Focusing, Eugene T. Gendlin
Focusing, Eugene T. Gendlin
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Focusing
A Breakthrough Method of Unlocking the Wisdom Within Your Body to Solve Specific Problems and Achieve Dramatic Personal Growth and Change

Author: Eugene T. Gendlin

Narrator: Eugene T. Gendlin

Abridged: 1 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/09/2001


Synopsis

A breakthrough method of "unlocking the wisdom within your body" to solve specific problems and achieve dramatic personal growth and change

This original, innovative program of self-therapy enables you to tap into your deepest level of wisdom, the "gut-level" knowledge that already exists within your body. By accessing this subliminal body-mind awareness (or "felt sense") that lies beyond thoughts and feelings, you can get to the root of the conflicts within you, gain a fuller comprehension of your unresolved problems, and solve them.

What is focusing? It is a technique of self-therapy that teaches you to identify and change the way your personal problems concretely exist in your body. Unlike methods that stress "getting in touch with your feelings," there is a built-in test: each focusing step, when done correctly, is marked by a physical relief, a profound release of tension.

Focusing guides you to the deepest level of awareness within your body. It is on this level, unfamiliar to most people, that unresolved problems actually exist, and only on this level can they change. Both a practical guide and a powerful philosophy of personal growth, this effective, proven procedure has wide-ranging applications, including healing, education, business, creative pursuits, and problem solving.

About Eugene T. Gendlin

Eugene Gendlin is a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago. For many years he was the editor of Psycho-therapy: Theory, Research, and Practice. In 1970, because of his development of experiential psychology, he was chosen by the Psychotherapy Division of the American Psychological Association for their first Distinguished Professional Psychologist of the Year award.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Gavin on March 10, 2021

2/5 with an asterisk.* A very useful technique, but with very weak scientific backing (but at least he tried!), and but a fairly bad book. There are classic self-help red flags: My philosophy leads to new concepts in physics and biology... Focusing is now a worldwide network... this can seem insan......more

Goodreads review by Steve on November 24, 2015

For those of us who have to tend to the effects of complex ptsd the most difficult challenge is to connect with our own deeper felt sense of self because it carries so much pain. Yet without that connection and the experience of what flows from that there we will remain trapped always in the circula......more

Goodreads review by Iona on October 22, 2019

This is an original book; I haven’t read anything like it before. It is a book I will have to buy since I can’t fully get how to “focus” just be reading the book once. It will need to be practised and worked with. The book tells us how to contact our body, ask it questions and get answers. It “works fo......more

Goodreads review by Luc on November 28, 2014

i found that the techniques used in this book actually remedied chronic pain issues i've been experiencing. a grateful read. let patience be our guide. be gentle with yourself and the world you love.......more

Goodreads review by Laura on April 26, 2017

Interesting. Very interesting. No studies or evidence to back up claims, but it all falls into the current thinking about mindfulness. It's a quick read and lays out the 6 steps of focusing and while I often thought, "this is just woo-woo stuff" it would also often be followed by a "huh, that makes......more