“Focusing” for skeptics

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.

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

The most exciting characteristic of all is the fact that a felt sense, when you focus on it well, has the power to change.