this thread...
I stopped doing the Berceli TRE exercises quite a long time ago ... they just kind of drifted off as I didn't seem to need them anymore... UNTIL lately.
My work situation had a dramatic change (a good change) recently, but I still found it highly stressful, and the hyperarousal symptoms came back in a very severe way. I had "forgotten" about the TRE and so it didn't even occur for me to do them until about 2-3 weeks into this bad downswing.
So I started doing them two days ago and I have had a *dramatic* improvement in my symptoms. Not 100% but definitely 75-90%. Life is getting OK again! It is definitely helping my sleep--when I wake up in the middle of the night I do them and am able to relax again.
I have been doing the exercises when I go to bed; when I wake up in the morning and at times during the day if I am feeling really stressed. It really does seem to discharge all that pent-up energy from deep inside, which more superficial "relaxation techniques" do not really help. (A little yoga had been helping, but maybe only 10-20% or so).
It has become more and more clear to me that the hyperarousal I experienced was not really fundamentally something that could be "solved" by just *thinking psychological* alone. Nor was "floating through it" a la Claire Weekes very helpful (although I love her material and it has been beneficial at times). In this latest flare-up of my symptoms, it was that the stress of my new work situation actually started causing a "new baseline" (for adrenalin production) and as Berceli puts it: "Everyday stressors begin to elicit an exaggerated reaction!" Since doing the TRE the last couple of days, I am definitely feeling MUCH better and I feel that "everyday stressors" are now just eliciting a more "normal" stress response, rather than the over-the-top hyperarousal/hypervigilance that was happening.
Anyway, just wanted to say that I highly recommend Berceli's work and as Sky so aptly pointed out in his very first post which started this thread in 2009, "It's possible that these stress-related conditions can be cured not only with a mind -> body approach, but with a body -> mind approach." Sky, if you're still reading posts here, THANKS AGAIN for bringing Berceli's work to my attention!!
Hi,
I started today,i suffer pelvic pain and low back ,neck pain also.
Is it normal to start tremoring from the very first exercise?
I mean i was shaking with every single one!
and my hands started sweatin like when you are nervous,also a profound desire of crying when i was doing the wall exercises.I wonder if anyone here who did this body exercises has experiencied something similiar? ok i felt relaxed after and no pain at all for about 30 minutes.
I quote you because you are the one who suffered from something similar as i have,except that i dont have the hyperarousal,but it involves the genitals as well.
Getting "cured" is my goal,no matter what i have to do,mind/body/soul approach if i have to.
Lara
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Wavy Soul
USA
779 Posts |
Posted - 03/26/2012 : 00:44:34
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I do it spontaneously often during breathwork, which I do a lot.
I've also studied a similar practice with Chi Gong Teacher Max Christensen, who has all kinds of thrilling powers and is very loving and gets everyone into a spontaneous shaking mode and moves lots of energy. It's called Kunlun (google if interested - I spent a year going to his weekend things all over the country - more advanced than Berceli's, really)
And then there is Bradford Keeney in New Orleans, whom I would love to go see one of these days, weeks or months. He leads groups in a combo of this kind of stuff.
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lara
USA
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Posted - 03/27/2012 : 10:54:17
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Originally posted by Wavy Soul
I do it spontaneously often during breathwork, which I do a lot.
I've also studied a similar practice with Chi Gong Teacher Max Christensen, who has all kinds of thrilling powers and is very loving and gets everyone into a spontaneous shaking mode and moves lots of energy. It's called Kunlun (google if interested - I spent a year going to his weekend things all over the country - more advanced than Berceli's, really)
And then there is Bradford Keeney in New Orleans, whom I would love to go see one of these days, weeks or months. He leads groups in a combo of this kind of stuff.
Love is the answer, whatever the question
Never mind,it is causing me more pain..=/
i will stick to the mind approach.
Lara |
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