Focusing: How to Open Up Your Deeper Feelings and Intuition

A felt sense is not a mental experience but a physical one. Physical. A bodily awareness of a situation or person or event.

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.

You are not any of the things you have set aside. You are no content at all!

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

“How do I feel? Why don’t I feel wonderful right now? What is bugging me on this particular day?”

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.

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

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.

and it may take you three or four minutes, counting distractions, to give it the thirty seconds of attention it needs.