The book is unusual in its focus on bodily feelings that audiences may experience like crying, cringing, or yawning while reading.
For the most part (except for basic bodily feelings like hunger and pain, which are innate), people are able to decide what they want to focus their attention on.
Borne up on the excitement of the last few days, he had been able to shove his bodily ill feelings into the background.
Neuropathic pain is caused by damage or disease affecting any part of the nervous system involved in bodily feelings (the somatosensory system).
This will reduce distractions and help you concentrate upon your bodily feelings.
What is true of pain is that a bodily feeling which is usually painful may, under certain conditions, be enjoyed.
Maybe it was just a bodily feeling, an instinct.
Every nuance of bodily feeling and every ultrasense that she possessed was also sharpened.
If, for example, emotions are taken to be centrally characterized by bodily feelings, then grasping the bodily feelings of another will be central to empathy.
It understands and communicates with bodily feeling, bodily movement, metaphor, and a vast range of subtle cues.