Saved by Stuart Evans
“Focusing” for skeptics
The most exciting characteristic of all is the fact that a felt sense, when you focus on it well, has the power to change.
Eugene T. Gendlin • Focusing: How to Open Up Your Deeper Feelings and Intuition
Attention to feelings as opposed to attention to thoughts leads to a decline in rumination and depressed moods
Alan Fogel • Body Sense: The Science and Practice of Embodied Self-Awareness (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
You welcome anything that comes with a body shift, but you stay a little distance from it. You are not in it, but next to it. This space, in which you can be next to it, forms in a few moments, as your body eases. “I can’t solve this all in one day,” you say to yourself. “I know it’s there. I can find it again. I can leave it for a while.”