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Keep Your Spirit Alive
Friday 13th March
I've been listening to a podcast on Spotify today (A New Way of Being - Simon Mundie - TRE: The Practice That's Helped Me Calm My Nervous System).
It features David Bercelli (I never get tired of listening to him - such an amazing person!), and this quote really stuck with me, so I wanted to share it. It is from a book by Bradford Keaney, called "Shaking Medicine" and it is from an African tribe.
"When the shake is truely valued and protected, it will keep the spirit alive.
Through shaking, the tight grip of any totalising ideaolgy is loosened.
Shaking is a medicine to help prevent the hardening of conceptual categories - it keeps our vessel open for the spirit to flow through.
Shaking helps keep us a hollow tube, and an empty vessel. It is not only our bodies that need to be shaken - our words and meanings must also shake.
When the spirit moves through us, everything will shake - our understandings, our actions and experiences.
We must shake, in order to set free our mind, body and soul"
I'm just imagining how the world and humanity may look if we were all able to do this... likely very different from how it is at the moment!
I feel so blessed to be able to share TRE with others and hope it keeps growing, expanding and becoming more well known, so more people can experience it's magic, and the positive changes it can make in your body and psyche.
I truely believe it has the power to change the world, one nervous system at a time. I noted the change in myself and others... a shift in how you feel, behave and interact with each other. It's a softening... your heart re-opens, as does your mind... you become less reactive and ego driven - and don't we need that right now?
Exciting!
Here's a video of Simon experiencing TRE, facilitated by David:
Creating Calm After The Storm...
Wednesday 30th September
Experiencing a traumatic event can leave you feeling completely disconnected from your body, your surroundings, and your sense of safety. Whether it is a sudden accident, a natural disaster, a violent incident, or a severe personal shock, the immediate aftermath of trauma is often overwhelming.
If you are navigating this difficult space, you might notice your body is constantly on edge. You might be experiencing racing thoughts, muscle tension, insomnia, or a persistent sense of dread.
Here is a look at how TRE® works and why it can be a vital support system for someone who has recently been through a traumatic experience.
When a traumatic event occurs, your brain kicks into survival mode (fight, flight, or freeze). It floods your body with stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline, prepping your muscles to run or fight. If that energy isn't fully discharged after the event, it stays trapped in the body, keeping your nervous system stuck in a state of high alert.
TRE® helps interrupt this cycle in several key ways:
1. Discharging Stuck Survival Energy
During a recent trauma, your body generates massive amounts of energy to help you survive. If you couldn't fight back or run away (entering a "freeze" state), that energy remains locked in your muscular system. TRE® gives your body permission to safely shake out that residual charge, preventing the stress from becoming chronic.
2. Bypassing the Mind
Talking about a very recent trauma can sometimes be re-traumatizing. The brain is still trying to make sense of what happened. TRE® is entirely somatic (body-based). It does not require you to talk about, remember, or visually revisit the details of the event. It allows the body to process the stress from the bottom up—healing the nervous system first so the mind can follow.
3. Reducing Physical Tension and Pain
Trauma causes immediate, intense physical contraction, particularly in the psoas muscle (the main flexor muscle that curls us into a protective fetal position). TRE® specifically targets these deep core muscles, encouraging them to relax. This can lead to a rapid reduction in trauma-induced headaches, jaw clenching, back pain, and chest tightness.
4. Restoring Better Sleep
A highly activated nervous system makes deep, restorative sleep nearly impossible. By triggering the parasympathetic nervous system (the "rest and digest" state), TRE® helps lower your baseline anxiety, making it easier to fall asleep and stay asleep.
Moving Forward Safely
If your traumatic experience was very recent, it is incredibly important to approach healing with gentleness and pacing. Because the nervous system is highly sensitive right after a shock, we highly recommend learning TRE® under the guidance of a Certified TRE® Provider. A professional can help you "titrate" the experience—meaning you take it in small, manageable doses so your body never feels overwhelmed.
You do not have to carry the weight of this experience in your body forever. Your system inherently knows how to heal; sometimes, it just needs the right environment and tools to remember how.
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