Mental vitamins

Feeling safe is not just the absence of danger. It is a brain state that helps regulate the body, emotions, and attention.

Interoception is the brain’s ability to sense and interpret signals coming from inside the body, from heartbeat to breathing and internal tension. This hidden dialogue between brain and body helps shape emotion, attention, and wellbeing more than we often realise.

We often imagine memory as a system that stores life events like neat files, ready to be reopened exactly as they were. But episodic memory does not work like a recording. Instead, remembering is a dynamic and reconstructive process, shaped by changing interactions between the hippocampus, the cortex, and the level of detail that survives over time.

Attention is a limited resource constantly pulled in competing directions. Understanding why the brain gets distracted so easily reveals something fundamental about how cognition actually works.

Music feels like it helps the brain get into the right rhythm. Sometimes it does. But the science behind attention, memory, and sound is far more nuanced, and far more interesting, than a simple yes or no.