An increasing recognition that brain and body are dynamically coupled has enriched our
scientific understanding of mental health conditions. Peripheral signals interact centrally to …

Clinical research on the beneficial effects induced by slow-paced breathing has been
increasingly extended in the past twenty years. Improvements in cardiovascular functioning …

Enactivist Interventions is an interdisciplinary work that explores how theories of embodied
cognition illuminate many aspects of the mind, including intentionality, representation, the …

Mindfulness is often used as an umbrella term to characterize a large number of practices,
processes, and characteristics. Critics argue that this broad definition has led to …

How Do You Feel? brings together startling evidence from neuroscience, psychology, and
psychiatry to present revolutionary new insights into how our brains enable us to experience …

We briefly review the evidence for distinct neuroanatomical substrates that underlie
interoception in humans, and we explain how they substantialize feelings from the body (in …

The subjective experience of one's environment is constructed by interactions among
sensory, cognitive, and affective processes. For centuries, meditation has been thought to …

Pranayama or breath regulation is considered as an essential component of Yoga, which is
said to influence the physiological systems. We present a comprehensive overview of …

Heart rate variability (HRV) represents fluctuations in the time intervals between successive
heartbeats, which are termed interbeat intervals. HRV is an emergent property of complex …

This article addresses the neuroanatomical evidence for a progression of integrative
representations of affective feelings from the body that lead to an ultimate representation of …