i used to call it “releasing” but i think “allowing” is more accurate. it’s something like taking my feet off the brakes of an inhibition process i was running all the time and am hopefully running a bit less now
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also i recognize now that there are safety considerations around this sort of practice. in some people it could surface emotional and/or trauma material that isn’t ready to be looked at yet. so uh you’ve been warned. needs to be paired with some kind of grounding?
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nevertheless it has actually been important for me, in the background as a muscle i have access to and don’t need to think about much anymore. there’s a lot of subtle things like this i think, tricky to talk about or teach, that some people don’t need and others desperately do
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this is perhaps only the kind of thing you need if you were punished as a child by being forced to hold your body still in an uncomfortable position for long periods of time, or similar 🙃🙃🙃
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finally this tweet is topical again, it’s been awhile old friend
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hey remember how we went to school where we spent 8 hours a day for over a decade having what our bodies could do completely under the control of authority figures
boy i wonder if that had any lasting effects
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funnily enough it is impossible for me to go straight to crying using just “allowing” and nothing else even if i am very sad, i have no idea why. the tears don’t quite come unless i either name some feelings or wail loudly, depending. both is even better
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lol someone just reminded me what the actual origin story is, i learned how to do this from a practice a tantra guy suggested to me of masturbating without orgasm every day. sexual energy kept building up until it was unbearable and i could “release” it into shaking
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i learned how to do this fairly suddenly, iirc around 2018 and inspired by impro but i might be misremembering, and actually trotted it out as a party trick a few times b/c the results were so funny to me. shaking, almost-crying, insane laughing. i have no idea how to teach it
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sounds super interesting .. can you share more about this?
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hmm i can but it would help if you had a more specific question to kinda prime the pump?
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oh got it, yeah. what was it to redirect or shake the built up energy? where did it go / how did it move / what did I t feel like?
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cool, happy to address this in a new thread but i'll wait until i'm at home on desktop, currently out on phone