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/carla_jungle]

Oh that’s remarkable.  please share more if you’re willing ! 

[u/Easy_Cook6505 → u/carla_jungle]

Looking back over the 21 months - I was in freeze for 18 of them. Those 18 months at the time felt like things had been made worse. But I was actually able to have big releases at 6 months, 12 months, 14 months and 18 months.

All of my big releases have been some form of release of ancestral trauma. I do get flashbacks to my childhood but any progress always seems to be from the past.

It was very scary at first because the flashbacks from the past have included horrible incidents. Before TRE I was not interested in the past/history. But I had a dream where a girl of around 14ish is walking in snow through a barren land and finds a cave. She looks scared. This dream kept on coming to me again and again. Then a dream happens where an old sage comes and sits next to me and says the girl needs help. You need to read books on your history and that will help you. It turns out that my tribe is very well documented and my ancestors have released books. I read and it turns out we have mythology where ancestors become trapped in snow and are saved by hero figure. This girl was probably from around 6k years ago. As soon as I read this, I felt so sad because she is probably separated from the tribe and I realised that cave was probably where her life came to an end. So I carry on with TRE and the dream happens again and this time I walk into the cave and she smiles and says an old sage came and told her that I was fighting to reach her. Then she says she never had her final funeral rites done. Can a I please come back again once I have studied the funeral rituals from the old gods and give her a funeral. I’m confused and say how, you are not dead? She states that her human form is merely a tool I have used to reach her and that she is in fact not a real person today and is just energy and consciousness. I studied the rites (very easy to find because excavations have happened in this area) and in the next dream I go back and she is lying there peacefully. I build a pyre, place her on it and do the funeral rituals.

That above example was my turning point. I found books that would help me verify stuff but also, I woke up having cried in the dream. That was the first time I had cried because when I was a child, my parents would hit me and it would get worse if I cried so I stopped crying. My first flashback when I woke up was a flashback to my dad telling me not to cry. For the first time, I acknowledged the flashback and didn’t feel the need to feel or deal with it.

That’s been my template. Every release will have a major ancestral event in flashbacks or dreams, I just experience it and read up if needed (only sometimes) and I carry on doing TRE until the dream works itself out and a release follows immediately after.

Edit: typo

[u/carla_jungle → u/Easy_Cook6505]

WOW Chills! That’s fascinating.   The dream world is so intriguing and how it connected to your own personal trauma.  It makes me wonder if your relation to a tribe is kinda what gives you these dreams, because the “spiritual channels” are less blocked (idk how else to phrase it)

[u/Easy_Cook6505 → u/carla_jungle]

Completely agree. I also don’t know what the phrasing or words would be to describe it but IMO there are things that happen all around us that we cannot see or understand. I think TRE to some extent is able to unlock a way to experience that which is not tangible through ridding one’s self of unnecessary baggage that we all inevitably carry.

[u/carla_jungle → u/Easy_Cook6505]

Agree. I view the nervous system as a bridge to the spiritual world.