The Art and Science of Interoception

Pay attention to the sensations in your stomach, your lungs, your heart. What’s important is to focus on the inner experience of the movement instead of what it looks like from the outside. Noticing your emotions and regulating your nervous system will help you develop what Susan David calls emotional agility, the ability to fluidly adapt and respo

The regions of your brain that produce your sense of self-awareness (this is “me”) receive signals from your muscles and joints, as well as your heart, lungs, gut, and even the jiggling of crystals in your inner ear that track your relationship to gravity.