01_Gendlin_FocusingResearch

Focusing is not work. It is a friendly time within your body. Approach the problem freshly later, or tomorrow.

It concerns a different kind of inward attention to what is at first sensed unclearly. Then it comes into focus and, through the specific internal movements I am about to present, it changes in a bodily way.

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.

They believe they must feel every bad feeling to the fullest at all times.

Once you see it, nobody will seem hopeless.