From my own experience and that of others, it seems that therapeutic tremoring (TRE) can be very helpful for people with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).
Since it releases tension out of the system, it can help improve sleep, reduce anxiety and depression, and lead to more comfort and well being in general.
Equally important, therapeutic trembling may allow energy tied up in tension to release and thus become available to the (other) needs of the system.
Both help with everyday functioning and both may support the system in healing itself.
There are some TRE precautions for people with CFS. Mainly, do the tremoring for only short periods at first, and follow the signals of your system. As your system gets more familiar with it, and you get more familiar with how it responds, you can increase the frequency and length of the tremoring sessions.
Several notes:
I use the word “system” here instead of body, mind, or even bodymind. I could say “bodymind system” since I am referring to the whole of the human being, body, mind, and all. When I use the word “tension” that similarly refer to tension as having body and mind components.
When I say “trembling” or “tremoring” it’s a lot more than just trembling. It can be any kind of movement (autonomous, not created through intention) including “butterflying” of the legs, slow rhythmical movements, shaking, subtle vibrations, stretching, jumping, sounds and more. All ways the bodymind – outside of our conscious awareness and intention – invites tension to release when it’s allowed and invited to do so.
And when I put TRE in parenthesis after “therapeutic trembling” it’s because TRE – Tension and Trauma Release Exercises – is perhaps the simplest way to allow therapeutic trembling to happen for us modern people. Therapeutic trembling is built into us through evolution, but in our modern culture, we have learned to suppress it. We may have learned it’s a sign of weakness, or embarrassing, or that it means we are out of control (and that’s bad), or we don’t understand what it’s for, or we just have a general suspicion of the inherent wisdom of the body, or we simply think there is no inherent wisdom in the body. For whatever reason, we have learned to suppress it, so we need to unlearn and allow the trembling to happen. And TRE is a good tool for just that.
Also, I should say that although it seems that therapeutic trembling can significantly help people with CFS, the extent will vary between people. It does require sticking to it for a long period of time, over months and years (although the progress will be noticeable from early on). And the underlying medical conditions may vary between people since CFS is an exclusion diagnosis.
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- CFS & TRE
- TRE helps CFS in several ways
- improved sleep, less anxiety, more comfort and well being etc.
- releases energy bound up in tension and trauma, makes more energy available
- help system back towards balance, well functioning etc. in general
- precautions
- small moves, gently, short periods (at first), self-regulation etc.
- research, interesting project
- look at how well it works and for whom
- look at possible mechanisms
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- TRE helps CFS in several ways
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From my own experience, and that of others, it seems that therapeutic tremoring (TRE) can be very helpful for people with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).
Since it releases tension out of the system, it can help improve sleep, reduce anxiety, and lead to more comfort and well being in general.
Equally important, although a bit outside of what mainstream medicine may currently acknowledge, therapeutic tremoring may allow energy tied up in tension to be released and made available for the system – for everyday functioning and healing.
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From my own experience, and that of others, it seems that therapeutic tremoring (TRE) can be very helpful for people with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).
Since it releases tension out of the system, it can help improve sleep, reduce anxiety and depression, and lead to more comfort and well being in general. This helps everyday functioning and supports healing of the system.
Equally important, therapeutic tremoring may allow energy tied up in tension to release and thus become available for the system for everyday functioning and healing.