Finding new words or images if needed until there is a sense of “fit”: “Yes, that’s it. Resonating and Checking: taking the Handle words or image and holding them against the Felt Sense, asking “Is this right? Is it ‘jumpy’?, etc.Finding a Handle: carefully looking for some words or an image that begin to capture the “feel of the whole thing,” the Felt Sense, The Creative Edge: “It’s ‘jumpy '” “It’s scared ” “It’s like the dew of a Spring morning ” “It’s like macaroni and cheese – comforting,” “It’s like jet propulsion! Something new that needs to spring forth!”.Getting a Felt Sense: asking an open-ended question like “What is the feel of this whole thing (issue, situation, problem)?” and, instead of answering with one’s already-known analysis, waiting silently as long as a minute for the subtle, intuitive, “bodily feel” of “the whole thing” to form.Clearing a Space: setting aside the jumble of thoughts, opinions, and analysis we all carry in our minds, and making a clear, quiet space inside where something new can come.Here are Gendlin’s six steps for use of this inner, meditation-like problem-solving process in a self-help way: _ Description of Gendlin’s Six Step Focusing Processįirst, I will describe Gendlin’s process, then I will walk you through some actual instructions below. Print this out and use it as your guide, until you have memorized the practice. I am copying an article below from Creative Edge Focusing that describes the process quite well. I practice it myself, frequently, both with friends and as a variation of self-circling. Focusing should be in the “tool kit” of all relational leaders, whether they be formal or informal. Focusing is quite simple and very powerful. The beauty and power of Focusing is that it can be taught to anyone in roughly 15 minutes, and it is quite likely that a powerful insight can emerge in that time (although 30 minutes is better, especially for people without a lot of emotional self-awareness). Focusing happens between two people, a guide and a “client” (or “circlee”). Eugene Gendlin’s Focusing is an early form of “Circling” (somatic awareness / “welcome everything” / contextualization of experience) dating back to 1982.