Kelly Mahler
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first heard Dec 2023
last heard Dec 2023
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In fact, the insula, first of all, I should say the insula is the interception center of the brain.
It's where all of our incoming messages about how our body is feeling is being processed.
So, for example, people that they've studied like the insula of frequent meditators, so body meditators, people that are continually paying attention to how they
Their body feels, have thicker insula levels.
They have more activity in their insula.
And that insula activity and thickness of the insula is shown to improve after a even like an eight-week intervention of body mindfulness.
That's in adults.
And so I think the same is true for kids, but we don't have any brain imaging studies to show what exactly is happening in their brain.
Yeah, we talk about a lot of times for many people it's about undoing before doing to just have a lot of patience.
Patience is key with this work.
Keep in mind, like if you see someone, like if you're offering, like we have a strategy called focus area experiments where we pick a body part and we do lots of experiments to try to like evoke stronger sensations in that body part, to give practice noticing, to give practice describing.
And if you see hesitation.
in a child, it most likely has a very real reason.
Introspectively, it could just mean they feel unsafe connecting to their body or like they've been conditioned to not listen to their body because it's unsafe to their experience in the world.
Like to survive in a compliance-based method, most of the time they are disconnected from their body.
And so it can be a lot of undoing, helping them to feel safe to connect and listen to their body.
And a lot of times, too, some of my older clients, like they want to try to figure
Figure out how to give you the right answer.
Like, well, what are my hands feeling right now?
What is the right answer?
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