Mihail Pautov explains how shaking and tremoring help your body release stress and tension naturally. Western culture treats shaking as a problem to suppress, but it's actually a protective response. Tremoring happens during both trauma and pleasure, like intense laughter or orgasm.
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Shaking and tremoring is one of the natural ways that every mammal releases stress and tension. Yeah, the Western approach pathologizes shaking. How do animals relieve stress? They might shake or tremor and release something. When a human tremors, something must be wrong with this person. We must sedate this person. We must control this experience for the body. The body's like, let me shake. How does the body protect itself when it goes into a physical posture? What is the physical. Thank you. It braces, it goes inward, it creates tension, and the body moves into, towards and into this fetal position. In order to do what? It's protecting the vital organs. If the body has built in defenses to protect and go into tension, that means there have to be the opposite processes developed into the body as well. In other words, the body has to have ways of coming out of that tension too. Shaking, tremoring is one of the ways that that tension is dispersed and integrated and processed and removed from the body. Shaking doesn't just happen with stress and trauma, Right. Shaking also happens in pleasureful experiences. Have you ever witnessed, or maybe you yourself, you're laughing so hard that you're shaking with joy or an orgasm, right? What happens when many people orgasm? There might be a shaking involved in that orgasmic release. So shaking and tremoring is a very natural part and a very natural process of the human body. But again, the mind misunderstands it, so it stops it.