If you can’t feel what your body needs, you can’t take care of it. If you don’t feel hungry, you can’t feed yourself. If you confuse anxiety with hunger, you may eat too much, and if you can’t feel satiated, you’ll keep eating.
This is why cultivating sensory perception is such a critical aspect of trauma processing. Most traditional treatments downplay or ignore the shifts in our inner sensory world as they occur moment by moment.
Such shifts, however, constitute the essence of an organism’s reactions: the states of mind engraved in the body’s chemical profile – in the viscera, in the contraction of the transverse muscles in the face, throat, torso and limbs.
