Focusing: How to Open Up Your Deeper Feelings and Intuition

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

Allow even a very little shift to have its full minute or so.

Ask, “What does this whole problem feel like?” But don’t answer in words. Feel the problem whole, the sense of all that.

Stay cheerfully detached from them as much as you can. “Well, except for all of these, I’m fine,” you can now say. It might be an awful list but that is all.

It concerns a different kind of inward attention to what is at first sensed unclearly. Then it comes into focus and, through the specific internal movements I am about to present, it changes in a bodily way.

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

Once you see it, nobody will seem hopeless.

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

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.

focusing begins with giving your body a pause, a break, in which to let it become whole.