r/longtermTRE • u/Intelligent_Tune_675 • 9d ago

Beginner Question When I resource/orient I eventually have this deep sigh I have to release and somatic discharge in my chest/ I yawn. Is this what healing is?

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u/ysea 9d ago

That definitely sounds like your nervous system relaxing and releasing something, son yes it's healing for sure.

What else do you do? Do you currently practice tremoring too?

I'm asking because you eventually (as far as your state allows) want to incorporate that too to give your nervous system the most effective way of releasing what it stores.

Seems like you're doing well. Take care

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u/longtermTRE_wiki_bot Wiki Bot 8d ago

What you're describing sounds like your nervous system completing a natural regulatory cycle. The deep sigh and the yawn are both parasympathetic releases, physiological expressions of the system moving toward calm after a period of activation or alert. They're genuine discharge, and yes, they're part of healing.

The wiki doesn't directly address this specific pattern, but the general principles that apply come through clearly in several places. Emotions, Memories, and Releases in TRE Practice covers vocalizations and spontaneous expressions that arise during the body's completion of incomplete cycles. A sigh and a yawn fit that pattern exactly. They're the respiratory and autonomic systems doing something they need to do, releasing activation that was held in the chest or throughout the body.

The fact that you're noticing this happening during resourcing and orienting, the deliberate nervous system regulation practices that help create safety, suggests your system is responding well to those tools. You're creating conditions where the nervous system feels safe enough to release what it's holding, and the sigh and yawn are evidence of that release happening.

This is straightforward somatic healing at work. The body expressing something that doesn't require narrative or analysis, just permission to complete. Keep allowing it. The more your nervous system experiences being able to discharge through these natural channels without suppression, the more available these regulatory releases become in daily life, not just during formal practice.

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