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How It Feels Is Part of How It Sounds

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Watch Ella Fitzgerald feel her pitch through her own cranium, and the science of interoception opens up. Fully referenced, with a ten-minute practice built in.

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Watch Ella Fitzgerald sing and you will notice her left hand resting over her ear and cranium. She is not simply hearing her pitch. She is feeling it, through the vibration of her own skull. As one HODA-A™ cohort member put it: how it feels is part of how it sounds.

Calibration No. 04 takes that observation into the science of interoception, the sense that faces inwards. It explores why the ability to count your own heartbeat predicts better intuitive decisions and sharper reading of other people’s emotions, and what that means for clinicians whose hands are their measuring device. Two very different vocal landscapes, Ella Fitzgerald and Alanis Morissette’s “Uninvited”, become a listening exercise in noticing your own physiology respond. Along the way: music as one of the most underused tools for regulating the nervous system, why your response to a song is genuinely your own, the vagus nerve connection between voice and inner sensing, and a note from history on Beethoven, bone conduction and what a skilled perceiver does when one channel degrades.

Fully referenced, and closing with a ten-minute calibration you can do with two songs, one hand and one heartbeat. Part of the Calibrations series: referenced articles that recalibrate how a clinician sees, from the HODA-A™ Library.

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Dr Jo Abbott Ph.D
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