In Episode 432, we explored how awareness builds integrity, how listening to the body moment by moment allows coherence to arise naturally.

But what happens when awareness feels muted? What if you can't clearly feel hunger, fatigue, or even your own emotions? What if instead of clarity, there's numbness, confusion, or second-guessing?

In this follow-up episode, Colette explores what happens when body signals have been overridden for years and how Ayurveda offers a gentle, practical path to rebuilding trust with your body.

Drawing on the Ayurvedic concept of prajnaparadha (loss of awareness), this episode explains how repeated overriding of hunger, fatigue, or emotional signals is not a personal failure, it is physiology. The nervous system adapts to long-term stress by lowering the volume of internal cues, conserving energy for survival.

You'll learn how chronic stress can dull interoception (your ability to sense internal states), weaken agni (digestive and perceptual fire), and create disconnection from subtle signals.

Most importantly, you'll discover how to gently restore awareness without force.

This episode offers compassionate reassurance and practical micro-practices to help you rebuild inner reference points so that health decisions arise from relationship rather than reaction.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why awareness can feel muted after years of overriding body signals

• How chronic stress affects digestion, perception, and nervous system regulation

• The connection between agni, interoception, and self-trust

• Why muted awareness is not a personal defect

• How Ayurveda educates you to participate in your own care

• Simple daily micro-practices to rebuild body trust

• Signs that trust and interoception are returning

This episode is an invitation to move from self-judgment to self-trust, from forcing clarity to creating safety.

Rebuilding trust with the body is not about trying harder to listen.

It's about restoring the conditions where awareness feels safe enough to return.

Check out Colette's online services:

1. Online Consultations https://www.elementshealingandwellbeing.com/consultations

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4. Online Daily Habits for Holistic Health Program https://www.elementshealingandwellbeing.com/daily-habits

5. Reset-Restore-Renew Program https://www.elementshealingandwellbeing.com/reset-restore-renew

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