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Podcast: Pain Science Podcast
Episode: Episode 254 | Interoception: How Awareness Of One's Body Affects Physical And Mental Wellbeing With Kelly Mahler OTD, OTR/L
Description: In this episode, we're exploring the concept of interoception, and how it impacts both physical and mental well-being. Interoception can be defined as one sense of their internal state of the body. This is a full-body sensory experience that has both a conscious as well as a subconscious or semi-conscious layer to it. As practitioners, we're able to train the sense just as we would train balance or proprioception. Interoception includes the brain's processing of signals relayed up from the body into specific sub-regions of the brain, such as the brainstem, the insula and the somatosensory cortex. This felt...