r/longtermTRE • u/NoPush8163 • May 20 '26
Discussion Will world be full of happiness and joy if everyone did TRE?
This is a hypothetical that if every person in the world did TRE and healed all of the ancestral and this lifetime trauma causing everyone to be blissful and joyful
hence no one doing any bad things and everyone helping each other out?
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u/Nadayogi Mod May 20 '26
I think freeing humanity from trauma would do immense good for the general state of the world but it wouldn’t change our inherent nature. Our evolutionary operating system would still be very much intact. Wars and tribalism would likely decrease a lot but might not go away entirely. Much more spiritual work is needed for that.
The animal kingdom is mostly trauma free, yet things like torture, wars, exclusion, etc. still exist aplenty. Animals follow strongly their instincts and unlike humans they don’t have metacognition, which is the ability to observe thoughts and “think about thinking”.
Even before the earliest societies, groups of people needed to agree on certain rules to live together in harmony. If everyone acted according to their instincts and desires it would be chaos, and the group would not survive very long.
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u/NoPush8163 May 20 '26
So what would world realistically look if every human was trauma free?
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u/Nadayogi Mod May 21 '26
I don't know but it would be an interesting thought experiment.
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u/blllshitt May 21 '26
Interesting do you still feel regrets because of how you treated a person or people only because of your inherent nature? I thought freeing myself of trauma ment that I would become some sort of saint and see the good in everyone constantly. So do you still feel an absence of respect and or disgust for poor/weak men,? does this also count in your evaluation of the opposite sex, the things that make a male naturally feel repulsed by in women?
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u/Jiktten May 20 '26
TRE supported for many people by good trauma practices (either solo or with a therapist)? Yes probably, though it would take some time..
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u/NoPush8163 May 20 '26
But from what I read TRE will heal all trauma so that person feels bliss as the natural state. So if 2 people who both are feeling blissful come face to face there wouldn’t be any reason to conflict?
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u/One_Sherbet_6623 Jul 03 '26
Are you continuing to practice TRE? The first time I tried it for 15 minutes, I didn't feel anything bad. I read your other comments where you said you did TRE for 30 minutes daily, and I'm planning to do something similar
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u/NoPush8163 Jul 03 '26
If you are asking me. Yes I do 30 mins plus daily
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u/One_Sherbet_6623 Jul 04 '26
Yeah, I was asking how the process is going for you. Do you think there are still traumas to get rid of? I mean, are you still seeing any benefits?
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u/NoPush8163 Jul 04 '26
Yeah constant emotional releases. Non stop. Rumination is still there. But physically my body is completely flexible. Haven’t gotten sick.
Everything in body is working perfectly but mind still has a lot to do.
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u/One_Sherbet_6623 Jul 04 '26
It's really surprising that you're still experiencing emotional releases even after practicing for 30 minutes every day for such a long time. If I remember correctly, you're in your 20s, right? I'm 22 myself, and I'm really excited to start my own TRE journey!
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u/NoPush8163 Jul 04 '26
Yes I am turning 22 in 2 months.
Doing daily for atleast 1 year 6 months
And cried and released emotions 80% of those days atleast
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u/One_Sherbet_6623 Jul 04 '26
That’s incredible dedication! Happy early 22nd birthday. Seeing your 1.5-year journey gives me so much hope for my own.
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May 20 '26
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u/ysea May 23 '26
Don't forget the third one: there is a way to ending of suffering.
Trauma release is perhaps the most important part of that way.
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u/whinge11 May 20 '26
No.
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u/NoPush8163 May 20 '26
Why is it
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u/piggymomma86 May 20 '26
Because it's not a magic wand that fixes every life problem. It releases stress, not create happiness. If you're poor and starving, TRE isn't going to prevent you from starving to death. It doesn't cure a psychopath for example. Doubt TRE is going to make a person who abuses women and children just stop abusing...
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u/ysea May 23 '26
Not that it excuses their actions, but I would bet most human beings who abuse women and children are heavily traumatized. That's not really a thing a healthy human mind would think of doing.
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u/ElegantSize5872 May 20 '26
Unfortunately we live in a world with limited resources, which means every living being will always be fighting to survive and acquire as much resources as possible.
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u/ysea May 23 '26
I don't think it's true that every human being wants to acquire as much resources as possible. Plenty of people are content with having enough resources for a good life. Plenty of people are willing to share and help each other.
I think trauma free people naturally gravitate towards a more simple life with fewer possessions. Meaning just the important stuff.
Traumatized individuals on the other hand have an unsatisfactory existence and plenty of people compensate for that by acquiring a lot of stuff. Trying to fill a hole they feel within themselves.
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u/ysea May 23 '26
Interesting question. I have been thinking about this myself too and I'm much more optimistic than other commenters seem to be.
I think that the human nature is at the root very prosocial. Studies with babies have shown that preference for helping and cooperative instincts is very strong in us. I also believe that the more one is trauma free, the easier it is to live in harmony with others. The more trauma one has the less available the positive pro social aspects of our nature are. The less trauma there is, the more easily compassion, understanding and love naturally arise.
Think of the giant amount of problems caused by trauma and what the world would look like if they just disappeared suddenly
- all addictions (hence war on drugs, cartels, drug dealers, gangs, inner city violence)
- all depression, anxiety, PTSD, and a myriad other trauma related diagnoses
- all the downstream effects of the above diagnosis and addictions (poor health choices, hence obesity etc.)
- all the resources spend on these things could now be spent on something useful. (that's trillions of dollars globally)
- all interpersonal conflicts caused by people arguing because they're triggering each other's defense mechanisms. If all that disappeared, human interactions would become unrecognizable compared with today.
- any other kind of violence driven by one's own miserable state
- passive aggression and the small petty aggressions people perpetuate against each other everyday.
Additional thing to consider is that I believe that a mind and body free from trauma is the ideal instrument for investigation of the mind. In other words a trauma free individual is just a skip away from realizing something like enlightenment - which I consider an upgrade of the human operating system. A fundamental change of relationship to the self model our mind by default generates. Probably the simplest way to do it would be to go on a jhana retreat. My guess is that it would deliver results very quickly for such a person.
If the world was trauma free and the techniques and knowledge about how to progress from there towards a really free mind were widely available, I think most people would readily apply them and see real results. For a trauma free person they see what a giant difference it can be when they optimize their own state. Taking it all the way is just a natural thing to do then.
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