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Interoception

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Somatics is the ability to notice the sensations that arise in our body. Every moment of every day we are responding to these sensations, but the process is unconscious.

The ability to feel these internal sensations is called *Interoception*. It is an important skill because when we become aware of the sensations beneath our skin and within our viscera, we actually return to the original language of our childhood.

For most of our most formative years, our emotions and responses to them are scripted... neurologically imprinted. We carry our childhood scripting into our adult bodies. These scripts determine the structure of our personalities and define our interactions with others... those we care about, those we don't, and everyone in between.

As children this scripting occurs through the sensations within the body. In early childhood, because we are not yet addicted to framing the world through language, we experience emotions as sensations. So, the childhood language of emotions is sensation. (It is also the language of emotion for adults, but it remains largely unconscious.)

When we interocept, we bring the original scripting of our emotional body into conscious awareness... we return to our original childhood language.

From this reclamation, we can more clearly discern our patterns and unpack how we are scripted. Only when we can clearly experience how we are projecting from our old scripts can we sidestep our biases and blind spots to understand our social and romantic interactions more clearly.

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Interoception