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So -- you know that Doug was a student of Gendlin's and that Gendlin was all about focusing.

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· Jun 16, 2020

Gendlin in 1 tweet: The received language is made from the concepts which those that came before you needed to make sense of their experiencing. Your experiencing will, necessarily because it takes theirs as given, go beyond theirs. Thus you need new concepts and a new languaging

I've talked about Focusing a bunch but basically it's a way to talk about what you're REALLY experiencing, what's REALLY going on, under the hood.

Now I've been using it for idk like 8 years? And STILL I think that the bioemotive framework gave me a thing I didn't have.

My focusing sessions were all pretty formulaic: I felt something was off, I triangulated to the precise feeling using analogies, introspection, metaphors, and so on, and from there to the thing originating the feeling.

However, recently, using the Bioemotive Framework I've had much more *precise* experiences: I'm triggered, I find the relevant memory in a shocking moment, I burst into tears. Happened twice now.

It has a very specific feeling and that's the referent I got the referent of finding a previously hidden, previously locked memory.

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yes! bio-emotive is aiming for a much more specific experience than focusing for sure

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part of it is the precision of what is even meant by "emotion." bio-emotive talks about roughly 4 categories: "emotions" are just happy / sad / angry / afraid, "interpersonal feelings" are "i feel betrayed / abandoned / abused / disrespected / let down / ignored / etc.",

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"core feelings" are "i feel like a bad person / alone / worthless / insignificant / inadequate / lost / loss / helpless / hopeless", there are exactly 9 of these and bio-emotive claims these are the feelings that have people sobbing, that are at the "core" of their pain

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