The felt sense is the whole-body sense of something that is not yet clear to the conscious mind. The capacity for felt sensing is inherent in you. The more that you slow down, breathe, clear the mind, and begin to sense into the core of your body, the more available the felt sense will be to your conscious awareness. … In time, your attention will gradually be able to drop down and into your body whenever you want to access your sense of inner knowing.
—John Prendergast, In Touch
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“Once a felt sense comes into awareness and is sufficiently explored, something very interesting occurs. Gendlin describes a distinctive felt shift that happens, a shift accompanied by a “coming unstuck” and “a relief and a coming alive”—key components of a transformative insight. …one of the markers of inner knowing [is]…relaxed groundedness. The sense of coming alive is often intimately linked with the sense of inner alignment, another marker of inner knowing… …we can sense when something is genuinely open or resolved within us and when something new emerges that feels both natural and good. …Gendlin gradually developed research-based guidelines to help anyone discover felt sensing. He called his method focusing. He acknowledges that some people will learn it more quickly than others.”
—John Prendergast, In Touch: How to Tune In to the Inner Guidance of Your Body and Trust Yourself
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What is this sense of inner knowing…? We have all probably experienced it at some time or another—something just feels on or off the mark inside of us. It has been called many things: the small, still voice; a felt sense; intuition; heart or whole-body wisdom; somatic intelligence; a hunch; or a gut feeling.
—John Prendergast, In Touch: How to Tune In to the Inner Guidance of Your Body and Trust Yourself
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