27/07/2025
The Felt Sense is our sense of felt body. Most people are familiar with butterflies in the stomach, a lump in the throat, the bile feeling of shame rising, the dizzy feeling of anxiety in the chest
The right hemisphere tries to communicate the felt experience to us - perhaps a felt memory of the past, perhaps something it’s warning us about, or perhaps something has waited for just this moment to communicate what it carries.
The right hemisphere doesn’t have a language centre in the same way as the left does. So it tries to communicate with us using ‘ick’ feelings. And most of us will do all sorts of things to avoid feeling those feelings.
But what it it’s just trying to communicate?
What if it’s just trying to share how you really feel about something?
What if it’s trying to offer insight that you can’t get anywhere else?
What if it’s just needs to be honoured?
Listening to the felt sense is called ‘Focusing’ and it was discovered by Eugene Gendlin in the 1960s. He worked with Carl Rogers.
He discovered that therapy outcomes were better for those who paused to let what the therapist offered back to them land in their body.
My name for Focusing is “the manual for the rest of me”.
Focusing is something that can be taught. One to one sessions are available with me throughout July and August for the special offer price of £30 for a one hour Zoom session.
Training is available in groups - the next 60 hour BFA Focusing Skills course with me starts in September. £150 for Block 1 starting September 10th 10am.
Please message me to further information about the course or to book a 1:1 session.
