Coaching practices for Focusing and the Felt Sense on a Budget
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I land on a name for what I’m feeling and just take my own word for it and move on
- When I think about this whole situation there’s something my body clearly registers
- I can feel this murky thing inside me clearly enough, but every word I reach for to describe it feels like a guess from my head that doesn’t quite land
- I can finally feel and name what’s going on in me, but then I leap straight to the sensible from-the-head fix
- Sometimes while I’m sitting with something there’s this little sigh or loosening in my body, like something quietly let go
Practices that may help
- Focusing and the Felt Sense, Made Practical
Focusing, developed by philosopher and psychotherapist Eugene Gendlin, is a structured inner-listening practice that attends to the "felt sense" — a bodily, pre-verbal knowing about a situation. Small clinical studies and therapist-outcome research suggest people who can access the felt sense make more therapeutic progress, though large controlled trials are lacking. The self-inquiry skills Focusing teaches are low-risk and widely applicable. - Resonate and check
Shuttle between the word and the body to confirm the felt sense is accurately captured.
Focusing and the Felt Sense, Made Practical - Find the felt sense
Locate the unclear, whole-body sense of a situation before you name it.
Focusing and the Felt Sense, Made Practical - Find a handle word or image
Let a word, phrase, or image arise from the felt sense — not the other way around.
Focusing and the Felt Sense, Made Practical - Ask the felt sense what it needs
Once a handle fits, gently ask the felt sense: "What does this need? What would help?"
Focusing and the Felt Sense, Made Practical - Notice and carry forward the felt shift
Recognize the physical release that signals the felt sense has been genuinely met.
Focusing and the Felt Sense, Made Practical - Distinguish applying from sustaining attention
First, aim attention at the object (applying); then, stay with it without tightening (sustaining).
Shamatha: The Buddhist Practice of Calm Abiding - Use the breath as the primary anchor
Rest attention gently on the sensations of breathing — not on the idea of breathing.
Shamatha: The Buddhist Practice of Calm Abiding - Clear a space
Set down each burden one by one to find the calm place underneath them.
Focusing and the Felt Sense, Made Practical - Expanding to panoramic awareness
Deliberately widen attention from its usual narrow focal point to include the full field of sensory experience simultaneously.
Open Monitoring Meditation, Made Practical
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- Focusing And The Felt Sense When Starting Out
Focusing, developed by philosopher and psychotherapist Eugene Gendlin, is a structured inner-listening practice that attends to the "felt sense" — a bodily, pre-verbal knowing about a situation. Small clinical studies and therapist-outcome research suggest people who can access the felt sense make more therapeutic progress, though large controlled trials are lacking. The self-inquiry skills Focusing teaches are low-risk and widely applicable.
- Felt Shift Focusing
Focusing, developed by philosopher and psychotherapist Eugene Gendlin, is a structured inner-listening practice that attends to the "felt sense" — a bodily, pre-verbal knowing about a situation. Small clinical studies and therapist-outcome research suggest people who can access the felt sense make more therapeutic progress, though large controlled trials are lacking. The self-inquiry skills Focusing teaches are low-risk and widely applicable.
- Focusing And The Felt Sense As A Caregiver
Focusing, developed by philosopher and psychotherapist Eugene Gendlin, is a structured inner-listening practice that attends to the "felt sense" — a bodily, pre-verbal knowing about a situation. Small clinical studies and therapist-outcome research suggest people who can access the felt sense make more therapeutic progress, though large controlled trials are lacking. The self-inquiry skills Focusing teaches are low-risk and widely applicable.
- Focusing And The Felt Sense As A Parent
Focusing, developed by philosopher and psychotherapist Eugene Gendlin, is a structured inner-listening practice that attends to the "felt sense" — a bodily, pre-verbal knowing about a situation. Small clinical studies and therapist-outcome research suggest people who can access the felt sense make more therapeutic progress, though large controlled trials are lacking. The self-inquiry skills Focusing teaches are low-risk and widely applicable.
- Focusing And The Felt Sense At Work
Focusing, developed by philosopher and psychotherapist Eugene Gendlin, is a structured inner-listening practice that attends to the "felt sense" — a bodily, pre-verbal knowing about a situation. Small clinical studies and therapist-outcome research suggest people who can access the felt sense make more therapeutic progress, though large controlled trials are lacking. The self-inquiry skills Focusing teaches are low-risk and widely applicable.
- Focusing And The Felt Sense Before Bed
Focusing, developed by philosopher and psychotherapist Eugene Gendlin, is a structured inner-listening practice that attends to the "felt sense" — a bodily, pre-verbal knowing about a situation. Small clinical studies and therapist-outcome research suggest people who can access the felt sense make more therapeutic progress, though large controlled trials are lacking. The self-inquiry skills Focusing teaches are low-risk and widely applicable.
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