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Without tapping the deeper bodily level, which is at first always unclear, one would stay stuck with the thoughts and feelings of what the problem appears to be at the beginning.
Eugene T. Gendlin • Focusing: How to Open Up Your Deeper Feelings and Intuition
Just getting in touch with one’s feelings often brings no change, just the same feeling over and over. One must let a larger, wider, unclear felt sense form.
Eugene T. Gendlin • Focusing: How to Open Up Your Deeper Feelings and Intuition
Focusing, by contrast, is optimistic. It is based on the very positive expectation of change. It doesn’t envision a human being as a fixed structure whose shape can be analyzed once and for
Eugene T. Gendlin • Focusing: How to Open Up Your Deeper Feelings and Intuition
It envisions a person as a process, capable of continual change and forward movement. The “problems” inside you are only those parts of the process that have been stopped, and the aim of focusing is to unstop them and get the process moving again.
Eugene T. Gendlin • Focusing: How to Open Up Your Deeper Feelings and Intuition
