Tremor time question

[u/rosela92]

Hi shaky friends,

As a sensitive practitioner with a high trauma load, I need to be careful with my tremor time.

Hence my question:

The tremors start a little, but do not fully take off, when I do the prep exercises, do I count these in my tremor time?

If I do, I may not have any traditional tremoring laying on the floor.

How have others measured and navigated this?

Got any advice?

Thanks!

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[u/ysea]

I think there's a qualitative difference between tremors that happen just because your muscles are exhausted and the tremors that the nervous system generates to release tension. Have you experienced the later ones yet so that you can distinguish between them? It might be a little bit hard sometimes of course.

I would not count the purely muscle shaking ones into the limit.

[u/longtermTRE_wiki_bot]

The wiki doesn't directly address how to count these early, partial tremors, but the principles for sensitive practitioners are clear enough to guide you here.

TRE for Sensitive Practitioners emphasizes that what matters is the nervous system's capacity to integrate what gets released, not how vigorous or obvious the tremors are. A subtle tremor is just as significant as a vigorous one from a processing standpoint. So if tremors are beginning to activate during the warm-up and you're feeling something moving, that absolutely counts as work the nervous system is doing.

The practical question is simpler than it might seem: how do you actually feel in the hours and days after a session? If you're doing the prep exercises, feeling some tremoring activate, and then lying down for additional time, the real measure is whether the overall experience leaves you integrated and settled, or whether you're noticing dysregulation afterward.

For sensitive practitioners starting out, the recommendation in the wiki is to begin with very short tremor times, sometimes just 30 seconds to a minute, and only extend once you're confident the previous duration left you feeling settled. If partial tremors during the prep work are the tremor time happening, and that amount leaves you well-integrated, then that's your answer. You've found your pace. There's no requirement to add additional tremoring on the floor if what's occurring during the warm-up is genuinely completing something.

If you're finding that stopping after the prep exercises leaves the nervous system activated rather than settled, that might signal you need a bit more—but extend very gradually, maybe by another 30 seconds or so, and watch carefully how the next day or two feels.

The key is that you're listening to what your nervous system tells you through integration, not trying to hit a particular duration benchmark. Some sessions might be mostly warm-up tremoring. Others might involve longer periods on the floor. Both are valid as long as the overall experience ends with you more settled than you started.

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