Managing nerves, anxiety, and burnout | Jonny Miller (Nervous System Mastery)

Multiple studies also tie interoceptive abilities with the ability to feel and coregulate with the emotions of others—in other words, the capacity for empathy.

It turns out that we have at least four additional senses—and the most underrated and practical of them is known as interoception .  The word has two parts: “intero–” refers to “ internal ” and “–ception” to “ awareness .” In essence, it means awareness of our internal state, which includes learned associations, memories, emotions, and all the... See more

Along these lines, our interoceptive palette includes: • Mental (racing thoughts or foggy vs. calm and alert) • Awareness (expanded and receptive vs. narrow and protective) • Posture (open and relaxed vs. tense and collapsed) • Breath (deep, slow, and soft vs. shallow and rapid) • Emotion (gratitude, joy, sadness, etc.)