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Thanks for sharing! Do you mind elaborating a bit how you use this somatic anger release approach on a daily basis?
Funnily, I am also going through a period of rather intense anger. I tried the approach outlined in the video and have actively chosen to remind myself and feel the anger related to some abuse event that recently happened. When I do this, I can feel the tension coming up in my chest. When I then intentionally clench my fists and do a growl I can feel the energy/anger dissipating but it often also leads to a mini shake/tremor in my back/upper body. Just 1-2 seconds but it happens regularly when I tune fully into the anger feeling and energy.
Is it the same for you? Do you actively remember past situations related to anger or something that happened on the particular day and you know it made you angry to elicit this feeling of anger in your body?
On an abstract level, this process feels very similar as with anxiety. When I focus on anxiety and seek the underlying tension in the body and then put my attention on it, I also often have a short tremor/physical release. The anxiety is then typically gone.
In both cases, anxiety and anger, there is often also some sadness coming up after the tremor and I might briefly cry.
Comment by larynxfly at 05/02/2025 at 18:20 UTC
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Hmmm I would say the more I’ve done it the more it feels like I’m doing TRE but angrily haha.
At first I did the exercise and brought up the anger and I felt it very strongly in my hands. I tried the towel wringing and pillow punching.
Once I brought the anger out I would just pace around letting my body do whatever it wanted. I look like an insane person. I pace in my room, do “silent screams” or at least quiet them down, I growl, swipe and punch at the air, let my body move exactly how it wants to. Sometimes in the middle I lay down on the floor and move like a toddler having a tantrum and get back up and keep pacing. It does feel similar to TRE in that I just let my body move and shake and do repetitive movements however it wants and just follow the body. And it does feel like a renewal of my TRE tremors just driven by the anger now. Prior to this the tremors felt kind of forced and like I was going through the motions, now that it’s driven by the anger I am feeling more release on a daily basis.
Sometimes memories associated with the anger come up but it mostly just feels like a better release of emotion and energy that’s stuck in the body. So far I haven’t had that many emotions come up but I think I have spent more energy suppressing my anger my whole life not suppressing sadness so a lot of that came out earlier in my journey and now it’s just anger