Technique

Focusing

Pausing to sense a problem in the body and letting words and shifts arise from that felt sense.

From Eugene Gendlin

Who shaped it

The thinker behind it

Focusing-Oriented Therapy Eugene Gendlin He taught people to listen to the wisdom of the body.

Bring it to your own life

Questions in this spirit

A technique is just a method until you turn it inward. Answer one.

When something is bothering you but you can't quite name it, where do you feel it in your body — and what might it be trying to say?

If you sat quietly with a decision you're stuck on and waited for your body's sense of it, which way does it lean?

From method to habit

Make Focusing a few honest minutes a day.

Psipas turns the simplest of these techniques into a daily ritual — one question, one answer, a picture that grows.

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