Focusing: How to Open Up Your Deeper Feelings and Intuition

Once your body is allowed to be itself, uncramped, it has the wisdom to deal with your problems.

Whatever comes in focusing, welcome it.

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

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

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

Once you see it, nobody will seem hopeless.

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.

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

Nothing that feels bad is ever the last step.