Focusing Journal Paperback – August 12, 2024

So few of us know how to listen to and decode the wisdom in our bodies. Focusing psychotherapy, founded by psychotherapist Eugene Gendlin, involves holding open, non-judging attention to your internal knowing, which is experienced in the body but is not yet in words.It is helpful to understand that your body is always leaning into its next growth step; you just need to learn how to listen to and act upon it. Since an emerging felt sense is not yet known to your conscious mind, finding a description for your felt senses takes time.Being with your emerging felt sense with non-pushing contact is a beautiful contemplative practice. For this reason, it is helpful to wait patiently and curiously for your body’s felt senses to shape into words, symbols, or pictures. You can use the open spaces in this guided journal to feel, muse, draw, and write down spontaneous words as they come. Read more