Mental, physical and emotional stress is caused by fear or difficult experiences, and situations that have occurred in the past. The body and mind respond to stress by creating tension and distortions in the soft tissues, muscles, and organs and by keeping the nervous system activated in the fight or flight response.
Animals usually shake when they have experienced stress and resolve and release any built up tension so it does not stay in their bodies.
If stress is not resolved and released then the body uses up a lot of it's available life-force or energy in holding these patterns of stress. This is because the body thinks that the stressful event is still happening even though it may have occurred days or even years ago. This means there is less life-force available to us for participating in our lives. We are often unconscious of this process.
