“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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