António Damásio states that our emotions are clusters of sensations. He even argues that our sensations affect our decision-making mechanisms and calls bodily sensations "somatic markers". In other words, while our body sensations form the basis of our emotions, they are also one of the main building blocks of determining our preferences and weighing the consequences. As a well-known example of the function of our sensations, we can talk about the choices we make every day based on our 'inner voices'.
The way we can follow and understand our bodily sensations is through feeling and identifying our sensations at the body level and learning the somatic language in order to describe all of them. Thus, we gain the ability to make sense of how sensations give us signals in our daily lives and what they say.
Our bodily sensations are clues to the underlying causes of our emotional processes. Through these senses, it becomes possible for us to reveal, interpret and organize our thoughts and feelings related to what we have brought from our past experiences to the present. And this plays a very important role in the process of understanding ourselves.
Do you know that we have 8 sense systems, not 5, that transmit information to our brain?
Seeing, smelling Of course, we all know our senses of hearing, taste and touch. Three of which we are not very familiar with, shaped by the data it receives from these 5 basic senses: our vestibular (balance), proprioceptive (movement) and interoceptive (internal) senses.
Our vestibular sense: Our relationship with gravity. our sense of speed, movement, and balance. Vestibular information contributes to our sense of body position, posture, and muscle tone in space, maintenance of a stable visual field, bilateral coordination, balance, sense of balance, and awareness of gravity. In other words, it allows the body to stay in a balanced posture and maintain a comfortable relationship with gravity. In this sense, which collects data thanks to the crystals in the inner ear, every movement of the head is processed as a stimulus. Its task is to ensure that the internal organs are in communication with the brain, and the brain with the internal organs. In other words, it is to create reference points for the shaping of all other senses.
How can it nourish our vestibular sense? riz?
standing on our knees, tiptoeing, crawling, jumping on the bed, rolling on the office chair, rolling on the floor, jumping on the fallen leaves in autumn, rocking back and forth, rocking chair Activities such as swinging, swinging on a swing, walking on stepping stone paths or on a pillow, or doing challenging balance walks such as walking in a narrow walking area improve this sense.
How does each of these movements make us feel?
After these practices, you can feel calm and relaxed; On the other hand, you can also feel tense and tense or in an alert state.
Vestibular input can either calm us down (swing slowly) or stimulate us (jump or turn quickly).
Interoceptive our sense (Internal sense): We can say that this sense is our feelings coming from our internal organs. Inner sensation allows us to know what is going on in our body. In other words, it is our sense that receives information from our internal organs.
It allows us to understand that we are hungry, sleepy, tired, need to go to the toilet, and have pain somewhere. In other words, it allows our body to give us feedback on bodily conditions such as our heart rhythm, core temperature, muscular tensions, and visceral ailments. The human organism senses, interprets and organizes the signals coming from inside the body with the help of internal sense.
What happens inside us when we get angry, worried or excited? Are we familiar with our emotions and sensations?
When we are short of breath, when we start to take short and short breaths, can we understand what worries, angers or frightens us?
Do we think that we are worthless or inadequate, stop whatever we are doing at that moment and start rushing here and there without thinking or feeling? Or do we completely ignore the situation and find ourselves having fun in crowded groups? Or watching TV series for hours in a row?
Well, when we realize that we are worried or angry, we feel that our breath is shortened and our rib cage is narrowing and we "recognize this feeling. I think I can react like this when I'm worried and feeling inadequate, can we say to ourselves, "This is just a surge, it will pass soon"?
Awareness of this sensation allows us to bridge the gap between our mind and body. The more familiar we are with our bodily and behavioral responses, the better we can make sense of our emotions and distance ourselves from them when we need it. Accordingly, we enable us to establish our physical and spiritual balance, to dissolve some of our hardened physical postures and resistant mental states, and to establish a more natural and stronger bond with life.
How can we nurture our inner sense?
When we are tired, we can observe our body with our head tilted slightly forward (that is, looking towards the ground rather than the air or forward) instead of lying on the bed or chair immediately. Let's see what happens when we get tired. Or we can do this practice right before we eat when we are hungry.
We can feed our interoceptive (inner) sense with practices such as observing all kinds of emotions and their sensations in the body, body-oriented psychotherapy practices, practices such as yoga and mindfulness, and breathing exercises. .
What are the results of nurturing our interoceptive sense (inner sense)?
Internal sense, which is used as a basic element in therapeutic interventions where the body is included in the therapy process, regulates our physical and emotional phases.
Increased awareness of inner senses seems to be associated with superior decision making and resilience. As we work on the sense of inside perception (with body-focused psychotherapies such as somatic experience, mindfulness and endurance-strength exercises), we can become aware of our own body's signals over time, and we can achieve our mind-body balance and therefore our self-regulation (self-regulation) more easily.
- When we look at the literature, it is said that the visualizations of inner sense lead to the resolution of symptoms resulting from chronic and traumatic stress.
Proprioceptive sense: It is the sense of perceiving the position and movement of our joints in space. This sense regulates nerve and muscle control in our body. That is, their sensory receptors are found in joints, muscles, and tendons. Therefore, it also helps to balance the joints. The task of this sense is to create a physical representation of the body in our brain.
It allows us to understand the relationship between our body parts and whether the muscles are loose or hard, without the need to look at our body with our eyes. For example, while walking, sensory information about the position of our joints is constantly carried to our brain thanks to self-sense. That's why we don't need to look at our feet and the point where we step to move. The state we have evolved in the world, our professions, technology or intra-social crises, troubles put us in such a posture in our daily lives that as time passes, perhaps most of us find ourselves saying to ourselves and each other to "stand up straight".
Let's pay attention to how we use our body during the day. Have we stepped forward, let's take a deep breath and straighten our shoulders and heads. How does it feel to stand like this? Let's see what it feels like.
Is it hurting? Are we familiar with that feeling of yawning? Does it create a different feeling in our chest area, a little deep inside? Do we feel like someone else rather than ourselves? Or do we feel like our old self that we haven't felt for a while?
Why do we have proprioceptive sense?
It is thanks to this sense that we can squeeze our hands, how far forward with what force we can throw our legs, how far we should swing our arms, where we should bend, how we stand, that is, we can carry out our motional actions.
How can we nourish our proprioceptive sense?
First start walking in a familiar room, after a while, do this by closing your eyes for a few seconds. You can do this practice in unfamiliar places, while walking on unfamiliar roads. Of course, let's not forget that only for a few seconds, on a flat surface :) At the same time, when we try to move without using our visual sense, our brain starts to work with a much higher effort to understand where and in what position our body is).
- Massage, yoga, all practices that put pressure on receptors throughout our body, such as tai chi; Actions involving body and awareness activate and enhance our proprioceptive sense.
-When we hug someone, jump, dance, crawl, chew gum, inflate a balloon, push anything, and When we pull, play with vibrating toys, shake, step on different floors, love animals, when we touch, we develop this sense in different ways. As we do these activities and practices continuously, that is, over time, this sense of ours develops.
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