When you wake each morning, you not only become freshly aware of your thoughts, you also resituate yourself in your body. We don’t experience the world purely in our minds, but as ‘embodied agents’, says Roy Salomon, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Haifa in Israel. Your sense of self is as connected to your limbs and guts as to the

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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 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