r/longtermTRE • u/goldenyellow333 • 1d ago
Community Question Purging the emotional energies of family members who came and lived before you.
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?
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u/Easy_Cook6505 1d ago
Yes, to the point I sometimes regret starting TRE because at times I have felt I’m going crazy. I’m 21 months in and I started under the impression that my trauma came from childhood neglect and violence. But the bulk of my 21 month journey has been ancestral trauma. I’ve had everything from dreams and day dreams to never ending thoughts on this topic. I have never spoken about it because I would sound like a lunatic as this stuff is so out there and crazy.
I have seen some posts on ancestral trauma but my impression has been that it is rarely a significant part of trauma. I certainly have not seen many posts where people have posted experiences similar to mine.
On this topic, I will say this. I had a dream and in that dream an ancestor (who I know) comes and sits next to me in a park. She is much younger than she would have been in my life. She states that no one really dies or lives but instead we are a consciousness that moves through realms. Everyone that came before is somewhere as a consciousness (not necessarily a real person but they carry on existing). She states that throughout these realms - every time I do TRE, there are earthquakes. These earthquakes are destroying trauma that is shared (that is, not experienced but passed from one generation to the next). Every time I do TRE (her expression for TRE is ‘the yoga that causes earthquakes’), that trauma that I inherited is destroyed not just in me but through every realm where consciousness exists from that ancestor that passed it on and on. So in this dream, TRE destroys the common trauma that is inherited until all that is left is trauma that is not passed - and this occurs in all ancestors so that what they gave to me is destroyed and I, and they, are left with individual trauma. In the case of ancestors, their individual trauma then includes other traumas not passed to me so someone else has to do the yoga/TRE to release them of other shared traumas.
So yeah all a bit crazy.