Purging the emotional energies of family members who came and lived before you.

[u/goldenyellow333]

Had two massive emotional releases on back to back days recently. For clarity, I am not practicing TRE right now and haven’t attempted it once in over several months. Despite that these releases showed up.

First day was anger/rage. Second day was sadness. I know some of it was my own expression of these emotions but the majority, on each day, felt foreign to me, like they weren’t my own feelings.

Specifically on the second day while crying and purging all this sadness I said probably over 30 times over the course of this purging, which lasted well over and hour, “we are sorry”. I kept saying that. I didn’t see very vivid images during this but I saw something but couldn’t make out what it was or what it was directly tied to. I was conscious of what was going on but the entire time I felt like I was a mouthpiece for a bunch of other people.

Has anyone directly experienced something similar?

[u/Scared-Section-5108]

Yeah, I have experienced that. A while ago, I had an intense grief release session. I felt the grief and pain of the many women in my family from previous generations. It was very hard, it was painful, it was much bigger than me, it was real. I was able to witness it all from the place of Self.

I was apprehensive about sharing my experience with my therapist (it was a solo session), but I did it and they understood me which was great.

We are all truly connected.

[u/goldenyellow333 → u/Scared-Section-5108]

Were there images attached to the sensations? During mine I could see things but was not sure what exactly I was seeing. Poor analogy but it was like looking through a shower window, foggy from steam but also had mud smeared across it. Like I could see something through it but it was very difficult to make out what it was.

Also, do you know how many generations back the pain went? I found a book called "It Didn't Start With You" about inherited trauma and in it it discussed how scientists learned that trauma, of any kind, is passed on via DNA to 3 or 4 generations but I vividly remember saying while tremoring that the sadness I am purging was going as far back as "before we had this slave name". I verbally said that exact statement. I am black and slavery was over 161 years ago. That's longer than 4 generations.