Coherence between emotional experience and physiology: Does body awareness training have an impact?
Emotion January 1, 2010 Jocelyn A. Sze, Anett Gyurak, Joyce W. Yuan et al. 241 citations
People who train in practices that increase body awareness show greater moment-to-moment alignment between their subjective emotional feelings and their heart period. Experienced Vipassana meditators, who attend to visceral sensations, had the highest coherence, followed by dancers, who attend to somatic sensations, with controls having the lowest coherence. The findings suggest that specialized training in body awareness enhances the coherence between subjective and physiological aspects of emotion.