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Hey y’all! Dan here. For a long time I’ve been banging the drum around here that learning how to regulate your body and mind is just as important to productivity as which notes app you use. That’s why I’m so excited to be sharing this article from Jonny Miller with you. Jonny is an expert on nervous system regulation techniques that help lower stress, build resilience, and create agency. I hope you enjoy this article as much as I did.
What if I told you that you could turn up the dial of your everyday experience? With sufficient practice, you could enhance your capacity to sense and track your internal state, as if you were upgrading from a 1960s television to experiencing the movie of your life at an IMAX in 4K.
This is the power of interoception—yet most people have never heard of it.
A personal or health crisis often facilitates radical shifts in perspective, and my own journey was no exception.
Five years ago, I was living with my fiancé in the English coastal town of Brighton, where she worked as a doctor. She had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder before we met, yet for the most part, she was bursting at the seams with life, with a mischievous grin and luminous presence.
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### Summary
- Interoception is an underrated and practical sixth sense that involves being aware of your mental state, awareness, breath, and emotions, according to Jonny Miller, who calls it a crucial ingredient in emotional regulation and making informed decisions.
- It can be cultivated through curiosity and experimentation with practices such as a five-minute A.P.E. check-in to assess your awareness, posture, and emotions, or a 25-minute non-sleep deep rest (NSDR) session.
- NSDR involves a thorough scan of the inner landscape, bringing awareness to specific points around the body, and has been shown to activate slower brain waves, flush cortisol and adrenaline from the system, and make the body more receptive to interoceptive training.
- Those who want to learn more can apply for Miller's Nervous System Mastery course until 29 October.
#### By Jonny Miller / Superorganizers
