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Welcome to the WREN’s Sound walk experience -Aimyhtixela. Alexithymia - meaning “a person’s inability to identify or verbally describe his or her feelings.”. “Aimyhtixela” is the reverse of that. This sound experience is based off the “Junto Institutes” emotional wheel. The Junto Institute’s research explains how self awareness is the foundation to building empathy, healthy relationships, social awareness, self management and emotionally intelligent leadership. The intention is that the listener moves towards the emotion that they are feeling, and then after meeting the emotion - the listener moves towards the balancing emotion, so then they can slowly come back to their centre.

This sound experience is an - with the middle of the web being the centre point of balance. Interoception (the ability to notice and understand your internal sensations) is the foundation to emotional regulation. Understanding when you are becoming angry, sad, anxious, happy etc... is imperative to knowing how to manage emotions proactively. (Goodall, 2020). Practicing interoception will help you stay connected to your sense of self, and engages the vagus nerve (which allows you to "calm down". (How Trauma Affects Our Eighth Sense: Interoception, 2024).

Consistent practice can guide the plasticity of the brain to create and strengthen interoceptive-aware brain connections (Ahissar, 2009). Grab a pair of headphones, scan the QR code to the ECHOES App, and be guided to follow a labyrinth of emotionally driven pieces, to bring you back to your centre. This interactive sound experience is a journey of getting to know, understand, feel and experience emotions.

Take a deep breathe in and tune into which location resonates with the emotion that you are feeling the most OR move around the sound walk in an anti-clockwise direction - moving from the SAE reception, out the door, to the courtyard, and then down towards the tree line.