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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.
Eugene T. Gendlin • Focusing: How to Open Up Your Deeper Feelings and Intuition
Without tapping the deeper bodily level, which is at first always unclear, one would stay stuck with the thoughts and feelings of what the problem appears to be at the beginning.
Eugene T. Gendlin • Focusing: How to Open Up Your Deeper Feelings and Intuition
Once your body is allowed to be itself, uncramped, it has the wisdom to deal with your problems.
Eugene T. Gendlin • Focusing: How to Open Up Your Deeper Feelings and Intuition
Jonny Miller • The Art and Science of Interoception
Epicurus’s teaching represents a major step forward from Aristotle in one particular area. Aristotle, as we know, treated human emotions as a shallow clear pool, fully accessible to the trained intellect and amenable to change through rational, dialectical scrutiny. Since the time of Freud, we have known that to be an incomplete image of how we ope
... See moreDerren Brown • Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine
Our bodies are interactings.
Eugene Gendlin • A Process Model (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)
How do we get back to ourselves, to find the MPFC switch to access our present embodied states? Experience dependent brain development etches brain pathways in both directions. You have to practice finding yourself, again and again, in order for those pathways to regrow. If you are too far gone into the land of thinking yourself out of situations,
... See moreAlan Fogel • Body Sense: The Science and Practice of Embodied Self-Awareness (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
Every bad feeling is potential energy toward a more right way of being if you give it space to move toward its rightness.