INTUITIVE FOCUSING
There are several well developed methods that have been seeds off of Eugene T. Gendlin's work called: FOCUSING He started researching what "really" works in therapy. What he found is that when people get a felt sense, stay with that felt sense, and open to the felt sense that therapy actually works. This is truly a clear and well researched method of maintaining contact with ones bodily experience. The work of Focusing has been applied to many fields: management, listening, relationships, learning, a.d.d, lawyers, and so much more. Its also a great process to do with oneself as a tool to increase intuitive, sensory, intelligence. This is classic Right brain work.
The basic method:
1. Clearing a space: Tuning in and listening to your body, just being with what is, breath, feeling of chair, etc. Ask this, settled in space, what is between you and feeling good. Or ask another question that has relevance for you.
2.Felt Sensing: Feeling, slowing, and deep listening. The inner felt sense can be a range of sensations, images, emotions, words. (if you move into left brain thinking and figuring out, drop deeper into slow breath, and deep listening.)
3.Getting a Handle: When you find a "felt sense" that has a lingering, "hey this is it" feeling, open to images, words, or feelings to get a handle of what this piece of felt sensing is about for you.
4.Resonating: Test the image, word, or feeling with your deeper felt sense, is this accurate?
5.Asking: This could also be called searching, or opening, to the newness, or freshness that is emerging out of the resonating theme. Whats next as this intuitive felt sensing emerges? This is a process!
6. Receiving: Stay with the newness, the freshness, and open to recieve the felt sense, listening as your body's wisdom, the intelligence of being whole, contextualizes the felt sense.
Here are some great resources for this work:
http://www.focusing.org/
http://www.cefocusing.com/index.php
http://www.vegsource.com/biospirituality/main.html
THINKING AT THE EDGES:
Another work from Gendlin that he calls a practice of " The Philosophy of the Implicit"
In thier own words:
"Current science, social policy and human relations tend to exclude the intricacy of the individual's experience. TAE is a way to think and speak about our world and ourselves by generating terms from a "felt sense". Such terms formulate experiential intricacy, rather than turning everything we think about into externally viewed objects. Language and concepts that emerge directly from experience can point to aspects of experience that cannot otherwise be formulated." from: http://www.focusing.org/tae.html
