Kate Murphy

And another piece of that is when these people left the meditation space, people stayed in synchrony.

When they measured them later, they were still synced up in their heart rate and their

neural patterns.

So that just shows you that when people get together in social situations, and I use social situations meaning when people are just together in a room, what they're doing.

But that's another piece of it is we started out talking about how you can build better interoception.

But also when you do communal activities, you tend to sync up with the people who you're with, whether it's meditation or dancing or biking or whatever.

But to rewind back to how to develop interoception, people who are athletes now, that's something that you can really build your interoception if you're not hooked up to a fitness tracker or if you're not listening to earbuds or listening to a book or something while you're running and you're really paying attention or walking or whatever you're doing for fitness.

to really pay attention to your breath, to really pay attention to what your body's feeling like.

We become so divorced from our bodies by things like fitness trackers and oral rings and all of these things where you're almost relying on technology to tell you how you're doing versus how you yourself feel and doing this internal survey or surveillance of yourself of how you're feeling.

and also getting in touch with how your emotions feel within your body.

A lot of people have a really hard time connecting because every emotion comes from a physical signature that your brain then interprets as that emotion.

The way that you feel fear, Dan, is probably different in where I put my fear in my body.

And to really think about when you're feeling these different emotions of where am I putting this?

Where does this go?

Do I feel it in my neck?

Do I have muscle tension in my back?

Does it make me feel cold?

Does it make me feel hot?

To really get to know yourself and those different emotions.

And once you become conscious of that, you're able to, when you're interacting with another person, when you are embodying those signals that are coming from them, you're able to then interpret that within your own body, which...