Emotions

There is a kind of knowing that does not come from thinking. It arrives before words, before analysis, before you have had a chance to reason your way to a conclusion. You walk into a room and something feels off. You are offered an opportunity that looks good on paper and yet something in you hesitates. You are in the middle of a conversation and notice, without quite knowing why, that you have gone somewhere distant inside yourself. This is interoception at work. And while the word itself may be unfamiliar, the experience almost certainly is not.