Focusing: How to Open Up Your Deeper Feelings and Intuition

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.

Your body is not a machine, rather a wonderfully intricate interaction with everything around you, which is why it “knows” so much just in being.

What is it, about this whole problem, that makes this quality (which you have just named or pictured)?

By approaching them that way, we can let a felt sense form and change.

“What would it take for this to feel OK?”)

The most exciting characteristic of all is the fact that a felt sense, when you focus on it well, has the power to change.

One must go to that place where there are not words but only feeling. At first there may be nothing there until a felt sense forms.

It is a process in which you make contact with a special kind of internal bodily awareness. I call this awareness a felt sense.

Wait quietly for fresh answers to come from the inside, from the bodily felt sense of whatever situation is troubling you.