Adaptive human functioning depends on the continuous alignment of three regulatory domains: proprioception (the organization of body form and mechanical tension), interoception (the regulation and sensing of internal physiological state), and exteroception (the interpretation of environmental context and meaning). These domains form three coupled sensory fields that maintain coherence across bodily structure, metabolic state, and perception. When coherence is intact, individuals experience emotional stability, embodied presence, and a continuous sense of self. When coherence is disrupted, patterns of dys-coherence emerge, presenting clinically as anxiety, chronic pain, depression, dissociation, trauma-related symptoms, and functional neurological conditions.
This paper synthesizes evidence from affective neuroscience, fascia and proprioception research, autonomic physiology, predictive processing, developmental attachment science, and cerebellar control theory to show that coherence is an emergent property of integrated autoregulation across systems. The Hinductive Coherence Principle is introduced as a formal framework describing how alignment across the three fields is maintained through fast (proprioceptive–cerebellar) and slow (interoceptive–insula–ACC–hypothalamic) regulatory loops.
Clinically, this framework reframes diverse symptom profiles not as cognitive or psychiatric disorders, but as physiological strategies for managing mismatched predictions across form, state, and world. Treatment must therefore proceed in sequence: first stabilizing form (postural and myofascial tone), then recalibrating state (interoceptive tolerance and autonomic variability), and only then reshaping world interpretation (salience and meaning). Coherence-based care restores regulatory capacity rather than suppressing symptoms, providing a unified, cross-disciplinary foundation for assessment and intervention.
