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  • Neuroscience and Psychology
  • Embodied Cognition
  • Mind-Body Medicine

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  • Interoceptive ability, crucial for emotion experience and regulation, involves sensing and integrating bodily signals.
  • Mind-body interventions are recognized for their potential to train and enhance interoceptive skills.
  • Understanding the interplay between interoception and emotion regulation is vital for mental well-being.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review the relationship between interoceptive ability and emotion regulation within mind-body interventions.
  • To explore how different pathways of emotion regulation are influenced by these interventions.
  • To synthesize findings from empirical and qualitative studies on this topic.

Main Methods:

  • Integrative review of existing literature.
  • Analysis of constructs related to interoceptive ability, mind-body interventions, and emotion regulation pathways.
  • Inclusion of selected empirical and qualitative studies examining the effects of interventions.

Main Results:

  • Mindfulness meditation, through top-down processing, enhances the brain-body axis, improving interoceptive ability and emotion regulation.
  • Bottom-up interventions involving body movement and emotional expression show promise but require further investigation.
  • Interoceptive ability is a key factor mediating the positive effects of mind-body interventions on emotion regulation.

Conclusions:

  • Interoceptive ability is fundamental to the efficacy of mind-body interventions for emotion regulation.
  • A dual approach, combining quantitative and qualitative methods, can provide a comprehensive understanding of interoception.
  • Interoceptive ability offers a unifying construct for exploring embodied experience, including top-down/bottom-up processing and varying levels of awareness.