I am very excited to share this information with you.
It’s been a long time since I last wrote. A lot has happened. Many life events have piled stress on top of stress on us over the last few years. It is almost comical how much stress we have had to go through. If something could go wrong, it often did—usually at the worst times. But I now believe there was a much greater purpose to it all. So I could eventually share this information.
Over the years, I’ve thought so many times about writing articles regarding what I was learning and experiencing, but I didn’t have the energy. I have had a lot of health issues from all the stress, which kept pulling me back to focusing mostly on healing myself.
I learned something incredible recently that helped open the release valve for all this deeply held stress that had piled up in my body. This release valve is something I knew about and had access to, but I didn’t realize I could guide it for my benefit. I had to learn that. Once I discovered how to use it, the floodgates opened, and deeply stuck stress started pouring out.
What Happened
Too many stressful events to list right now. The important thing is what came from them. One thing I have had trouble understanding these last few years is how one can know Truth/God and still be so stressed by life? Because I went through many periods feeling almost completely stress-free and floating in God’s infinite light, feeling almost untouchable. But those days were mostly before the twin flame journey began. I still felt like I was there, but over time, as each new stress piled up, I found myself pulled out of that freedom more and more.
Even though I still knew what God and Truth were, stress slowly took over.
I am now convinced that if we don’t address the stress in our bodies very regularly, it will eventually make us sick. Or, at the very least, we may run on past programming and often feel angry, irritable, and uninspired.
When stress affects the mind and body, we can hold onto that residue inside for long periods, no matter how awake we are or what past spiritual experiences we have had. The idea that spiritual awakening makes you immune to stress is a complete fallacy.
Because things kept piling up in our lives, turning my attention to Truth/God over and over again wasn’t enough to clear the stress, as it seemed to do so easily in the past. Because I was so overwhelmed by certain events, I wasn’t taking time to release tension, so more stress piled on, higher and higher, until I started developing lots of health issues. I got to the point where I was easily triggered by almost any new stressor that came up. My cup filleth over, and not in a good way. Jim was experiencing many of the same stresses and some of his own personal ones as well, but he was very lucky not to have health issues from them as I was.
I would often try to surrender to it all, but my body still held onto tension like it was fighting an internal war. And when your body is full of tension, it is very hard to find peace in the mind. Actually, I have learned it is damn near impossible. Until you can clear tension out of the body, the mind will be all over the place. The more stress and tension the body holds onto, the more restless the mind can get. I was still able to see through the mind to God/Truth, but the mind was becoming noisier than hell.
Just like you need to bathe to keep your body clean, you must also find ways to discharge bodily stress regularly to keep your entire being clean.
My old ways of just “seeing through things” weren’t working as they used to. I was kidding myself into thinking I was in the same place I was before. Somehow, over time, my mind had re-rooted itself in suffering and stubbornly stayed there. And I often felt too exhausted to do anything about it. The good thing was, it was not the same as before the spiritual awakening. If all these things had happened before the spiritual awakening, I would have been in a far worse state. Luckily, I had a strong foundation. I knew God and the Truth, but despite that, my body was still a complete mess.
I won’t list the stressful events because we all have them. Life is incredibly stressful for all of us. So I will set those events aside and focus on how I started removing the constantly accumulating stress residue so you can learn the method and try it too.
If you are still struggling in your twin flame journey, a spiritual journey, or life in general, and especially if you have health issues, this information can help you.
Anyone can do this energy release method. It is simple. It is so simple it almost feels like cheating.
First, a bit of history on how the release valve comes full circle in my life, so you will know where I am coming from and why I believe this information is so important.
As I mentioned before, I had access to this release valve, but I did not know how to use it as I do now.
As many of you know, I meditated for years. I got into meditation, like many do, because I was tired of suffering. I developed an intense desire to know Truth and God. I was driven to find it above all else, and after much research into different ways to do it, meditation seemed the best route.
During this period of searching for Truth, I started having what are termed “Kundalini” symptoms. I later learned that someone with a deep desire for Truth can suddenly be thrust into a Kundalini awakening. That’s exactly what happened to me.
I had a bunch of different Kundalini symptoms, but one included involuntary body movements that a subsequent Kundalini guru I found called “kriyas.”
I worked with her and a group of her students, who were also having kriyas just like I was, for four years. She and that group were a huge help as I navigated the Kundalini journey. That was my first experience clearing so much stuck residue from the mind/body through self-inquiry and meditation practices.
Later, I worked with other meditation groups and also spent years meditating by myself. I spent much of that time in deep self-inquiry. For me, it was more of a mental digesting process than a body-release process. But the kriyas were there, and they were very intense for the first few years. They released a ton of energy, and that may have been why I felt so amazing during that time. Later, the kriyas tapered off. And they only came up at rare times. In the last few years, they’ve only come on a handful of times. I never sought them out. I was not taught to do that. Sometimes I would get dizzy and realize I had a buildup of energy, and it was time to let some kriyas come out. So I would lie down and allow them to come on their own. I did not ever instigate them.
Back to the stress pile-up
So as I mentioned, I had many weird health issues these last few years. The worst issue was when I could not digest food for several days and ended up in the hospital and had to have my stomach pumped. That was partly because Jim and I were traveling back and forth between Texas and Washington state all the time, trying to visit family and deal with sick parents. I knew much of what was happening was stress-related, but I was still trying to go down different routes to get answers for the main symptoms I was having.
I became a bit obsessed with researching health topics. I read books and watched online videos. I also joined groups to try different diets because many of my issues have been digestive. I was so desperate to feel better. And I learned a ton of amazing things in the process. Some health modalities worked for a time, then stopped. Then later, they worked again. I think I kind of drove Jim and my family crazy with all my adventures into this alternative health realm, but some of the information that I passed on to them helped them too.
Despite all these years of learning, many of my symptoms not only continued, but some got worse. Some did get better too. Still, I was nowhere near where I wanted to be in how I felt. And just as I thought things might be getting better, life would throw up another major stressor. All I could do was keep surrendering. But I couldn’t totally sit still. I had to keep searching for relief. I took tons of naps and often pestered Jim to take away my pain and suffering with his shamanic healing. That worked amazingly well and took me out of a great deal of suffering, but the symptoms would usually eventually come back.
I tried going back to more formal meditation. But I found I was tired of the old ways I used to do things. Later, I discovered new YouTube channels with meditation techniques that felt a bit fresher to me. They were very similar to what I did before and what I had written in Our Energy Clearing Guide
My ego was bruised and argued that I shouldn’t have to go back to square one. But I tucked my tail between my legs, ignored the mind’s tendency toward spiritual ego posturing, and played around with new meditations that primed the pump for more significant releases.
I found Chris West’s channel, and I highly recommend it. This is one of the best meditation teachers I have come across in all my years of meditation. He explains things very simply, and he has some very short meditations you can follow along with: Chris West’s School of Embodiment Videos
Also, I started to learn more about the nervous system. It came to my attention that my nervous system was likely oversensitized, and some of the ways I was trying to heal my health issues were actually making things worse. Many of us have oversensitized nervous systems from stress, and if we tweak a few things and shift our perspective, things can start to change dramatically. Here is a wonderful channel put out by Shaan Kassam that helped me begin doing just that: Shaan Kassam’s Nervous System Healing
The Grand Finale – The Release Valve
So here it is. Here is what led me to find the spigot, or release valve, for stress. And it all ties back to the kriyas I had with Kundalini symptoms years ago.
The release valve is a simple exercise that induces “kriyas,” so you can release stuck stress in the body.
The method is called Traumatic Release Exercise, or TRE.
From what I have read so far, they do not use the term kriya. They use the term tremor. Most people don’t know what the term kriya means. But for me, it is the exact same thing.
So I recommend starting with these three videos first:
How TRE Exercises Saved a Man’s Life
If you watch all three of those videos, you will understand the power of Trauma Release Exercise plus how to easily start doing it yourself.
For years, I never knew how to induce kriyas. I only knew I felt so much better when they happened spontaneously.
My personal tips for practicing TRE on your own
TRE is such a powerful exercise that I recommend starting slowly and working up to what feels natural and best for you. If doing more feels best, do more. Watch how your body responds afterward to gauge if more or less is right for you. If you feel a bit overstimulated or even too depleted after a session, you may want to taper back. Or if you have had extreme trauma in your life and are worried about opening blockages too quickly and experiencing too much fear or emotional reaction, you can always find a TRE practitioner to help guide you through the process. But you can certainly do it on your own. And I believe it is safe enough to do on your own for most people.
TRE can release a TON of stuck energy in one session, so be mindful of that. It can stir up a lot of stuck gunk in your system, so take it slow if you need to. I’ve already had some very powerful experiences with it. TRE exercises brought the kriyas back in full force, releasing a massive amount of accumulated, stuck energy from the stressful events of the last few years. As they released, some fascinating things started to happen.
That said, do not look for fascinating things to happen. Just take it slow. The ego will want fascinating things to happen. If you are new to discharging stuck energy, it might take some time for the juices to start flowing. And you may only notice subtle shifts at first. This is totally fine. Whatever happens is what is supposed to happen. Your body knows what to do. Please keep that in mind. Please do not rush the process. And give your body time to acclimate between sessions.
While your body is releasing, remain in the witness state and allow your body to move into whatever position it needs to release blockages. No need to feel silly or worried about it. Part of the reason we even have these blockages is due to societal conditioning and the fact that we often suppressed the needed energy releases after the stress or trauma occurred, as explained in the first video.
Find a private, safe place where you can be alone so you feel comfortable and not self-conscious as the releases happen. In my experience, it has never hurt. It might feel a little uncomfortable at times if your body contorts into an odd position, but mostly it just feels really good. You may even notice changes in your breathing rhythm at times. Just go with it. This is all totally normal as energy discharges.
Also, and this is important, it is best to ignore whatever the mind comes up with as much as you can during this process. You might have weird or even fearful thoughts arise. You might be judging the process. No need to judge or fear anything. Just watch the thoughts. Be the watcher. No need to entertain any thought. Just watch them as you would watch a bird fly across the sky. This is how I was taught to deal with kriyas years ago.
As energy discharges, certain emotions may be released as well. What comes up in the mind/emotions during these releases often doesn’t make sense to the mind. That is okay. It is just energy discharging. All energy is neutral. Only the mind creates the positive or negative labels. You can avoid that by allowing everything to be as it is and simply remaining the silent witness. All you are seeing is stagnant energy discharging, so peace, freedom, and health can return to the body and mind.
So what has TRE been like for me?
First, I felt much calmer. My mind quieted down more. My body started to relax again. My sleep got much deeper, and I started dreaming more. I have had insomnia for years. The deeper sleep has been wonderful. My energy started to come back. Recently, I was able to run and work out harder and longer than I had in years. And my digestion is getting so much better.
After one of the sessions, I had this incredibly peaceful, drained feeling that is hard to put into words. The best way I can describe it is that it felt like I’d had a good, long, hard cry. Do you know how you feel after that? I had forgotten. I did not cry, but that is what it felt like. It felt like some space opened up inside, as if a big block had been removed. For a long time, I had felt like I couldn’t take full, deep breaths. I am breathing much more fully now.
Something strange and fascinating that happened
After the very first time I did TRE, I went back to bed and lay in between sleep and wakefulness. Suddenly, I was a child in my grandmother’s house. I could smell everything. The smells of her house came back so vividly. I could smell the difference between my grandparents’ living room, bathroom, and kitchen. As my mind moved from room to room, the different mixtures of smells in each room shocked my senses. From the smell of the brick fireplace mixed with leaves from the backyard to the musty, dank smell of the kitchen and the strange mothball perfume mix in the bathroom. I knew it was a true memory, not just an imagining. I was there again, like I’d gone back in time. I went to my grandmother, hugged her, and smelled her. She smelled just like she did when I was a child. Even the texture of her blouse came back to life. Even the way her shoulder felt beneath the fabric came back in detail. A gentle but vivid return to the complex smells and feelings of their house. It felt as though I entered a higher state of awareness, unblocked by overlay. Something was removed so I could perceive it.
I felt, without a doubt, that I finally had access to a release valve for stress in the body.
Yes, as many TRE videos say, our bodies can become like pressure cookers due to stress, and each time you do the exercise, you slowly let off a little more steam.
Over time, you can release big blockages of stress that have been running in the background of your life, sometimes driving a myriad of health symptoms and even unwanted emotional knee-jerk reactions when triggers arise.
One morning after another TRE session, I was overwhelmed by gratitude for this exercise. Here I was waking up in the morning, thinking about how I felt after the session from the day before. I woke up feeling really good. I had not woken up feeling good in a long time. I saw a spigot of water in my head, and water—like stress—rushing out. I felt more space in my body, and my limbs were buzzing as I lay there, and I could not wait to jump up and go do another session and drain some more of that gunk out! I jumped up and ran to go do it again.
It’s possible that releasing a large chunk of stress in that first session helped me access part of my brain that had been covered over by stress residue, which was blocking me from sensing the vivid childhood memories of my grandmother’s house.
I also think I was being shown how powerful this exercise is.
How much of our perception might simply be covered over by the junk the body holds from past stress?
You have to wonder. Open the release valve, let the stress pour out through the bodily tremors (kriyas) TRE induces, and things will clear out over time; you may start to see amazing things you couldn’t perceive before.
I am doing TRE every day right now, and my health is getting better. Finally.
I believe Trauma Release Exercises will be the missing link—and even a miracle for many—not only to help remove blockages that cause health issues, but also to help fine-tune our senses so we can access higher states of awareness and perception.
So what have I learned from all of this?
That relieving stress from the body MUST be an ongoing process.
You cannot just take a few baths and think you are clean for life.
Because I saw God/Truth/Zero and lived in it, part of me thought I was done. I thought I was “there”. But I still had further to go. Life had to give me stress event after stress event to finally make me pay attention and find my way here.
As long as we have a body here, we will have to deal with stress. And no matter how awake we are, those stresses will accumulate if we don’t keep working to discharge them. We can’t give up on clearing these things just because life gets too hard and we get lazy. We need to make this a weekly—if not daily—practice if we want to be happy and healthy. Just like taking a shower or a bath.
And when you release stress from the body, you release it from the mind as well. This is key.
If you are working on spiritual practices, it will be much harder to clear the mind if the body is full of stress. It will be much easier to see through the mind if you open the release valve and clear the body through something as powerful and effective as Trauma Release Exercises.
So far, for me, TRE is a miracle.
May these insights illuminate your path toward greater freedom, peace, and health. May your Awareness expand beyond what you once thought possible, inviting more magic, wonder, and miracles into your life.
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