Feeling & Knowing
consciousness — that ultimate lens of being, which shapes our entire experience of life and makes blue appear blue and gives poems their air of wonder — is not a mental activity confined to the brain but a complex embodied phenomenon governed by the nervous-system activity we call feeling.
Maria Popova • I Feel, Therefore I Am: Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio on Consciousness and How the Feeling-Tone of the Body Underscores the Symphony of the Mind
Notice also how the initial knowing comes from a place deep inside your body, but the negotiation happens in your intellect. This is a significant distinction: knowing with the body and thinking with the intellect.
Anne Berube • The Burnout Antidote
Interoceptive awareness also has existential dimensions. It creates awareness of our self as a body and provides us with an integrated sense of self.
Interoception provides us with a basic sense of self. The insula (the interoception center of the b... See more
"Interoception gives us the sense that "this is me; this is my body; this is how I feel" -Kelly Mahler
Interoception provides us with a basic sense of self. The insula (the interoception center of the b... See more
Megan Anna Neff • What is Interoception?
The mind is generally associated with feelings, sentience, and consciousness of self, while the brain is a dissectible biological tissue. But learning about the brain, which is part of a larger system called the nervous system, can teach us about the mind and thus about our nature.