Coaching practices for Gendlin Felt Shift

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• Sometimes while I’m sitting with something there’s this little sigh or loosening in my body, like something quietly let go
• When I think about this whole situation there’s something my body clearly registers
• I’ll have a moment where I feel genuinely settled and safe, and then it just evaporates and I can’t get it back when I’m wound up
• Whenever I let myself touch the hard feeling at all, I get pulled all the way under and flooded
• The instant something painful surfaces

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. Find the felt sense
   Locate the unclear, whole-body sense of a situation before you name it.
   Focusing and the Felt Sense, Made Practical
3. Glimmer anchoring
   Link a remembered glimmer to a physical gesture so you can recall its felt sense on demand.
   Glimmers: Micro-Moments That Cue Safety
4. 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.
5. Pendulation: moving between states gently
   Shift between a regulated and a less regulated state in small steps rather than forcing a leap.
   The Ladder of Regulation: Navigating Your Autonomic States
6. Receive what comes with friendliness
   Welcome whatever emerges from the felt sense without judgment or urgency to fix it.
   Focusing and the Felt Sense, Made Practical
7. Reset to an upright, open posture
   Sit or stand tall with an open chest to give your brain different bodily evidence.
   Posture and Confidence, Honestly Explained
8. 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
9. Use gentle movement to oppose the collapse
   Small, intentional physical movements counter the body’s pull toward stillness and immobility.
   Dorsal Vagal Shutdown: The Collapse State and How to Emerge
10. Track the felt sense during pendulation
    As you move between resource and difficulty, notice how each sensation changes in quality — this tracking is the therapy.
    Pendulation, Made Practical

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