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Feeling the Body in Process: Interoceptive Awareness

Our body is working without stop. The heart is beating, the lung is allowing to inhale and exhale the air, the stomach is trying to digest the food eaten, and all the other internal organs keep working without any break so that they keep you alive. Humans cannot control these visceral activities. They function automatically, without our permission. Yet, this does not necessarily mean that we are not aware of them. People have the capacity to be aware of the stimuli created in the body performing internal activities. Interoceptive awareness refers to one’s ability to perceive and sense those signals that originated in the body.  Photo by KALZ πŸ“Έ πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¬ from Pexels Interoceptive awareness is a very insightful and perspective concept for all subdisciplines of psychology. For example, in terms of mental disorders, a considerable number of researches showed a link between negative mood states and maladaptive function of interoception, in the meaning of, misinterpretations or misperceptio...