How to Change Your Body provides an enlightening discourse on the missing piece of the mind-body relationship - our need for social connection. What if symptoms from some of our most common afflictions-everything from depression and anxiety to addiction and PTSD-could be traced back to a disconnection from our bodies?How to Change Your Body explores this provocative question through a rigorous yet playful collection of interviews with scientists, somatic workers, and artists from around the world to uncover the social-emotional aspects of so-called mental illnesses. Saga Briggs is our…mehr
How to Change Your Body provides an enlightening discourse on the missing piece of the mind-body relationship - our need for social connection. What if symptoms from some of our most common afflictions-everything from depression and anxiety to addiction and PTSD-could be traced back to a disconnection from our bodies?How to Change Your Body explores this provocative question through a rigorous yet playful collection of interviews with scientists, somatic workers, and artists from around the world to uncover the social-emotional aspects of so-called mental illnesses. Saga Briggs is our compassionate guide, pairing peer-reviewed research with moving personal vignettes about her journey away from alcohol dependence to draw a profound link between bodily awareness, social connection, and mental well-being. Interoception, regarded by some as our eighth sense, is fundamental to human health and, Briggs argues, lies at the heart of many techniques shown to improve our relationships to ourselves and others, including psychedelic-assisted therapy, synchronous movement, and energy work. Whether you are facing a mental health diagnosis or simply yearn for a deeper connection to yourself and your community, How to Change Your Body offers a potent antidote to alienation. Through remembering our bodies in all of their intricacy, we can increase our capacity for presence, reconnect with others, and begin to heal.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Saga Briggs is a freelance journalist. Her articles on interoception and psychedelics have been published by Scientific American, Aeon+Psyche, and DoubleBlind Magazine. She is a former editor for the MIND European Foundation for Psychedelic Science and former managing editor of InformED, a digital magazine connecting teachers and students with trends in educational psychology. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, she moved to Berlin in 2018 on a gut feeling and continues to move that way.
Inhaltsangabe
TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword by Julie Holland, MD xiii Acknowledgments xvii Introduction xix PART 1: PREDICTING THE BODY 1 Predictive Coding 3 Interoception 6 The Bodily Self 10 The Possibility Space 14 PART 2: DISCONNECTION 19 Alexithymia 22 Schizophrenia 24 Stress 27 Loneliness 29 Addiction 30 Anxiety 33 Depression 35 PTSD 37 Eating Disorders 39 Suicidal Ideation 42 PART 3: CONNECTION 45 Authenticity 47 Kama Muta 50 Peak and Transcendent Experiences 54 Nature 59 Body, Emotion, Action 68 Attachment 73 Social Interoception 80 Empathy and Compassion 88 Body Oneness and Movement Synchrony 93 Mindfulness 96 Trust 107 Music 113 Narrative 124 Movement, Yoga, and Reiki 133 Psychedelics 142 PART 4: EXPANDING THE POSSIBILITY SPACE 149 Agency 151 Expansion 154 Transformation 159 PART 5: PRACTICES 163 MAIA Scale: Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness 165 Interoceptive Connection Toolkit 168 Attentional Strategies 168 Flexible Switching 172 Mindful Awareness in Body-Oriented Therapy (MABT) 172 Respiratory Practices 174 Aligning Dimensions of Interoceptive Experience (ADIE) 175 Somatic Practices 175 Social Justice Approaches 177 Practices from This Book 180 Body Trusting Toolkit 181 Glossary 187 Notes 191 Index 213
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