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This paper reports two experiments that tested whether people’s awareness of internal body signals (interoception) changes how physical sensations shape thinking. Interoception means sensitivity to signals coming from inside the body. Experiment 1 used a body‑awareness questionnaire and Experiment 2 used a heartbeat perception task. Both experiments found that interoception…
The paper proposes a clinical framework that helps people notice and work with body sensations tied to emotions. It calls this mindful interoceptive awareness and says focusing on inner body signals in a sustained, nonjudgmental way can make those sensations clearer and allow a process the authors call somatic reappraisal.…
