Self-Reported Body Awareness: Validation of the Postural Awareness Scale and the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (Version 2) in a Non-clinical Adult French-Speaking Sample [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Body awareness refers to the individual ability to process signals originating from within the body, which provide a mapping of the body’s internal landscape (interoception) and its relation with space and movement (proprioception).
Lucie Da Costa Silva +7 more
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Probing the posture with machine learning provides physiological evidence supporting the enhanced body awareness hypothesis in trait mindfulness [PDF]
Frontiers in Physiology, 2022 Enhanced body awareness has been suggested as one of the cognitive mechanisms that characterize mindfulness. Yet neuroscience literature still lacks strong empirical evidence to support this claim.
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Improving mental health through body-awareness with dynamic interpersonal therapy in patients with persistent somatic symptoms: an explorative cohort study [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychiatryIntroductionThis study explored the changes in mental health and body-awareness in patients with severe persistent somatic symptoms (PSS) treated with multidisciplinary Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy.MethodsIn this longitudinal study 56 patients with ...
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From body to mind: how body-mind axial awareness training enhances body awareness, mindfulness, positive embodiment and mental health in healthcare students [PDF]
Health Psychology and Behavioral MedicineBackground Healthcare students face intense emotional and academic stress, leading to anxiety and poor mental health. Body-Mind Axial Awareness (BMAA)—a movement-based, body-centered practice—integrates bodily awareness and interoceptive attention to ...
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The importance of recovering body awareness in post-stroke rehabilitation: insights from clinical case reports [PDF]
Frontiers in NeurologyIntroductionBody awareness (BA) is the process of gaining sensory awareness based on the physiological states and actions of the body. It is influenced by an individual’s attitudes, perceptions, beliefs, and experiences within the social and cultural ...
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A scoping review on the body awareness rehabilitation after stroke: are we aware of what we are unaware? [PDF]
Frontiers in NeurologyBody awareness (BA) is a complex multi-dimensional construct that refers to the subject’s ability to consciously perceive and integrate sensory and proprioceptive information related to the position, movement, and balance of one’s own body and body parts.
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Cardiac and Proprioceptive Accuracy Are Not Related to Body Awareness, Perceived Body Competence, and Affect [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Interoception in the broader sense refers to the perception of internal states, including the perception of the actual state of the internal organs (visceroception) and the motor system (proprioception).
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Body Awareness as a Protective Factor against Suicidal Orientations in College Students [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesIn this study, binary logistic regression and linear regression analyses were used to examine the relationship between interoceptive body awareness and suicidal orientation among Colombian university students.
Olga Lucia Montoya-Hurtado +11 more
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Body awareness, stress and symptoms in autonomic dysfunction in patients with chronic pain: an explorative study [PDF]
Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine - Clinical CommunicationsObjective: To assess pain outcomes, stress levels and body awareness among patients with chronic pain and explore potential associations between these variables. Design: An explorative study.
Emma Varkey +5 more
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The Effect of Aviva Exercise Intervention on Pain Level and Body Awareness in Women with Primary Dysmenorrhea [PDF]
MedicinaBackground and Objective: Primary dysmenorrhea (PD) is one of the most common clinical disorders in women of reproductive age. Our aim was to examine whether a twice-weekly thirty-minute Aviva exercise intervention could result in improvements in pain ...
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