Tre (trauma release exercise) question

[GreySouled]

Question for anyone who is still doing TRE:

A member from a different support site mentioned that doing TRE sometimes caused her to react with kicks and punches, self-defense movements. I have found that sometimes after tremoring for a minute or two...

...my body will position itself in such a way that it makes me think I'm starting to get a picture of something that happened, something I blocked out. My knees/legs are "forced" open and down, my left arm involuntarily curls up toward my neck, and my upper body tries to turn to the right, so as to "get away". I'll lock up like this, unable to move, for several seconds before being able to move and tremor again.

Has anyone else experienced anything like a "reenactment" of their trauma?

Also, a few minutes after this happened, I "saw" a pair of shimmery, red athletic men's shorts, and a... something else. Immediately my head and upper body turned away, I involuntarily cried out a little bit, and my arms and hands were clutching the edge of my bed and my sheets. If these shorts are "real", this would be a new memory, or new details of an old memory.

I have yet to experience anything emotional come up, but I've just gotten back into doing TRE only this week.

I'm pretty much blocked off emotionally. Has anyone found that they were able to open up emotionally since practicing TRE?

 

[mumstheword]

I wouldn't say that TRE unblocked me emotionally because that process has been a combination of things that have had several primary instigators, but I have had emotional releases during TRE classes and I did find that practising the exercises (primarily in a class because my home environment and other places didn't feel safe enough) helped decrease my general anxiety and hypervigilance. I practised for about a year and a half. Thinking about going back.

 

[GreySouled]

So you did unblock emotionally? May I ask how, if you don't mind?
Have you ever experienced images come to your mind while doing TRE or afterward?

 

[mumstheword]

No I didn't have images but I don't think I would have been in a position to cope with that. Perhaps if I started it again that might occur as I have started to get flashes of image memory from very young but I had a lot of insane body movement, all sorts of really, if it's ok to say "spastic" body tremors and major movement. And some times I would be overcome with emotion and I would spend a good part of the session crying. Also, from my TRE therapist, she could see absolute terror pouring out of me through my body movements and facial contortions.

 

[GreySouled]

Yes, I'm definitely experiencing the spastic movements. I was starting to think I was somehow doing these movements kind of on purpose.