Let me ask you something:
What’s it costing you to ignore your body?
Burnout? Missed decisions? Lost money?
Because after five years of saying this stuff… I finally got through to one of the smartest, most skeptical blokes I know:
My mate Rob.
Sharp as a blade.
Zero time for fluff.
High-paid business consultant who can dissect a profit-loss sheet in seconds.
For five years, every time I mentioned the nervous system?
Instant eye-roll.
Words like “somatic,” “healing,” or “body wisdom”?
He’d sooner listen to a guy named Raven at a blindfolded breathwork retreat.
But then something shifted.
He messaged me from Portugal — while I was hiking the mountains here in Peru — and I literally laughed out loud reading it.
Why?
Because he finally saw the science.
A study out of London revealed this wild truth:
The most successful traders weren’t the smartest.
They weren’t the most educated.
They were the best at feeling their heartbeat.
Literally.
They had insane interoceptive capacity — the ability to detect their own internal states.
Another study looked at bankers.
Same thing.
The ones who stopped treating their body like a machine…
…and started listening to it like a partner?
They became more strategic, more creative, less reactive — and made better decisions under pressure.
And suddenly, Rob got it.
Not because it was spiritual.
Not because it was about “healing his inner child.”
But because it was quantifiable. Measurable. Tactical.
He said:
“This makes sense. It’s not vague or manipulative. It’s real. It’s data. Now I get what the hell you’ve been on about.”
He doesn’t care about trauma.
He’s not trying to “find himself.”
But performance? Leadership? Clarity?
That he can wrap his head around.
He’s finally realized:
This work isn’t about fixing you.
It’s about tuning the machine…
…getting it to work for you — not against you.
So if you’re pushing through the days on sheer willpower…
…grinding on autopilot…
…ignoring the inner signals until something breaks…
It might be time to stop trying to out-hustle your biology…
…and start learning how to master it.
Want to build your own interoceptive edge?
Listen to this episode.
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