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Interoceptive Awareness

SACAP - May 2016

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Integral

We

It’s It

I

Subjective Inter-Subjective Objective Inter-Objective

What’s your attention tendency/style?

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There is presently a

significant

convergence

of historically divergent

knowledge bases or ‘truths’

Universal truth?

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Sweet Spot?

Universal Truth?

Contemplative Tradition

(Buddhism)

Psychology

Philosophy

Neuroscience

(contemporary)

Clinical Practice

Health/Medical

(traditional)

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Attention

What flows through the mind, sculpts the brainHanson

“The education of attention would

be the education par excellence.”

William James

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Sensations

Sensations are the substrate of emotions Wallace

Increasing empirical knowledge about the

relationship between body sensations and

emotional experience.

e.g. Social anxiety

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Interoceptive Awareness

Attention X Sensations

Could this be the formula for

transformation?

Sensitivity, Specificity & Accuracy in interoception

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• Body Scan

• Body Scan

• Body Scan

• ‘Bodyfullness’ (Caldwell)

How ?

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Rearranging the deck chairs?

Conceptual

What is your

attentional

tendency/style?Sensory

Interospective

Universal/Unitary

Exterospective?

Divisive? Language

Emotion

Body

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The most personal is the most universal, the most

hidden is the most public, and the most solitary is the most

communal.

What we live in the most intimate places of our beings is

not just for us but for all people. That is why our inner lives

are lives for others.

Henri Nouwen

Transformation?

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Transformation?

In advanced meditation you move away from extended

consciousness, away from one's autobiography in

relation to the world, to concentrate on something

deeper and simpler: one's core biological nature.

So, in a way, to get to experience that I would qualify as

spiritual or mystical, you are delving deeply toward the

core of being rather than going up toward the more

complicated aspects of self and its relation to society.

Antonio Damasio

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The key is to be in a state of permanent connectedness

with your inner body - to feel it at all times. This will

rapidly deepen and transform your life.

Eckhart Toll

Transformation?