Focusing

“Focusing is this very deliberate thing where an ‘I’ is attending to an ‘it’” (Gendlin, 1990, p. 222). “The client and I, we are going to keep it, in there, company” (p. 216).

Think of the first movement as a brief time when you allow yourself to stop being a monument to your troubles.

It exists in the body. It is physical. If you want to change it, you must introduce a process of change that is also physical. That process is focusing.

It is a process in which you make contact with a special kind of internal bodily awareness. I call this awareness a felt sense.

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.