- The common understanding today is that interoception or being aware of your body is a blanket good thing but like with everything else in life there's a balance to everything. - Sometimes it's important to be able to ignore your body and move on from a certain anxiety or stress. ------- "Scientists call our ability to feel what’s happening inside our bodies interoception. A portmanteau of “interior” and “reception,” it differs from perception, which comes from our five senses, and proprioception, which tells us how we are oriented in space" - [Link](https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-paradox-of-listening-to-our-bodies) "It’s unwise to assume that increasing people’s interoceptive curiosity will solve their problems. It could be that “you’re just training them to read a signal that’s actually giving them really bad information,” Dalgleish said; it can even be useful for someone to be “trained to ignore their body.” Garfinkel told me that “people with anxiety and depression attend too much to the body.” Data show that people with panic disorders are often hyperaware of their heartbeats" - [Link](https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-paradox-of-listening-to-our-bodies)