Focusing: How to Open Up Your Deeper Feelings and Intuition

If you can do that just for a minute, you will be ready to work on the difficulties and painful feelings in a new way.

Let your body return to its natural state—which is perfect. The body can feel completely at ease and natural every moment. Just let it.

there is a third choice: let the body feel whole and sound, don’t become the embodiment of your troubles, just have them in front of you.

They believe they must feel every bad feeling to the fullest at all times.

They seem to feel guilty about feeling good, even briefly.

Your physically felt body is in fact part of a gigantic system of here and other places, now and other times, you and other people—in fact, the whole universe. This sense of being bodily alive in a vast system is the body as it is felt from inside.

Every bad feeling is potential energy toward a more right way of being if you give it space to move toward its rightness.

“What would come, in my body, if this problem were somehow all solved?” Whatever your mind answers, you wait until you sense what comes in your body. Then you let that be for a little while.

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.