Interoception (roughly, internal awareness of the body) is introduced as a field of human experience that is potentially pivotal to psychotherapeutic processes. Though accessible by “common grace,” it can be used and enhanced by the indwelling Spirit. C. S. Lewis warned of the cultivation of people whose organs of perception are underdeveloped—of “men without chests.” More than metaphor, this means that we are viscerally designed for relationship. How does understanding this shape how we love and counsel others?
