The Biology of Perception

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27. TRE--trauma release exercises

Just to clarify, this is --not medical advice-- this is an exploration!!

David Berceli noticed that animals always--shake--after stressful experiences, so he devised a set of exercises to do to bring on this shaking--you have to let go and allow your body to shake for as long as it needs to--to let go of trauma. He has traveled all over the world to traumatized villages and just got people, kids, families, to just lie down--and do this.

I actually did some of these exercises in a class, and they are--very--interesting and effective. You don't have to know what the trauma is to do these exercises.

From his book:

TRE--trauma release exercises--David Berceli, Ph.D. is an international expert in the areas of trauma intervention and conflict resolution. He is also the energetic and creative founder and CEO of Trauma Recovery Services (1998). For the past 22 years he has lived and worked in nine countries providing trauma relief workshops and designing recovery programs for international organizations around the world. Dave has lived and worked extensively in Israel/Palestine, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Yemen, Egypt, and Lebanon. Fluent in English and Arabic, David brings a keen understanding of the intertwining dynamics of religion and ethnic customs and has developed specific processes to enable people to manage personal trauma as well as bring healing and reconciliation between diverse groups. He is the creator of a revolutionary and unique set of Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE) that help release the deep chronic tension created in the body during a traumatic experience. David continues to be involved in trauma recovery programs not solely for the sake of reducing the suffering caused by trauma but because he has recognized globally that trauma possesses unique possibilities of transformation in the individual if they pursue their recovery process to its ultimate end.

David Berceli wrote a book on this, Trauma Release Exercises

http://traumaprevention.com/2009/12/31/what-is-tre/

A beautiful video on TRE being used in South Africa:

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