Anna Ferguson

kind of becomes more and more difficult and more separate to one another.

So I think the beautiful illustration of this was done through Dr. Peter Levine in somatic experiencing.

So if you, say, watch an antelope get chased by a lion and it gets away but it's been harmed maybe or it's kind of gone into this functional freeze state where it plays dead and the lion goes off,

you start to see this antelope afterwards, it starts to shake violently.

So it looks like something's terribly wrong, but essentially it's shaking, it's shaking, it's shaking, and then it pops up and it runs back to its herd, right?

Like nothing has even happened.

And it just goes on with its life.

And it's not like thinking about that line, like it might be back.

It's happy to be back with its herd.

So what's happening?

in the shaking.

What's it doing?

I mean, Sarah, have you ever been scared and then you've noticed that your hands will shake afterwards?

This is a normal natural response that we have for our body to start to regulate itself back down.

So if you think of any time that you've been scared or anxious, that increase of energy, if we're not running away from a lion or we get an email, we're not like, run out of the room, then that energy has to go somewhere.

Literally energy.

So glucose is being released into your bloodstream.

So you're having all of this cell energy starting to increase.

So they're vibrating harder for you to take action.

Now that action in primal sense is to like run away or fight.