Over 40 million people suffer from an anxiety related disorder, from OCD to social anxiety, and due to the modern pressures of day to day living increasing, anxiety symptoms run the risk of being increased and being worse. Many anxiety sufferers suffer from a wide range of symptoms, including nausea and sweating, but one symptom that is also becoming common, is shaking and trembling.
But why do we shake and tremble when we are anxious?
Put simply, it is the body’s response to the excess amount of adrenaline that is pushed through the body during the common, flight-or-fight response. The problem lies in the fact that the original cause of the anxiety (the first event that took place in your life which spawned the now constant anxiety) caused us to freeze in response to the scary (fight or flight) event. When the danger has passed, the cells that have had this fight-or-flight energy has to release it, and does so in the form of shaking or trembling.
And it’s all down to the over-stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system causing the huge amount of adrenaline to flood into your body!
This adrenaline can of course have a debilitating effect on the individual concerned, for they now have to take shaking into consideration. And the shaking can take place anyway where there is a trigger to anxiety.
But if you do suffer from anxiety shaking, what exactly can be done to stop it?
Well, in truth, there is no one single solution to this problem. Some people use medication, and suffer some of the side effects, while some people literally wait it out… that is, once the shaking starts to happen, they wait for the shaking to stop.
But there are techniques that can have a higher risk of reducing the shaking.
One of the promising ones is EFT!
EFT is all about the body’s meridian system, and how the non-physical energy is transported and nurtured to the vital organs. But this energy system can have this balance disrupted dramatically when a traumatic event takes place.
So the trick here, is to simply try to locate the original memory that caused the dramatic event to take place, and simply re-balance the meridian system to, ‘flush’ the nervous energy away. This can be done by tapping, where you can tap on your meridian points, located on various parts of the head and chest.
I know it sounds weird, but just the act of tapping, and re-citing an affirmation is more than enough to help release the energy, and re-balance your meridian system, so the flow of non-physical energy is flowing smoothly again (the meridians, incidentally, take the, ‘Qi energy’ from the Chakras, which are the main non-physical voices accompanying the body. You have 7 main Chakra points in your body). It’s when this energy is blocked that physical and psychological problems takes place.
EFT is a great free tool in helping you unblock and re-stabilize the chakra points, and there are people who have used EFT to help themselves stop their shakes caused by anxiety. Just simply go online and search on videos that show you are to do EFT, and you’ll be amazed at the results it will bring.
But if EFT sounds to far fetched and, ‘new-agey’ or you would rather prefer something else, there are also other techniques that can help you reduce that adrenaline in your body.
If you can, you can try jogging or walking, as this will help calm you down and wear the adrenaline off. Jogging is exercise and is a great stress-reliever, and this will help insure the reduction of the adrenaline in your blood.
But if you are in a place where jogging is simply not allowed, or impractical (for example, in a car) you can try deep breathing. Although this doesn’t necessarily get rid of the adrenaline straight away, deep breathing has a soothing effect, and will help you to reduce the anxiety that is causing you to have the fight-or-flight response to begin with. This is especially useful in you are in the middle to doing a particular task in the work place, and you have to find a way of carrying on.
Deep breathing has a meditative quality towards it, and has been shown to help individuals sooth their mind and as a result, calm down.
But ultimately, the best help you will get will be to take the time and go through events that naturally make you anxious or stress, and find ways to reduce the anxiety in those events, as this will reduce the risk of the adrenaline being flooded into your body.
Julian Sirian
