There is certainly a difference between therapeutic tremoring, which is what Shaking Medicine teaches, and tremoring caused by other, sometimes non-therapeutic reasons. Shaking in our culture has largely been associated with the more non-therapeutic type and has thus been seen as something bad and something to be scared of. We are here to say that therapeutic tremoring is nothing to be scared of.
The fact is that tremoring can be therapeutic and sometimes when therapeutic tremoring does begin to happen it is misinterpreted as something bad and we suppress it. This suppression of the therapeutic type of tremoring keeps us further holding onto the stress, anxiety, suppressed emotions, trauma and more that our bodies want to let go of. This response is natural and instinctive within mammals in nature and thus within you also. We are designed to use this mechanism, though it has been mostly lost and forgotten in our culture.
Some reasons why we shake that are not necessarily therapeutic are: various neurological reasons, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, brain injuries, seizures, stroke, brain injuries, dystonia, cervical dystonia, withdrawal from addictions, dissociative disorders, drugs, manic depressive bipolar conditions, psychosis, schizophrenia, hypoglycaemia, epilepsy and more. If you have any of these or any other diagnoses, then we recommend consulting a healthcare professional before beginning. It is likely however that mainstream healthcare professionals will not know much about neurogenic therapeutic tremoring and so you may need to make up your own mind and do your own research. Whether you practice with or without a diagnosis, or, with or without a healthcare professional’s approval, you do so at your own choice and risk as scientific medical research regarding therapeutic tremoring in relation to diseases that involve non-therapeutic tremoring remains mostly absent. Likely, when people start spontaneously shaking for these reasons it is seen as something bad by the mainstream medical field and instantly labelled and medicated as such by them. Thus, it is likely that this natural response of the human body is often misdiagnosed. Rather it is very possible that if the person would allow the spontaneous shaking to be expressed as we explore in our Shaking Medicine embodiment classes then it could actually help to resolve the condition at its root level rather than be suppressed and bottled up.
There have been significant accounts of therapeutic tremoring helping people get better from PTSD and mental ailments, obtaining better health, gaining more energy and more. Also, the body often shakes for survival reasons. When we get cold we shiver. When we get overly stressed, anxious, scared, or nervous we may begin to shake as a way to start dissipating this build-up of energy. Therapeutic tremoring can be an extremely potent tool to use for obtaining optimal health and it is time to bring it back into our culture and back into the mainstream. Check out the benefits section on our home page www.shakingmedicine.com. Therapeutic shaking may help people with stress, anxiety, suppressed emotions and trauma, which are leading causes of many health ailments.