Caroline Williams

And then we have ultra processed foods, which make up a huge proportion of the diet, which mess with the signals of when we're full and when we're hungry.

And then we have sort of sensory overload from the outside world.

We've got, you know, these distracting screens in our pockets at all times.

We've got 24 hour rolling news.

Everything's going on.

We've got all these things that are going around, which is overwhelming.

Well, I think that the first and easiest thing to do is to sort of notice more.

So there's been a lot of talk about mindfulness over the last few years, and everyone's familiar with mindfulness, but what are you being mindful of?

And there are fewer of them, but there are some guided meditations available that

that sort of take you inside your body and say, you know, where are you feeling?

Are you feeling any pain?

Are you feeling tension?

Are you feeling ease, you know, and sort of getting used to those, those sensations.

So that's one way of doing it.

There's also a lot of work using flotation tanks, which is known as sensory deprivation tanks, where people are in

um very salty water which holds you up and entirely you know without any effort it's body temperature the air is body temperature and it's in the dark earplugs in so there's no there's no information from the outside world and that really enhances these um these messages from inside of the body and that's been used to help people with with anxiety it's it's incredibly relaxing and so there's all kinds of things that go on where you

are able to feel things like your heartbeat and your breathing sensations and that helps people to feel their body as a safe place to be in ways that can calm you know in the longer term and it's been used for eating disorders as well so people have a lot of issues with body image and people who have better have used these techniques to tune into their inside of their bodies

tend to start seeing their body as me rather than it and having a better relationship with their body image.

Absolutely.

And so this is something that I brought in when I started getting interested in interception.