Gene Gendlin introduces Focusing

Philosopher and psychologist Eugene Gendlin introduces the key concepts and steps of Focusing. A demonstration at 7.20 gives insight to his practice.

Focusing is more than being in touch with your feelings and different from body work. Focusing occurs exactly at the interface of body-mind. It consists of specific steps for getting a body sense of how you are in a particular life situation. The body sense is unclear and vague at first, but if you pay attention it will open up into words or images and you experience a felt shift in your body, implying the next step forward.

In the process of Focusing, one experiences a physical change in the way that the issue is being lived in the body. We learn to live in a deeper place than just thoughts or feelings. The whole issue looks different and new solutions arise.

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• Gene Gendlin
• focusing
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• body
• knowing
• shifting
• living
• mind-body
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