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Research on Focusing

An overview of the research on Focusing, including where bodily responses have been measured directly (e.g. galvanic skin response) and using qualitative research (e.g. experiencing scale).

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Crossing Action Steps with Focusing

Focusing can give us the energy to take action steps. We can also ask the body for an action step. For example: “What action would I take if my body were like that?” But then we have to take the action steps for true change to occur.

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Felt sense body cards

In this blog, I cover the parts and qualities of our selves we can map with the felt sense body cards. I’ve found this work to be the best use of the cards. However, they are also quite useful for recording what comes in any Focusing session.

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Tears and Focusing

We can experience a shift by expressing something for the first time. However, after a while, Gendlin says that “discharging it over and over won't help. We need the felt sense of the wider context to form, and lead to new emotions that have not yet formed, and we need the series of steps that can come from a felt sense.”

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