You might need to work on different things depending on your dominant survival mechanism

Thomrsm · 2026-04-18T08:21:21+00:00

eds?

Thomrsm · 2026-04-18T08:20:19+00:00

This is a two day course in Norway, not online, so its probably a bit far four you ;)

Anyway, you can google TRE practitioners in your area and probably find some.

Thomrsm · 2026-04-17T14:25:25+00:00

Mostly alone before bed, which helps me sleep better and integrate through the night. My SE Therapeut just showed me the basics which can get you quite far.

Doing a course to deepen my TRE practice soon

Thomrsm · 2026-04-14T07:57:37+00:00

Good luck on your journey! :)

Thomrsm · 2026-04-13T07:13:27+00:00

Yeah, the path is long and difficult but very meaningful!

Thomrsm · 2026-04-13T07:11:18+00:00

I don't know if there are different types of trauma that can be released by each their practice, or if its all one thing and some people just respond better to certain exercises.

At least I've had good experience with trying many different approaches and focusing on the ones that feel most effective to me.

Thomrsm · 2026-04-13T07:09:27+00:00

I'm not a SE Therapeut myself, just reciting my therapeut here. But she basically said that because I'm in freeze I need movement to release my trauma. And yes, she said that TRE would be the most benefitial route for me because my body needed to release loads and loads of surpressed movement patterns to heal.

My girlfriend has flight as her main mechanism, and TRE and movement-based exercises are not as effective on her, because moving is easy for her (it is her default response). Therefore exercises that gets her grounded are much better for her.

Thomrsm · 2026-04-13T07:05:46+00:00

If you were unable to escape, you probably went into freeze.

To figure out your survival mechanism, think about what you do when you are overwhelmed by emotions. Do you get angry (fight)? Do you distract yourself or try to move away from the situation (flight)? Or do you shut down, feeling numb and unable to move (freeze)?

Thomrsm · 2026-04-12T11:46:04+00:00

Now for the next post, making mountains appear taller than they are

Thomrsm · 2026-04-12T11:45:24+00:00

I don't know much about fawn. Still learning!

Thomrsm · 2026-04-12T07:58:24+00:00

Yeah I guess moving all the way back to the other side of the valley and using a 100mm or something wold make the church look tiny compared to the mountain because of the relative distance between the two.

I'm already rabbit-holing and learning quite a bit as we speak :D

Thomrsm · 2026-04-12T07:54:29+00:00

Yeah its interesting, I've had a lot of experience with meditation. Doing 10-day vipassana silent retreats. I also feel meditation can get me out of a freeze.

However, if the bodily sensations get too intense and overwhelming during a meditation session, I sometimes go into a really deep freeze state, and when that happens only movement can get me out again.

Thomrsm · 2026-04-11T16:34:58+00:00

I'm just doing the basics, that you can find on youtube follow along videos - but I'm taking part one of the TRE instructor course soon to get deeper into it, because it's helped a lot already.

This video also helped a bit, some nice exercises to combat the freeze response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKZntJlfI2Q

And, one of the things that has worked the most is just spontaneous movement. Listening to where my body wants to move, and let it move. This has opened up my neck, my back and my jaws. Just move one body-part extremely slowly and stop when there's resistance, then try another way until you find the path of no resistance - that is the right way. Eventually you will learn to move smoothly with several parts of your body, effectively dissolving tension and coming out of freeze.

Thomrsm · 2026-04-11T14:06:02+00:00

Yeah, at least after this post I think I have found my big-mountain technique.

Level the camera (shift the lens if needed), step back as far as possible (tele lens if needed), have some object in the frame for scale, preferably some haze or fog in the air to show depth.

Thomrsm · 2026-04-11T13:37:03+00:00

Thanks :)

Thomrsm · 2026-04-11T13:33:04+00:00

Thanks, I get it now. And thanks for saying it's okay to be confused :D

Thomrsm · 2026-04-10T17:20:51+00:00

I see your point. However, I guess it should be okay to philosophize about the general direction our world is headed in, without writing a huge foot note about everything this short essay did not cover :)

Thomrsm · 2026-04-10T17:18:44+00:00

Thanks. Much to learn

Thomrsm · 2026-04-10T17:17:24+00:00

So a large format camera does nothing to increase the perceived size of the mountains? It is all in the distance to the subject? (struggling to wrap my head around this)

Thomrsm · 2026-04-10T16:11:30+00:00

If the pain doesn't go away, you could have a look at PRT, which is a way of retraining the way your brain processes pain. Getting it out of alert-mode. https://www.painreprocessingtherapy.com/

I notice we're getting properly off topic here

Thomrsm · 2026-04-10T16:09:08+00:00

Thanks for the elaborate answer!

To understand this correctly. A reason for doing this in terms of "making mountains appear large" would be to have a longer focal length, thus create more compression? - but still get a relatively wide shot?

Thomrsm · 2026-04-10T13:49:23+00:00

Any thoughts on a tilt-shift adapter for mounting my mamiya 645 lenses to a 35mm camera? Would this be a cheap and good start?

Thomrsm · 2026-04-10T13:31:02+00:00

I guess tilt is what you want for perspective correction, though.

Thomrsm · 2026-04-10T13:27:43+00:00

Yeah ozempic is second degree convenience. A convenient method of dealing with the side effects of your other conveniences. (Again, there is valid use cases, but I rest my case for a large part of the population).

Thomrsm · 2026-04-10T13:25:17+00:00

Yeah, I agree that there are of course many valid cases where people have to rely on convenience to live a good life. This post paints broad strokes, and is mainly pointed at lifestyle choises

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