https://www.reddit.com/r/longtermTRE/comments/1idrabz/trauma_vs_learned_postures_from_physical/
created by Soft-Competition-740 on 30/01/2025 at 16:46 UTC
18 upvotes, 5 top-level comments (showing 5)
So I've been on my TRE journey for a bit now, with most of the positive effects from TRE directly influencing my sex life in some wonderful ways. :) In the integration period after I do TRE, I can feel a great deal of relaxation taking place in my vaginal/psoas/pelvic floor area--feels like a cool, running water-type sensation, with some itching/slight orgasmic feeling. I have also gained the ability to experience a lot more sexual pleasure.
Something I've been thinking about in the past few days is how activities such as ballet, which stress a very particular, "pulled-up" posture, with the hip flexors turned out in order to achieve an ideal balletic stance, could greatly influence a person in other ways relating to pelvic floor dysfunction, etc. I first started taking ballet around 5 years old, and I can well imagine the ways that ballet instruction could influence a young person to change their posture, perhaps permanently. Ballet also can strongly emphasize to dancers that they must engage their abdominal muscles at all times--due to my dance background, I literally have my abdominal muscles engaged 24/7.
So what I've been thinking is... I feel like with the name "trauma release exercises," that this could easily influence a person who is experiencing positive effects from TRE to wonder, "What trauma did I experience in order to be gaining this great of a benefit from TRE?" I myself have wondered these things, despite having had a fairly idyllic childhood. There was one event that happened to me in middle school that greatly influenced me sexually, but I have a hard time linking that one incident to long-term sexual dysfunction. Rather, it makes much more sense to me to think about physical activities such as ballet that train young bodies to employ certain postures. And all this teaching could be given with the best intentions by well-meaning teachers, but it could still induce bodily "trauma" by teaching children to engage their muscles in very particular ways, especially pelvic floor muscles. I'm sure there are other physical activities that could seem innocuous, but also have large impacts on the body, such as instruments that require a certain embouchure or perhaps singing, which can require a great deal of muscle and diaphragm control.
Comment by freyAgain at 30/01/2025 at 19:58 UTC
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TRE is not directly about releasing trauma. TRE is about releasing tension from muscles, whatever is the source of tension. It such happens that trauma and repressed emotions manifest is body as tension, which is the reason TRE helps with trauma. But reiterating, the source of tension does not matter. It can be ballet, gym, current stress, etc. So in the end TRE is not about releasing trauma only, but about releasing tension which happens to be the medium of how the trauma is stored in the body.
Comment by AmbassadorSerious at 30/01/2025 at 17:15 UTC
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1. It's Tension and Trauma Release Exercises
2. Maybe you didn't have a traumatic childhood, but the number of people who claim to have perfect childhoods and then go on to describe childhoods that were far from perfect is...well a lot.
3. Does it make a difference knowing where the source of your issues came from?
Comment by Bigbabyjesus69 at 30/01/2025 at 18:30 UTC
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Effort->Tension->Trauma are the same thing just varying degrees. Basically every human alive today has a ton of tension throughout their system from various things. We can trace it back to different stories if we like but the beautiful thing about TRE is we don’t really have to bc TRE doesn’t require the mind whatsoever. If there’s any relevant / important information related to some tension, it’ll be effortlessly revealed at the right time, we won’t have to think or search for it. Most of the time it isn’t necessary in my experience, if anything, getting caught in the mind and stories just slows down the dissolution / resolution of the effort / tension / trauma bc we’re still plugging our energy into it and keeping it alive in some sense
Comment by Mindless_Formal9210 at 31/01/2025 at 04:20 UTC
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I actually agree with you
Comment by Abject_Control_7028 at 31/01/2025 at 09:06 UTC
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My parents forced me to play violin from a very young age rigjt up through adolescence . Always hated the thing. I definitely have a wierd kind of imbalance in my neck and shoulders and chronic tightness on one side due to the wierd posture I had to hold practicing for hours and hours , years and years. TRE is definitely loosing things back up. I think forcing kids into stuff that tenses the body and invests tension is tantamount to child abuse.