Your Body’s Innate Wisdom: How Interoception Supports Healing, Emotional Well-Being, & Wholeness

Develop Interoceptive Awareness and Connection To Your Innate Wisdom To Self-Heal and Liberate

Our innate wisdom is the part of us that is already whole and interconnected - the intelligent, foundational, self-organizing principles and processes for self-healing. One of the most important practices I’ve ever learned as a Biodynamic craniosacral therapist is how to connect with my innate wisdom and to others. Up until then, I was moving through life without realizing we all carry the capacity to restore balance and heal from within when we come into a co-creative relationship with our innate wisdom.

When we spark this connection, we increase our capacities for healing and wholeness, we reclaim our power, our clarity, our emotional well-being, and our deepest sense of alignment. For some people like myself, it was life-changing, and why I chose to spread the word to others through my professional work.

One of the most transformative capacities we can cultivate is the ability to feel deeply, courageously, and with total acceptance. Instead of meeting uncomfortable sensations with avoidance, overthinking, or self-criticism, we learn to stay present with and track all of our feelings, sensations, and emotions, so they can feel seen, safe, unwind, and release. It may sound strange, but it can be a profound practice. I invite you right now to pause, turn your attention inside your body, and let yourself feel what is unfolding in your body without fear, without judgment, and without distraction. Just see if you can be still and feel your body. Describe what you notice?

This is called interoceptive awareness. Cultivating and increasing our interoceptive awareness is an art and practice of tuning into the subtle sensations and signals that arise from within. These sensations and feelings, no matter how intense and unpleasant they may be sometimes, are messages or guidance from your innate wisdom, saying, pay attention, there is something you are doing in life that isn't working for your health and happiness.

Your Body Is Always Speaking. Are You Listening?

Try out these interoceptive practices:

• Describe what you feel when you are hungry, thirsty, and tired.

  Do you notice them immediately, or only when they become overwhelming?

• Choose one emotion and describe the sensations that accompany it.

  Can you locate the specific part of your body where you feel that?

  
  

• Describe what it feels like in your body when you’re stressed or dysregulated?

  Is your heart throbbing? Is your chest tight? Do you feel a lump in your throat? Does your body feel numb?

• Describe any sensations when you’re calm, present, and peaceful?

  Is there spaciousness, warmth in your belly, light, or fluid?

  
  

There is no right or wrong answer. Developing interoceptive awareness is like fine-tuning a weathervane and describing the subtle qualities of the wind, like intensity, temperature, movement, and sound. These sensations and signals exist to keep us on course, in truth and integrity, and will always communicate whether we are on or off course.

Interoception: The Pathway Back to Inner Wisdom

Being able to feel sensations in our bodies is simply a practice that can lead to profound insights. The more we practice, the more sensitive and attuned we become to what is being communicated.

As interoceptive awareness develops, you may begin to notice subtle sensations that you've never felt before. Start to notice when you feel:

• pulsing

• tingling

• tightness

• warmth

• spaciousness

• pressure

• spiraling

• fluttering

• numb

  
  

These sensations are not random; they are messages. They reflect your inner truth, your needs, your boundaries, your fears, your longings, and they inform how you relate to yourself, to others, and to the world around you.

There is a whole world of insight and infinite awareness waiting to be heard inside your body. This is the body’s intelligence - your innate wisdom sharing what's up or down.

Feeling Activation in Your Nervous System

Maybe you notice:

• an anxious buzz in your belly

• a tightening in your throat when someone offers feedback

• a collapse in your chest when you think about conflict

• tension in your jaw when you consider money or uncertainty

  
  

These sensations are your sympathetic branch activating — your body’s natural way of preparing to protect you. They aren’t signs that something is wrong; they show your nervous system responding exactly as it was designed to do: sense threat, mobilize energy, and keep you safe.

The practice is not to shut these sensations down but to notice them, befriend them, and understand what they’re trying to teach you.

Your Cue to Turn Inward

When you feel activation, stress, or emotional intensity, this is your cue to turn inward and use the somatic practices in your toolbox. You can work with your autonomic nervous system to shift from a stress response to a calm, grounded state through:

• body scans

• breathwork

• tracking sensations

• gentle movement and postures

• physical re-orienting

• bilateral tapping

• specific visualizations

  
  

Over time, your interoceptive awareness expands, allowing you to sense more of the subtle, early cues (gentle whispers) long before they intensify. If we don’t notice these signals, the body often amplifies them until they become loud, overwhelming, or expressed as pain or numbness.

As awareness grows, we begin to recognize these reactions for what they truly are: protective responses, not personal flaws.

When you acknowledge a reaction, understand it, and hold it with compassion, something softens. The body begins to settle, release, and reorganize itself into dynamic balance and more wholeness.

The More You Feel, the More You Heal

When you allow yourself to feel, you reconnect with:

• your body

• your intuition

• your inner guidance

• your emotional truth

• your resilience

• your capacity for intimacy

• your ability to self-regulate and co-regulate

• your overall health and well-being

Interoceptive awareness begins as a practice and gradually becomes a way of being, transforming how we feel, perceive, respond, and relate to others and the world around us. It offers a pathway to liberation. As curiosity deepens, so does our awareness of the vast, inherent wisdom that lives within each of us.

Connect with me if you would like to explore how we might work together here.