Focusing : retrouver la clarté en apprenant à écouter son monde intérieur.
https://www.agoracademie.com/blog/focusing/

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My sense is that the modern-day followers of Gene #Gendlin and developers of his “focusing” (or “felt sensing”) practice have independently unearthed and expanded on some partially lost elements of Machik Labdrön’s Chöd tradition. But I don’t know anyone who has knowledge and experience of relating these culturally isolated traditions. So I experiment, play around.
“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
#gendlin #feltsense #focusing
It doesn't have to be called the focusing process, you know, it can come in other ways. I don't want anyone to say that the way that I'm saying it, it has to be that way… There will be many avenues of expanding on an edge.
—Eugene Gendlin
#gendlin #focusing
…what is important is to let every different thing that you do, to let it be in relation to the as yet unformed, concretely sensed experience of the person, so that you can sense whether what you do…is a step of living that comes naturally, rather than something imposed.
—Eugene Gendlin
#gendlin
…focusing…is simply the little, specific essence of directing the person's attention to what is not yet clear… And what is not yet clear, can be directly sensed in the body. And there is a special level, a special kind of space, a special kind of attention that most people don't know, to allow the body to form a wholistic sense of some problem. … And it includes everything one knows, but it is always a single whole, a single sense.
—Eugene Gendlin
#gendlin #focusing #feltsense
…we really have to change the basic concepts that we use in thinking about the body and thinking about perception and feelings and thoughts and behavior. We need to change not even just the concepts, but the kind of concepts. As a society we have had great success with reductive concepts, and we don't want to lose them because all of our medicine and all of our physiology is in those concepts. But for a functional understanding of a living system, in order to understand how we live as physical bodies, those concepts don't work. So we need a different conception of the living body as an interactional system…
—Eugene Gendlin
#eugenegendlin #gendlin
On client-centered and experiential psychotherapy: An interview with Eugene Gendlin
https://focusing.org/gendlin/docs/gol_2102.html
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On client-centered and experiential psychotherapy: An interview with Eugene Gendlin

The Focusing Institute Gendlin Online Library: On client-centered and experiential psychotherapy: An interview with Eugene Gendlin