interoception

“Yeah, so I have this idea that I call the feather brick dump truck phenomenon, and basically what that means is when we are showing early signs of burnout, our body will give us feedback, usually in subtle ways in the beginning. So the feather might be waking …”

“ADHD tends to correlate with low levels of interoception, as does if people have PTSD or trauma, again, interoception is lowered.”

“When there's cortisol present in our body, the cortisol basically acts as a numbing agent. So it's much harder to kind of tune into those sensations”

“Certainly a panic attack doesn't come out of nowhere. There will be a kind of cascade of subtle things that happen in your body that eventually result in, in anxiety. And so if you can catch those things early and kind of like nip them in the bud and do one of…”

“I was also reading a book recently called The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, which looked at Wall Street traders, and they correlated higher degrees of interception with basically making more money and making better decisions.”

“And if you do the NSDR, that is basically a 15 minute interoception practice as well. So you're kind of getting two birds with one stone. With that practice.”