Proprioception has long been one of my favorite five-dollar fitness words (Does everybody have a teacher in their past who would call any fancy-pants vocabulary five-dollar words? Or is it just me?). In small-change words, proprioception is our sense of where we are in space. It keeps us from bashing into things, mostly, and it is what makes us know where our feet are, even if they are under the desk where we can’t see them.
Now I have learned another word that gets to be proprioception’s friend: interoception. This is our sense of how things are inside. Interoceptors in our body keep us posted on whether we are cold, tired, hungry, sore, and the like.
So far, we just have some fun facts. Here’s the cool part: when we do mindful exercise, like stretching and yoga and Pilates, we not only boost our proprioception, but we also tune in more to our interoception, which in turn gives us a more generalized sense of wellbeing.
Short version: work out and feel better!
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