There is some risk, I believe, in describing these processes as though they are linear only. As though safety leads to connection, which leads to interoception, which leads to intuition, which leads to relatedness, which leads to enduring wellbeing– is some kind of road. These are not merely a set of doors, they are not merely progressive. This process does not unfold merely in serial fashion, and it is not one time through. Yet there is some elegance in viewing it as a process that repeats. By this point, to have made contact with each, or any of the portals to the connection architecture, you will have to have been interocepting.
To make contact with the portals is to feel yourself from inside, or to feel yourself in various ways from inside, or to feel through yourself in various ways from inside. But let's give some special attention to this process of interoception as a process, because of its singular importance to our wellbeing.
Interoception is, straightforwardly, the collection of inward multi-sensory awarenesses that allow us to answer the question, “How do I feel?”
Interoception allows us to answer the question, “How do I feel?”
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