The Connection Between Bodily Sensation & The Emotional Brain The Confident Rider Podcast

It’s a raw, uncut, unedited podcast for you this week! I had planned to release a different episode, but we made an executive decision to hold that off for a couple of weeks’ time (super excited to bring that to you then!). In the meantime, I had two options:
Leave the podcast for this week and have a two-week gap Roll with whatever came up even if I didn’t have time to present it as a perfect package Given this is here with you now, I have gone with the latter. So here it is for you, my Sunday morning conversation around the nature of sensation and the relationship it has with our emotional brain and motor patterns and function (isn’t this what everyone muses over when they are having their Sunday morning coffee?).
What’s the deal with all of that? Here’s a brief breakdown.
Many of us find ourselves in groundhog day experiences with our horses based on certain feelings or sensations that arise in the body. Whilst those sensations can feel concrete and absolute, they are inherently subjective. Think of them as a mash-up of everything you have thought, experienced, or been told in relation to a similar experience in the past.
What then happens is that our body registers a certain feeling in response to the environment, and we label that feeling based on something that has happened in the past. That labeling or thought process then triggers a motor response and we find ourselves acting out the same experiences on a repetitive loop.
In order to move away from that, there are some key things we need to consider:
Our associations with sensation and discomfort in the body as a whole, and the decoupling of stories and labels around them The secondary gain we experience from what we would primarily understand as negative behavior or experience The true meaning of sensation and how we can use that to bring ourselves more into the present We discuss all this and more in this episode!