Could interoception be the key to personal and collective transformation? Roland Cox discusses the power of Interoceptive Awareness.

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Interoceptive Awareness
SACAP - May 2016

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ACL
Integral
We
It’s It
I
Subjective Inter-Subjective Objective Inter-Objective
What’s your attention tendency/style?

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ACL
There is presently a
significant
convergence
of historically divergent
knowledge bases or ‘truths’
Universal truth?

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ACL
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 brain
Hanson
“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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ACL
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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ACL
Rearranging the deck chairs?
Conceptual
What is your
attentional
tendency/style?Sensory
Interospective
Universal/Unitary
Exterospective?
Divisive?Language
Emotion
Body

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ACL
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?