Focusing: How to Open Up Your Deeper Feelings and Intuition

“What would it take for this to feel OK?”)

A felt sense doesn’t come to you in the form of thoughts or words or other separate units, but as a single (though often puzzling and very complex) bodily feeling.

The body knows what its own right state feels like and is constantly checking and adjusting its processes to stay as close to that state as possible.

Once you see it, nobody will seem hopeless.

“What is this left-behind feeling? What’s really in it for me? What’s the worst of it?”

Your body always tends in the direction of feeling better. Your body is a complex, life-maintaining system.

Crying is often the first stirring of a part of one’s self that has been long held in.

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.

From the preceding image it will come back fully again. It helps to find this before stopping.

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