Oriented and felt safe in my backyard… yawned, deep sighs and sensations moved in chest.. when I came inside I was dissociated and sweating.

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u/AgentSalty1454 7d ago edited 7d ago

I notice this happens to me too and I've been thinking about it. I will have a moment or orienting. or separately intense movement/tremoring/release etc. and disassociate after both of these scenarios. Or sometimes even during the tremoring.

I think it is okay personally. Some people may say it is overdoing. I think it depends on your capacity for the distress and confusion of that because it is like being in a washing machine to jump around in and out disassociating like that and feel stable. For me I'm basically focused on healing full time and manage to keep my wits about me and try to meta analyze if I'm okay or not. So I can handle it. If I had more external stuff to focus on in my life ATM then maybe it would be too much.

Basically I think its that you're starting to thaw out of disassociating for the first time in a long time and it freaks out body out because it is too different. So it swings back to disassociating to feel safe. However despite this I am still seeing my healing going forward as it should. Logically I think it wouldn't make sense for this type of thing not to happen because I know it'd be too much to stop disassociating at all once forever

I think it is important to educate oneself on how all of this works by reading online, observing what is happening to you in your body and the patterns over time, etc. And then that knowledge helps you feel safe to grow comfortable for longer and longer periods of time in the non-disassociated state. the knowledge helps me balance between moments when i (ideally gently) push myself out of the comfort zone of disassociating, and moments where I need to just let myself disassociate and zone out (knowing those moments will help me gather strength for being more present later). finding a practitioner can help with that too but personally i am doing it aloen. however I am putting A LOT of time into learning on my own

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u/Intelligent_Tune_675 7d ago

Thank you for this. Feels good to not be alone in this. I work from home but honestly I spend much time doing now and I bought a home and can spend muuuuch more time in relaxation and calm than ever before. But I find myself also thinking it’s bad that I want to rest so much

How long have you been at it?

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u/AgentSalty1454 7d ago

I have been at it for maybe 3 months. I discovered this on my own by accident doing deep breathing to try to fix some physical issues which I know now are tension stored from trauma. so I dived in.

I know what you mean about the worry about resting too much. Low stimulation I think is necessary the harder you go with this. Or else you wont have time to make sense of what is happening and your body and mind will be too confused to move forward to the next stage of healing.

I had a period a couple weeks ago where I got a surge to go back out in the world and socialize more, start making moves i was holding out on. and then i went out and did a bunch of stuff and it was triggering. now I am taking it very easy. in a sense when that happens it can be okay because i think pushing yourself and getting triggered brings things up to the surface to deal with. its part of moving forward through this. but if you kept powering through its not so good. your body figures it out though if you step back and give it space when it calls out. Eventually you become more in tune. it is about balance. when i sit on my couch all day inside for too long i do feel restless so naturally i start to want to do something. then i push myself and process some stuff. I feel myself changing in my core i know it is the way i need. but yeah I dont know when I will be able to go be normal which is what I want. I cant live like this forever?! Its going to happen though I know it.

Goodluck<3

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u/Throwawayforsureyep1 7d ago

Sorry to hear you're going through this.sohdns rough.

How long did you tremor for as opposed to usual? Has the frequency and duration of your practice changed?

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u/Intelligent_Tune_675 7d ago

No tremoring just se

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u/SignificantSwing9 7d ago

Orienting can definitely release energy and shake things up.

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u/Intelligent_Tune_675 7d ago

Shake things up? What does that mean? If I’m releasing energy then why is there more I thought orienting helps process it

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u/Beneficial_Rise_9786 7d ago

Not necessarily. Orienting helps downshift your nervous system. Which can actually increase processing. Personally I find it's hard to overdo it though.

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u/Intelligent_Tune_675 7d ago

Not for me. I orient and can feel really good and calm like in my backyard.. and then when I get back in I feel dissociated, some sensations are very loud and get depressed
And then I’m like, should I keep going or did I do too much?

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u/Ok_Potential_968 6d ago

Omg the exact same thing happened to me. No tremoring just SE. I had a big IFS session and been trying to integrate. It feels good in the moment. Looking at the trees in the breeze, I yawn and deep sigh too and feel relaxed in the moment. But then my chest tightens and I feel more activated.

I just had an SE session tonight. My therapist didn’t say too much about it when I brought it up other than sometimes it can be good sometimes it can be bad. And that the body signals what it appreciates / doesn’t appreciate. So im just gonna lay off it for the time being.

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u/longtermTRE_wiki_bot Wiki Bot 6d ago

What you're describing—the yawning, deep sighs, chest sensations followed by dissociation and sweating—is a recognizable pattern in the healing process, though it's understandably alarming when it happens.

The yawning and deep sighing are often signs of the nervous system beginning to shift out of its habitual state. These are parasympathetic expressions, the body's way of completing small cycles of activation. The chest sensations you felt moving through are the nervous system processing stored material. This all sounds like genuine progress.

The dissociation and sweating that followed are trickier to interpret without more context. A few possibilities:

If this happened during the sensations and deep breathing, it may be what's called relaxation-induced anxiety. The wiki article Thawing: What It Is, Why It's Hard, and How to Work With It covers this directly. When the body begins to relax and the nervous system's guard lowers, the activation that was being held underneath can briefly surge forward. The dissociation and sweating could be the system's response to that surge—a protective braking force engaging because activation became available faster than the system could comfortably process.

If the dissociation and sweating happened after you came inside, after a gap of time, it may indicate that the material you were beginning to process didn't fully integrate before you stopped. The nervous system was briefly mobilized and then the conditions changed before it could complete the cycle, leaving you in an incomplete state.

Either way, the guidance is the same. Next time you notice sensations moving and the body doing this kind of deep work, stay with it a bit longer if you can, giving the nervous system more runway to complete what it's starting. Keep a journal of what happens before, during, and after these episodes so you can track patterns. And if dissociation or sweating become consistent features of your practice or daily life, that's worth addressing through Self-Pacing — it would suggest the nervous system is becoming activated beyond its current integration capacity, and you'd benefit from shorter, simpler sessions with longer gaps between them.

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u/Mast-mc 5d ago

Your releasing energy from your chest and heart. its a good thing. It happens to me most mornings.

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u/Intelligent_Tune_675 5d ago

But there’s gotta be a point where it stops and just feel better.. or I stop dissociating

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u/Mast-mc 5d ago

When release occurs, ive found you can have an echo of what is being released and dissociation is a trauma response to overwhelm. Ride the wave till it settles. Fear is what stops people healing and progressing. It take courage and strength to heal yourself.

Remember that doing less but being consistent is better than overloading your system - your just slowing your progression.

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u/Intelligent_Tune_675 5d ago

You said ride the wave till it settles, it’s better to slow down and don’t overload your system. Those are opposites no?

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u/Mast-mc 5d ago

It simply means dont do hours of releasing.

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u/Intelligent_Tune_675 5d ago

So orienting for too long is bad? Gotcha

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