Sublime

The practice of Focusing[4] is an excellent method for allowing parts to gradually come into view.

The body shift, the change in a felt sense, is the heart of the process. But the bringing-up of bodily sensed knowledge—the “transfer” of this knowledge, in effect, from body to mind—is

it is in this way that genuinely new ideas can emerge from a process of attending to the bodily felt dimension of human experience.

Referencing is a fundamental skill, one that each of us must learn to become an emotionally healthy adult. Simply stated, it is the skill of sensing inner experience.

There is a simple way to become conscious of the underlying emotional goal behind any activity through use of the question, “What for?” With each answer, “What for?” is asked again and again until the basic feeling is uncovered.

Clarity is useful in coordinating with others only when it produces an interpretation shared by all concerned, and when all parties act in accordance with that interpretation. In order to do this we must be present to others. In order to be present to others we must be present to ourselves. The surest way to be present to ourselves, and therefore t

David Barlow. He was (and still is) one of the premiere anxiety researchers on the planet.

Here is a sentence-completion exercise you can use to begin to explore aspects of your emotional life. Write each of the following stems at the top of a blank page, then do a minimum of ten endings as rapidly as possible. For exploring feelings of pain or hurt: “I can remember feeling hurt when—”; “When I was hurt, I told myself—”; “Sometimes I fee