
Focusing in Clinical Practice: The Essence of Change


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.
Eugene T. Gendlin • Focusing: How to Open Up Your Deeper Feelings and Intuition
The actionable claim of Focusing (again, according to me) is that this information expresses itself in “felt senses” in the body — think butterflies in the stomach, or your throat closing up, or the heat of embarrassment in your cheeks, or a heavy sense of doom that makes your arms feel leaden and numb, or whatever physiological sensation happens t... See more
Duncan A Sabien • “Focusing” for skeptics
It exists in the body. It is physical. If you want to change it, you must introduce a process of change that is also physical. That process is focusing.