*this exercise can cause crying and shaking* 🥹

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how do somatic trauma releasing exercises work? 👇🏼

*this exercise can cause crying and shaking* 🥹 here’s a breakdown of how this shaking releases trauma:

✨both humans and animals are supposed to instinctively shake after a stressful or traumatic event to discharge fight-flight-freeze energy

✨but humans suppress their natural shaking due to social norms, shame, and cognitive overrides

✨when that energy gets suppressed / trapped, it can lead to chronic anxiety, hypervigilance, dissociation, or shutdown (all symptoms of unresolved trauma and nervous system dysregulation)

✨exercises like this one recreate this natural discharge response, allowing you to release the pent-up stress and trauma out of your body (even if you’ve been storing it for years)

after you release, you’ll feel significantly better both physically and emotionally 💖

your unexplained physical pain will be gone and you’ll have a ton more energy 💪🏼

you’ll feel emotionally stable & your nervous system will be regulated ✨

releasing stored trauma disrupts your body’s habitual stress response, allowing your body to return to its natural, balanced state 🙌🏼

do you want to release stored trauma from your body?

get guided through the step by step 👇🏼

release stress & stored trauma (30 day course) 🔗 💖✌🏼💖 • • • • source: waking the tiger by dr. peter levine