The Body Knows Emotions Before You Do

There’s growing evidence that signals sent from our internal organs to the brain play a major role in regulating emotions and fending off anxiety and depression.

Interoception may be less well known than the “outward facing” senses such as sight, hearing, taste, touch and smell, but it has enormous consequences for your wellbeing. Scientists have shown that our sensitivity to interoceptive signals can determine our capacity to regulate our emotions, and our subsequent susceptibility to mental health problems such as anxiety and depression.

It is now one of the fastest moving areas in neuroscience and psychology, with academic conferences devoted to the subject and a wealth of new papers emerging every month. There is an exponential growth in interoceptive research. 

These findings include promising new ways for you to “tune in” to the body and alter your perception of its interoceptive signals – techniques that may help treat a host of mental health problems. It is only by listening to the heart, it seems, that we can take better care of the mind.

Time Stamps:

1:18--The growing research around Interoceptive signals

4:52--The senses we tend to focus on with body awareness

7:55--You will not be able to change, unless you can become aware of your inner experience

10:00--Shelley was in her emotions after our oldest son left and how her workout put her in a different awareness

12:07--Why physical workouts are so important

13:18--Why mindfulness is so important

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