A meditation practice focusing on pure interoception might be too inwardly focused for some individuals. — Whalespan
A meditation practice focusing on pure interoception might be too inwardly focused for some individuals.
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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.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“I think it also ought to be very useful for people that tend to be overly exteroceptive, more on the dissociative end of the continuum, and need to bring in a bit more of interoceptive awareness, but either can't do that or are uncomfortable doing that because they're simply not interested in or comfortable with feeling so much of their internal state because that can either be overwhelming or that's just simply not the way they want to feel.”