“Focusing” for skeptics

Just getting in touch with one’s feelings often brings no change, just the same feeling over and over. One must let a larger, wider, unclear felt sense form.

and it may take you three or four minutes, counting distractions, to give it the thirty seconds of attention it needs.

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.”