Focusing: How to Open Up Your Deeper Feelings and Intuition

because this is when you feel them. Otherwise the material stays safely and aseptically tucked away in your head. The three wisdom tools take information from your head and deliver it down into your heart and guts. This is where you really feel things, and where you’re truly fed. This is where you transform cerebral data into somatic fiber.

It doesn’t require moving mountains—only changing our internal state of being. This allows us to alter the way we act with one another, replacing stressful situations with positive experiences that give us energy, fill our spirit, and leave us with a sense of wholeness, connection, and unity. The brain may think, but when you turn your heart into a

Since it is impossible to get away from the feeling, the only possibility of change is to move into it; otherwise, nothing will shift.

Step 5: Identify Gaps of Feeling If, like most people, you’re a high-to-medium somatizer (someone who holds a lot of tension in your body), you’ll probably find that some parts of your body are easy to feel while others seem numb, tight, or paralyzed. Good—now you know where your body is storing useful information that your brain doesn’t know. When