Here we build on recent findings which show that greater alignment between our subjective experiences (how we feel) and physiological states (measurable changes in our body) plays a pivotal role in the overall psychological well-being. Specifically, we propose that the alignment or ‘coherence’ between affective arousal (e.g. how excited we ‘feel’) and autonomic arousal (e.g. heart rate or pupil dilation) may be key for maintaining up-to-date uncertainty representations in dynamic environments. Drawing on recent advances in interoceptive and affective inference, we also propose that arousal coherence reflects interoceptive integration, facilitates adaptive belief updating, and impacts our capacity to adapt to changes in uncertainty, with downstream consequences to well-being. We also highlight the role of meta-awareness of arousal, a third level of inference, which may permit conscious awareness, learning about, and intentional regulation of lower-order sources of arousal. Practices emphasizing meta-awareness of arousal (like meditation) may therefore elicit some of their known benefits via improved arousal coherence. We suggest that arousal coherence is also likely to be associated with markers of adaptive functioning (like emotional awareness and self-regulatory capacities) and discuss mind–body practices that may increase coherence.

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唤醒连贯性、不确定性和幸福感：主动推理账户

在这里，我们以最近的发现为基础，这些发现表明，我们的主观体验（我们的感受）和生理状态（我们身体的可测量变化）之间的更大一致性在整体心理健康中发挥着关键作用。具体来说，我们提出情感唤醒（例如我们“感觉”有多兴奋）和自主唤醒（例如心率或瞳孔扩张）之间的一致性或“连贯性”可能是在动态环境中维持最新的不确定性表示的关键。利用内感受和情感推理的最新进展，我们还提出，唤醒一致性反映了内感受整合，促进适应性信念更新，并影响我们适应不确定性变化的能力，从而对福祉产生下游影响。我们还强调了唤醒的元意识的作用，这是第三个层次的推理，它可能允许有意识地认识、学习和有意调节低阶唤醒源。因此，强调唤醒的元意识（如冥想）的实践可能会通过改善唤醒的一致性来带来一些已知的好处。我们认为，唤醒一致性也可能与适应性功能的标志（如情绪意识和自我调节能力）相关，并讨论可能增加一致性的身心实践。