Focusing is a natural phenomenon that we experience if we give ourself time to pause in the moment.
Eugene Gendlin, Philosopher and Psychologist noticed this pause or sensing into during his research in the late 1950’s. Those people that had more lasting effect from Therapy instinctively took the time to feel or sense into their body to find the description that fitted in that moment. This was my experience too & why I continue to use Focusing in my daily life.
" If you go there with your awareness and stay there or return there, that is all it needs; it will do the rest for itself… it needs you there, and that is all it needs.” Eugene Gendlin
In my Focusing course I teach the steps which you can practice on your own or together with a Focusing Partner.
The process guides you towards pausing, developing an inner listening, become familiar with the 'Felt Sense' of just what is there in the moment and inviting it just to be, or to express what it needs to. This is a really useful and embodied method to manage emotions, physical pain or past trauma without being overwhelmed by it.
Take Anxiety as an example, someone sitting in front of me may describe 'My Anxiety' this is their familiar labelling, pattern, habitual way of thinking. Let's be with that in a fresh way & see what we notice. Very often they will really feel the sensations , at the very least a churning stomach & restlessness. This brings so much more information than simply a label which the mind has decided upon. As we stay with the Focusing process, we may feel those sensations transform and at least we have developed a way to listen deeper.
" A felt sense is a freshly forming wholistic sense of a situation that has a ‘more than words can say quality to it " Ann Weiser Cornell
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