this book proposes that the human body possesses the neurophysiological ability to generate its own healing vibration and chooses to activate this mechanism (when it is free & safe to do so), after highly stimulating events of over-arousal of the ANS or over-constriction of myofascial patterns.

In short, neurogenic tremors seem to achieve extinction of a conditioned sensorimotor response. The freeze or immobility response is stored forever in procedural memory unless it is released, or the act of survival is "completed" through a "discharge".

Neurogenic tremors therefore appear to be providing the environment for the extinction of negative, and the formation of positive neural nets. Neurogenic tremors therefore, seem to be able to inhibit, or down regulate the amygdala. All effective therapy works through this mechanism.

The premise of this book is that a specific self-induced body tremor can potentially be the brain’s deliberate activation of the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) to down-regulate an over excited system. Therefore the tremor mechanism is not seen as part of the pathology of human neurophysiology but rather the brain’s attempt to correct the pathology

in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, body tremors have been used as diagnostic features for a variety of disorders such as: “panic attacks”, “social phobia”, “generalized anxiety disorder”, or “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder” (PTSD).

One of the difficulties in speaking about body tremors is that current neurological and psychological research and its subsequent literature focuses and identifies body tremors primarily as a pathological expression of the neurophysiology of the human body.

Many different people and fields of study differ on how to best describe this physiological sensation: shaking, vibrating, tremoring, pulsating, moving, rocking or quivering.

this shaking mechanism seems to be a healthy and useful neurophysiological mechanism that appears to down regulate the nervous system, restore a sense of calmness and reduce the myofascial tensions that were created during the experience of high arousal created by either happy, frightening or traumatic experiences.

simple exercises in this book are designed specifically to evoke a mild tremor response in a safe manner that can release the residual tension, stress and trauma patterns that were developed during the threatening event.