95% of human thoughts are repetitive.

While the breath cycles 20,000 times a day, the human mind is generating a near constant stream of approximately 70,000 thoughts in the same period of time

3 out of 4 thoughts are considered to be negative. Negative thoughts include forecasting worst case scenarios, overgeneralizing from select experience, pretending to know what people are thinking, labeling others, overlooking positive thoughts, criticizing oneself and others.

Developing meta-awareness of the atmospheric qualities in the mind can reveal the directionality, frequency, amplitude and patterns of the thought process.

Psychotherapy can support self-awareness to cognitively reframe and replace your thoughts with more positive and generative cognition. Positive thoughts influence emotional well-being, mood and self-regulation.

Interiority ~ Exteriority

Why have humans evolved to detach from their interoceptive awareness and what are the myriad implications of disembodiment for the planet and on all the sentient beings who live here? Can other mammals dissociate and detach from their interoceptive experience like humans can?  What will it take to reverse the direction and move again towards a dialectical balance in interiority and exteriority.

In my somatic psychotherapy practice I guide my clients how to create a cartography of their lived experience to enhance their own unique interiority. My practice applies embodiment techniques to sense inside and develop the capacity to accurately interpret emotions and feelings resulting in interoceptive accuracy which is associated with improved self-regulation and overall well-being.

Another important internal dimension of interoception is one’s ability to distinguish the atmospheric qualities of one’s own mind and discern our patterns of thought as described by metacognition. This skill adds matrical dimension for consciously understanding the heuristic process of ontogenetic development. Our own perspectival theory of mind about other beings develops from these simulations and predictions.