Welcome and thank you so much for listening. It’s my central mission to create more Freedom, physically and mentally, for myself and anyone else that I can. On this mission, I’ve learnt that healing trauma in the body-mind is super valuable for anyone looking to experience their now moment freer of their past.
In this conversation, you’re about to hear I chat to a gem of a human, and an absolute Jedi in the field of healing tension and trauma in the body, and actually far beyond.
Richmond Heath was my guest for this one, he reigns from near Melbourne Australia – and I must say, this was my favourite conversation so far! Richmond is just so easy to speak to and has so much wisdom to share.
Richmond is responsible for introducing TRE to Australia and has been leading the charge there for over a decade.
He describes TRE not so much as the mission he’s on, but rather the vehicle for his even greater mission – a mission which I am so grateful for him being on; a mission to directly expand the hearts and minds of so many people.
He’s actually also about to launch an inaugural online men’s gathering for which you can find the link in the show notes. Incredible stuff!
We already have a follow-on episode scheduled, soon, because we went so deep into trauma, TRE, embodiment, meditation, and more, that we didn’t even get to talking about the men’s work that he does, something I’m really looking forward to chatting to him about.
So let me know what you think, or what you learn, I’d honestly love to hear from you – otherwise, please enjoy the show.
- The role of myoclonic twitches – spontaneous muscle activations in utero are fundamental to our muscular and neurological development. Check out this amazing footage that Richmond has on the TRE Australia website https://www.treaustralia.com/product/our-first-embodiment/
- How the tremor mechanism is not only a way to let go of unwanted baggage, usually from the past, but it is also a way that the body spontaneously reorganizes itself and thus improves and expands us. Richmond insists that the tremor in TRE has a powerful capacity to evolve us, not only restore us.
- As a consequence of the growth through TRE Richmond describes that
- he is softer physiologically and psychologically, not so rigid or fixed – perhaps forgiving and adaptable
- he is far more capable of dealing with uncertainty than he used to be, and how much more easily he can navigate not being in control
- he has discovered that things in life are not always solely dependent on his own limited conscious mind – he has more resources available that he is not aware of. This has been a process of surrendering and trusting.
- Richmond share how so much of his story of growth happened through his body, and some of the ways he learned to listen to his body – a sixth sense of listening to his body’s signals to access the massive intelligence that resides in it
- Movie: The Rabbit-Proof Fence
- “I used to think that flow was when all the traffic lights were green until I realized flow was also when all the traffic lights were red. The flow was all there was, the only difference was the rate at which I was flowing.”
- “If you wanna have an emotional life then pay attention to your emotions. If you wanna have a sensational life then pay attention to your sensations.”
- How, just like in Vipassana as taught by Goenka, using the sensations underneath emotions and thoughts as a way to bring our mind into our body as we navigate these different experiences
- Richmond shares the view that the activity of our mind is but a symptom of our underlying physiology – and this is in agreement with all the science and thus so good to remember. Use it to look deeper, don’t be too distracted by it.
- He gives the advice that we should not always keep our mind under control when we are tremoring, that we should in fact allow it to do its own unravelling exactly the same as how we are surrendering to our body’s movement.
- Book: Shaking Medicine, by Bradford Keeney PhD.
- Book: Body Sense, by Alan Fogel
- “You don’t learn anything at school, you learn it all when you’re asleep afterwards.”
- We get to hear how Richmond actually stumbled upon spontaneous bodily movement at his third Vipassana 10-day course – a true epic of self-discovery.
- Book: The Rise of Superhuman, by Steven Kotler
- Steven Kotler references much research that we have very limited access to our potential through our conscious mind – we can only reliably access our fullest selves through parts of our mind that are subconscious
- Book: Biology of Belief, by Bruce Lipton
- He gives the details of his free online course that he set up trecourse.com