“Focusing” for skeptics

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.

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

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

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 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.