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View submission: Monthly Progress Thread - February '25
Month 3
In the beginning of the month I tremored about 20 min every second day, by the end of the month it was about 12-15 daily.
January had a lot of surprises in store, there was some overdoing in the beginning, which lead to headaches and insomnia. There were throat growls and gagging (reactions I have read about here) when I directed the shaking to my face. But the core of the practice remains “wiggling” of hips and lower back (fascial unwinding?), shoulder shaking, deep core contractions, breathing patterns, and this is new: jaw contractions.
The most important thing for me maybe: I started TRE for the persistent strong hip and back pain, I had for the last 9 months. And reoccurring for years. Inspired by a post in this subreddit, I have looked at my copy of Dr. Sarno‘s book again, and started “journal speak” a technique by Nicole Sachs, based on Sarno‘s work. I looked at my „injuries“ and some other ailments that wouldn’t heal and started viewing them as chronic pain created by stress, deeply buried fear and anger.
This insight, in theory, can already alleviate chronic pain. Unfortunately, I’m still in pain. But somewhat better.
My idea is that there is a tension pattern in my body that is so old and strong that it pulls certain bones, joints, ligaments, muscle groups into places that create blockage, constriction and pain. My TRE practice is not relaxing, it even hurts a bit, because I „wiggle“ my hip in a way that tests out and pushes the borders of these wrong patterns and constrictions. My body reacts by sending occasional flashes of sharp pain into my hip or back. The „wiggling“ seems to be intelligent, though, and moving with intention. Without enforcing it, TRE unblocked/cracked something in my sacrum the other day, the most wonderful feeling. It was an area that felt „wrong“ for many months already and the blockage had an influence on how well I could control my right leg’s movement and strength. Currently the tremoring helps me with a type of pain management too. If releases some of the painful tension that builds during a day or over night.
For me, TRE does not feel like emotional releasing when doing the exercises. But during TRE my mind often wanders to the past and reflects on memories. I do dream very vividly at night and topics long forgotten have resurfaced. So I guess, emotional work is happening (might also be aided by the journaling).
In the end I’m really tired of the chronic pain and desperately want to be better. I can tell that things are changing but I am inpatient by nature.
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