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In recent years, a new term, “interoception,” has been used by neuroscientists to designate the sense of the physiological condition of the entire body and its continual regulation to maintain inner balance, or homeostasis—if you will, an “inward touching,” giving rise to the condition of knowing how we feel.
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Excerpted from the book Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World through Mindfulness by Jon Kabat-Zinn. Copyright (c) 2005 Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. Published by Hyperion. All Rights Reserved.
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Kabat-Zinn, J. Touchscape. Mindfulness 4, 389–391 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-013-0252-4
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