Sunday 8th October - 3.15pm - 4.15pm Investment £10
Shaking is a primal, impulsive reaction and a natural way to release tension in the body. The body returns to homeostasis as this tension is released. Animals naturally shake, but we humans have been socially conditioned to, 'grin and bear it'. Adopting this unnatural demeanour traps stress in our bodies, and has a negative influence on both our physical and emotional health. That's, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers (and why humans do) - Dr Robert Sapolsky
Suppressed feelings and repression of emotional trauma causes fear to be stored in our bodies. Long term suppression leads to excess energy being trapped. Emotions become frozen, and locked in time. When the conscious mind stores these, the subconscious mind doesn't differ from the past or present. Feelings are are present moment stimuli. Emotions are reminders of past experiences. In feelings we act appropriately. In emotions we act inappropriately, due to past experiences and repressed feelings.
Reflection Think back to when you last felt threatened. Did you 'shake with fear', or where you 'scared stiff'?
Previously, when I have reflected back to my early childhood in Northern Ireland I was very much, 'scared stiff'. Those strong emotions of fear where physically trapped in my body and emotionally suppressed. The Body Keeps The Score - Bessel Van Der Volk. Shaking has been one of the most enjoyable and effective ways I've found to continue to release these frozen emotions.
When my daughter unexpectedly had her second child at home (in the kitchen), she instinctively shook off the fear and the shock of having an unsupervised home birth. Her primordial instinct kicked in and she shook.
We are animals that have this therapeutic mechanism inherently for healing. It's more a case of remembering rather than learning.
Try This Stretch your arms out infront of you to shoulder height . Begin to swing them backwards and forwards. Allow the movement to happen with momentum rather than force. This increases the life force that flows through you, according to the 'Ten Fingers Connecting the Heart' theory. With every fourth or fifth swing bend your knees at the same time and bounce up. Keep swinging and practice for between 1to 3 minutes. Notice how you feel afterwards.
When feeling threatened the body releases huge amounts of stress hormones to help us either fight or take flight. Neurogenic tremors (shaking) helps to reduce over activity in the body's complex neuroendocrine system that regulates our stress response, our emotions, our energy storage and it's release.
"When facing a threat, all animals including humans are evolutionarily wired to unconsciously and automatically respond with certain somatic behaviours to protect themselves including fleeing, bracing, stiffening and collapsing.
The main difference between wild animals and humans is that animals naturally recover from these stares by engaging in other patterns such as yawning, trembling, and shaking to release the excess of energy generated by the threatening experience." - Levine & Freddie 1997
One of our many guidelines to be a 'shaking facilitator' is to have a high level of embodiment and to continue to grow in our own empowerment with the ability to self guide and safely guide others.
So come along and in the words of Taylor Swift, 'Shake it off, shake it off'...
"Transform darkness by pointing yourself in the direction of your own guiding light".
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