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Carl R. Rogers and Barry Stevens - Person To Person: The Problem Of Being Human - Pocket -  1974

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The animals live intricately with each other without culture and language. The different cultures don't create us. They only add elaboration.

Eugene T. Gendlin, Focusing

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What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away... And because it’s true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it...

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Not inside, yet inside out.

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New problems!

People get stuck for decades with the same problems over and over. Focusing expands you. Then you live in more ways and have new problems. Somebody once asked me what I thought mental health was. I said, “New problems!”  

—Eugene T. Gendlin, "Focusing" (Tricycle, Fall 2011)

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“What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with.”

-Eugene T. Gendlin, Focusing

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Focusing eBook File: Focusing.PDF Book by Eugene T. Gendlin, Focusing Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Focusing books, Describes an effective technique for identifying one's personal problems by developing an awareness of one's innermost feelings and thus altering behavior and solving problems on a step-by-step basis.

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Focusing: Find Out What Is Bothering You

We are going back to the basics, reviewing Eugene Gendlin's (creator of Focusing) Six Steps of the Focusing Process.Intuitive Focusing does not always happen in neat and tidy steps, and others teach it in totally different steps or processes, but it is helpful to review the original Six Step Process that Gendlin articulated from watching actual people do Focusing 'naturally.'

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Focusing: Find Out What Is Bothering You

Gendlin (born Eugen Gendelin; 25 December 1926 – 1 May 2017) was an American philosopher who developed ways of thinking about and working with living process, the bodily felt sense and the 'philosophy of the implicit'. Though he had no degree in the field of psychology, his advanced study with Carl Rogers, his longtime practice of psychotherapy and his extensive writings in the. Focusing is an innovative technique developed by Eugene Gendlin in the 1960’s. The earliest origins of Focusing are found in Gendlin’s collaborative relationship in the 1950’s with Carl Rogers, the Founder of Client-Centered Psychotherapy. By 1970 Gendlin was recognized by the American Psychological Association as the.

Key Words: Eugene Gendlin, experienc-ing, focusing, felt sense ABSTRACT Eugene Gendlin (1996) put forth his own systematic approach to psychother-apy based on phenomenological philoso-phy and Rogerian psychotherapy in sev-eral papers and a book (Gendlin, 1974; Hart, 1970). Gendlin’s approach pro-vides an alternative to, for example, a. Acces PDF Focusing By Eugene Gendlin inspiring the brain to think bigger and faster can be undergone by some ways. Experiencing, listening to the further experience, adventuring, studying, training, and more practical undertakings may urge on you to improve. But here, if you do.

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Focusing On the Creative Edge

Intuitive Focusing is one-half of the two Core Skills basic to Creative Edge Focusing. Intuitive Focusing can be used any time to find out what is bothering you. Intuitive Focusing involves spending time with the vague, wordless 'intuitive sense' that there is something --- something you can't quite put your finger on or put into words --- but something definitely determining your behavior or how you feel or the inkling of an idea or solution ---

Intuitive Focusing can be used not just for personal problem-solving but for sitting with The Creative Edge of anything: a piece of creative art or writing, an exciting professional problem to solve, a good feeling that has a spiritual edge ---

The Crux of Change

In the 1960's research showed that the single most important variable predicting success in psychotherapy was, not what the therapist was doing, but the client's own ability to speak from present, felt experiencing rather than intellectualization. Dr. Eugene Gendlin of the University of Chicago decided we'd better learn how to teach that skill to people. He called it Focusing and broke it down into six steps to teach it in a self-help way. His book, Focusing (Bantam, 1981), has been translated into over 15 languages and is used throughout the world.

Description of Gendlin's Six Step Focusing Process

First, I will describe Gendlin'sprocess, then I will walk you through some actual instructions below. Here are Gendlin's six steps for use of this inner, meditation-like problem-solving process in a self-help way:

(1)Clearing a Space: setting aside the jumble of thoughts, opinions, and analysis we all carry in our minds, and making a clear, quiet space inside where something new can come.

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(2)Getting a Felt Sense: asking an open-ended question like 'What is the feel of this whole thing (issue, situation, problem)?' and, instead of answering with one's already-known analysis, waiting silently as long as a minute for the subtle, intuitive, 'bodily feel' of 'the whole thing' to form.

(3)Finding a Handle: carefully looking for some words or an image that begin to capture the 'feel of the whole thing,' the Felt Sense, The Creative Edge: 'It's 'jumpy;' 'It's scared;' 'It's like the dew of a Spring morning;' 'It's like macaroni and cheese - comforting,' 'It's like jet propulsion! Something new that needs to spring forth!'

(4)Resonating and Checking: taking the Handle words or image and holding them against the Felt Sense, asking 'Is this right? Is it 'jumpy'?, etc. Finding new words or images if needed until there is a sense of 'fit': 'Yes, that's it. Jumpy.'

(5)Asking: asking open-ended questions (questions that don't have a 'Yes' or 'No' or otherwise fixedor 'closed' answer) like 'And what is so hard about that?' or 'And why does that have me stuck?' or 'What was so beautiful about that moment?' or 'And how does this apply to everything else?' and, again, instead of answering with already-known analysis, waiting silently for the whole-body-sense, the Felt Sense, to arise.

At each Asking, the Focuser also goes back to steps (2), (3) and (4) as necessary, waiting for the Felt Sense to form,finding Handle words, Resonating and Checking until there is a sense of 'fit': 'Yes, that's it.' This often physically-felt experience of tension release and easing in the body, this sense of having found the right words, is called a Felt Shift by Dr. Gendlin. Dr. McGuire calls it a Paradigm Shift It can be a small step of 'Yes, that's it' or a larger unfolding, a huge insight, with many pieces of the puzzle suddenly falling into place and a flow of new words and images and possible action steps. Sometimes there is also a flood of tears of acknowledgment and relief or the release of other pent-up emotions. This is an Instant 'Ahah!'.

(6)Receiving: at each new step, each Felt Shift,taking a moment to sit with the new 'intuitive feel,' simply acknowledging and appreciating your own inner knowing for this new insight. Then, you can start again at step (5), Asking another open-ended question, ('And what is so important about this?'; 'And why did that have me stuck?'; 'And where does my mother come into all of this?', etc.). And, again, step (2), waiting for the Felt Sense to form, step (3) finding a Handle, step (4) Resonating and Checking until there is a Felt Shift,a sense of 'That's it!', another Instant 'Ahah!'.

A First Attempt: Find Out What Is Bothering You

Set aside at least 30 minutes for this first attempt. Remember, Focusing is a skill usually taught in 10 two-hour classes or two weekend workshops ---so, if it doesn't work for you immediately, don't give up! Find a nearby teacher from the Focusing Institute Listings (www.focusing.org ) or arrange for phone sessions with Dr. McGuire or another Creative Edge Consultant at http://www.cefocusing.com/store/products.php?cat=8 .

But, some people are natural Focusers and just say, 'Oh, yes. I've been doing this all my life. Now, I can just do it better, more predictably, whenever I want. Give it a try:

(You can read these to yourself now or into a tape recorder for playback -- or purchaseComplete Focusing Instructions CD as part of our Self-Help Package at http://www.cefocusing.com/store/products.php?cat=7-- leave at least one minute of silence between each instruction)

Step One: Clearing A Space (Relaxation exercise in this case)

---Okay --- first, just get yourself comfortable --- feel the weight of your body on the chair --- loosen any clothing that is too tight ---

(one minute --- )

---Spend a moment just noticing your breathing --- don't try to change it --- just notice the breath going in --- and out ---

(one minute --- )

---Now, notice where you have tension in your body (pause) ---

(one minute --- )

---Now, imagine the tension as a stream of water, draining out of your body through your fingertips and feet (Pause) ---

(one minute --- )

---Let yourself travel inside of your body to a place of peace ---

(one minute --- )

Step Two: Getting A Felt Sense

---Now, bring to mind an incident or a situation that was troublesome for you this week (pause as long as necessary) --- Think about it or get a mental image of it ---

(one minute --- )

---Now, try to set aside all of your thoughts about the situation, and just try to bring back the feeling you had in that situation (pause) --- not words, but the 'intuitive feel' of yourself in that situation ---

(one minute)

Step Three: Finding A Handle

---Now, carefully try to find words or an image for that feeling ---

(one minute)

Step Four: Resonating and Checking

---Go carefully back and forth between any words and the 'intuitive feel of the whole thing' until you find words or an image that are just right for it ---

(one minute --- )

Step Five: Asking

---Now, gently ask yourself, 'What is so hard about this situation for me?', and wait, at least a minute, to see what comes in your wordless intuition, your whole-body sense ---

(one minute)

---Again, carefully find words or an image that exactly fit that whole feeling --- going back and forth until the symbols are 'just right.'

(one minute --- )

---Now, imagine what the situation would be like if it were perfectly all right ---

(one minute --- )

---Now, ask yourself, 'What's in the way of that?' and, again, don't answer from your head, what you already know, but wait, as long as a minute, for something new to come in the center of your body, more like a wordless intuition or whole-body sense ---

(one minute --- )

---Again, carefully find words or an image for that, 'whatever is in the way' --- go back and forth until the symbols are 'just right.'

(one minute --- )

---Now, see if you can find some small step you might be able to take to move yourself in a positive direction --- again, don't answer from your head, the already known, but wait as much as a minute for the wordless, intuitive 'feel,' the bodily felt sense of an answer to arise ---

(one minute --- )

---Take a moment, again, to carefully find words or an image for this possible next step ---go back and forth until the symbols are 'just right.'

(one minute --- )

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---Check with your 'intuitive feel,' 'Is this right? Is this really something I could try doing?' --- If your 'intuitive feel' says, 'Yes (some sense of release, relaxation), I could try that,' then you can stop here.

---If your 'felt sense'says 'No, I can't do that' or 'That won't work,' then ask yourself again, 'What small step in the positive direction would work?', again, waiting quietly, as much as a minute for an intuitive answer to arise, then making words or an image for it --- going back and forth until the symbols are 'just right.'

(one minute --- )

---Keep going back and forth between the 'intuitive feel' and possible words and images as long as you are comfortable, or until you experience 'Ahah! That's it!'.

(one minute or more --- )

Step Six: Receiving

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---Whether a 'solution' has arisen or not, appreciate yourself and your body for taking time with this, trusting that pausing to take time is the important thing -- solutions can then arise later.

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Eugene Gendlin Felt Sense

The crux of change is just spending quiet time paying attention to the 'intuitive feel.'If no clear next step arises, just remind yourself that at least you have gotten a clearer sense of the problem. Because you have spent quiet, Intuitive Focusing time with the 'feel' of 'the whole thing,' you have started a process of change. Something new may 'pop up' later, as you go about your day.

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I went to the library and got a few books out that I thought might be helpful with my methodologies and work.

Since I’m focusing on surroundings and change or surrounding. I found a book called Focusing by Eugene T. Gendlin, PH.D.

There one was chapter called change and I found it very interesting and very relatable to me at this moment in time.

Here are a few of the quotes I liked from this chapter in particular,

“ A felt sense is not an emotion. We recognise emotions. We know when we are angry, or sad, or glad. A felt sense is something you do not at first recognise it is vague and murky. It feels meaningful, but not known. It is a body-sense of meaning. When you learn how to focus, you will discover that the body finding its own way provides its own answers to many of your problems.”

“ at such a time one cannot yet know just how much change has happened. Many more cycles of focusing would be needed later. But a change happens in a body shift. Some change happens even in the mere bodily relief of sending and touching the trouble in just one definite deep place”

“Focusing helped her in a time of desperation. In the following months she continued to focus and to change inside. By that time she had woven focusing into her way of living. It became more than a therapeutic tool to be used in times of crisis. It became something to be used everyday, a comforting and familiar part of daily existence.”

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How can I get beyond imposing my usual conscious attitudes on the dream? The BIAS CONTROL enables my body to do it, not every time, but often.

Gendlin, Eugene T.. Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams (p. 6). Chiron Publications. Kindle Edition

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" Quiero empezar con lo más importante que tengo que decir: la esencia de trabajar con otra persona es estar presente como un ser vivo. Y eso es afortunado, porque si tuviera que ser inteligente, o bueno, o maduro, o sabio, entonces probablemente estaremos en problemas. Pero, lo que importa no es eso. Lo que importa es ser un ser humano con otro ser humano. Incluso si es un gato o un pájaro, si estás tratando de ayudar a un pájaro herido, lo primero que tienes que saber es que hay alguien ahí dentro, y que tienes que esperar a esa " persona," que esté en contacto con usted. Eso me parece que es lo más importante. Así que, cuando me siento con alguien, tomo mis problemas y sentimientos y los pongo aquí, por un lado, cerca, porque puede que los necesite. Puede que quiera ir allí y ver algo. Y tomo todas las cosas que he aprendido-terapia centrada en el cliente, reflexión, enfoque, Gestalt, conceptos psicoanalítica y todo lo demás (ojalá tuviera aún más)-y los puse aquí, en mi otro lado, cerca. Entonces estoy aquí, con mis ojos, y hay otro ser. Si me miran a los ojos, verán que sólo soy un ser inestable. Tengo que tolerar eso. Puede que no miren. Pero si lo hacen, lo verán. Verán la existencia ligeramente tímida, ligeramente retirada e insegura que soy, he aprendido que eso está bien, no necesito estar emocionalmente seguro y firmemente presente. Sólo necesito estar presente. No hay calificaciones. Por el tipo de persona que debo ser. Lo que se busca para el gran proceso de terapia, el gran proceso de desarrollo es que una persona esté presente. Y así me he convencido gradualmente de que incluso yo puedo ser eso. A pesar de que tengo mis dudas cuando estoy solo, en algún sentido objetivo sé que soy una Persona ". Eugene T. Gendlin, 1990 - Focusing https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt03kdUnxYU/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=fueranbparvh

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“A person can be made righteous by their love, but they cannot be made righteous by commandments!

March 06, 2020

“A person can be made righteous by their love, but they cannot be made righteous by commandments!

Luke.7:36 One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee's house, and sat at the table.   7:37 Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster jar of ointment.   7:38 Standing behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.   7:39 Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, "This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner."  7:40 Jesus answered him, "Simon, I have something to tell you." He said, "Teacher, say on."  7:41 "A certain lender had two debtors. The one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.   7:42 When they couldn't pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?"   7:43 Simon answered, "He, I suppose, to whom he forgave the most." He said to him, "You have judged correctly."    7:44 Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I entered into your house, and you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head.  7:45 You gave me no kiss, but she, since the time I came in, has not ceased to kiss my feet.  7:46 You didn't anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment.   7:47 Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little."   7:48 He said to her, "Your sins are forgiven."   7:49 Those who sat at the table with him began to say to themselves, "Who is this who even forgives sins?"   7:50 He said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you. Go in peace."

1 Peter 4:8 And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.

Facts:  Love is a great antidote to stress. Love counteracts the fight-or-flight response that we so often find ourselves in. Even low levels of stress cause the body to release cortisol, which is associated with an increased risk of developing high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease and depression.May 7, 2013   by the huffpost

Through distorted beliefs, the mind reinforces this image by disrupting the body’s homeostasis.  It was Eugene T. Gendlin, the American philosopher and psychotherapist who coined the term felt sense. He was referring to an internal bodily awareness or body-sense of meaning that develops when we align with the truth.

If you perpetuate fear, your body responds by adopting the physiology of this fearful state. However, love heals and brings the body back into balance when you associate with this all-powerful energy.

It was the late David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., a renowned psychiatrist and consciousness researcher who said: “If we are willing to let go of our illness, then we have to be willing to let go of the attitude that brought about the illness because disease is an expression of one’s attitude and habitual way of looking at things.” When you disconnect from your authentic nature, you detach from your state of ease and the body becomes dis-eased. By Mission.org

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A Focusing Session

This focusing session was inspired by the book Focusing, 2d ed., New York: Bantam Books, 1981, ©1978-1981 Eugene T. Gendlin, Ph.D. All rights reserved.

Introduction

FOCUSING is a method for getting in touch with our body wisdom, our deep-down feelings, our intuitions, our sixth sense.

It is a unique way of receiving holistic answers from the totality of our being.

The method has been drafted in…

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Sem dúvida, você quer vivenciar o que as pessoas podem ser em sua realidade mais interior. E, entretanto, você almeja ser efetivamente visto, assimilado e percebido por outra pessoa como você é na verdade. Todos conhecemos pessoas com quem não podemos partilhar nada que seja importante para nós. Se passamos por algo emocionante e contarmos essa experiência a elas, nossa experiência parecerá sem graça. Se temos um segredo, nós o guardamos para que essas pessoas não o conheçam. Assim, ele não perderá o interesse e o significado que tem para nós. No entanto, se tem sorte, deve conhecer uma pessoa com quem ocorre exatamente o contrário. Se você lhe conta uma coisa emocionante, ela se torna ainda mais emocionante. Uma grande história se amplia - você se vê contando-a com mais detalhes, descobrindo a riqueza de todos os elementos, mais do que foi capaz de pensar sozinho. Seja como for, guarda essa história para contá-la apenas a essa pessoa. A focalização e a escuta são como falar com alguém que faz a sua experiência se ampliar. Na focalização, você precisa ser uma pessoa dessas consigo mesmo. E também pode ser assim com os outros e mostrar como se comportar desse modo com você.

Eugene T. Gendlin, Focalização - Uma via de acesso à Sabedoria Corporal, p. 130 - 131

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Eugene Gendlin, Austrian-born American philosopher, Died at 90

Eugene Gendlin, Austrian-born American philosopher, Died at 90

Eugene T. Gendlin was born Eugen Gendelin on December 25, 1926, in Vienna and died May 1, 2017, in Spring Valley, New York. He was an American philosopher. He developed ways of thinking about and working with living process, the bodily felt sense and the ‘philosophy of the implicit’. Even though he had no degree in the field of psychology, his advanced study with Carl Rogers, his longtime…

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People get stuck for decades with the same problems over and over. Focusing expands you. Then you live in more ways and have new problems. Somebody once asked me what I thought mental health was. I said, “New problems!”

Eugene T. Gendlin, "Focusing"