Andrew Huberman· PhD
If, however, you are somebody who is overly focused on your bodily sensations, well, then more exteroception awareness is important.
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
If, however, you are somebody who is overly focused on your bodily sensations, well, then more exteroception awareness is important.
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If you look in the clinical psychiatry literature, there's a wonderful collection of studies and reviews that will say that interoceptive awareness is terrific except for the person that is so aware of their internal functioning that they are not able to engage in the world.
heightened levels of interoceptive awareness, while that might sound attractive, oh, to be really in touch with your body, that is not always beneficial, why? Because many people who, for instance, have excessive levels of anxiety have excessive levels of anxiety because they are very keenly aware of any subtle shift in their heart rate or breathing or change in the sensations within their stomach.
although I've read that there are some instances in which people become more aware of it either in a ag typical fashion or with meditation and other things that people can become aware yes people definitely can become more aware of their so-called interoception