
Focusing: How to Open Up Your Deeper Feelings and Intuition

“What would come, in my body, if this problem were somehow all solved?” Whatever your mind answers, you wait until you sense what comes in your body. Then you let that be for a little while.
Eugene T. Gendlin • Focusing: How to Open Up Your Deeper Feelings and Intuition
It’s important to spend this minute. The sense of rightness is not only a check of the handle. It is your body just now changing. As long as it is still changing, releasing, processing, moving, let it do that.
Eugene T. Gendlin • Focusing: How to Open Up Your Deeper Feelings and Intuition
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.
Eugene T. Gendlin • Focusing: How to Open Up Your Deeper Feelings and Intuition
Ask, “What does this whole problem feel like?” But don’t answer in words. Feel the problem whole, the sense of all that.
Eugene T. Gendlin • Focusing: How to Open Up Your Deeper Feelings and Intuition
“How do I feel? Why don’t I feel wonderful right now? What is bugging me on this particular day?”
Eugene T. Gendlin • Focusing: How to Open Up Your Deeper Feelings and Intuition
A felt shift feels like a release. That is how you recognize it. It may come at any time during any of
Eugene T. Gendlin • Focusing: How to Open Up Your Deeper Feelings and Intuition
If you can do that just for a minute, you will be ready to work on the difficulties and painful feelings in a new way.
Eugene T. Gendlin • Focusing: How to Open Up Your Deeper Feelings and Intuition
By approaching them that way, we can let a felt sense form and change.
Eugene T. Gendlin • Focusing: How to Open Up Your Deeper Feelings and Intuition
They feel it is their duty to feel bad incessantly as long as the problem is unsolved.