Inner Sense: How the New Science of Interoception Can Transform Your Health

(Hardback, Main)

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Interoception is one of our most important - and most mysterious - senses. It's how our bodies tell our brains what we're feeling - when we're hungry, when we're cold, how we're feeling in ourselves and how to respond to stress or panic. Little understood until now, unlocking its mechanics could transform mental health and wellbeing science. Caroline Williams is an expert in mind-body science. In Inner Sense, she uncovers a field that's poised to revolutionise health, and explores groundbreaking new techniques that can improve our mental and physical wellbeing. She meets brain scientists mapping the nervous system, neurodivergent researchers working to hone their interoception skills and health practitioners investigating how this inner sense can aid mindfulness, treat eating disorders and help find a sense of calm. Combining science, medicine, mindfulness and physical therapy, Inner Sense is the first book to bring this exciting new field of medicine to a general readership.

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'Praise for Move!' - -

'From healthy bodies to healthy minds ... Caroline Williams explores how moving bodies can act as a 'hotline to the brain', affecting the way we think and feel for the better' - 'Best Books of 2021'

'Fascinating' - Women's Health

'In this rigorously reported and entertaining account, Williams offers a genuinely new perspective on the links between how we move and how we think and feel' - Alex Hutchinson, author

Author Bio

Caroline Williams is a writer for the New Scientist who researches the links between the mind and body. The author of Override and Move!, which was a New Scientist Book of the Year, she has written for the Times, the Telegraph and the Guardian, and has appeared on BBC radio.