Interoceptive processing is the nervous system’s ability to sense, integrate, and interpret signals from inside the body—such as heartbeat, hunger, pain, and temperature. This hidden sense maps our internal landscape to guide basic survival needs and shape emotional experiences in the brain.
James Hillman’s archetypal psychology presents the psyche as fundamentally plural, or or of multiple minds. Human beings do not possess only one psychological voice, value system or centre of intelligence.
Objectivity, in this landscape, usually means not a “view from nowhere,” but “as independent of any one person’s quirks as we can practically make it.”
Listening to your body means paying attention to the signals your whole organism is sending, taking them seriously, and responding in a way that keeps you healthy and steady over time
