Making Sense: A Guide to Sensory Issues
thoughts, perceptions and emotions for what they are — constructions of the brain as opposed to external realities.144 Metacognition implies not just awareness of what goes on in our heads, but also a nonjudgmental attitude. It is the difference between wise self-knowledge and neurotic self-consciousness. Applying this skill in the context of movem
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If Darwin was right, the solution requires finding ways to help people alter the inner sensory landscape of their bodies. Until recently, this bidirectional communication between body and mind was largely ignored by Western science, even as it had long been central to traditional healing practices in many other parts of the world, notably in India
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My life’s work has taught me that the ability to notice, experience, and tolerate the sensations in the body that accompany the thoughts in the mind is critical to empowering wholeness and well-being. We dwell so much in our thoughts, our interpretations of our experiences, our strivings, and our expectations that we register very little of what is
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an improvement in the responsiveness of the respiratory system, enabling it to meet the needs of changes in effort, emotions and posture; and finally a greater sense of wellbeing that has something to do with the way we engage with the nervous system – both in the way we respond to our internal, physical promptings (hunger, thirst, tiredness etc.),
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