Gamblers have measurably lower body awareness than almost any clinical population. Neuroscience shows how gambling numbs you — and how prayer restores what was lost.
Peer-reviewed neuroscience reveals that gamblers have measurably lower interoceptive awareness than almost any other clinical population. They cannot feel their own bodies. For men trained by masculine norms to live in their heads, gambling hijacks the somatic marker system to manufacture the only visceral certainty they have ever known. New research on prayer and contemplative practice shows that a genuine relationship with God restores the exact neural circuitry that gambling destroyed.
By Kate Mosley, Gambling Recovery Coach.
The Body That Forgot How to Feel: How Gambling Replaces Interoception With a Counterfeit God