As the title says looking for stagnant emotions in body release modalities that compliment the sub dr4. No tapping feels too soft.
Only going to speak from personal experience on what worked for me as I’m sure the list of all possibilities would be exhausting.
Wim hof is invigorating, your body feels so full and alive after doing it. It’s also a friendly beginner breathwork to do at home, the YT videos are great and the practice is short. According to Huberman it’s better to start with 1 round and then up it to 3, if needed, opposed to doing 3 from the get-go. There are other types of breathwork that are a bit more trauma-focused, however, they need deeper instruction, facilitation, and are usually 60+ mins of continuous breath
Eye gazing with a partner. This one is pretty interesting, as it is a great mirror for the trauma. I’m now so weirded out by anyone who can’t hold long eye contact comfortably, especially if it’s simply in a practice-setting, but most people can’t, and until I practiced it, I felt uncomfortable with it as well. This one takes repeated exposure, but it’s the difference between being 100% calm and connected while eye gazing, or twitching, laughing nervously, breaking the focus, feeling intimidated/threatened, moving into anxiety. That’s all trauma. And eye gazing is really easy + builds connection.
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My personal favorite and the trauma release exercise I have the most experience with is vipassana meditation. When you observe the body objectively, things naturally come to the surface, and if you don’t react to them, they leave your body. I’ve had physical sensations of sexual trauma leaving my legs, which I was aware of in the moment, but I’ve also had trauma release which I wasn’t aware of - after 2 months of continuously living at a vipassana center, I went from being completely terrified of the dentist, to having zero fear of it whatsoever. Vipassana removed the phobia, completely, but that phobia came from trauma.
the dentist trauma
What happened was I would go to the dentist as a kid and after getting anaesthesed, I would still cry, scream, kick, complain about how much the needles hurt, and I would be affected for DAYS after the dentist. Dentist just called me a wimp. But later discovered I have the same genetic condition as my mom where I’m tolerant to anaesthesia, meaning I need 2-4x as much as normal, meaning I was getting my teeth drilled and sawed while being able to feel all of it, and no one would believe me. Vipassana healed all that shit from my body, it’s powerful stuff.
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I vouch for vipassana too.
I can feel how strong the effects are, and i’m still scratching the surface. Granted, i also use subs to help with it.
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This one is directly about trauma release and it’s powerful. Kind of dark, actually, so you have to be ready for it, but would be an AMAZING supplement to any healing subs.
You pick a traumatic memory, and write about it non-stop for 15 minutes. He explains the practice in the first 3 minutes of the video and then the rest is about the protocols to do it if you’re interested.
“Traumatic” could be serious sh*t like abuse or neglect, but this can be used for any negative memory - losing a job, an old break up, someone yelling at you… I don’t know where i heard about it from but I once heard someone say that anything that still bothers you 6 months after it happened is something you need to deal with.
This practice is one of the major focuses of the book called “The Body Keeps Score” which is a book totally dedicated to trauma release - they’re explained similarly, but the book recommends doing it 1x, the Huberman protocol recommends 4x
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All meditation are almost more for waking up into higher realities which is good for your well being. But it’s not really an emotional release.
For emotional release I find guided emotional releases the best along with forgiveness.
Just remember when you do shadow work or whatever you want to call it don’t overdo it.
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And I’m saying this with a huge amount of experience in different modalities and clients.
If you focus too much on your trauma you just make it grow. So for example I did 2-3 hours of shadow work a day for a while. Like the first week was incredible, I felt so light.
But after a while, I started feeling worse. I gave the trauma so much energy I believed I was the trauma and shadows.
What I recommend clients to do is unless it’s a very light modality like guided releaes or forgiveness don’t do it more than 2x a week
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How do i do vipassana, is there a good guided vipassana meditation on YouTube?
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I remember that when I was on an after party once there was a circle of few game company owners and I came to join in on the convo. I was there for quite a while and for some reason one of them was looking into my eyes for wayyyyy too long. Like you could tell this was not normal human interaction. I looked back at him for quite few seconds even though we didn’t talk. I knew it was some form of shit test on his side to see what kind of person I am. I obviously looked away after a while because it was getting weird. Now this makes sense. You certainly can tell a level of confidence of the person this way but also… when it’s in a general setting and you don’t talk, it’s very confusing as you have no clue what the other person wants you to do.
You should have said “tf you looking at”
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What works for me.
Bioenergetics to really shift at a physical, deep level.
“Devaraj Sandberg” and “Enrich The World” YouTube channels have some good ones.
Forgiveness meditation to urbuden oneself from whatever is bought up and lingers.
“Dhamma Sukha” on YouTube have some great forgiveness meditations.
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If that’s true i have a lot of work to do
Yeah lol I’m talking about two consenting people eye gazing for the purpose of mutual personal development… not this intense one sided stare-off. He was either trying to intimidate you or was star struck because he never sees women and doesn’t know how to interact, just stare. Maybe he thought you found it attractive LOL.
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True vipassana can only really be done unguided.
And it also requires a certain level of focus, so it’s always paired with “anapana” aka meditation focusing on a single point, usually the point of the nose where air comes in and out, to witness a steady point that has natural change.
This teaches the mind to stay everpresent even in the face of constant change, and to realize that even perceived stability (focus) is actually ever changing. Cool duality there.
The BEST resource to learn vipassana meditation is a book by Culadasa called The Mind Illuminated. It’s all the way from total beginner level, basic anapana, all the way up to the most advanced types of vipassana, and it gives you goals, milestones, challenges, and gauges for you to figure out which stage of vipassana you’ve advanced to both on a long term level, and even which stage you should practice on in any given day.
That’s the crème de la crème of vipassana meditation resources.
But for YouTube channels, I’d say to check out Declutter The Mind across multiple of their videos, teach yourself meditation by exposure to new concepts, they have a lot of good videos. And occasionally try meditating just to music, or no sound at all, to really practice the focus without anything grounding you and bringing you back to the present moment artificially
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Zivorad Slavinski polarities and all the various methods based on that
For example this
It’s true that the work on emotion should be just total acceptance (vipassana style) but sometimes I think these kind of methods can get you “unstuck”
For meditation I suggest “true meditation” by Adyashanti
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I liking yb reiki tho not entirely sure how effective it is https://youtu.be/0XzygXSRpWc?si=PYLqqR5v-IPeOYQi
Did he look, or stare? Sounds like staring, which is understandably weird/creepy.
Looking = emotion in eyes . Like a feeling of curiosity
Staring = looking at someone with no emotion for a long time
@Jouissance i know right, its so odd when people dont hold eye contact so how do you deal with those disconnected moments?
I feel soft eyes are inviting and make holding eye contact for the other person easy. Almost Magnetic 2
Idk about eye gazing im too competitive, would stare to beat em down instead of a normal stare
Does viewing all human connection opportunities merely as opportunities to compete, beat, and dominate seem like 100% well adjusted behavior, and 0% trauma?
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Probably stare. I don’t recall anymore. I know the guy was really relaxed just looking into my eyes even if I didn’t look his direction. I just assumed he wanted to see if I have the courage to stare back or if I chicken out.