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Inner Sense

How the New Science of Interoception Can Transform Your Health

Caroline Williams author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Profile Books Ltd

Publishing:3rd Apr '25

£18.99

This title is due to be published on 3rd April, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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A pathbreaking exploration of interoception, the 'inner sense' governing our mental health, physical wellbeing and stress management

'Science writing at its absolute best' Guy Claxton, author of Intelligence in the Flesh 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 should respond to stress and panic. In Inner Sense, Caroline Williams 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, and even disordered eating. 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.

Fascinating and hopeful. We're only just starting to understand the importance of interoception, and Inner Sense is both a lucid exploration of the science and a practical guide to transforming your physical and mental health -- Monty Lyman, author * The Immune Mind *
At last, science is getting to grips with the inside story of how body, brain and mind talk to themselves, to each other, and to the outside world. And what a fascinating and important story it is - presented here for the first time to a general audience. Caroline Williams is at the top of her game: rigorous, informative, lucid and endlessly surprising. Science writing at its absolute best -- Guy Claxton, author * Intelligence in the Flesh *
Interoception, the body's silent dialogue with the mind, is revolutionising how we understand health and wellness, according to this clear, engaging and smart book by Caroline Williams. Inner Sense uncovers novel insights into the intricate partnership between brain and body and shows how enhancing this connection can transform your well-being, empower resilience, and help you embrace a richer, more connected life in our ever-changing world -- Roger Highfield, Science Director, Science Museum
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' * New Scientist *
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 * Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance *

ISBN: 9781805222002

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

272 pages

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