July 13, 2026
“When the heart slows, the felt clock slows with it, and much of that happens beneath anything the patient can report.”
“For suicide risk, the meaningful interoceptive variable is not how precisely the body is detected but whether it is trusted and can be used to steady distress.”
“The moment attention slips off the breath is not noise to be averaged away; it is a network-level event, and returning from it is the skill the practice actually builds.”
“The heartbeat evoked potential is the field's favourite objective marker of interoception, and it cannot yet tell clinical brains from healthy ones.”
“In this data, self-reported attention to the body and self-reported accuracy pull apart: attention without accuracy tracked more distress, not less.”
“The wearable is reading heart rate variability; the claim that it reads your interoception is a marketing step the science has taken only twice in five years.”