TRE Tension Release Exercise
TRE is simple exercise that helps the body and mind relax by gently shaking out tension from stress and trauma.
This 7 min video explains
Calming our body down when tense, tight or upset allows our body-mind to rebalance and heal. Our body is amazing at self-healing in a calm relaxed state.
TRE is great after sports, the gym, strenuous work, upsets, injuries old or new and simply helping us relax and unwind at the end of the day. A few minutes of TRE when nervous before events like exams or public speaking can reduce panic or nervousness so we can function well.
Those with chronic trauma symptoms also benefit by shaking out the uncompleted response to past trauma that the body has been holding until it finds a way to safely release that energy and reset the system to calm and safe mode. TRE was originally developed by David Berceli for the resolution of PTSD symptoms. It is also helpful for ordinary stress and tension patterns. The best way to learn TRE is with a TRE provider until you are confident in your process.
Introduction video about TRE here
This 7 min video explains
Calming our body down when tense, tight or upset allows our body-mind to rebalance and heal. Our body is amazing at self-healing in a calm relaxed state.
TRE is great after sports, the gym, strenuous work, upsets, injuries old or new and simply helping us relax and unwind at the end of the day. A few minutes of TRE when nervous before events like exams or public speaking can reduce panic or nervousness so we can function well.
Those with chronic trauma symptoms also benefit by shaking out the uncompleted response to past trauma that the body has been holding until it finds a way to safely release that energy and reset the system to calm and safe mode. TRE was originally developed by David Berceli for the resolution of PTSD symptoms. It is also helpful for ordinary stress and tension patterns. The best way to learn TRE is with a TRE provider until you are confident in your process.
Introduction video about TRE here
Our Jungle Survival System or Stress Response.
Our natural healthy state is calm with a sense of belonging - safely connected to others, aware of our environment.
Our body can activate fight, flight if threatened or immobilise with freeze or flop which can save our life if overpowered, then reset to calm when the crisis is over.
Our fight-flight-freeze-reset response is a natural, automatic, healthy and cleverly adaptable survival system that can save our life bypassing thinking or planning.
Usually we flow from activation to action or freeze then to resetting back to a calm state. Sometimes our emergency mode gets stuck on full, flooding us with stress hormones long after the emergency has finished like a car accelerator stuck on high revs crashing into obstacles.
In PTSD the nervous system stays in a state of both flight/fight and freeze which is like the car accelerator stuck on full and the brake on at the same time. PTSD can be resolved and does not have to be a life sentence.
TRE harnesses our natural reset mechanism of shaking which loosens up tension holding patterns, discharges the energy, and returns us to a state of flow where all the stress hormones are recycled and we can rest and repair.
Here's a video of baboons saving an impala after being chased and trapped by a leopard. You can see the Freeze/Flop of the impala, then the deep breathing and shaking out of the experience once the impala senses it is now safe. All animals have this automatic completion mechanism run by the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) via the brain stem, amygdala and vagus nerve. If this process is interrupted in any way, all that Rescue Energy stays held in our body until an opportunity to safely complete the discharge. The shaking you will see is not a seizure - it is the body naturally discharging and resetting the chemical-electrical energy of flight and freeze.
Our natural healthy state is calm with a sense of belonging - safely connected to others, aware of our environment.
Our body can activate fight, flight if threatened or immobilise with freeze or flop which can save our life if overpowered, then reset to calm when the crisis is over.
Our fight-flight-freeze-reset response is a natural, automatic, healthy and cleverly adaptable survival system that can save our life bypassing thinking or planning.
Usually we flow from activation to action or freeze then to resetting back to a calm state. Sometimes our emergency mode gets stuck on full, flooding us with stress hormones long after the emergency has finished like a car accelerator stuck on high revs crashing into obstacles.
In PTSD the nervous system stays in a state of both flight/fight and freeze which is like the car accelerator stuck on full and the brake on at the same time. PTSD can be resolved and does not have to be a life sentence.
TRE harnesses our natural reset mechanism of shaking which loosens up tension holding patterns, discharges the energy, and returns us to a state of flow where all the stress hormones are recycled and we can rest and repair.
Here's a video of baboons saving an impala after being chased and trapped by a leopard. You can see the Freeze/Flop of the impala, then the deep breathing and shaking out of the experience once the impala senses it is now safe. All animals have this automatic completion mechanism run by the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) via the brain stem, amygdala and vagus nerve. If this process is interrupted in any way, all that Rescue Energy stays held in our body until an opportunity to safely complete the discharge. The shaking you will see is not a seizure - it is the body naturally discharging and resetting the chemical-electrical energy of flight and freeze.
Stories:
Richmond Heath on Thought Hackers podcast
Read this story of recovery after marriage break up, helped by TRE.
Benefits of TRE by David Berceli - Trauma Therapist and Founder of TRE.
Neurologist Robert Scaer MD author of 'The Body Bears the Burden' - his personal and professional thoughts on TRE.
A Psych Forum story of TRE helping recovery from severe trauma and mental illness with psychosis.
The Please or Fawn response is different to Healthy Empathy. read article
Richmond Heath on Thought Hackers podcast
Read this story of recovery after marriage break up, helped by TRE.
Benefits of TRE by David Berceli - Trauma Therapist and Founder of TRE.
Neurologist Robert Scaer MD author of 'The Body Bears the Burden' - his personal and professional thoughts on TRE.
A Psych Forum story of TRE helping recovery from severe trauma and mental illness with psychosis.
The Please or Fawn response is different to Healthy Empathy. read article
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