I started my first TRE session today. It was under 5 minutes, and I had tremors in my upper thighs/legs mostly. I felt a bit tired, but I had a nice, calm warmth in my entire lower body afterwords.

The day before I did this session, I started reading a part of a book called The Next Dimension is Love. I had no idea what TRE was when I was reading this, except that it was a therapy for trauma. I randomly opened up a saved bookmark for TRE afterwards, and decided I needed to try it. It seems to be synchronistic timing.

This part of the book is something I've always known to be true for myself, but it is expressed so well and seems to fit with TRE. I thought I'd share it with you:

"Every emotion is associated with some area of the body, localized or even very general. As it is reinforced through many lives it becomes crystallized into your cells as energy that does not flow and as a state of being cut off from the ideal that you want to express physically. These crystallized areas can be activated in many ways through repeated lifetimes. They can appear and disappear according to your emotional state at any time or they can last a whole lifetime, becoming more and more hardened as they are increasingly unable to flow Light. New emotions can become associated with them and they get bigger.

When the healing process begins and you begin to focus on these areas, you begin to release the energy that is crystallized and concentrated into them. The emotional flow that comes from them spreads all over any part of your being that will allow it. The flow may stir up other areas and awaken buried pain there. Your life can become a constant turmoil of pain and suffering if this process goes on in an uncontrolled way. Your emotions can be further stirred up by this process, creating more anger and frustration along with the pain of healing, so much that you just bury it all again. But you cannot keep burying it any more. The new energy flow, the higher energies them- selves, will continue to bring it up and show you it is there. You cannot continue to exist here unless you are willing to look at all of what you are, pain and physical imperfection as well as Light and love. There needs to be some way to release the energy in the crystalized area without creating more pain for yourself."