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In Sunday's training I asked a question around which practices are most optimising towards deepening interoception. What led to this was the desire to get a better feel and understanding of the lower cavities.

These past couple of weeks I’ve been working on raise diaphragm and the other day there was something going on in my body that was really interfering. I was finding it much harder to get past pts 7 to 8 than in the few days before. The interference and sensation kind of intensified and focused at the back of my nose. The soft tissue behind the bone felt funny and it seemed to be stretching and unstretching and the end result was that my body was telling me  something close to 'you can't breathe something's blocked'.

I have found this differentiation increasingly useful in standing practice.

In practice this morning I again found myself 'leaning back and lifting the front' and where before I would have become interested in the 'how' or 'why',  this morning, I more simply understood this as the mobiliser system trying to do the work of the stabilisers and it was easy just to take the attention away and to refocus on listening for what the bones are 'telling me'.