What is the best practice to do for releasing past trauma?

[Zen LaCroix]

Can you tell your personal experiences with these practices as well.

[How to be wise]

@Zen LaCroix There are many. I did The Work of Byron Katie for several years, it worked really well. There is a section on Leo’s booklist for ‘emotional mastery’. The books there will help you.

[Breakingthewall]

for me one that is priceless is mushrooms in medium doses. the results border on the miracle

[BipolarGrowth]

Get better at feeling emotions and allowing them to be in your space. 

[knakoo]

• Medium+ doses of LSD or mushrooms in combination with breath work, ice bath/showers, acupuncture mat and theta brainwaves binaural sounds. 
• Energy work like shaktipat transmissions or Reiki can be powerful if you are the sensitive type.
• The ho'oponopono mantra can be effective as well

[Ilan]

Personally, I would avoid pychedelics for serious trauma. For me this video was priceless

 

[taotemu]

I second Byron Katie for working through trauma.  What also helped me for serious grief / trauma, is to move into it and sit with it.  It can be very painful, but it is really the only way.  Carl Jung once said, "neurosis is a substitute for legitimate suffering."

[RickyFitts]

@taotemu Never heard that Jung quote before, but I like it!

[puporing]

@Zen LaCroix For me was playing the piano and classical works of Chopin and the like, lol. It's not immediately accessible but it helped me so much in that regard more so than traditional talk therapy.. but basically it allowed me to fully feel all the emotions that were repressed it gets released as I'm feeling them. Actually it helped even more when I had a therapist who would listen to me play and talk about it afterwards. 

Edited August 3, 2021 by puporing

[Flowerfaeiry]

Somatic Experiencing has worked wonders for me. 

[static]

prioritizing or allowing space for it and allowing for re-contextualization of attitude or perspective

this is a great resource (thank you Nahm!) : https://www.actualityofbeing.com/emotional-awareness

[Gianna]

Shamanic Breathing 

[Gesundheit2]

Running, running.

And running, running.

And running, running...

[Goldzilla]

Best practice exercise is take full resposibility of own acts and forgive yourself. Keep loving, even the greatest enemy.

[BlackMaze]

Shamanic breathing. Radical honesty. Regular exercise. 

[Loba]