A shaman shares his observations regarding stress. He states that stress is simply a response to fear and in Indigenous cultures, stress being activated in dangerous situations indicate a human is mentally healthy. The stress that we experience in our modern society is an unhealthy aberration of the natural and healthy response to fear. The shaman said that Indigenous people observe animal’s behaviors to remind them of their own true instincts. He used an example of when a gazelle is chased by a lion and manages to escape, the gazelle shakes its body to relieve the stress response, to show that humans can “shake off” a stressful event as well to have peace of mind again. This source is very biased because it is written by an Indigenous shaman,
